Pub Date : 2022-08-05DOI: 10.1080/00332828.2022.2096331
H. Levine
Inspired by his visit to an exhibition of C ezanne’s portraits at the National Portrait Gallery in London, Robert Snell has combined his passions and his expertise as art historian and analytic psychotherapist to create a remarkable book. C ezanne and the Post-Bionian Field: An Exploration and a Meditation is “an exploration and meditation” that places C ezanne’s visual concepts in a contrapuntal dialogue with Bion’s oneiric models and Nino Ferro’s field theory. The result is a beautifully illustrated and deeply informative volume that works well on many levels–-art historical and cultural commentary, introduction to Bion and Ferro’s field theory, and applied psychoanalytic comparative investigation–-as it invites readers to accompany the author in this extraordinary encounter between art and psychoanalysis. Here, art “‘serve[s] to interpret psychoanalysis,’ in a collaborative meeting that can open up new meanings in both arenas... [as] multiple voices claim a hearing: those of artists, art historians, psychoanalysts, philosophers, some contemporaries of C ezanne and... that of the painter himself” (p. xiv). It is Snell’s contention that:
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Pub Date : 2022-08-02DOI: 10.1080/00332828.2022.2095797
F. Busch
Morris Eagle, one of our leading analyst-scholars, has written an important book that resurrects ego psychology from the theoretical dustbin where many believe it belonged. His formidable integrative capacities are on full display in his new book, and he succeeds admirably in demonstrating that–-amongst the plethora of psychoanalytic perspectives–ego psychology provides the strongest basis for a theory of mind and the place for a unified theory of psychoanalysis that integrates multiple psychoanalytic schools. He supports his views with a stunning array of research, often from studies outside of psychoanalysis, and his discussion of the critiques of ego psychology from within psychoanalysis are clear and convincing. To remind readers, the beginnings of ego psychology were outlined by Freud in his 1923 and 1926 papers, The Ego and the Id and “Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety.” Summarizing his views in the New Introductory Lectures, Freud (1933) suggested that we change our attention from “the repressed to the repressing forces” (p. 58). However, it is important to remember that in this same article Freud was, as it turns out, justifiably wary of how his introduction of ego psychology would be welcomed: “I must, however, let you know of my suspicion of this ego psychology will affect you differently from the introduction into the psychic underworld which preceded it” (p. 58). He went on to say:
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Pub Date : 2022-07-25DOI: 10.1080/00332828.2022.2096330
J. Frosch
tent” (p. 235). As he notes later, Gray’s emphasis is exclusively on uncovering resistances for the purpose of uncovering drive derivatives, believing that these will emerge on their own once resistances are analyzed. I believe this was too optimistic on Gray’s part. In the final chapter, Eagle is critical of newer psychoanalytic schools that portray their contributions as the new, best, complete theory rather than additions to existing theory. He also sees views of common ground amongst disparate theories as illusory. As Eagle has portrayed how different theories can be integrated within ego psychology in previous chapters, there is no grand finale. In summary, this is a book in the Hartmann-Rapaport tradition. It presents a theory of mind that integrates various theories within an ego psychological paradigm that would be useful for all psychoanalysts to understand. While the book isn’t written with a clinical focus, it could be useful to psychoanalytic clinicians from all schools to consider.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/00332828.2022.2124080
R. D'angelo, Lisa Marchiano, Shlomit Gorin
As psychoanalytic clinicians who have worked with trans-identifying youth for many years, we resolutely agree with Avgi Saketopoulou's assertion that there are no one-size-fits-all formulations that adequately capture the diverse experiences of these youth. However, we argue that she falls seriously short of convincingly arguing her criticism of the Evanses’ understanding of gender dysphoria and their approach to working with trans-identified individuals. Instead, Saketopoulou, mischaracterizes the Evanses' position as "so extreme... and so excessive in its claims," and produces an ad hominem reprimand of colleagues rather than a reasoned critique of their book. That said, it is essential to carefully consider her main points in light of the developmental and psychoanalytic theories that have long informed and shaped clinical practice. For us, her problematic critique raises one of the most crucial questions in this debate: how do clinicians best help young people who are experiencing gender-related distress? This is where Saketopoulou and the Evanses diverge, each privileging different discourses. Saketopoulou recommends that practitioners
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/00332828.2022.2124092
S. Evans, M. Evans
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/00332828.2022.2124082
David Bell
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/00332828.2022.2121093
P. Hoffer
In this book, Peter L. Rudnytsky gives us a detailed account of Ferenczi’s controversial analysis of Elizabeth Severn in what may well be seen as a landmark case in the history of psychoanalysis, comparable to that of Anna O., Dora, and the Wolf Man. Written in a lively, engaging style and citing numerous sources—many of which are unpublished and some of which were inaccessible to scholars until recently—Rudnytsky presents an insightful commentary on the time in which Ferenczi’s bold experiments in psychoanalytic technique and modifications in theory put him at loggerheads with Freud, helping to alter the course of history in the process. The book is divided into three sections, titled “Conceptions,” “Contexts,” and “Consequences,” respectively. In “Conceptions,” Rudnytsky explores the lives of Elizabeth Severn and her daughter Margaret, with frequent references to Elizabeth’s book, The Discovery of the Self (published shortly after the termination of her analysis and Ferenczi’s untimely death in May 1933), and to Margaret’s unpublished letters to her mother. In “Contexts,” he examines the interactions within the small cluster of analysands who congregated around Ferenczi in Budapest, most notably Clara Thompson and Izette de Forest, who helped propagate Ferenczi’s ideas in the United States. In “Consequences,” Rudnytsky presents a detailed critique of the dispute over theory and technique which strained the personal relations between Ferenczi and Freud nearly to the breaking point and
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00332828.2022.2047391
P. Cotrufo
This paper reflects a perspective the author has developed over twenty years of practice as a clinical psychoanalyst and as an academic researcher in the field of eating disorders. Anorexia and bulimia are discussed through the lens of psychoanalytic theory, with the support of empirical evidence in clinical psychology research. The author proposes a new way to consider anorexic and bulimic pathology, assigning primary importance to drive repression and object avoidance and stimulating reflections on the phobic-obsessive displacement onto hunger and food. A brief illustrative vignette is included.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00332828.2022.2049183
Richard B Simpson
This article explores what is essential to analytic work by drawing not only on Freud, but also on two additional sources: Friedman’s (2019) notion of the psychoanalytic phenomenon as described in Freud’s book on technique; and Weber’s (1991, 2000) understanding of Freud’s metapsychology as a creation of terms that are necessary in order to work with a non-observable object, the unconscious. Using Freud’s emphasis on the importance of dreams as a form of thinking, the author links the work of Friedman and Weber and extends it in doing a close reading of a specific passage by Freud, showing that the precarious nature of metapsychology is understandable as a form of paradigmatic logic. A dream of the author’s gives a certain counterpoint to the paper.
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