In AnalysisPub Date : 2023-11-09DOI: 10.1016/j.inan.2023.100393
Cosmin Gheorghe
{"title":"Reflexion on L. Poenaru's article “All soldiers of the psychological warfare”","authors":"Cosmin Gheorghe","doi":"10.1016/j.inan.2023.100393","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inan.2023.100393","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100661,"journal":{"name":"In Analysis","volume":"7 3","pages":"Article 100393"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138316903","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 : 2023-11-09DOI: 10.1016/j.inan.2023.100389
Liviu Poenaru
{"title":"Tous soldats de la guerre psychologique ?","authors":"Liviu Poenaru","doi":"10.1016/j.inan.2023.100389","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inan.2023.100389","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Context</h3><p>The total, fractal and transversal war (<span>Alliez & Lazzarato, 2016</span>) of cybercapitalism is not the military or interstate war of Freud's and Einstein's time, while preserving the share of psychosis, annihilation and sacrifice that Einstein questions in his correspondence with Freud (<span>Einstein & Freud, 1933</span>). Capital's war takes place in-for-against the population, in order to fabricate the economic unconscious and consumable-consumerist-productivist subjectivities capable of enrolling in an indefinite and infinite warfare system, taking the form of a multiplicity of wars that no longer respond to the “peace-crisis-war-solution” equation. The main problem raised by this context is not only the fundamentally unconscious nature of this dynamic, but its absence from clinical and theoretical studies, which seem to be in collusion with the propaganda of the dominant powers that determine the dominant thinking of all times.</p></div><div><h3>Objectives</h3><p>This research has four main objectives. The first is to contribute to the debate concerning our involuntary participation (as citizens and/or health professionals) in total war. The second objective is to provide theoretical elements for a better understanding of the <em>modus operandi</em> and arsenal of cybercapitalist psychological warfare (CPW), as well as some of its mechanisms and dynamics. The third objective is to link the foregoing to medical and epidemiological data that seem to prove the ravages caused by CPW. The fourth objective is to explore clinical approaches that could elaborate on the repressions and conditionings of this context.</p></div><div><h3>Method</h3><p>The theoretical framework of this qualitative and interpretative work is inspired by critical studies, psychoanalysis, neuroscience, medicine, and epidemiology.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>The intersection of various theoretical perspectives shows: the relevance of the PSYOP program launched by the United States at the outbreak of the Second World War; the immobilization of CPW soldiers in the simultaneity of the fight-flight-freeze triad; the role of neuroculture and its modifications of the neuro-cognitive-behavioral and emotional complex (which do not respect human rights); the exploitation of the social matrix of war by social networks; the injection to saturation point of predatory and pathogenic “non-self” objects provoking aberrant autoimmune psycho-somatic defenses that can lead to autoimmune diseases (conceived as a “war against self”); the alarming pathologization of younger generations increasingly exposed to total war strategies.</p></div><div><h3>Interpretation</h3><p>The data reviewed call for an urgent adaptation of clinical and theoretical perspectives to take into account both the more than disturbing health effects and the repression of the mechanisms and consequences of total war by health professionals. In addition, clinicians are invited to con","PeriodicalId":100661,"journal":{"name":"In Analysis","volume":"7 3","pages":"Article 100389"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138179999","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 : 2023-11-08DOI: 10.1016/j.inan.2023.100391
Philippe Spoljar
{"title":"Anomie sociale et processus mélancolique : une perspective sociopsychique sur les suicides en lien avec le travail","authors":"Philippe Spoljar","doi":"10.1016/j.inan.2023.100391","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inan.2023.100391","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The psychological dynamics involved in work-related suicidal behaviour are generally neglected or obscured, in favour of an exclusive focus on critical social contexts and poor working conditions. In the field of agricultural work, these conditions, which affect a majority of farmers, are undoubtedly a source of “ill-being”, but do not specifically account for suicidal behaviour. Social anomie and organisational problems are linked to specific drives and mental mechanisms, such as identification and turning against one's own person, mobilised in a “melancholic process” likely to shed more light on the suicidal dynamic. Based on situations encountered in the world of agriculture, and broadening certain perspectives opened up by work psychodynamics, this article proposes a reflection that attempts to correlate socio-organisational processes and mental processes based on movements of psychic unbinding, coextensive with the expression of the death drive.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100661,"journal":{"name":"In Analysis","volume":"7 3","pages":"Article 100391"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138316900","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 : 2023-11-08DOI: 10.1016/j.inan.2023.100387
César Garza Guerrero
{"title":"Divergencies between a medical and a psychiatric hospitalization: Admissions, aggressiveness, and characterological suicidality in severe personality disorders","authors":"César Garza Guerrero","doi":"10.1016/j.inan.2023.100387","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inan.2023.100387","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Context</h3><p><span>There have been significant advances in organizational and administrative practices of modern psychiatric institutions. These advances have allowed their capitalization in the therapeutic use of social sub-systems and the interaction between staff and patients, in inpatient hospital programs. The therapeutic use of the interaction between patients and personnel is the essence of contemporary psychiatric divisions: this is what truly distinguishes modern </span>psychiatric services from traditional medical models. However, the enormous gap between these advances and their more universal applications to the contemporary psychiatric hospital is disconcerting.</p></div><div><h3>Objectives</h3><p>(a) To raise awareness of the differences between a medical and a psychiatric inpatient program; (b) so as to truly appreciate the importance of the therapeutic use of the interaction between personnel and patients; (c) particularly in the context of treating aggressiveness and characterological suicidality in severe personality disorders.</p></div><div><h3>Method</h3><p>In this study the divergencies between a medical and a psychiatric hospitalization are critically explored along four dimensions: (1) body versus mind; (2) reasons for admissions; (3) pharmacological approaches; and (4) characterological suicidality and aggressiveness in severe personality disorders.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p><span>Lamentably, the non-delimited and confusing transposition of traditional and psychiatric models, in inpatient psychiatric programs which do not integrate a comprehensive supraordinate psychotherapeutic framework at the service of their primary tasks, results in the risk of highly restrictive and merely custodial care of patients; unintegrated salads of multiple psychotherapeutic modalities, without a holistic approximation to articulate them; and the mixture of interventions that cancel each other out and could even result iatrogenic for patients and staff. It is precisely in the dimensions of characterological suicidality and aggressiveness, that the overall containment and </span>treatment of suicidal behavior and the rampant infiltration of aggression in severe personality pathology call for a clear demarcation between a medical model and a genuinely psychiatric one.</p></div><div><h3>Interpretations</h3><p>Contrary to the erroneous prediction of a few decades ago, about the disappearance of the psychiatric hospital, the need of modern psychiatric institutions and psychiatry<span> programs that integrate the achievements and contemporary proposals in mental health and psychotherapeutic sciences is more imperative than ever. This situation will demand an ongoing effort to explore critically our psychiatric practices and to address the enormous challenges represented by the training of staff, professors, and residents in psychiatry, toward the optimal use and advancement of available hospital resources.</span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":100661,"journal":{"name":"In Analysis","volume":"7 3","pages":"Article 100387"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138316901","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 : 2023-11-03DOI: 10.1016/j.inan.2023.100385
Kelly Poracchia, Mohammed Ham
{"title":"De l’abject à la fascination : sur les traces d’une mémoire archaïque","authors":"Kelly Poracchia, Mohammed Ham","doi":"10.1016/j.inan.2023.100385","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inan.2023.100385","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Context</h3><p>Certain clinical encounters can sometimes saturate the clinician's listening, thus causing effects of psychic amazement. Put to the test, a split can occur in listening between disgust and capture by the image. Through this article, we will thus attempt to analyze the psychic stakes of fascination and what this process can reveal in its elaboration.</p></div><div><h3>Aims</h3><p>This article aims to shed light on the imaginary process of fascination, which can be set in motion during certain clinical encounters in order to apprehend what it actualizes in the transference.</p></div><div><h3>Method</h3><p>Our research work is based on clinical interviews and on the analysis of the stories of patients encountered. We will present a clinical vignette in this article to inform our research.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>This research is based on an analysis of the process of fascination, which is set in motion in the encounter with abjection, with traces of an archaic memory. Faced with instinctual unleashing, the effect of this encounter would produce a threat of narcissistic annihilation and a transference regression.</p></div><div><h3>Interpretation</h3><p>Our interpretation underlines how fascination can reveal an unconscious truth that is transported in the transference, which should be analyzed afterwards.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100661,"journal":{"name":"In Analysis","volume":"7 3","pages":"Article 100385"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138316880","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 : 2023-11-03DOI: 10.1016/j.inan.2023.100390
Vincent Combes
{"title":"Psychodynamique de la honte chez les auteurs de comportements violents : la grande honte en abyme","authors":"Vincent Combes","doi":"10.1016/j.inan.2023.100390","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inan.2023.100390","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100661,"journal":{"name":"In Analysis","volume":"7 3","pages":"Article 100390"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138316881","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 : 2023-10-31DOI: 10.1016/j.inan.2023.100382
Stéphanie Gafa , Nathalie Dumet
{"title":"(Dés)organisations du travail et décompensations cancéreuses : éclairage psychanalytique","authors":"Stéphanie Gafa , Nathalie Dumet","doi":"10.1016/j.inan.2023.100382","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inan.2023.100382","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Context</h3><p>This article is the result of a doctoral research that proposes to question the possible links between the suffering at work caused by managerial practices stemming from neoliberalism and the occurrence of somatic disorders in the individual.</p></div><div><h3>Objectives</h3><p>More and more studies reveal links between work organization/conditions and somatic decompensation, including severe. In the continuity, we propose to reflect on the psychic stakes mobilized in certain forms of cancerous pathologies in subjects invested professionally.</p></div><div><h3>Method</h3><p>Following the work psychodynamicians who place work as central in the life of the subject, the authors sought to understand how work can be structuring for the subject and what psychic functions it has in his life. The authors also analyzed, through the analysis of several clinical situations, what is at play in the work for the individual, what keeps his balance both psychically and somatically and what, on the contrary, can “destroy” it (in the literal sense of the term).</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>The case studies showed that, out of twenty subjects interviewed, constants appeared: these subjects tended to avoid conflicts because of their inability to treat them psychically resulting in repression, inhibition of their affects, especially those of anger or hostility. This disability has its origin in their childhood history and in the pre-western trauma experienced in the primary relationship with the mother.</p></div><div><h3>Interpretations</h3><p>The authors have highlighted the effects of (ob)scenalization in the work implying that the highly invested subject projects, plays or acts his intimate scene on the professional scene and on the metaexecutives of the institution that perform various functions (metadefensive instance, subject affiliation and violent impulse movement capacity). It follows that a failing institution causes the bankruptcy of this metaframework and the psychic elements formerly contained and/or metabolized are likely to return to the subject in the form of severe somatization. The limits of this study lie in the small number of subjects interviewed and in the impossibility of generalizing such processes due to the multifactorial complexity involved. Neoliberalism at work in societal evolutions invites us to continue these investigations on the deleterious effects of this on the health of professionals.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100661,"journal":{"name":"In Analysis","volume":"7 3","pages":"Article 100382"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71785444","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 : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1016/j.inan.2023.100374
R. Evrard
{"title":"Fondements du complexe d’Œdipe au travers du Seigneur des anneaux : une illustration à visée pédagogique","authors":"R. Evrard","doi":"10.1016/j.inan.2023.100374","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.inan.2023.100374","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Context</h3><p>As part of a teaching of the foundations of the Oedipus complex according to Lacanian structural psychopathology, an illustration in the form of an analogy was proposed with certain aspects of The Lord of the Rings, the masterpiece by J.R.R. Tolkien.</p></div><div><h3>Objectives</h3><p>Our article aims to share this illustration for pedagogical purposes.</p></div><div><h3>Method</h3><p>While presenting certain key elements of the theory of the Oedipus complex as reviewed by Lacan, we propose term-to-term equivalents by making this general situation incarnate through the destiny of Tolkien's characters, in particular the Oedipal triangulation between the Hobbit Frodo, bearer of a magic ring coveted by the sorcerer Sauron.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>While the analogy only covers part of the theory from selected pieces of the fantasy work, it provides a playful medium for conveying an abstract theoretical conception through an embodied imaginary conception.</p></div><div><h3>Interpretations</h3><p>Interesting students without clinical experience in complex psychopathological conceptions can be achieved through such pedagogical efforts, which also question our own representations, through my themes having a certain proximity with the culture in which psychoanalysis was born.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100661,"journal":{"name":"In Analysis","volume":"7 2","pages":"Article 100374"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135736654","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 : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1016/j.inan.2023.100371
Daniel Tutt
{"title":"Micro-politics: Anti-Oedipus and the wall of ultra-liberalism","authors":"Daniel Tutt","doi":"10.1016/j.inan.2023.100371","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inan.2023.100371","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Context</h3><p>Deleuze and Guattari's <em>Anti-Oedipus</em> series has shaped several generations of radical left political thought, promoting an accelerationist understanding of revolutionizing capitalism. Despite the lasting influence of the concepts developed in this work, the changing dynamics of capitalist social life, particularly increasing social and institutional fragmentation, have called the core itinerary of these concepts and their application to political struggle into serious question.</p></div><div><h3>Objective</h3><p>This paper critically examines the theoretical presuppositions that drove the <em>Anti-Oedipus</em> series, with particular focus on the first volume, and asks whether the repertoire of concepts developed in this work remain relevant to the contemporary left.</p></div><div><h3>Method</h3><p>After an investigation that focuses on the movement away from a Marxist-centered praxis and understanding of capitalism in <em>Anti-Oedipus</em>, an analysis of the conception of the “Oedipal form” is presented and critiqued with reference to a wide range of post-Lacanian political thinkers.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p><em>Anti-Oedipus</em> has made a tremendous influence on the theoretical understanding of today's anti-capitalist left. Its concepts have been adopted in two main ways on the contemporary left: a radical abolitionist politics of opacity and a new form of left-accelerationist utopian socialism.</p></div><div><h3>Interpretations</h3><p>These two tendencies of political thought are critically analyzed and diagnosed as inadequate to facing the political and social challenges of our time, but they remain nonetheless important intellectual tendencies for understanding the ideological makeup of today's left.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100661,"journal":{"name":"In Analysis","volume":"7 2","pages":"Article 100371"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50199076","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}