In AnalysisPub Date : 2025-04-01Epub Date: 2025-03-03DOI: 10.1016/j.inan.2025.100505
B. Lignier
{"title":"Guérir et chercher : le cas clinique, levier transversal pour la recherche et la transmission en psychologie. À propos du livre Penser et écrire par cas en psychanalyse. L’invention freudienne d’un style de raisonnement de Guénaël Visentini","authors":"B. Lignier","doi":"10.1016/j.inan.2025.100505","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.inan.2025.100505","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100661,"journal":{"name":"In Analysis","volume":"9 1","pages":"Article 100505"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143529639","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In AnalysisPub Date : 2025-04-01Epub Date: 2025-04-11DOI: 10.1016/j.inan.2025.100512
V. J. S. Costa , A. Maurin Souvignet , L. Lafraia , P. Castanho
{"title":"Pas un rêve de vous, mais un rêve pour vous","authors":"V. J. S. Costa , A. Maurin Souvignet , L. Lafraia , P. Castanho","doi":"10.1016/j.inan.2025.100512","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.inan.2025.100512","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Context</h3><div>Within the framework of contemporary psychoanalysis, particularly an “expanded psychoanalysis,” we follow René Kaës proposition that dreams occur within a polyphonic network of interdiscursivity. Based on this theoretical perspective, we implemented a device called “Group Dreaming” with elderly participants. To overcome the resistances encountered, we progressively supported an operative group (a device inspired by Pichon-Rivière), centered on the following task: “Reflecting on how dreams can help us understand both the inner world and the outer world.” This group took place in a residential care facility for dependent elderly persons over five weekly sessions.</div></div><div><h3>Method</h3><div>The analysis method used is qualitative and is based on the “construction of cases” as proposed by Pierre Fédida. This construction follows four steps: the enigma that arises in the analyst's mind, clinical work, supervision, and the production of metapsychology. In this case, the enigma includes the questions that guided the research: “Is it possible to dream knowing that we have little time left to live?”.</div></div><div><h3>Objective</h3><div>The aim of this article is to gain a better understanding of the status of dreams and the ability to dream in elderly individuals. However, this study is part of a broader project aimed at re-examining the role of dreams within psychoanalytic theory, as well as in group and contemporary social clinics.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Consistent with our previous clinical experiences and René Kaës work, our clinical observations confirm the dual status of subjects, who are always both group subjects and singular subjects. In particular, the data collected reveals that at the end of life, the ability to dream can be reinforced by shifting the act of dreaming for oneself toward an altruistic act: dreaming for another, dreaming for others.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>Ultimately, the group, composed of elderly individuals and dedicated to exploring dreams as a means of understanding both the inner and outer worlds, allowed us to consider that sharing dreams provided a psychic outlet for death anxiety, fostering the desire to transmit one's lived experiences to future generations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100661,"journal":{"name":"In Analysis","volume":"9 1","pages":"Article 100512"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143815965","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In AnalysisPub Date : 2025-04-01Epub Date: 2025-03-19DOI: 10.1016/j.inan.2025.100509
P.-H. Castel
{"title":"Des rêveurs en leur « rêvoir » : pour une histoire conceptuelle des rêves et de l’appareil psychique","authors":"P.-H. Castel","doi":"10.1016/j.inan.2025.100509","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.inan.2025.100509","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>In the theoretical landscape of psychoanalysis today, the threefold link between dreams/dream interpretation/‘psychic apparatus’ (i.e. the metapsychological synthesis of their mutual relations) appears to be completely fragmented. Each school has its own, or relies on an ad hoc reading of the Traumdeutung, or refuses entirely to justify itself on these grounds. To such an extent that the dream has ceased to be the via regia to the unconscious, but more often a place to apply metapsychological formulae drawn from elsewhere (child psychoanalysis, psychoses, etc.).</div></div><div><h3>Objective</h3><div>This essay aims, on the contrary, to weave together at least one red thread in the historical development of psychoanalysis, up to its so-called ‘contemporary’ form (Winnicotto-Bionian), by exploring, as a working hypothesis, a sequence of key episodes in this development. It passes through Ferenczi, M. Klein, E. Sharpe, Meltzer, Lacan and Bion. It ends with Bollas, Ferro and Ogden.</div></div><div><h3>Method</h3><div>An undertaking of this kind is a matter of conceptual history. It therefore combines epistemological criticism with an examination of the concrete historical conditions in which concepts have been used, as a function of clinical practice. It highlights the growing interpretive conflicts between the various possible readings of the final chapter of the Traumdeutung, while attempting to detect a certain dialectical logic, which does not render the final contradictions absolutely irredeemable.</div></div><div><h3>Results-Interpretation</h3><div>This history yields two results: it highlights the importance of the problems posed by borderline states in post-Freudian dream theories. But it also stresses the unresolved uncertainty that affects their recent developments, because by distancing itself from the original mechanistic model, the psychic apparatus postulated by contemporary versions of psychoanalysis remains suspended in an interpsychic ‘space’ whose contours are difficult to grasp, and because it has ceased to be interested in the deciphering of dreams. Finally, the limitations of this argument, linked to a very limited selection of authors and points of view in the history of psychoanalysis, are recalled.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100661,"journal":{"name":"In Analysis","volume":"9 1","pages":"Article 100509"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143654558","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In AnalysisPub Date : 2025-04-01Epub Date: 2025-05-08DOI: 10.1016/j.inan.2025.100515
N. Schlösser
{"title":"Psychanalyse et EMDR : une convergence au regard de la fonction du rêve ?","authors":"N. Schlösser","doi":"10.1016/j.inan.2025.100515","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.inan.2025.100515","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The purpose of this present theoretical article is to first situate the epistemology of EMDR from a comparison of the points of convergence and divergence of this therapy with other therapeutic models (hypnosis, CBT, psychoanalysis). The process proposed in this therapy is similar in several points to that of the psychoanalytic technique. The dream model offers a concrete example of this common point and the contributions of EMDR enrich those of psychoanalysis. The rereading of the Freudian model of dream interpretation by that proposed by Shapiro broadens the understanding of the function of dreams for the individual.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100661,"journal":{"name":"In Analysis","volume":"9 1","pages":"Article 100515"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143923618","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In AnalysisPub Date : 2025-04-01Epub Date: 2025-04-02DOI: 10.1016/j.inan.2025.100511
F. Le Roux
{"title":"Canguilhem et les psychologies : l’ambiguïté de la clinique","authors":"F. Le Roux","doi":"10.1016/j.inan.2025.100511","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.inan.2025.100511","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100661,"journal":{"name":"In Analysis","volume":"9 1","pages":"Article 100511"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143747436","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In AnalysisPub Date : 2025-04-01Epub Date: 2025-05-14DOI: 10.1016/j.inan.2025.100519
G. Visentini (Rédacteur/rédactrice associé(e) de la revue In Analysis), E. Schlesinger (Rédacteur/rédactrice associé(e) de la revue In Analysis)
{"title":"Repartir des rêves","authors":"G. Visentini (Rédacteur/rédactrice associé(e) de la revue In Analysis), E. Schlesinger (Rédacteur/rédactrice associé(e) de la revue In Analysis)","doi":"10.1016/j.inan.2025.100519","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.inan.2025.100519","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100661,"journal":{"name":"In Analysis","volume":"9 1","pages":"Article 100519"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143942621","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In AnalysisPub Date : 2024-12-01Epub Date: 2024-11-06DOI: 10.1016/j.inan.2024.100469
Liviu Poenaru
{"title":"The West: An autoimmune disease?","authors":"Liviu Poenaru","doi":"10.1016/j.inan.2024.100469","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.inan.2024.100469","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Context</h3><div>This work explores the paradoxical stress mechanisms in Western societies, marked by consumption and comfort. Despite the perceived well-being of modern capitalist societies, a profound psychosomatic discontent manifests, reflected in the rise of stress-induced illnesses, autoimmune diseases, and psychiatric disorders. The article uses the metaphor of autoimmunity to describe Western societal dysfunction, drawing parallels between biological self-destruction and societal self-harm driven by hyper-individualism, economic pressures, and digital dependencies.</div></div><div><h3>Objectives</h3><div>This study aims to analyze the mechanisms through which Western societies contribute to self-destructive processes, paralleling the way autoimmune diseases function within the body. It seeks to demonstrate how excessive control, consumerism, and the digital environment exacerbate stress, which in turn contributes to both physical and psychological deterioration. The philosophical question underpinning this analysis is whether the societal and economic systems in the West are undermining the self-defense mechanisms of their members, akin to an autoimmune response.</div></div><div><h3>Method</h3><div>The article adopts a qualitative and theoretical approach, integrating concepts from psychology, psychoneuroimmunology, and epidemiology. The author incorporates clinical observations, epidemiological data, and philosophical reflections to explore the effects of chronic stress on mental and physical health. Drawing on psychoneuroimmunology, the research explores the bi-directional interaction between the mind, nervous system, and immune function, focusing on the relationship between stress, inflammation and autoimmune diseases.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Our exploration reveals a significant correlation between the rise of autoimmune diseases and the psychosocial stresses of Western capitalist societies. Epidemiological data support the link between chronic stress, psychiatric disorders, and autoimmune conditions. The article also highlights how the digital economy's manipulation of stress and fear (such as through FOMO) contributes to widespread psychological distress. This stress, in turn, disrupts immune function, leading to a cycle of physical and psychological degeneration.</div></div><div><h3>Interpretation</h3><div>Western societies, through their relentless pursuit of control, comfort, and consumption, create environments of heightened stress that mirror the dysfunctions of autoimmune diseases, where the body turns against itself. The research suggests that modern capitalist structures are pathogenic, exacerbating stress, weakening immune resilience, and fostering mental health crises. The article concludes that a holistic approach is necessary to address this systemic dysfunction, advocating for a reconceptualization of health that integrates mental, physical, and societal well-being.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100661,"journal":{"name":"In Analysis","volume":"8 3","pages":"Article 100469"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142593940","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In AnalysisPub Date : 2024-12-01Epub Date: 2024-11-29DOI: 10.1016/j.inan.2024.100478
Alain Deneault
{"title":"Économie psychique et écoanxiété. Ce que la théorie freudienne apporte à l’écologie politique","authors":"Alain Deneault","doi":"10.1016/j.inan.2024.100478","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.inan.2024.100478","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Context</h3><div>The metapsychology expounded by Sigmund Freud in his First Topic of 1915, and the study of anxiety phenomena emphasized in the author's Second Topic from 1923 onwards, provide political ecology with conceptual elements for analyzing phenomena such as ecoanxiety.</div></div><div><h3>Objectives</h3><div>The aim of this text is to show how the psychic object is constituted in the original psychoanalytic theory, and how this approach enables us to measure the scale of the crisis represented by what is known in political ecology as ecoanxiety, but which is more often than not akin to ecoanguish.</div></div><div><h3>Method</h3><div>This conceptual approach proceeds by textual analysis, integrating psychoanalytical discourse with philosophical approaches, as was common practice in France during the last third of the 20th century.</div></div><div><h3>Results/Interpretations</h3><div>The result is an appraisal of the construction of substitute objects that the subjects of the epoch into which the ecological crisis plunges us tend to give themselves, out of an inability to give themselves objects in keeping with the unprecedented scope of today's problems.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100661,"journal":{"name":"In Analysis","volume":"8 3","pages":"Article 100478"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142746750","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In AnalysisPub Date : 2024-12-01Epub Date: 2024-11-05DOI: 10.1016/j.inan.2024.100468
J.-M. Darves-Bornoz
{"title":"Intergenerational transmission of resilience, resistance and trauma: Philosophical persistency in existential analysis","authors":"J.-M. Darves-Bornoz","doi":"10.1016/j.inan.2024.100468","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.inan.2024.100468","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Context</h3><div>Resilience is implicitly thought to be a capacity that some have without having done much to obtain it, so that the notion of resistance to existential wounds, such as trauma among others, remains necessary. Resistance does not always cause healing and fulfillment, especially in child trauma, but it is legitimate to embark on it. All therapies consist in resuming a development, whatever the blockage that stopped it: existential or organic, current or archaic, due to a personality or temperament. They attempt thus an <em>intergenerational neo-transmission</em>.</div></div><div><h3>Objective</h3><div>This article defends five theoretical theses that are equally useful in practice and technique. They underline the strength of existential psychoanalysis, as each individual appears dissimilar in the face of a potential narcissistic wound, including trauma.</div></div><div><h3>Method</h3><div>Five paragraphs in the article first summarize a thesis in their title, and then explain its roots and extent. Their arguments rely on observational and epidemiological clinics, as well as psychodynamic and philosophical theories. In trauma, we parallel theory and technique with practice to approach knowledge. Helping survivors often excludes their confrontation to an experimental repetition, with or without some mathematical methodology.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>(1) Perceptions are not neutral. Any event, narcissistic wound or trauma is perceived by the subjects through their own vision of the world, which can then fracture. Subjects should reconstruct their perception of the world, but they do not always do that. (2) Resistance spontaneously evokes military fight or, in a psychoanalytical framework, a psychological obstruction by patients. The meaning of resistance in our case is different. Resisting a traumatic destruction is an emotional and intellectual effort to move beyond stupefying awareness. (3) Existence fragments the psyche, but not necessarily up to pathology. Trauma often dissociates fragments, whereas other experiences rarely so isolate. (4) The intergenerational transmission of internal images, from psyche to psyche, influences exposure to adverse events. It also exists, once the event occurred, an intergenerational transmission of vulnerability or resistance to trauma: it refers less to the fragmentation of psyche than to the transmission – or not – of associative praxis enabling a conversation between the individualized sectors of psyche. (5) All psychoanalyses move thoughts from fragments of the psyche to others. Associating these fragments frees thought and prevents mistakes. Associative effort on internal images makes identity truer. It frees from repetitions and alienating identifications. Otherwise, an alienated or poorly associative self would remain unaware of the close link of some dissociated fragments.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>The ideas presented here emerged insistently throughout de","PeriodicalId":100661,"journal":{"name":"In Analysis","volume":"8 3","pages":"Article 100468"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142586481","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}