Pub Date : 2025-12-05DOI: 10.1177/00030651251396919
Mitchell Wilson
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Pub Date : 2025-12-04DOI: 10.1177/00030651251394305
Vittorio Gallese
This essay develops an integrated account of aesthetic experience by bringing neuroscience into dialogue with psychoanalysis. It critiques disembodied, oculocentric models of visual perception, proposing instead that aesthetic engagement is mediated by embodied simulation-a neurofunctional mechanism enabling viewers to reenact observed gestures, affects, and movements. This simulation activates a prereflective, affective unconscious rooted in bodily memory and relational experience. Drawing on Winnicott's concept of transitional phenomena and Kris's notion of regression in the service of the ego, the author frames the aesthetic image as a transitional object that facilitates affective modulation and subjective reorganization. Aesthetic experience emerges not as symbolic interpretation but as a temporally structured act of play, attunement, and transformation. By articulating the convergences between neuroscience and psychoanalysis, the essay offers a novel model for understanding how images engage our bodies, shape our unconscious, and participate in the ongoing formation of subjectivity.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-30DOI: 10.1177/00030651251391160
Siri Hustvedt
{"title":"“Can’t Put Your Arms Around a Memory”","authors":"Siri Hustvedt","doi":"10.1177/00030651251391160","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00030651251391160","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47403,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145619540","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 : 2025-11-26DOI: 10.1177/00030651251365608
Komal Ramchandani Gupta
{"title":"Book Review: The Indian Jungle: Psychoanalysis and Non-Western Civilizations Book Review: The Indian Jungle: Psychoanalysis and Non-Western Civilizations. By KakarSudhir. Bicester, UK: Karnac, 2024, 180 pp., $23.95 paperback.","authors":"Komal Ramchandani Gupta","doi":"10.1177/00030651251365608","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00030651251365608","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47403,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association","volume":"205 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145599971","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 : 2025-11-26DOI: 10.1177/00030651251369545
Yin Jia Li
In this article, the author shares observations and preoccupations that have arisen in the process of founding The Asian American Center for Psychoanalysis. They make use of these experiences as an entryway into the various terrains of Asian American: as a term, as a category, as subject, and as a field of study. They highlight the potentiality of affinity based spaces for backgrounded and dissociated self-states to reemerge, rethink Asian American as “disidentity”—as theorized by late Cuban queer scholar José Esteban Muñoz, introduce racial character structures , and offer four vignettes as explorations into the polymorphous becomings of Asian American.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-26DOI: 10.1177/00030651251365619
Salman Akhtar
Fresh sources of suffering arise as the mostly successful and affluent Indian immigrants face late middle age, empty nest, retirement, death of peers, and getting old. Having actualized the dreams of professional and financial success does bring them contentment, but with a gnawing sense of renewed geocultural dislocation. Bodily changes, diminished sexuality, letting go of children, lack of familiarity with the prevalent normative patterns of parenting adult offspring and engaging with grandchildren, losing friends “back home” to illness and death, and getting old themselves in their adapted homeland leads them to experience “mental pain” and “disorienting anxiety.” These can turn into “depletion melancholia.” This paper describes the syndrome, the desperate defenses against it, and the possibility of thwarting it by the powers of creative sublimation and reparation offered to the good internal objects damaged by the process of immigration.
{"title":"Indian Boomers in The USA: Getting Old, Depletion Melancholia, and Adaptive Strategies","authors":"Salman Akhtar","doi":"10.1177/00030651251365619","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00030651251365619","url":null,"abstract":"Fresh sources of suffering arise as the mostly successful and affluent Indian immigrants face late middle age, empty nest, retirement, death of peers, and getting old. Having actualized the dreams of professional and financial success does bring them contentment, but with a gnawing sense of renewed geocultural dislocation. Bodily changes, diminished sexuality, letting go of children, lack of familiarity with the prevalent normative patterns of parenting adult offspring and engaging with grandchildren, losing friends “back home” to illness and death, and getting old themselves in their adapted homeland leads them to experience “mental pain” and “disorienting anxiety.” These can turn into “depletion melancholia.” This paper describes the syndrome, the desperate defenses against it, and the possibility of thwarting it by the powers of creative sublimation and reparation offered to the good internal objects damaged by the process of immigration.","PeriodicalId":47403,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145599771","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 : 2025-11-26DOI: 10.1177/00030651251372127
Kris Yi
Model Minority expectations for Asian Americans have been in circulation for more than seven decades, and their grip on the Asian American psyche endures to the present day. In previous papers, the author addressed Asian American compliance with these expectations as a trauma-based, identifying-with-aggressor adaptation to the anti-Asian racism in American society: Reeling from the long history of racial discrimination that culminated in the incarceration of 120,000 individuals of Japanese origin during WWII, Asian Americans embraced compliance and model citizenship as a way of survival. In this paper, I highlight another source of the Model Minority adaptation, namely, the unresolved historical and cultural traumas (i.e., genocides, wars, poverty, authoritarian governments) carried by immigrants from Asia and intergenerationally transmitted to their Asian American children. Intergenerational transmission of large-scale historical traumas has not been explored in the psychoanalytic literature, especially for Asian immigrants. Some immigrants unconsciously attempt to resolve their historic traumas carried from Asia by a manic pursuit of the American Dream. For illustration, I use extended clinical examples and the writing of Amy Chua, a well-known Chinese American author who extolls a harsh parenting style to coax academic performance from her children.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-26DOI: 10.1177/00030651251365609
Aries Liao
{"title":"Film Review: The Wedding Banquet Film Review: The Wedding Banquet. By AhnAndrew (Director) and SchamusJames (Writer). Bleecker Street & ShivHans Pictures, 2005.","authors":"Aries Liao","doi":"10.1177/00030651251365609","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00030651251365609","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47403,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145599779","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 : 2025-11-26DOI: 10.1177/00030651251375103
Kris Yi, Pratyusha Tummala-Narra
{"title":"Introduction to The Special Issue on the Psychoanalytic Exploration of Asian American Experiences","authors":"Kris Yi, Pratyusha Tummala-Narra","doi":"10.1177/00030651251375103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00030651251375103","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47403,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association","volume":"147 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145599773","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 : 2025-11-26DOI: 10.1177/00030651251370328
Aisha Abbasi
In this paper, the author, a South Asian American female analyst, discusses her technical approach to working with patients across ethnic, racial, religious, and sociopolitical boundaries. She also describes the trajectory of her analytic career over three decades: both the challenges and the high points. Certain problems in organized psychoanalysis, especially about minorities, are briefly discussed.
{"title":"Reflections on Three Decades of Being a South-Asian American Analyst","authors":"Aisha Abbasi","doi":"10.1177/00030651251370328","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00030651251370328","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, the author, a South Asian American female analyst, discusses her technical approach to working with patients across ethnic, racial, religious, and sociopolitical boundaries. She also describes the trajectory of her analytic career over three decades: both the challenges and the high points. Certain problems in organized psychoanalysis, especially about minorities, are briefly discussed.","PeriodicalId":47403,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145599772","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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