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Psychoanalytic Fieldwork: A Woman Psychanalyst (Training Analyst IPA) Working in Eastern Africa with Dr. phil. Barbara Saegesser (Biel/Bienne, Switzerland)

Psychoanalysis On and Off the Couch

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Is Subjectivity Inherently a Danger?

In Africa, you always have to be to pay attention that they don't think you are a colonialist. But this is always a very, very difficult point. If you say at least in Eastern Africa, what you think or what you did learn and how you do things, day it goes perhaps one second and people can think, Oh, oh, colonialism, no thanks. And in this way, I am somehow in danger. As I know that this happens and as I am myself not a religion fanatic, I'm quite neutral. Also because I'm a psych analyst, I can manage those problems when other people are very religious to some religion, some thinking. It needs persons that are

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