Psychoanalytic Quarterly最新文献

In this paper, the Primal Scene (PrS)-a par excellence primal phantasy, is considered in its function as a central scheme of the primordial psychic world, a kind of core template, which not only constraints the symbolizing urges of mental life "into certain channels" (Freud 1938, p. 187) but also canalizes, contains, and organizes them, thus furthering their elaboration. Through extended clinical vignettes taken from different phases of a long analysis, this symbolizing and channeling function, under the aegis of the PrS-enhancing and containing at the same time-is demonstrated, as the material is gradually transitioning from under-represented, archaic psychic derivatives to repressible, sublimated (e.g., symbolically higher) organized imagos.

The author describes and reflects upon his clinical experiences with both mutually desired terminations and coerced endings. He addresses issues of technique, being real in termination and post-termination contact in addition to offering his perspectives on the role of theory in determining the phenomena of termination, retraumatizing aspects of termination, termination and death, and the question of whether analytic relationships could or should be ended.

To emphasize how interwoven innate and acquired factors are in the aetiology of mental disorders, Freud introduced the concept of complemental series. Today, current genetic research data is shedding new light on this hypothesis. The development of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) has highlighted the interaction of genetic and environmental factors in the aetiology of psychiatric diseases. By reinterpreting the evolution of Freud's positions regarding the aetiological role of heredity through the prism of current literature, this article aims to introduce a dialogue between psychoanalysis and contemporary genetics.

Reflections on the process of psychoanalytic termination led to reexamination of a long-term case of a person who experienced major dissociation in response to severe neglect in infancy and beyond. Her need to return one year after our ending led to a reconsideration of what ending is possible for our more traumatized patients. This essay also considers larger themes of aging, dying, and departure as they relate to increased access to aliveness in the present.

Psychoanalysis is defined in this paper as a process that initiates in the analyst's mind with the framing of the patient's material in terms of transference and resistance. Once the analyst is able to do this, a first level of transformation of experience is effectuated that then must be consummated through interpretation to the patient of what is occurring in their mind as it is lived out in the experience with the analyst. For this author, Bion's model of container-contained complements Freud's transference and resistance model; it also offers an example to his thesis that only within a clear model of mind and a corresponding theory of therapeutic action can the psychoanalyst define for themselves and for their patients a way of knowing that they are doing analysis. The patient's unconscious storm is present from the moment of the first interviews, and the analytic process begins whenever the analyst is ready to experience, think, and talk about it with his or her patient.

The authors describe their experiences as members of an international online study group, initiated before the COVID-19 pandemic to read aloud and discuss Bion's (1965) Transformations. The three separately authored essays and commentary included here reflect the multifaceted phenomena in which images and voices in Zoom rectangles are transformed into shared emotional experience, the O of the group in Bion's language. These observations show how group members translate online experience into a felt sense of being with others, and suggest that oscillations in the sense of being inside or outside the group demonstrate the dialectical and constantly changing nature of the analytic field in an online group.

King Lear is a timeless exposition of humankind's attempt to find meaning amidst the ceaseless turbulence of existence. This entails navigating the disintegrating pulls of nature and harmful human action that exist alongside affiliative, life-promoting gestures shown toward one another. As the predictability and safety afforded by social and two-dimensional psychic constructs collapse, several characters in this play are forced to reckon with the untamed, less organized realms of the mind and natural world. This leads to movements toward psychic paralysis and disintegration, as well as toward growth and interpersonal healing, dynamics that hinge on the characters' internal structuring.