Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/13642537.2022.2090587
Robert Grossmark
ABSTRACT The author describes the prevalence of compulsion to child pornography and notes the sparsity of psychoanalytic engagement with the phenomenon. The author describes his work in a psychoanalytic treatment with a man plagued by a compulsion to child pornography and illustrates the internal dynamics of unmetabolized trauma, identifications and erasure. At the center of the healing process is the patient’s painful recognition that the compulsion embodies a destruction of self and that he is identified with both the child victim and the perpetrators in the pornographic scenarios. The phases of the treatment are described and the author recommends an unobtrusive companioning psychoanalytic approach.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/13642537.2022.2090588
M. Bazzano
ABSTRACT The emergence of the manosphere with its online promotion of a blinkered view of masculinity associated with the alt-right, its hostility to feminism and explicit misogyny has been characterized as aberrant in relation to mainstream psychological and cultural values. Partly expanding on Guattari’s Everybody Wants to be a Fascist, this paper argues that there is instead a profound continuity between the two. They both share an ideology of resilience: a misleading notion dominating current representations of masculinity. They both share the ideology of dataism, i.e. the view that the world can be reduced to abstracted data and measurable logic. They both share practices of microfascism, i.e. a yearning for more management, order and control in relation to the intrinsic ambivalence of being human. In our post-civil-rights era of identity politics, white ‘injured’ masculinity masquerades as a ‘different’ and ‘marginalized’ identity in relation to which the bland slogans of woke capitalism and woke consumer-culture present no real opposition. At present, most cultural representations of masculinity are essentialist. Can psychotherapy theory and practice help construct new representations of masculinity as performative, fluid and as a turning point to a deeper form of inquiry?
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/13642537.2022.2090589
A. Gaitanidis
ABSTRACT In this paper, I begin by exploring the Freudian and Lacanian theories of masculinity and how they revalorise the role and law of the father and his patriarchal power. I perform a criticism of these theories by using Castoriadis’ emphasis on the importance of brotherly co-operation in the formation of community. I then move on to critically examine how Lacanian theorists have excluded considerations of class in their account of the origins of the Law and its application which prohibits an adequate redressing of social injustice. I conclude by providing a brief account of the life of my father as a working-class man and how I performed a similar exclusion of class oppression from my theoretical and practical considerations as a way of creating distance from him. This account is an attempt to reconnect with a man who was not only my father, but also my ‘brother in suffering’.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/13642537.2022.2089960
Elena Olga Christidi, Nancy Papathanasiou
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/13642537.2022.2090591
B. Gough
ABSTRACT In this invited commentary I reflect on issues concerning masculinities in therapeutic spaces. I draw on contemporary masculinity concepts as well as the psychonalytic, postmodern and post-qualitative aspects of the various articles. I consider how traditional and modern expectations concerning masculinities create problems and possibilities for men in different situations, for example men from different generations (e.g. me, my father, my son). Similarly, I discuss how therapists might unwittingly [re]construct traditional masculinities in their practice – but are also ideally positioned to deconstruct masculinities which are implicated in their client’s suffering. At the same time, I note that the promotion of healthy, caring and inclusive masculinities need not be confined to the therapy room since there are now various mental health intervention which are community-based, entail peer support and which are tailored to specific constituencies of men.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/13642537.2022.2090586
T. McSherry
ABSTRACT This article is a phenomenology of masculinity, leading into questions of authority and ideology. Phenomenology draws on one’s experience, which includes here the author’s experience of being drawn to thinkers in the phenomenological and (psycho)analytical traditions, such as Levinas, Freud, Husserl, Heidegger, and Lacan. Recognition is regarded as the key to becoming what we are, in a complex ‘thrownness’ which we cannot escape. It appears that coming to know one’s masculinity (and femininity) is part of this becoming; some things do not change, expressing the inert quality (Hegelian bone-like) and repetitiveness of ideology. Recognition is dependent on who has the authority to recognise the other, and this is explored in terms of the therapist’s authority. The importance of openness to the other person, and oneself as a therapist, is seen as crucial in allowing a space for a discovery of embodied meanings. But a longstanding dominant ideology of scientism has led to alienation from such embodiment, and one reaction to this may be an appeal to a kind of authoritarian certainty in politics. Ultimately, we only have ourselves in what appears to be an urgent struggle for free speech in therapies, and in the world.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/13642537.2022.2089958
Antonios Poulios
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/13642537.2022.2026446
R. Morgan-Jones, R. Snell
ABSTRACT This co-written editorial by the two guest editors of this special ‘field’ edition of the journal outlines some of the most important roots of psychoanalytic field theory, from Lewin to the Barangers to Bion and Ferro. It introduces the articles that follow, by Mazzacane, Civitarese, Boffito, Fagundes and Mojovic, and touches on some of their implications for theory and practice. It concludes with acknowledgements.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/13642537.2022.2069221
D. Loewenthal
I can remember when I first started as a therapist seeing a particular client and thinking ‘I must get some earlier nights!’. Then, the next client came in and I felt very much awake again (even though no words had yet been spoken). How might one explain this? For (Merleau-Ponty, 1962/2002) something emerges in the between. It is as if people or even objects communicate non-verbally with each other. For Merleau-Ponty this was mysterious, and sometimes if we try and take the mystery away we might take away the thing itself. I among others have considered the therapeutic relationship to be magical (Loewenthal, 2022, pp. 96–101). There again, there have been many attempts within the psychological therapies to consider such phenomena as paranormal with ‘. . . such concepts as the uncanny (Freud, 1919), synchronicity (Jung, 1960), the transpersonal (Daniels, 2005, Mintz & Schmeidler, 1983), telepathy (Totton, 2003), mindfulness (Clarke, 2014) and anomalous experiences (for example Sollod, 1992). . .. Abraham and Torok (1994). . . metaphorics bring to life beings like the crypt, ghosts, goblins, and phantoms.. . . the exploration by Frosh (2012) of hauntings. . . Fisher 2014 on hautology. . .’ (Loewenthal, 2022, p. 2). More generally, there have been attempts to name what appears not to be able to be spoken of with concepts such as ‘tacit knowledge’ (Polyani, 1966). But perhaps Ogden (1994) ‘analytic third’ and his ‘ontological psychoanalysis’ (Ogden, 2019) with Winnicott (1971) ‘playing rather than play’, and particularly Bion’s ‘the dreaming rather than dream’ (Bion, 1970), hold the promise of the client and therapist together becoming creatively more alive. Yet is it possible to go further in describing the indescribable? Could it be that the two book reviews in this Special Issue give a further indication of the kind of site of therapeutic knowledge that we are unknowingly working with? One of the editors of this special issue, Robert Snell, in his book Cézanne and the post-Bionian field: an exploration and meditation, fascinatingly explains how Cézanne through his paintings is able to communicate to us how objects influence each other – just as therapist and client do.
我还记得当我第一次开始做治疗师的时候，看到一个特定的客户，我就想:“我必须早点睡!”然后，下一个客户进来了，我又感到非常清醒了(尽管还没有说什么话)。怎么解释呢?对于梅洛-庞蒂(merlo - ponty, 1962/2002)来说，某种东西出现在两者之间。就好像人甚至物体彼此之间进行非语言交流一样。对梅洛-庞蒂来说，这是很神秘的，有时候，如果我们试图揭开神秘的面纱，我们可能会揭开事物本身。我和其他人都认为这种治疗关系是神奇的(Loewenthal, 2022, pp. 96-101)。再一次，在心理治疗中有很多尝试将这种现象视为超自然现象，用“…”如神秘(弗洛伊德，1919)，共时性(荣格，1960)，超个人(丹尼尔斯，2005，明茨和施米德勒，1983)，心灵感应(托顿，2003)，正念(克拉克，2014)和异常体验(例如索洛德，1992). . ..亚伯拉罕和托鲁克(1994)…隐喻带来了生命，如地穴，鬼，妖精和幽灵.. ..Frosh(2012)对幽灵的探索…Fisher 2014 on hautology……”(Loewenthal, 2022，第2页)。更一般地说，有人试图用“隐性知识”(Polyani, 1966)等概念来命名那些似乎无法被提及的东西。但也许奥格登(1994)的“分析第三”和他的“本体论精神分析”(奥格登，2019)与温尼科特(1971)的“玩而不是玩”，尤其是比昂的“梦而不是梦”(比昂，1970)，共同承诺了客户和治疗师变得更有创造力。然而，在描述不可描述的事物时，是否有可能走得更远呢?这期特刊上的两篇书评会不会进一步表明我们正在不知不觉中研究的治疗知识的种类?本期特刊的编辑之一罗伯特·斯内尔在他的书《csamzanne和后bionian领域:探索与冥想》中，引人入胜地解释了csamzanne是如何通过他的绘画向我们传达物体是如何相互影响的——就像治疗师和客户之间的关系一样。
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/13642537.2022.2063358
H. Levine
ABSTRACT Antonino Ferro’s Field Theory is a powerful clinical application of Bion’s formulations that offers analysts and therapists a perspective on the analytic process focused on the containment and metabolization of emotional turbulence in the service of the evolution and growth of the psyche. This article offers a summary perspective on key elements in Bion’s thinking that are foundational for Ferro’s work and goes on to discuss how Ferro operationalizes these potentials and movements, changing the paradigm of analytic work from the unveiling of hidden meanings to expanding the patient’s capacity to dream and to think. In so doing, ‘The psychoanalytic laboratory then becomes dedicated not to what has been but to what may be in the future’.
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