Free Speech, Hate Speech: Can Talking Cure?

2 CE credits for Social Workers and Psychologists

As globalization and metastasizing conflicts drive us into ever closer encounters with the Other, a siege mentality spreads. Those who represent the public voice—politicians, professional and “citizen” journalists, pundits, academics—respond to real and imagined violence with conflicted reappraisals of free speech and its limits, especially “hate speech.” Where on this intellectual battleground do we find psychoanalysis? How can psychoanalysts, practitioners of the talking cure, enter the discourse? Does our clinical experience give us special insight into the nature of freedom? In a polarized era, perhaps psychoanalysts have the tools to open a space for genuine encounter across ideological divides.

Jill Gentile, PhD, a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst, maintains private clinical practices in Highland Park, New Jersey, and New York City. She is on the faculty of the Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis at NYU. She coauthored, with M. Macrone, the forthcoming book, Feminine Law: Freud, Free Speech, and the Voice of Desire.

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