Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1080/00107530.2023.2242578
Tracy Sidesinger
Abstract This article supports the development of reproductive agency as a means of intercepting the transgenerational transmission of trauma through maternal subjectivity. Reproductive agency includes, among other things, abortion as a viable choice. It is my view that reproductive agency is predicated on maternal subjectivity – that is, the individual selfhood that mothers possess. However, women’s capacity for agency around reproduction as well as maternal subjectivity have long been denied, even within psychoanalysis. Under patriarchy lies the institution and mandate of motherhood. The institution implicitly demands women be passive, yet burdens them with guilt for choices they are forbidden to make themselves. In contrast, the experience of mothering is highly personal and active, and psychoanalysis has the potential to make more space for maternal subjectivity, agency, consent, and mourning. In doing so, we can support women in reckoning with reproductive decisions after the fact, as well as affecting change in future generations and intercepting the transgenerational transmission of trauma before it occurs. Importantly, exercising maternal reproductive agency is seen as a relational function. Rather than addressing the needs of one in opposition to the needs of another, it is about making discerning decisions to impact a lineage of interconnected beings. This article is part of an ongoing attempt to write theory from outside patriarchy (Cixous & Clement, 1986/1975), specifically using the author’s personal voice, to help illustrate maternal subjectivity.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-18DOI: 10.1080/00107530.2023.2239683
D. A. Richards
1 Abstract. The Supreme Court’s recent overruling of Roe v. Wade in Dobbs v. Jackson reflects the influence of a group of conservative Catholic thinkers, the “new natural lawyers,” 2 whose views, if made explicit, would be inconsistent with the constitutional requirement that basic rights can only be abridged on a secular basis. This inconsistency has been masked by an appeal to originalism, requiring that constitutional interpretation must be limited by the things in the world to which the founding generation would have applied the text, and nothing beyond that. This approach to constitutional interpretation does not fit much of the interpretation of basic rights to date, and is thus demonstrably inadequate. How psychologically can we understand the appeal of such an indefensible method of interpretation to recently Trump appointed justices to the Supreme Court and other justices, and to the President and Senate that appointed them? Using the framework of Edmund Burke’s (1790/2014) psychological analysis of the violence of the utopian idealization of “political religions,” this article offers a psychoanalytic account of how the conservative justices, appealing to new natural law, have developed originalism as a way of masking a sectarian patriarchal misogyny inconsistent with constitutional values, in effect, a “political religion” in Burke’s sense.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-28DOI: 10.1080/00107530.2023.2236508
N. Moshtagh
Abstract The author uses Kristeva’s concept of “abject” to explain the disgust, horror, and hatred toward woman’s internal organs, experienced by both men and women. The abject marks the moment when we separate ourselves from the mother. It is where we are confronted with an archaic space before linguistic binaries of self/other or subject/object. Patriarchy is conceptualized as a defense against the abject. The silence of Iranian women and the defensive criminalization of abortion by Iranian men are discussed through examining the family dynamics and power differentials within an Iranian household. The author postulates how “Name of the Mother” replaces Lacan’s “Name of the Father” out of the necessity of managing patriarchy.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-24DOI: 10.1080/00107530.2023.2194817
Morty Rosenbaum
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Pub Date : 2023-04-28DOI: 10.1080/00107530.2023.2184627
Jonathan Kurfirst
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Pub Date : 2023-04-20DOI: 10.1080/00107530.2023.2184626
S. Buechler
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/00107530.2023.2199649
Gurmeet S. Kanwal
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/00107530.2023.2204537
M. Bayles
Presented here is a verbatim session conducted online. The session integrates the ideas of Aline LaPierre’s therapeutic touch model into psychoanalytic practice. Allan Schore introduced LaPierre’s work in Psychologist/Psychoanalyst in 2003, arguing that, “it is time to reappraise the central role of the operations of the bodily self in psychopathogenisis and treatment” (p. 9). More specifically, he wrote, “Whatever the nature of the clinical issues, there is now solid evidence for the critical role of touch in human psychology and biology” (p. 9). This article presents a somatically informed, right hemispheric way of relating that enlivens and deepens the clinical process. Importantly, it presents a perspective that responds to Russell’s (2015) unease about the loss of functional equivalence as we move our face-to-face sessions online. In particular, with its focus on engaging affect at the somatic level, it addresses Russell’s concern about the loss of the fast paced, body-to body implicit processes, which she argues results in the loss of “the kind of holding environment that supports the in-dwelling of the psyche in the soma” (Bayles, 2016, p. 654).
这里呈现的是在线进行的逐字记录。本课程将把Aline LaPierre的治疗性触摸模型整合到精神分析实践中。2003年，Allan Schore在《心理学家/精神分析学家》一书中介绍了LaPierre的工作，他认为，“是时候重新评估身体自我在精神发病和治疗中的核心作用了”(第9页)。更具体地说，他写道，“无论临床问题的性质如何，现在都有确凿的证据证明触摸在人类心理学和生物学中的关键作用”(第9页)。激活和深化临床过程的右半球联系方式。重要的是，它提出了一个观点，回应了罗素(2015)的担忧，即随着我们将面对面的会议转移到网上，功能对等的丧失。特别是，由于它关注躯体层面的参与影响，它解决了罗素对失去快节奏的、身体对身体的内隐过程的担忧，她认为这会导致失去“那种支持灵魂在躯体中居住的保持环境”(Bayles, 2016, p. 654)。
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/00107530.2023.2206508
D. Novack
Abstract While many analysts have former patients return to treatment years after termination, it is more unusual for a former child patient to return as an adult. Such situations provide unique windows into development, both the patient’s and the analyst’s. They also present special opportunities for considering the fluidity and bidirectionality of psychic time. I describe my work with Charlotte, a five-year-old patient who returned to treatment with me 20 years later. Through the case, I examine the convergence of old and new representations of self and other, and the interrelation of temporal modes as a co-constructed, emergent aspect of the analytic process. With returning patients, past meets present as old relational patterns, idealizations, fears, and wishes emerge in the here-and-now. This can result in blind spots, repetitions, and enactments, but it can also allow for new, co-created experience, as past and present shape each other in an ongoing dialectic.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/00107530.2023.2210496
Maya Asher
Abstract Patients often come to treatment with difficulties in creating and forming romantic relationships. As therapists, we accompany them in this delicate and sometimes fraught process. Many patients turn to dating apps (e.g., “Tinder,” “OkCupid”) in order to try and find something truly meaningful to fulfill their lives. These platforms occupy their everyday lives, consuming their time and mental energy. The present article suggests that observing some of the unique qualities of interactions that take place in dating apps may provide a lens that reflects, emphasizes, and teaches us about human struggles of intersubjectivity, complexity, and sense of agency, which are at the core of psychoanalytic interest. Clinical examples illustrate these psychic aspects, as well as the way they may be processed in the therapeutic encounter.
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