Pub Date : 2025-06-14DOI: 10.1177/00030651251337370
Franco De Masi
{"title":"Book Review: From Breakdown to Breakthrough: Psychoanalytic Treatment of Psychosis Book Review: From Breakdown to Breakthrough: Psychoanalytic Treatment of Psychosis. By Danielle Knafo and Michael Selzer . New York: Routledge, 2024, 306 pp., $39.95 paperback.","authors":"Franco De Masi","doi":"10.1177/00030651251337370","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00030651251337370","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47403,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association","volume":"102 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144289971","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 : 2025-06-14DOI: 10.1177/00030651251343090
Richard Almond
{"title":"Book Review: The Subversive Edge of Psychoanalysis Book Review: The Subversive Edge of Psychoanalysis. By David James Fisher . New York: Routledge, 2024, 260 pp., paperback $34.39.","authors":"Richard Almond","doi":"10.1177/00030651251343090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00030651251343090","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47403,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association","volume":"42 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144290073","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 : 2025-06-11DOI: 10.1177/00030651251343053
Anne Adelman, Rachel Boué-Widawsky
{"title":"From The Editors.","authors":"Anne Adelman, Rachel Boué-Widawsky","doi":"10.1177/00030651251343053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00030651251343053","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47403,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association","volume":" ","pages":"30651251343053"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144267606","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 : 2025-06-01Epub Date: 2025-01-15DOI: 10.1177/00030651241312386
Beth Kephart
{"title":"Inheritance.","authors":"Beth Kephart","doi":"10.1177/00030651241312386","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00030651241312386","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47403,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association","volume":" ","pages":"331-335"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142985028","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 : 2025-06-01Epub Date: 2024-11-04DOI: 10.1177/00030651241294223
Donald Moss
{"title":"Letter to the Editor.","authors":"Donald Moss","doi":"10.1177/00030651241294223","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00030651241294223","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47403,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association","volume":" ","pages":"327"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142570010","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 : 2025-06-01Epub Date: 2025-02-25DOI: 10.1177/00030651251317601
Charles P Fisher
{"title":"Why I Write: I Write to Bring My Dreams to Life.","authors":"Charles P Fisher","doi":"10.1177/00030651251317601","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00030651251317601","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47403,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association","volume":" ","pages":"399-405"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143494040","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 : 2025-06-01Epub Date: 2025-03-19DOI: 10.1177/00030651251325529
Anne Adelman
{"title":"From the Editor.","authors":"Anne Adelman","doi":"10.1177/00030651251325529","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00030651251325529","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47403,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association","volume":" ","pages":"339-343"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143664832","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 : 2025-06-01Epub Date: 2024-07-26DOI: 10.1177/00030651241263929
Alessandra Lemma
The appeal of transgender pornography, especially involving "pre-op"(erative) trans women, has steadily increased placing it in the top six most searched categories. In this paper I explore one unconscious function of the "pre-op" trans woman sexual fantasy that I have observed in some young heterosexual gynandromorphophilic men (i.e., men sexually drawn to the MtF "pre-op" body) who use transgender pornography and/or escorts. In contrast to a psychoanalytic reading of gynandromorphophilia in which the "pre-op" trans woman's body is understood to be "missing nothing" because she has breasts and a penis, I suggest that what is psychically compelling and sexually arousing for some men is quite the opposite: because the "pre-op" trans woman has a penis, she therefore has no vagina/womb. It is the triumph over what is missing and that should be there. The penis in lieu of the vagina/womb is evidence of her damaged procreative potential. In these cases, I propose that the sexual preference exposes the man's underlying womb envy. The "pre-op" trans woman is projectively identified with a felt-to-be "infertile" part of the man. The phantasized damaged woman's procreative body temporarily relieves the man of his sense of inadequacy and anxieties about his capacity to create and enliven. I illustrate this dynamic with clinical examples.
{"title":"On <i>Not</i> Having it All: Exploring the Fetishization of Trans Women by Heterosexual Men.","authors":"Alessandra Lemma","doi":"10.1177/00030651241263929","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00030651241263929","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The appeal of transgender pornography, especially involving \"pre-op\"(erative) trans women, has steadily increased placing it in the top six most searched categories. In this paper I explore one unconscious function of the \"pre-op\" trans woman sexual fantasy that I have observed in some young heterosexual gynandromorphophilic men (i.e., men sexually drawn to the MtF \"pre-op\" body) who use transgender pornography and/or escorts. In contrast to a psychoanalytic reading of gynandromorphophilia in which the \"pre-op\" trans woman's body is understood to be \"missing nothing\" because she has breasts <i>and</i> a penis, I suggest that what is psychically compelling and sexually arousing for some men is quite the opposite: <i>because</i> the \"pre-op\" trans woman has a penis, she therefore has no vagina/womb. It is the triumph over what <i>is</i> missing and that should be there. The penis in lieu of the vagina/womb is evidence of her damaged procreative potential. In these cases, I propose that the sexual preference exposes the man's underlying womb envy. The \"pre-op\" trans woman is projectively identified with a felt-to-be \"infertile\" part of the man. The phantasized damaged woman's procreative body temporarily relieves the man of his sense of inadequacy and anxieties about his capacity to create and enliven. I illustrate this dynamic with clinical examples.</p>","PeriodicalId":47403,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association","volume":" ","pages":"301-326"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141761630","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 : 2025-05-31DOI: 10.1177/00030651251337421
Giuseppe Civitarese
A seminal text in psychoanalytic literature, “The Use of an Object and Relating Through Identifications,” like the Sphinx, continues to challenge us. At birth, the infant attempts to destroy the object, and if the mother survives this destruction, the child gains a sense of reality. In this essay, Winnicott challenges classical conceptions of aggression, viewing destruction as an expression of love and innate vitality. He critiques idealized views of the mother-child relationship, emphasizes the role of the real object, and anticipates a social theory of subjectivity where creation of meaning is central. He reiterates that destruction is typically only potential. The essay argues that, like negation in Hegel’s dialectic of recognition, destruction—even if partial—must occur and be reciprocal. Only through “alteration of each” (Nancy) can the transition be made from an omnipotent relationship (“relating”) to a more mature one (“use”). Winnicott’s lexical choices—“destruction,” “relating,” and “use”—contribute to the enduring relevance of the essay. Rereading this classic work today highlights the metapsychological significance of recognition as a framework for understanding therapeutic action. Above all, it helps avoid misinterpreting recognition as merely a deliberate or conscious act, or reducing it to a purely descriptive clinical term.
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Pub Date : 2025-05-22DOI: 10.1177/00030651251342529
Timothy Rice
{"title":"Book Review: Emerging Adulthood: A Psychodynamic Approach to the New Developmental Phase of the 21st Century Book Review: Emerging Adulthood: A Psychodynamic Approach to the New Developmental Phase of the 21st Century. By Karen Gilmore and Pamela Meersand . Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Publishing, 2024, 324 pp., $74 paperback.","authors":"Timothy Rice","doi":"10.1177/00030651251342529","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00030651251342529","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47403,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association","volume":"57 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144122686","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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