Pub Date : 2026-02-04DOI: 10.1177/00030651251389888
Steven H Cooper
This paper examines four major shifts in psychoanalytic theory occurring between the years 1966 and 1969. These include, an important shift from epistemological to ontological approaches in psychoanalysis, new theories of the setting, an expansion of the use of the analyst as an actual object and major revisions in the theory of the complex motivational properties of aggression and defense. These shifts also related to the development of a widening scope of patients for psychoanalytic treatment and shifting ways of theorizing interpretive responsiveness. The author addresses the implications of how the theoretical work during these years continues to generate meaningful clinical and theoretical contributions to contemporary psychoanalysis. He emphasizes that the complex relationship between epistemological and ontological theoretical models and approaches to interpretation are just beginning to be elaborated. He engages in a postpluralistic analysis which finds value in considering how different theories explore overlapping clinical problems and the nature of psychoanalysis itself.
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Pub Date : 2026-02-01Epub Date: 2025-12-19DOI: 10.1177/00030651251399910
Anne Adelman, Rachel Boué-Widawsky
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Pub Date : 2026-01-31DOI: 10.1177/00030651251411896
Yael Goldstein-Love
{"title":"Writing the Maternal Strange.","authors":"Yael Goldstein-Love","doi":"10.1177/00030651251411896","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00030651251411896","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47403,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association","volume":" ","pages":"30651251411896"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2026-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146094092","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 : 2026-01-30DOI: 10.1177/00030651251414208
{"title":"2025 Invited reviewers acknowledgement","authors":"","doi":"10.1177/00030651251414208","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00030651251414208","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47403,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association","volume":"43 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146089847","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 : 2026-01-28DOI: 10.1177/00030651251409650
Mitchell Wilson
This paper examines the nature of the maternal trope in psychoanalysis, especially the common connection between psychoanalytic portrayals of the mother in normal child development and the analyst in clinical work. Inspired by Bion and, to a lesser degree, Winnicott, the mother is seen as essential to the child's development of thinking and symbolizing capacities. She functions as a manager and processor of emotional experience-both her own and the infant's-through her holding and containing activities. The analyst, by direct analogy, is depicted as occupying this fundamental maternal role. However, this view often reduces maternal subjectivity to a pallid set of functions, thereby overlooking the mother's (and by extension, the analyst's) lack, desire, passion, and her engagement with enigma and uncertainty. Through Kristeva's work on maternal reliance/eroticism, along with Chetrit-Vatine's concept of matricial space, an ethics of care and responsibility is articulated that adds dimension, nuance, and depth to the typical portrayal of maternal and analytic subjectivity found in the literature. The paper concludes with the clinical implications of the analyst's responsibility toward the other: the other of background, content, absence, and the desire that underpins the analyst's countertransference experience.
{"title":"The Ethics of Care for the Other: The Analyst-as-Mother in Contemporary Psychoanalysis.","authors":"Mitchell Wilson","doi":"10.1177/00030651251409650","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00030651251409650","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines the nature of the maternal trope in psychoanalysis, especially the common connection between psychoanalytic portrayals of the mother in normal child development and the analyst in clinical work. Inspired by Bion and, to a lesser degree, Winnicott, the mother is seen as essential to the child's development of thinking and symbolizing capacities. She functions as a manager and processor of emotional experience-both her own and the infant's-through her holding and containing activities. The analyst, by direct analogy, is depicted as occupying this fundamental maternal role. However, this view often reduces maternal subjectivity to a pallid set of functions, thereby overlooking the mother's (and by extension, the analyst's) lack, desire, passion, and her engagement with enigma and uncertainty. Through Kristeva's work on maternal reliance/eroticism, along with Chetrit-Vatine's concept of matricial space, an ethics of care and responsibility is articulated that adds dimension, nuance, and depth to the typical portrayal of maternal and analytic subjectivity found in the literature. The paper concludes with the clinical implications of the analyst's responsibility toward the other: the other of background, content, absence, and the desire that underpins the analyst's countertransference experience.","PeriodicalId":47403,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association","volume":"10042 1","pages":"30651251409650"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146069900","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 : 2026-01-22DOI: 10.1177/00030651251404477
Neal Vorus
{"title":"Discussion of \"Fantasy and the process of fantasy-building,\" by Dominique Scarfone.","authors":"Neal Vorus","doi":"10.1177/00030651251404477","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00030651251404477","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47403,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association","volume":"69 1","pages":"30651251404477"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146021516","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 : 2026-01-17DOI: 10.1177/00030651251404445
Constance E. Dunlap
{"title":"Book Review: Race and Excellence: My Dialogue With Chester Pierce Book Review: Race and Excellence: My Dialogue With Chester Pierce. By Ezra E. H. Griffith . Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association Publishing, 2023, 220 pp., $32.00 hardcover.","authors":"Constance E. Dunlap","doi":"10.1177/00030651251404445","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00030651251404445","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47403,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association","volume":"144 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145993391","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 : 2026-01-07DOI: 10.1177/00030651251397918
Aaron Helgeson
Creative artists often report that their ideas come from a source that feels external. Psychoanalyst Michel Émile de M'Uzan calls this phenomenon a transitional subject, the unconscious projection of a person that sits at the boundary of "me" and "not me." This paper extends de M'Uzan's ideas to creativity by proposing the concept of an internal collaborator-a transitional subject manifest in an artist's work method that protects the ego through the inevitable loss that comes with proceeding from the creative idea into work with external materials. Entering into a relationship with this divided part of the self, artists repeat, reject, or sublimate prior relations with authority figures like parents, teachers, and historical institutions. To elaborate, the author offers a case study of his own life history, music, and depression to show how creative methods are constructed in tandem with the unconscious self, and how the relationship with one's internal collaborator affects an artist's mental well-being.
有创造力的艺术家经常说他们的想法来自外部。精神分析学家Michel Émile de M'Uzan称这种现象为过渡主体，一个人坐在“我”和“非我”的边界上的无意识投射。本文通过提出“内部合作者”的概念，将de M'Uzan的思想扩展到创造力，这是一个过渡的主体，体现在艺术家的工作方法中，通过从创意想法进入使用外部材料的工作中不可避免的损失来保护自我。艺术家与自我的这个分裂部分建立了一种关系，重复、拒绝或升华了与权威人物（如父母、老师和历史机构）之前的关系。为了详细说明，作者提供了他自己的生活史，音乐和抑郁症的案例研究，以展示创作方法是如何与无意识的自我串联构建的，以及与一个人的内在合作者的关系如何影响艺术家的心理健康。
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Pub Date : 2026-01-06DOI: 10.1177/00030651251406196
Alex Lewin
{"title":"Book Review: Listening for a Lifetime: The Artful Science of Psychotherapy Book Review: Listening for a Lifetime: The Artful Science of Psychotherapy. By David I. Joseph . Traverse City, MI: Mission Point Press, 2025, 248 pp., $16.95 softcover.","authors":"Alex Lewin","doi":"10.1177/00030651251406196","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00030651251406196","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47403,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association","volume":"391 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145903563","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 : 2025-12-24DOI: 10.1177/00030651251396894
Christopher G. Lovett
{"title":"Experiencing “Showing Up” and the Presence Moment in Psychoanalysis","authors":"Christopher G. Lovett","doi":"10.1177/00030651251396894","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00030651251396894","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47403,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association","volume":"56 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145812943","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}
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