Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1080/00332828.2022.2115279
Theodore J Jacobs
About a year before he died, Charles Brenner called me aside following the class we taught together at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute and handed me a large manila envelope. “Take a look at this,” he said, “and let me know what you think. I may do more, but that’s it for now.” I thought that Charlie, as he was known to friends and colleagues, was asking me to read and comment on a new paper of his. This surprised me as he had not published anything for some years, and I was unaware that he had been working on anything new. Finding a memoir in that envelope multiplied my surprise many times over. Charles Brenner was one of the last people I expected to write about himself. In the more than half century in which I worked with him and shared a warm friendship, I never heard him spontaneously utter a word about his private life. And, if asked directly about any part of it—a rare occurrence as all who knew him understood his reticence to speak about anything personal—his answer would be brief and nonspecific. He would share a general statement such as “things are fine” or “the family is doing well,” but nothing more than that. About the field of psychoanalysis and his experiences as an analyst, however, Charlie had a good deal to say. As is amply clear in his memoir, Charlie had strong views about the workings of the mind and the analytic process and was not reticent in expressing
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1080/00332828.2022.2124093
Lucy Lafarge
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1080/00332828.2022.2118506
Luca Nicoli
I would like to thank Dr. Steven H. Goldberg for his thoughtful and stimulating discussion of the conversation I had with Dr. Stefano Bolognini. In particular, I will focus on the last section of Goldberg’s remarks, “Controversy—Toward a New Paradigm?” in which he queries me directly. In the course of more than a century of psychoanalysis, we have witnessed a multiplication of theories, schools, models, and techniques. Our discipline proceeds by juxtaposition rather than by objective verification, as others do. Concepts and models are hardly ever disavowed; instead, they fall into disuse—only to be taken up again at other times, perhaps, and in other parts of the world. So why did I “hound” Bolognini with a series of questions regarding a new paradigm? Because in all the world’s cuisines, salt and sugar are used; no cooking tradition exists without one or the other of these ingredients. It is the different amounts used that guarantee an infinite variety of dishes around the world. Understanding and experience, Goldberg argues, should not be too sharply polarized, but inevitably they are blended by different analysts and analytic traditions in ways that make the transcripts of sessions quite different, to the point that we wonder to what extent the same work is being done. When Ogden says, “I don’t find that the term interpretation well describes how I speak to patients” (Ogden and Di Donna 2013, p. 631), and when Ferro says that “an interpretation of this kind [a transference interpretation] would mean the collapse of the field and a return
{"title":"Many Psychoanalyses in One: Response to Steven H. Goldberg's Discussion.","authors":"Luca Nicoli","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2022.2118506","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00332828.2022.2118506","url":null,"abstract":"I would like to thank Dr. Steven H. Goldberg for his thoughtful and stimulating discussion of the conversation I had with Dr. Stefano Bolognini. In particular, I will focus on the last section of Goldberg’s remarks, “Controversy—Toward a New Paradigm?” in which he queries me directly. In the course of more than a century of psychoanalysis, we have witnessed a multiplication of theories, schools, models, and techniques. Our discipline proceeds by juxtaposition rather than by objective verification, as others do. Concepts and models are hardly ever disavowed; instead, they fall into disuse—only to be taken up again at other times, perhaps, and in other parts of the world. So why did I “hound” Bolognini with a series of questions regarding a new paradigm? Because in all the world’s cuisines, salt and sugar are used; no cooking tradition exists without one or the other of these ingredients. It is the different amounts used that guarantee an infinite variety of dishes around the world. Understanding and experience, Goldberg argues, should not be too sharply polarized, but inevitably they are blended by different analysts and analytic traditions in ways that make the transcripts of sessions quite different, to the point that we wonder to what extent the same work is being done. When Ogden says, “I don’t find that the term interpretation well describes how I speak to patients” (Ogden and Di Donna 2013, p. 631), and when Ferro says that “an interpretation of this kind [a transference interpretation] would mean the collapse of the field and a return","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40672553","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1080/00332828.2022.2118505
Stefano Bolognini
I am very grateful to Dr. Steven H. Goldberg for his careful, clear, and profound reading of the text of “From What to How: A Conversation with Stefano Bolognini on Emotional Attunement” and for the appropriate questions he raises. Of course, I am unable to address all his questions in a limited space, and I will restrict myself to focusing on the main problem of the distinction between the interpsychic, the interpersonal, and the intersubjective (which of course would also deserve more space for a detailed theoretical exploration). I am aware that intersubjectivists have also described pre-subjective and co-subjective passages; however, I still consider it useful to try to distinguish even more finely the differences between the different functional levels. Drawing on a historical-etymological perspective, I will mention that for the Etruscans and Romans, sonare, “to sound,” had as its third-person singular form sonat, and iper-sonare had the third-person singular form of iper-sonat, from which the word persona (“person”) derives (as well as from the Etruscan phersu, meaning “mask”). Thus, to hyperproduce a sound was to mask the effect of very strong theatrical characters (i.e., to create a “mask-effect”). Therefore, we can say that a person is primarily an identity concept. Being a person is based on a sufficiently clear definition of the individual’s boundaries and characteristics and on a self-representational distinction from the other, especially at the conscious level. This does not imply constant, integrated contact with one’s subjectivity; indeed, some individuals may have a strong, conscious professional or social identity but a significant lack of contact with the self (certain
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1080/00332828.2022.2118503
Steven H Goldberg
I am grateful to Drs. Bolognini and Nicoli for this candid and stimulating conversation and for the invitation to look more carefully at the richness of Bolognini’s many contributions to our field. The conversation covers a wide array of Bolognini’s important and creative contributions, while it concurrently puts him in dialogue with contemporary colleagues, positioning him in relation to some of the most pressing controversies now engaging psychoanalytic scholarship and practice. In particular, I am referring to what some have referred to as an emerging paradigm change, characterized by a move from the epistemological to the ontological in psychoanalysis, one in which the how, the experience, the withness of the analyst in sharing the patient’s inner world and suffering has taken center stage in discussions of therapeutic action. One of the most salient characteristics of Bolognini’s thinking, both in this conversation and elsewhere in his writings, is its quintessentially integrative nature, drawing from and making use of virtually every major psychoanalytic theory, in several languages and multiple geographical locations, while tactfully calling out the pitfalls of an overreliance on any single theory or model scene. This theme of integration is manifest in his emphasis on empathy and the interpsychic, as well as intrapsychically in his emphasis on a more integrative relationship between ego and self,
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1080/00332828.2022.2088168
Jason A Wheeler Vega
The author discusses a process of recommending returning to in-person analysis during the period from April to October 2021, after working by phone since March 2020. Clinical excerpts from several analytic cases are presented and discussed in terms suggested by that material and other sources. Previous work on interpretive authority and on the interpretation of verbal and nonverbal material, still generally relevant to the analytic situation, is discussed as a background for integrating more specific ideas particularly relevant to this phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, including preliminary concepts of revolution and resistance, danger and opportunity, and convenience and necessity.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1080/00332828.2022.2114745
Neal Vorus
This memoir offers an illuminating account of Brenner’s life, mostly from 1931 when he started medical school until a year before his death in 2008 at age ninety-four. It is primarily an account of his professional life, although he also includes a number of personal details insofar as these relate to the inception and development of his career. In my comments, I will be highlighting two somewhat divergent aspects of Brenner’s account that I see as fundamental to his view of himself and to his relationship with the field of psychoanalysis: (1) the elevation of the personal over the theoretical; and (2) the repudiation of undefined and unobservable aspects of experience. I will conclude my remarks with a speculative discussion of the possible role these divergent aspects of Brenner’s character played in his distinctive impact on American psychoanalysis during the years of his ascendancy. Brenner begins by taking up the unlikely prospect that he ever became a psychoanalyst at all. He documents the lack of recognition and esteem with which psychiatrists, and especially psychoanalysts, were held in the 1930s, underlining the fact that his early interests were in the hard sciences, mainly chemistry, and that he had an utter disinterest in matters psychological until nearly the end of college. Brenner tells us that the reasons for his life choices primarily had to do with the illnesses of his parents: first, his father’s death from rheumatic fever, then the subsequent depression and psychosomatic illness of his mother. He knew nothing of the unconscious impact of these events when he first formed a determination to become an analyst near the end of college,
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1080/00332828.2022.2097795
Aisha Abbasi
The author focuses on some of her experiences as the COVID-19 pandemic began and her retrospective understanding of those experiences. She describes having drawn on memories from her early life to arrive at this understanding; she discusses how this process has allowed her to move past certain countertransferential obstacles in her clinical work during the early days of the pandemic and to listen to her patients with more optimal analytic attentiveness. The author also discusses concurrent sociopolitical events, such as Donald Trump's presidency and George Floyd's murder, and how these impacted her analytic work. Illustrative clinical vignettes are presented.
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