On psychoanalytic journals and the International Forum of Psychoanalysis

IF 0.9 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, PSYCHOANALYSIS
M. Gonzalez-Torres, Rómulo Aguillaume
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Our society – the International Federation of Psychoanalytic Societies (IFPS) – started in 1962 and the International Forum of Psychoanalysis (IFP) began publication 30 years later, in 1992. Jan Stensson, in his first editorial message, reflected on the difficulties involved in the realization of a journal (Stensson, 1992). He recalled that psychoanalysis is rooted in the oral tradition but that the passage from the oral to the written is not impossible. Why then the need to found a journal? Psychoanalytic journals are an expression of the doctrinal positions of the association that founds them. They often begin with a justification, almost always of a political nature. The change from the Internationale Zeitschrift für ärztliche Psychoanalyse to the International Journal of Psychoanalysis was based above all on the strength of English-speaking institutions and not only on the predominance of the English language, as is the case today. There was also another justification of greater interest: to defend the purity of psychoanalysis. The struggles taking place within and outside the institution were transferred to the new journal. Erich Fromm – one of the founders of the IFPS – and Jacques Lacan are good examples of the exclusion of two authors who did not adapt to this doctrinal purity. The IFP is marked by the founding spirit of the IFPS. A spirit that did not imply a defense of doctrinal purity, but one of an openness which broke with the narrow assumptions that then characterized other psychoanalytic groups. Today it would be inconceivable for us to understand the expulsion of a member of our societies because of their theoretical orientation. And, if we talk about the rejection of an article in a journal, today it has to do not so much with the theoretical proposal it puts forward, but with a lack of expository clarity or other aspects that we could call formal. Some would say that we have gone from a doctrinal-based censorship to a formal-based censorship. It is impossible to deny censorship: authority has a thousand faces. Dante Alighieri, in his Divine Comedy, tells us through the mouth of one of his characters that “men are not made to live like animals but to seek knowledge and virtue” (Alighieri, 2005). This search for knowledge concerns us all and certainly those professionals, like us, who dedicate our efforts to delving into what escapes the conscience of others, what determines their behavior and decisions, what is beyond their reason. Every analyst is a researcher in the most literal sense of the term. Each therapeutic encounter provides us with a possibility of surprise and with it a knowledge that allows the patient a fuller life and us a greater closeness to the unknown. Our work carries with it a responsibility: to disseminate what we have learned, to offer others the possibility of comparing their experiences with ours, and to contrast their doubts and certainties. This dissemination basically involves the presentation of our experience at scientific meetings and through publications. Journals are the ideal places to communicate our thinking, our findings, to colleagues. They allow detailed and extensive reflection and, together with other publications, build a repository of knowledge that makes study, debate, and learning possible. A theoretical physicist of great prestige recently pointed out that very few will make seminal contributions that will lead to breakthroughs in their discipline (Greene, 2021). That remains for a select few who come up with radical findings that modify established paradigms (Kuhn, 2012). But many of us can aspire to “participate in the conversation” and contribute our thinking to a general debate, an exchange
精神分析期刊和国际精神分析论坛
我们的学会——国际精神分析学会联合会(IFPS)——成立于1962年,国际精神分析论坛(IFP)于30年后的1992年开始出版。Jan Stenson在他的第一篇社论中反思了实现期刊的困难(Stenson,1992)。他回忆说,精神分析植根于口头传统,但从口头到书面的转变并非不可能。那为什么需要找一本日记?精神分析期刊是建立它们的协会的教义立场的表达。它们往往以正当理由开始,几乎总是具有政治性质。从《国际心理分析杂志》(International Zeitscreft fürärztliche Psychoanalysis)到《国际心理研究期刊》(International Journal of Psychonalysis)的转变首先是基于英语机构的实力,而不仅仅是基于英语的主导地位,就像今天的情况一样。还有另一个更大兴趣的理由:捍卫精神分析的纯粹性。机构内外发生的斗争被转移到了新杂志上。Erich Fromm——IFPS的创始人之一——和Jacques Lacan是两位不适应这种纯粹教义的作者被排斥在外的好例子。IFP的标志是IFPS的创始精神。这种精神并不意味着捍卫教义的纯洁性,而是一种开放性,打破了当时其他精神分析团体的狭隘假设。今天,我们无法理解由于我们社会的理论取向而驱逐我们社会的一名成员。而且,如果我们谈论期刊上的一篇文章被拒绝,那么今天,这与其说与它提出的理论建议有关,不如说与缺乏解释性的清晰度或其他我们可以称之为正式的方面有关。有人会说,我们已经从基于教义的审查变成了基于形式的审查。否认审查制度是不可能的:权威有一千张面孔。Dante Alighieri在他的《神曲》中,通过他的一个角色的口告诉我们,“人不是为了像动物一样生活,而是为了寻求知识和美德”(Alighieri2005)。这种对知识的探索关系到我们所有人,当然也关系到那些像我们这样的专业人士,他们致力于深入研究什么逃脱了他人的良知,什么决定了他们的行为和决定,什么超出了他们的理性。每个分析师都是最字面意义上的研究者。每一次治疗的遭遇都给我们提供了惊喜的可能性,也为我们提供了一种知识,让患者过上更充实的生活,让我们更接近未知。我们的工作肩负着一项责任:传播我们所学到的东西,为其他人提供将他们的经历与我们的经历进行比较的可能性,并对比他们的疑虑和确定性。这种传播基本上包括在科学会议上和通过出版物介绍我们的经验。期刊是与同事交流我们的想法、发现的理想场所。它们允许进行详细和广泛的反思,并与其他出版物一起,建立一个知识库,使研究、辩论和学习成为可能。一位颇有威望的理论物理学家最近指出,很少有人会做出开创性的贡献,从而在他们的学科中取得突破(Greene,2021)。这仍然是少数人的选择,他们提出了改变既定范式的激进发现(Kuhn,2012)。但我们中的许多人都渴望“参与对话”,并将我们的想法贡献给一般性辩论和交流
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International Forum of Psychoanalysis
International Forum of Psychoanalysis PSYCHOLOGY, PSYCHOANALYSIS-
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