Pub Date : 2025-11-26DOI: 10.1177/00030651251365871
Joseph S. Reynoso
There is an idea misattributed to Freud that a certain “race” (e.g., the Irish) cannot be analyzed. One of the problems of this statement is its particularity. Thinking a certain race cannot be analyzed not only accepts the perniciousness of categorical racial difference, but also overlooks a more central idea Freud investigated in clinical work: that an unconscious antagonism inherent to subjectivity is the motivation and resistance to know oneself. This is the premise of this paper, which illustrates samples of Filipino American experiences in the psychoanalytic consulting room. Several vignettes are presented, in which fantasies of the author’s identity are conjured to facilitate and hinder the analysis. The intrapsychic, interpersonal and sociohistorical conflicts featured in these cases reflect not only how the Philippines can be positioned in American and Asian imaginations, but also how investments in the identities of self and other reveal how we relate to our constitutive lack. It finally reflects on the jouissance (enjoyment) taken in identity’s rewards, exclusions and impossibility.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-24DOI: 10.1177/00030651251393603
Katrin J. Haller
{"title":"Book Review: Psychoanalytic Approaches to Forgiveness and Mental Health Book Review: Psychoanalytic Approaches to Forgiveness and Mental Health. Edited by Ronald Britton and Aleksandra Novakovic . New York: Routledge, 2024, 222 pp., $35.96 paperback.","authors":"Katrin J. Haller","doi":"10.1177/00030651251393603","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00030651251393603","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47403,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association","volume":"113 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145583191","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 : 2025-11-23DOI: 10.1177/00030651251395007
Denia Barrett
{"title":"Book Review: The Women of Anna Freud’s War Nurseries: Their Lives and Work Book Review: The Women of Anna Freud’s War Nurseries: Their Lives and Work. By Christiane Ludwig-Körner . London: Routledge, 2024, 222 pp., $34.39 paperback. (Original work published in German in 2022)","authors":"Denia Barrett","doi":"10.1177/00030651251395007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00030651251395007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47403,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association","volume":"138 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145575384","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 : 2025-11-23DOI: 10.1177/00030651251394280
Susan McNamara
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Pub Date : 2025-11-21DOI: 10.1177/00030651251389892
Mojtaba Elhami Athar
In this article, the author proposes a theoretical framework for examining the psychopathy construct within the context of extremist groups. Drawing from an integrative perspective that bridges psychoanalytic theory with an empirically grounded model of psychopathy, the author explores the interplay between the psychopathic features of leaders and followers in the development and maintenance of extremist groups. The author also elucidates the group-level dynamics that predispose these collectives to engage in extreme violence, sometimes paralleling the atrocities committed by notorious psychopathic murderers. To illustrate the proposed theoretical framework, the author examines the case of ISIS as a representative example of a psychopathic group. Furthermore, the author discusses the proposed framework in relation to clinical observations and empirical findings and examines its implications for the conceptualization and etiology of psychopathic personality. Finally, the author outlines strategies for preventing and mitigating the emergence of psychopathic groups.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-21DOI: 10.1177/00030651251377755
Kristin Fiorella
Utilizing the work of philosopher Karen Barad, this paper explores the intraplays between gender, antigender discourse, and the climate crisis. In the midst of a world that is ecologically breaking down, gendered embodiment is a domain in which, for some, the dismay, despair, and reconfigured possibilities of our current world gathers. I use clinical examples to suggest that the disruptive elements constitutive of embodiment, as well as its potential porosity with the more-than-human world, make gender a possible site of resistance and ethical response-ability in the context of the climate crisis. Gender can become a powerful medium for an experience of a circulation between the density of the familiar and an alterity that is inside/outside. At the same time, as our usual coordinates are lost, the immersive panic that ensues also creates attempts to reinforce a threatened heteropatriarchal world, as is seen in Far Right ideologies. Attacks on trans children frequently center on defending "the natural" and protecting these children from "mutilation" and the "contagion" of gender ideology. The paper explores the way these claims project destructiveness and perversely distort several terrors entangled with the climate crisis-about "nature," violence, and permeability.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-20DOI: 10.1177/00030651251387060
Charles B. Strozier
The commentary reviews Dr. Tuckett’s model for evaluating the clinical evidence for psychoanalytic theories. His analysis of Kohut’s “The Two Analyses of Mr. Z” is summarized as inadequate for his purposes, since the point of the “case” is to tell Kohut’s own story, not provide clinical evidence for self psychology. Such evidence, however, is abundantly available elsewhere in the Kohut’s work, that of his colleagues, and in the contemporary literature. Two works in progress by Strozier and his colleagues will provide additional clinical evidence for self psychology.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-20DOI: 10.1177/00030651251387044
Diana E. Moga
Autism and queerness frequently overlap but little is written about this intersection psychoanalytically and queerness or gender atypicality are often viewed as underlying symptoms of autism. Autism itself gets reduced to a problem within a person’s brain by the medical model, while the disability model focuses on the social construction of autism. Psychoanalysis is uniquely positioned to theorize the interweaving of the body, mind and the social: the intrapsychic development of the autistic queer child, the way they interact and make meaning of their interaction with caregivers, and the impact of social stigma and harsh disciplining of neurodiversity and queerness alike. This paper illustrates the central role of understanding neurodiversity in fostering our autistic queer patients’ ability to reclaim their developmental narrative, process trauma, and come into an overall sense of vitality and healthy self-esteem in their gendered bodies, without which desire is compromised. For many autistic queer individuals, gender queerness is intrinsically linked to the ways they experience their autistic bodies. Neuroqueering our psychoanalytic lens means coming to terms with the ways that we participate in the disciplining of divergent bodies and minds in response to the primitive anxieties elicited by autistic and trans desire, to the detriment of our patients and theories.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-20DOI: 10.1177/00030651251378161
Elizabeth Harvey, Steven H. Cooper
This essay examines how Andrew Haigh’s 2023 film, All of Us Strangers , creates an immersive encounter with the workings of the unconscious mind. The film parallels a psychoanalytic process in its exploration of the central character, Adam, who progressively gains access to his memory, childhood trauma, and inner life. Viewers watch the evolving nature of Adam’s psychic experience, voyeuristically participating in his deepening insights. The essay examines the “cinematic unconscious,” the narrative and visual strategies that usher spectators into Adam’s unconscious, affording a dreamlike experience of inhabiting another mind. Several filmic tactics enable the viewer’s entry into this psychic interiority. The film disrupts conventional temporality, which estranges spectators from narrative expectation and immerses them in an asynchronous filmic unconscious. All of Us Strangers reproduces aspects of Freud’s uncanny through Adam’s visits to his childhood house, which is unheimlich , “unhomelike,” exactly like itself and utterly different because it is now occupied by his dead parents, who are stopped in time. Dissolving boundaries between characters, visual effects of mirroring and duplication, bewildering transitions between scenes depict different forms of estrangement, from the self, family, body, and social structure. These strategies replicate in filmic and meta-filmic terms Adam’s psychic process of working through his arrested creativity and frozen grief.
本文探讨了安德鲁·黑格（Andrew Haigh）在2023年拍摄的电影《我们都是陌生人》（All of Us Strangers）是如何创造出一种与潜意识运作的身临其境的相遇。影片在探索主角亚当的过程中，采用了精神分析的方法，逐渐接近他的记忆、童年创伤和内心生活。观众观看亚当心灵体验的进化本质，偷窥地参与他不断加深的洞察力。这篇文章探讨了“电影无意识”，即引导观众进入亚当无意识的叙事和视觉策略，提供了一种居住在另一个思想中的梦幻般的体验。一些电影策略使观众能够进入这种精神的内在。这部电影打破了传统的时间性，使观众从叙事期望中疏远出来，沉浸在一种异步的电影无意识中。《我们所有的陌生人》通过亚当访问他童年的房子再现了弗洛伊德神秘的各个方面，这是“不像家的”，完全像它本身，但完全不同，因为它现在被他死去的父母所占据，他们被时间所阻止。人物之间的界限消解，镜像和复制的视觉效果，场景之间令人眼花缭乱的过渡，描绘了不同形式的隔阂，从自我，家庭，身体和社会结构。这些策略在电影和元电影中复制了亚当的精神过程，他的创造力被抑制，悲伤被冻结。
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Pub Date : 2025-11-20DOI: 10.1177/00030651251392129
Michele S. Piccolo
{"title":"Book Review: I viaggi di Freud in Italia Foreign Book Review: I viaggi di Freud in Italia [Freud’s Travels to Italy]. By Marina D’Angelo . Turin, Italy: Bollati Boringhieri, 2024, 303 pp., $23.60 paperback.","authors":"Michele S. Piccolo","doi":"10.1177/00030651251392129","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00030651251392129","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47403,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association","volume":"97 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145554131","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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