Pub Date : 2023-10-01Epub Date: 2023-10-30DOI: 10.1080/00207578.2023.2256151
Karen Dougherty
The three-level model (3-LM) tracks transformation in psychoanalytic cases via a focused working group study of detailed clinical material. This Panel was a continuation of a series of programmes on the work of the Clinical Observation Committee held at previous IPA Congresses in Mexico City, Prague, Boston, Buenos Aires, London, and in an Online Congress during the pandemic. In this presentation, panellists summarized how the 3-LM worked, with two summarizing cases presented using this method at their Institute.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-01Epub Date: 2023-10-30DOI: 10.1080/00207578.2023.2256155
Debra Gill
{"title":"IPA Congress, Cartagena 2003: Community model - challenging times in mind - with communities around the world in mind.","authors":"Debra Gill","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2023.2256155","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00207578.2023.2256155","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71414751","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-10-01Epub Date: 2023-10-30DOI: 10.1080/00207578.2023.2255468
Heinz Weiss
Starting from Edmund Husserl's last book Experience and Judgement, this paper explores the notions of "passivity" and "receptivity" in phenomenology and psychoanalysis. Both sciences agree that receptivity differs from passivity, but they have developed different conceptualizations about the very nature of the rudimentary "ego-activity" which is the source of receptivity. In phenomenological terms, "pre-predicative" experience roots in a primary presence and openness of the ego towards the world, whilst psychoanalysis has emphasized the role of projective and introjective processes which are close to bodily experiences and unconscious phantasy. The second part of the paper draws some conclusions concerning the analytic situation, in particular the shift among receptivity, empathy, curiosity and creative imagination as central features of the analytic attitude from a mainly Kleinian point of view. The paper argues that receptivity is a field where phenomenological and psychoanalytic approaches can mutually enrich and learn from each other.
{"title":"Receptivity is not passivity: A comparison between psychoanalysis and phenomenology concerning experience, judgement and the analytic attitude.","authors":"Heinz Weiss","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2023.2255468","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00207578.2023.2255468","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Starting from Edmund Husserl's last book <i>Experience and Judgement</i>, this paper explores the notions of \"passivity\" and \"receptivity\" in phenomenology and psychoanalysis. Both sciences agree that receptivity differs from passivity, but they have developed different conceptualizations about the very nature of the rudimentary \"ego-activity\" which is the source of receptivity. In phenomenological terms, \"pre-predicative\" experience roots in a primary presence and openness of the ego towards the world, whilst psychoanalysis has emphasized the role of projective and introjective processes which are close to bodily experiences and unconscious phantasy. The second part of the paper draws some conclusions concerning the analytic situation, in particular the shift among receptivity, empathy, curiosity and creative imagination as central features of the analytic attitude from a mainly Kleinian point of view. The paper argues that receptivity is a field where phenomenological and psychoanalytic approaches can mutually enrich and learn from each other.</p>","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71414761","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-10-01Epub Date: 2023-10-30DOI: 10.1080/00207578.2023.2255472
Alessandra Lemma
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Pub Date : 2023-10-01Epub Date: 2023-10-30DOI: 10.1080/00207578.2023.2256172
Maria Cristina Perletti
After an introduction to the topic by Benedetta Guerrini Degl ’ Innocenti, Lawrence J. Brown begins to discuss his work entitled “ On Psychic Flatness ” . He describes two kinds of “ psychic fl atness ” : the concreteness shown by patients with Asperger disease (a condition included in autism spectrum disorders, ASD) and that presented by patients with psychosomatic disorders. Brown highlights how both conditions, usually not considered related, and even in their mutual di ff erences, show disturbances of the representative capacity and in the emotional experience, with a dulling of emotions. These patients reveal an inability in the comprehension of the emotional experience and, in addition and accordingly, concrete thinking. This element of concreteness is common to apparently unrelated clinical situations, yet the common element is the imprisonment of the concrete patient, who, as expressed by Brown, “ casts a shadow of narrow meaning across all experience ” . In the primary relationship of the future ASD child, there is the experience of a premature tearing of the infant from the mother: this emotionally over-loads the child and, despite attempts, overwhelms him or her, thereby determining a fl atness of the infantile psyche with the feeling of being alone and threatened in a dangerous world. Brown underlines the importance of living an emotionally meaningful life, of developing the ability to represent emotional experience. When this representative function does not develop su ffi ciently, one is left in a fl at world of literal facts, limited in the capacity of psychic growth. This psychic situation determines what André Green calls “ hypercathexis of the factual and of reality ” , as it is possible to observe in psychosomatic patients and, according to what Brown adds, also in ASD patients. In keeping with Freud ’ s thought, there is a “ puzzling leap ” in the transformation of a somatic stimulus in psychic experience. Green introduces the concept of a somato-psychic frontier, where
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Pub Date : 2023-10-01Epub Date: 2023-10-30DOI: 10.1080/00207578.2023.2256150
Gretchen A Schmutz
This panel considers the profound capacity of societal and environmental realities to threaten and interfere with the necessary identi fi cations that allow adolescent transformation and evolving subjectivity. Following an introduction by Anzieu-Premmereur, Franckx examines the e ff ects of the climate crisis on the emerging identity of the adolescent. She suggests that the process of mourning childhood and the loss of infantile omni-potence can be impeded by perilous realities. Franckx demonstrates that while the path towards self-di ff erentiation requires increasing awareness of reality, threats to survival can derail the process and interfere with the containment that is necessary for psychological development.
{"title":"Panel report: IPA Congress Cartagena 2023: Adolescents in the Line of Fire today: Ideals-Identifications-Transformations.","authors":"Gretchen A Schmutz","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2023.2256150","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00207578.2023.2256150","url":null,"abstract":"This panel considers the profound capacity of societal and environmental realities to threaten and interfere with the necessary identi fi cations that allow adolescent transformation and evolving subjectivity. Following an introduction by Anzieu-Premmereur, Franckx examines the e ff ects of the climate crisis on the emerging identity of the adolescent. She suggests that the process of mourning childhood and the loss of infantile omni-potence can be impeded by perilous realities. Franckx demonstrates that while the path towards self-di ff erentiation requires increasing awareness of reality, threats to survival can derail the process and interfere with the containment that is necessary for psychological development.","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71414757","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-10-01Epub Date: 2023-10-30DOI: 10.1080/00207578.2023.2255469
Ursula Ostendorf
In this paper, I set out to describe the different viewpoints, conceptualisations and defence mechanisms of the state of passivity; the categorisation by Freud; how the perspective of his thinking was altered by later insights and clinical observations; the close connection between the superego, passivity and masochism; the significance of the internal object world for Melanie Klein; countertransference as a means of access to masochism and destructiveness, with the aid of a short case illustration; and, finally, Betty Joseph's clinical experiences in work with her patients.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-01Epub Date: 2023-10-30DOI: 10.1080/00207578.2023.2256147
Rogelio Sosnik
{"title":"\"Enactment of the mind in the line of Fire\".","authors":"Rogelio Sosnik","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2023.2256147","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00207578.2023.2256147","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71414747","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-10-01Epub Date: 2023-10-30DOI: 10.1080/00207578.2023.2255473
Sharon Numa
In this article I hope to highlight what psychoanalysis has to o ff er to an understanding of racism and to point to its potential to contribute further. Psychoanalysis has an impressive reach in relation to its understanding of mental phenomena, and particularly of pathological states, investigating at a deep level the unconscious drives, motivations and phan-tasies that shape our inner world and colour our emotional experiences. It was one of Freud ’ s signi fi cant contributions to demonstrate that the ego is not master in its own house. We are not just creatures of reason, being in fact propelled by all sorts of unconscious thoughts and memories. These unconscious forces may also limit our development – compromising the stability of our sense of self, our identity, and restricting our ability to engage not only with ourselves but with our objects and our external environment. Even when we are able to achieve greater emotional maturity (which we could think of in terms of the depressive position described by Melanie Klein), in the face of certain deprivations, frustrations or other unwelcome a ff ects arising from within, we are prone to retreat to a paranoid-schizoid world of splitting and projection. This is a world where terrifying objects are created in phantasy and through projective identi fi - cation, in which symbolic functioning gives way to concrete thinking (a marked feature of the racist state of mind). In serious pathology, defensive systems and pathological organisations are erected, a fortress against knowledge of reality and associated anxiety. Whether we think of deep-seated racism as a manifestation of Freud ’ s “ death drive ” or as part of the deeply embedded early anxieties that belong to the paranoid schizoid position, it surely re fl ects the primitive hatred and aggression that need to be expelled outwards into the object world, the “ not-me ” world. All of these aspects of unconscious life, developed within psychoanalytic theory, lend depth to an understanding of racism at a psychological level (perhaps expanding political and socio-economic
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Pub Date : 2023-10-01Epub Date: 2023-10-30DOI: 10.1080/00207578.2023.2255470
Lisa Baraitser
Who is afraid of passivity? Historically, women and minoritized people have had good reason to be, given that passivity has been a way to keep them out of the world of "reason." Freud's move from the activity/passivity binary as the principle of all instinct, to its gendering as femininity/passivity and masculinity/activity, leads him to assert the "repudiation of femininity" as the bedrock of psychic life (Freud, S. 1937. "Analysis Terminable and Interminable." In The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, 23, 209-254. London: Hogarth Press). This has led to a generative history of feminist, queer and Black psychoanalytic scholarship that constantly re-opens the question of female subjectivity and sexuality, and what we mean by psychic femininity and masculinity. However, what does remains as "bedrock," even in this theorizing, is the figure of the mother in the internal world of the infant - supposedly castrated yet all-powerful, and requiring that the infant defend itself against what is stirred up as a result of dependency on her. After reviewing some of the psychoanalytic debates about femininity, I turn to "stillness" rather than passivity to suggest that we can identify a maternal element that is on the side of development, a figuration of psychical inertia that holds the capacity for waiting, stopping, ceasing and withdrawing in a world in which these mental functions are sorely missing.
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