5: Pandemic Psychodynamics in Russia with Irena Izotova

Our special guest today is Irena Izotova from Moscow, who will be
sharing her thoughts and experience from a Russian perspective.
Our conversation meanders through our experiences of the pandemic
and we touch on how the 'Discourse of the Master' returns to
impose prohibitions on us during the lockdown.

 This is something new to many in the west, but Irena points
to this being historically familiar to Russians.   Irena
relates how her elderly relative trangresses this prohibition as
a refusal to submit once again to the prohibitions she
experienced in her earlier life.  She also identifies the
importance of arranging reflexive spaces both for leaders and for
professionals who support them,  to keep their resilience
and capacity to think and act maturely. We end the conversation
by exploring how to live rather than survive, and how 'not to
give up on our desire'.  

Irena is an Executive &Team Coach and Organizational
Consultant oriented by a psychodynamic approach.  She is
President of Association of Psychoanalytic Coaching and Business
Consulting, an Analytic-Network Registered Coach, Lecturer at HSE
and a Lacanian psychoanalyst.   Enjoy this podcast!