Pub Date : 2023-01-01Epub Date: 2023-11-30DOI: 10.1080/00332828.2023.2269940
Alberto Stefana, Alessio Gamba
Ill children/adolescents who suffer from severe organic diseases have to cope with their inner experiences, therapies, and the global burden of the disease. Although sometimes depression, anger, and death anxiety are openly encountered in medical settings, other times they can be partially hidden by a reactive and defensive path. In these scenarios, psychoanalysis is challenged to contribute the best comprehension of the intimate communication, maybe hidden, and the needs of the ill patients to express themselves. The best way a child can talk about himself is through spontaneous creativity. The adult's task is to facilitate the creation of an empty space and to recognize the child's mode of communication. There may be intense emotional reactions that the adult has to tolerate to not move the patient towards an over-adaptation. These over-adaptations entail the child being forced to feel good or have fun, thereby causing them to escape from their inner experience. The loss of the child's reality forms an additional burden to the child. The most valid indicator of this attitude is the ability to not take counterphobic attitudes but to allow the depression to be shared in a contact space between the child's true self and the perceived environment.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01Epub Date: 2023-11-30DOI: 10.1080/00332828.2023.2272609
Seth Aronson
Karl Abraham, one of Melanie Klein's analysts, undoubtedly influenced Klein in her clinical and theoretical thinking. Abraham was arguably the first analyst to focus on character, as well as the relationship between bodily experience and object relationships-central to the concept of projective identification. His writing on mourning (like Klein's, intensely personal) described identificatory processes with the lost object. In a lesser known essay, Abraham applied some of these ideas to the Jewish Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur. Through examination of this lesser known paper, this article describes how Abraham initiated ideas around the concept of projective identification, and then extends Abraham's early ideas to a more contemporary understanding of the concept. This extension represents a contemporary elaboration of a psychoanalytic contribution to a study of ritual, which was of great interest to many early psychoanalysts-among them, Abraham.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1080/00332828.2023.2237507
Nanette C Auerhahn
This paper details my psychoanalytic process evaluating refugees as part of their application for asylum. It focuses on the emergence of unrepresented content and abject states within the intersubjective matrix that lead to collaborative creation of a story of trauma. Such intra- and inter-personal encounters are structured by the larger social, political, and cultural contexts that support, limit, structure, erase, and determine what can be known and told. Knowledge of traumatic inscription necessitates attunement to nonverbal affective states in both survivor and witness as well a receptive society that is able to tolerate grief, acknowledge the degradation and depravity unleashed in victim and victimizer during violence, and absorb survivors' mournful morality tales.
{"title":"I Can't Forget What You Couldn't Tell Me: A Psychoanalyst Listens to Asylum Seekers.","authors":"Nanette C Auerhahn","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2023.2237507","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00332828.2023.2237507","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper details my psychoanalytic process evaluating refugees as part of their application for asylum. It focuses on the emergence of unrepresented content and abject states within the intersubjective matrix that lead to collaborative creation of a story of trauma. Such intra- and inter-personal encounters are structured by the larger social, political, and cultural contexts that support, limit, structure, erase, and determine what can be known and told. Knowledge of traumatic inscription necessitates attunement to nonverbal affective states in both survivor and witness as well a receptive society that is able to tolerate grief, acknowledge the degradation and depravity unleashed in victim and victimizer during violence, and absorb survivors' mournful morality tales.</p>","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10158136","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 : 2023-01-01Epub Date: 2023-11-30DOI: 10.1080/00332828.2023.2267963
Richard Simpson
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1080/00332828.2023.2187580
Lutz Goetzmann
This article describes the various crises of the Oedipus complex. In the beginning, I address the crisis of the first traumatic days when Oedipus was to be abandoned in the wilderness. This early breakdown takes place at what may be denoted as stage zero. During this first crisis, the defensive solution is an act of doubling, according to Quinodoz's dédoublement of the parental pair, accompanied by the defenses of splitting, foreclosure, and annihilation. Protected by these defenses, the child would be able to search for a solution to the neurotic part of the Oedipus complex. According to Freud's and Lacan's conception, these phases encompass the stages of the imaginary omnipotence, of the symbolic prohibition, and the symbolic reconciliation. The second crisis of Oedipus signifies therefore that the desire encounters the prohibition of the third (e.g., the father). I will show these stages in the 1967 film adaptation of Oedipus Rex and the life of its director, Pierre Paolo Pasolini. Against this background, the third crisis of Oedipus is considered: the impending ecological catastrophe.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1080/00332828.2023.2171180
Lucy Lafarge
With increasing frequency over the past sixty years, analytic practice and theory have dealt with the problems presented by patients who appear to demand a way of working other than the “standard analytic technique” of free association and interpretation. Part or all of these patients’ inner worlds appears to be inaccessible; material does not take the shape of elaborated fantasies that emerge when conflict and defense are analyzed; rather, emerging material appears to be unsymbolized, concrete, and difficult to link to words or thoughts. Green, one of the first to theorize the psychopathology of these patients, hypothesized that their anxiety seemed “to relate essentially not to the problem of the wish (as in neurosis) but to the formation of thought” (Green 1975, p. 40). Over the years, a growing literature, drawing centrally upon the work of Green, Bion, and Winnicott, has been produced to consider the origin and dynamics of these problems with symbolization and thinking, which may be gathered together into the general category of the unrepresented. Most often, these problems are seen as linked to the earliest preverbal stage of development and believed to reflect a deficiency or disturbance of maternal care; correspondingly, although the technique prescribed by theorists of the unrepresented may rely in part upon interpretation of fantasy, conflict, and defense, it is also a reparative technique in which a capacity that is lacking or disturbed is internalized, at least in part for the first time. The four papers we present here reflect a wide range of attitudes and approaches to the unrepresented. In his overview, Levine makes a strong case for the value of this concept. Simpson, drawing upon the work of Laurence Kahn (2013), disputes both the theoretical underpinnings ascribed to the concept of the unrepresented and the shift toward a
{"title":"Four Papers on the Concept of the Unrepresented: Editor's Introduction.","authors":"Lucy Lafarge","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2023.2171180","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00332828.2023.2171180","url":null,"abstract":"With increasing frequency over the past sixty years, analytic practice and theory have dealt with the problems presented by patients who appear to demand a way of working other than the “standard analytic technique” of free association and interpretation. Part or all of these patients’ inner worlds appears to be inaccessible; material does not take the shape of elaborated fantasies that emerge when conflict and defense are analyzed; rather, emerging material appears to be unsymbolized, concrete, and difficult to link to words or thoughts. Green, one of the first to theorize the psychopathology of these patients, hypothesized that their anxiety seemed “to relate essentially not to the problem of the wish (as in neurosis) but to the formation of thought” (Green 1975, p. 40). Over the years, a growing literature, drawing centrally upon the work of Green, Bion, and Winnicott, has been produced to consider the origin and dynamics of these problems with symbolization and thinking, which may be gathered together into the general category of the unrepresented. Most often, these problems are seen as linked to the earliest preverbal stage of development and believed to reflect a deficiency or disturbance of maternal care; correspondingly, although the technique prescribed by theorists of the unrepresented may rely in part upon interpretation of fantasy, conflict, and defense, it is also a reparative technique in which a capacity that is lacking or disturbed is internalized, at least in part for the first time. The four papers we present here reflect a wide range of attitudes and approaches to the unrepresented. In his overview, Levine makes a strong case for the value of this concept. Simpson, drawing upon the work of Laurence Kahn (2013), disputes both the theoretical underpinnings ascribed to the concept of the unrepresented and the shift toward a","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9361744","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 : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1080/00332828.2023.2197890
Wendy Katz
Using the concepts of microdialect and second skin, this paper explores the idea that a patient's silence in the session may function at multiple levels of psychic and relational organization, and-by virtue of its somatically experienced qualities and the special countertransference states these may elicit-might serve as a vehicle for movement between levels. It can thus be fruitfully approached as a potential portal for access to, and creative transformation of, unrepresented experience.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01Epub Date: 2023-11-30DOI: 10.1080/00332828.2023.2267527
Robert A Paul
In this paper, I present a new reading of Erik Erikson's theory of epigenetic stages of development, with particular attention to the concept of identity. I show that Erikson's psychosocial approach requires close attention to the role of the community in the formation of individual identity and to the importance of the stage of generativity as an often overlooked component in understanding both identity and the whole Eriksonian life cycle.
{"title":"Identity and Community: Erikson Reconsidered.","authors":"Robert A Paul","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2023.2267527","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00332828.2023.2267527","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this paper, I present a new reading of Erik Erikson's theory of epigenetic stages of development, with particular attention to the concept of identity. I show that Erikson's <i>psychosocial</i> approach requires close attention to the role of the community in the formation of individual identity and to the importance of the stage of <i>generativity</i> as an often overlooked component in understanding both identity and the whole Eriksonian life cycle.</p>","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138463529","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 : 2022-10-07DOI: 10.1080/00332828.2022.2114277
M. Castelloe
If you’ve made your way to this point in the review, you likely are: a friend of the author or a friend of mine, subscribe to the basic tenants of modern ego psychology, are a student whose been assigned this paper, or are someone open-minded enough to read the writings of writers whose orientation has been cast in the shadows by America’s present preference for relational thinking. The extent to which analysts turn away from ideas expressed by those aligned with a different school of thought is most unfortunate; the hostility oftentimes expressed toward those who think differently seems indicative of Freud’s (see footnote 1) concept of “the narcissism of minor differences.” Is my cynicism warranted? Who knows? In one of his last chapters, Busch quotes Ogden as Ogden sets out to address the work of Isaacs who’s theoretic orientation differs from his own. Given this context, and the fact that Busch is about to critique Ogden’s thinking, Busch prefaces his thoughts by noting a larger issue within our field, “our tendency to dismiss critics from outside our circle, and thus lose whatever contributions they might make to our understanding” (p. 187). Wouldn’t it be nice, when expressing one’s analytic opinion, to not have to beg to differ? RICHARD TUCH (LOS ANGELES, CA)
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