Pub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/00107530.2021.2021827
M. Ghaffary, Ghiasuddin Alizadeh
Abstract Love is a significant concept in Jacques Lacan’s psychoanalytic theory that, compared to other concepts, has received little attention from Lacan scholars and Lacanian literary critics. Through offering an analysis of the concept of love in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and its connection with the Lacanian notions of desire, subjectivity, fantasy, the Real, and death (drive), this article seeks to delineate Lacan’s contribution to the philosophy of love. Following a general exploration of the love between Romeo and Juliet, several passages of Shakespeare’s play are studied with regard to basic questions in Lacanian philosophy of love: the nature of love, the reason why one loves another, the effects of love upon the individual’s subjectivity, the difference between love and desire, and the relation between love and death. The authors argue that Lacanian concepts, such as object petit a, and the Symbolic, illuminate aspects of Romeo and Juliet’s love, leading them to know that their desire cannot be fulfilled and that there is always something more to be desired. In this tragedy, neither Romeo nor Juliet can understand what the other desires, and what they believe they themselves desire is merely an illusive construct of their own fantasies.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/00107530.2021.1974737
Karin Ahbel-Rappe
I rwin Hirsch has been a prolific representative and voice of the interpersonal psychoanalytical tradition for four decades now. His volume, More Human than Otherwise, collects sixteen of his previously published papers, spanning the years 1983–2017. Each essay is introduced with a short retrospective framing comment, and the volume as a whole comes with a brief introduction. In one of these essays, Hirsch immerses himself in Phillip Roth’s iconic novel, Portnoy’s Complaint. In lieu of Portnoy’s classical Freudian analyst, Hirsch figures himself as Portnoy’s interpersonally oriented analyst and imagines how their work together might unfold. Hirsch openly identifies with Roth so, if Portnoy is some version of Roth, it may not be going too far to read this as a sort of fan fictional self-analysis. By way of introduction to the chapter, Hirsch shares parts of its only-in-New York origin story. One evening, while working on the essay, and so with Portnoy on his mind, Hirsch is having dinner at an Upper East Side luncheonette. He looks down the counter only to see Phillip Roth having his own meal. Hirsch intuits that Roth is heading to his analyst’s office next, which he confirms by following him there. In addition to its wry appeal, the essay conveys two key purposes of the volume as a whole. First, More Human than Otherwise articulates the interpersonal approach to psychoanalysis and does so while engaging a wide variety of contexts and themes. In addition to analysis of fiction and television (Portnoy, Seinfeld, and others), topics include the nature of analytic
四十年来，欧文·赫希一直是人际精神分析传统的多产代表和代言人。他的著作《更人性化》(More Human than else)收集了他之前发表的16篇论文，时间跨度从1983年到2017年。每篇文章都介绍了一个简短的回顾框架评论，并作为一个整体的卷来一个简短的介绍。在其中一篇文章中，赫希沉浸在菲利普·罗斯的标志性小说《波特诺伊的抱怨》中。代替波特诺伊的古典弗洛伊德分析师，赫希将自己定位为波特诺伊的人际导向分析师，并想象他们的工作将如何展开。赫希公开认同罗斯，所以，如果波特诺伊是罗斯的某个版本，那么将其解读为粉丝虚构的自我分析可能不会太过分。通过对这一章的介绍，赫希分享了它在纽约唯一的起源故事的一部分。一天晚上，赫希一边写论文，一边想着波特诺伊，他正在上东区的一家速食餐厅吃晚饭。他往柜台那边看，只见菲利普·罗斯正在吃他自己的饭。赫希凭直觉猜到罗斯接下来要去他的分析师办公室，他跟着罗斯去了那里，证实了这一点。除了其讽刺的吸引力，这篇文章传达了整个卷的两个关键目的。首先，《比其他更人性化》阐明了精神分析的人际关系方法，并在涉及各种背景和主题的情况下这样做。除了分析小说和电视(波特诺伊，宋飞，和其他人)，主题包括分析的本质
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Pub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/00107530.2021.1997479
R. B. Shapiro
Abstract The decline and death of an adult patient’s parent impacts treatment in ways that are often out of the awareness of analyst and patient. Internal and external family constellations, dynamics, and defenses become unsettled. A patient may unconsciously revert to earlier ways of being as they try to adapt to the changing nature of the parent/child relationship. In this adaptation, behaving and feeling as one did at an earlier time symbolically turns the present into the past. Thus, time is symbolically reversed. This rekindling of childhood fantasies—often emanating from envy, jealousy, and competition—can affect the transference and countertransference as well as the nature of the mourning process itself. Enactments, resistances, and returns to historic ways of relating become a greater part of the analytic experience. Modifications in understanding the mourning process and how it impacts transference, countertransference, and termination are illustrated with clinical examples.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/00107530.2021.2022960
Tamar Aronson
Abstract This article illustrates analytically oriented psychotherapy with the homeless. The concept “Difficulty to Reside” is introduced to describe the inherent emotional difficulty of many homeless people to tolerate the idea of a home as well as an actual physical residence. This is not only the difficulty of bearing a home in the physical sense, but the difficulty of being within the envelope of a close relationship, and even a failure of the individual to be close to themself. Three layers of the difficulty to reside are noted, by means of clinical examples: the autistic-schizoid layer, the psychotic layer, and the layer of trauma, personality disorders and substance abuse. Modes of intervention are suggested. The therapist’s mind as a metaphorical home for the patient is illustrated. The emotional dynamics of treating the homeless are analogized to Calvino’s “Invisible Cities,” as alternation between destruction and construction. The homelessness in the therapist’s psyche is emphasized. Finally, the metaphor of “the Edge of Chaos Theory” (physics/biology) is presented as an area of encounter between homeless patient and therapist.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/00107530.2021.2013147
H. Yerushalmi
Abstract Beyond studying the influence of the past on the construction of the self, analytic writers have a growing interest in the process and function of visualizing one's self in the future and its impact on becoming who one envisions oneself to be, despite cultural and societal pressures. Existentialists suggest that we struggle to become who we are through our “fundamental project;” that is, the way we “hurl” ourselves into the future as free agents. In this article, I examine the application of these theoretical perceptions to explain the analytic therapist's internal professional developmental processes. I suggest that when supervisors help their supervisees reflect on their implicit fundamental professional projects, they minimize the need to analyze supervisees' countertransferential responses, facilitating the supervisees' construction of the professional self. Furthermore, after learning about a supervisee's envisioned future professional self, the supervisor helps the supervisee either consolidate the fundamental project or replace it when it ceases to express the supervisee's core sense of self-as-therapist.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/00107530.2021.2001636
Carol Morrison Straforini
Abstract Psychoanalytic clinicians are experienced in weathering the intense feelings that arise with terminations. However, the final good-bye when the therapist retires is unchartered territory. This essay offers a two-fold reflection on the process, based primarily on the author’s experience as a retiring psychotherapist, but also including her perspective as a patient whose own therapist retired. The author will discuss the complex clinical, philosophical, and ethical issues associated with this forced ending, examining her experience through a series of detailed clinical examples. Describing an approach to retirement that sometimes remained within the conventions of the particular analytic frame in which she was trained and sometimes deviated from that frame, she candidly assesses clinical decisions she deems, in retrospect, to have been mistakes, as well as those that served her patients well.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/00107530.2021.1996997
S. Buechler
Abstract This essay explores my reactions to evident suffering in strangers. How are they (partially) a product of many years of personal and professional experiences of witnessing pain? What are some results of defensively avoiding registering these moments? In addition to my own reflections, I call upon statements by some well-known poets, including Sherman Alexie, W. H. Auden, Emily Dickinson, and Rainer Marie Rilke. The interpersonal analytic writings of H. S. Sullivan offer one description of the process of defensive avoidance. More generally, when my “mind’s eye” looks away, it might be imitating my reluctance to stare at sufferers on the visual plane. While this may offer me some protection, how does it limit my capacity for empathy?
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Pub Date : 2021-09-30DOI: 10.1080/00107530.2021.1979377
Linda Jacobs
Don’t Be Sad When I’m Gone is, at once, a lamentation and an affirmation: an affirmation of life and the relationships that nurture it. In this touching memoir, Beatriz Dujovne invites the reader on an extraordinary journey of witnessing—witnessing her grief over the death of her deeply loved husband, Carlos, and then witnessing the reparative experience she both discovers and creates. She takes us back in time to the Argentina of her past and forward to the present, which includes her psychoanalysis with Dr. Novelli. Beatriz is a psychologist in private practice in Buenos Aires and Portland Oregon; she and her husband Carlos met in Buenos Aires while engaged in graduate studies, she in psychology and Carlos in medicine. They emigrated to the United States and lived first in Chicago where Carlos did his post medical training at Mt. Sinai Hospital. Beatriz completed her Ph.D. at the University of Missouri. Carlos’s diagnosis and death from cancer years later was devastating for Beatriz and her memoir is an account of her profound mourning, her analysis with Dr. Novelli and her struggle toward repair.
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Pub Date : 2021-09-02DOI: 10.1080/00107530.2020.1741270
Elena Skolnick
The challenge of working with couples from an analytic perspective is bridging the gap between the intrapsychic and the interpersonal. I first began my training in Family and Couples therapies in the 1980s. At that time, there were psychodynamic, psychoanalytic theories to understand individuals, and then there were various systems theories to explain how humans behaved in families or couples—and never the twain shall meet. So, it was a challenge to transcend the limitations of psychoanalytic theories (specifically using a one-person psychology) to understand how individuals behave in couples. This is because, across the ocean in Great Britain, the home of object relations theories, this divide between individual and couples work never occurred. Utilizing the defense of projective identification as a form of interpersonal communication, British theorists were able to transcend this schism. Further, in using projective identification and other object relation concepts, they were able to link unconscious conflicts to individual’s behavior in their most intimate relationships. In the United States, it was not until the emergence of two-person psychologies, that it became possible to bridge the gap between the intrapsychic and interpersonal. There was finally a theoretical foundation with which to conceptualize how individuals in relationships mutually influence each other. So though it may have taken time for this side of the Atlantic to catch up, there has since been a convergence of understanding and some overlapping assumptions about how individuals behave in their intimate partnerships. Couples of the Couch is a collection of essays addressing various challenges and phenomena inherent in working with couples. The
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