Pub Date : 2025-09-14DOI: 10.1177/00030651251357810
David Pauley
This paper applies the concept of the negative transitional object to a classic story of alcoholism and recovery, Caroline Knapp's acclaimed 1996 memoir, Drinking: A Love Story. Knapp's reflections on her history with drinking and its developmental precursors reinforce the notion of the negative transitional object as a problematic, if creative, adaptation to a flawed relational surround (part internalized structure, part ritual practice and belief system) beginning very early in life. Recovery is seen as mourning the lived practices and unconscious beliefs that shape the negative transitional object and its addictive rituals, restoring the connection between bodily need, relational connection and symbolic thought. This is in contrast to the good-enough transitional object which according to Winnicott is neither internalized nor mourned but "gradually decathected . . . diffused over the whole of the cultural field."
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Pub Date : 2025-09-01DOI: 10.1177/00030651251356983
Gregory S. Rizzolo
In his classic paper “The Function and the Field of Language and Speech in Psychoanalysis,” Lacan wrote that psychoanalysis had abandoned its original interest in speech. It had turned instead to the countertransference as a window of insight into the patient’s preverbal fantasies. The danger, as the Lacanian tradition emphasizes, is that we might fall into “me-centered attention”: a focus on our own meanings and resonances over those of the patient. We find an echo of this concern in the more recent worry among some American analysts that we now privilege visual-behavioral evidence, that is, the data of nonverbal transference-countertransference enactment, often anchored in the data of infant observation, over aural-oral data. There is, however, another way to think about language, an alternative grounded neither in Lacan, nor in Saussure, but in Peirce’s theory of signs. I argue that when we use the countertransference—or at least when we use it well—we are not listening with egocentric attention, but, rather, engaging an interpretant, a beat in the signifying process, to hear the patient more fully. Far from abandoning speech, we find ourselves immersed in a semiotic field. I illustrate this approach in the case of single, middle-aged father.
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Pub Date : 2025-08-23DOI: 10.1177/00030651251359323
Anne Adelman
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Pub Date : 2025-08-05DOI: 10.1177/00030651251356968
Kerry L Malawista
{"title":"Introduction to Austin Ratner's \"Attention Must Be Paid\".","authors":"Kerry L Malawista","doi":"10.1177/00030651251356968","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00030651251356968","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47403,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association","volume":"161 1","pages":"30651251356968"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144787106","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 : 2025-08-01Epub Date: 2025-06-11DOI: 10.1177/00030651251343053
Anne Adelman, Rachel Boué-Widawsky
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Pub Date : 2025-08-01Epub Date: 2025-02-27DOI: 10.1177/00030651251321468
Steven Luria Ablon
{"title":"Why I Write: Surprise.","authors":"Steven Luria Ablon","doi":"10.1177/00030651251321468","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00030651251321468","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47403,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association","volume":" ","pages":"527-530"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143524850","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 : 2025-07-29DOI: 10.1177/00030651251356981
Wendy Olesker
This paper provides a rare opportunity to see how a sibling relationship contributes centrally to how one finds one's place in the world of equals. The siblings studied were observed in Mahler's research nursery study of mother-child pairs, from birth to age 3, and were then followed over a 60-year period with a focus on the evolution of self and object mental representations, the vehicle through which earliest health or pathology is expressed. The lateral developmental trajectory of the sibling relationship is charted within the framework of the developing hierarchical relationship to the primary attachment figures-the parents. The extraordinary longitudinal data-which include not only in-depth details of the earliest mother-child interaction patterns, but also the details, and ramifications, of the introduction of a sibling into the family system-demonstrate how a sibling relationship can influence the development of the sense of self and other and reveal the powerful role a sibling can play as validator and confirmer of one's true sense of self. The data also show how therapeutic intervention can facilitate the restructuring of self and object representations, enhancing sibling bonds, which, in this case, facilitated improved understanding of their parents and a higher level of differentiation. These findings reinforce the importance of considering sibling dynamics in psychoanalytic theory and clinical practice.
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Pub Date : 2025-07-20DOI: 10.1177/00030651251355908
Robert C. Abrams
{"title":"Book Review: All Fours Book Review: All Fours. By Miranda July . New York: Riverhead, 2024, 400 pp., $29.00 hardcover.","authors":"Robert C. Abrams","doi":"10.1177/00030651251355908","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00030651251355908","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47403,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association","volume":"47 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144669631","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 : 2025-07-12DOI: 10.1177/00030651251344608
Jenifer Nields
{"title":"Book Essay: Before There Were Words, There Was Music Melodies of the Mind: Connections Between Psychoanalysis and Music. By Julie Jaffee Nagel . New York: Routledge, 2013, 168 pp., $38.39 paperback.Career Choices in Music Beyond the Pandemic: Musical and Psychoanalytic Perspectives. By Julie Jaffee Nagel . Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2023, 150 pp., $36 paperback.Here I’m Alive: The Spirit of Music in Psychoanalysis. By Adam Blum, Peter Goldberg, and Michael Levin . New York: Columbia University Press, 2023, 328 pp., $35 paperback.","authors":"Jenifer Nields","doi":"10.1177/00030651251344608","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00030651251344608","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47403,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association","volume":"47 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144611281","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 : 2025-07-03DOI: 10.1177/00030651251344050
Jeffrey Berman
{"title":"Book Review: A Shimmering Landscape: The Imaginative and Actual in Psychic Life Book Review: A Shimmering Landscape: The Imaginative and Actual in Psychic Life. By Dodi Goldman . London: Routledge, 2025, 171 pp., $32.99 paperback.","authors":"Jeffrey Berman","doi":"10.1177/00030651251344050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00030651251344050","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47403,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144565674","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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