{"title":"Self-criticism as an unconscious lifeline","authors":"F. Busch","doi":"10.1080/01062301.2022.2040186","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01062301.2022.2040186","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Since Freud’s paper on Mourning and Melancholia various authors have approached the issue of patients who are relentlessly self-critical. While descriptively similar to previous explanations, the author describes patients who desperately cling to self-criticism out of a fear of terrifying aloneness. They are driven by unconscious determinants that seem similar to those noted by others but is a variation with important clinical implications.","PeriodicalId":346715,"journal":{"name":"The Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128138655","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}
{"title":"Learning from past practices: an overview of criticisms for psychoanalytic case studies","authors":"Greta Kaluzeviciute","doi":"10.1080/01062301.2022.2137313","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01062301.2022.2137313","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Since Freud, psychoanalytic case studies have been scrutinised as irredeemably subjective anecdotal reports. This paper explores criticisms at three different levels: suggestive influence and scientific judgment (case study as a form of classification and judgment); (counter)transference as a ‘problem child’ (case narrative as an emotionally biased communication); validation (case study as an anecdotal report with non–generalisable findings). In exploring these different criticisms, the paper also investigates different historical reactions toward the genre of psychoanalytic case study and the practice of case writing, as well as the significance of research pragmatism for psychoanalytic research in particular and psychological research more broadly. By bringing these criticisms and responses together, the paper seeks to provide a snapshot of how case studies survived the sceptics, and what past lessons can be learnt in developing the case study method further.","PeriodicalId":346715,"journal":{"name":"The Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132425203","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}
{"title":"Wittgenstein, Lacan and the ‘Toothache’: Production of Subjectivity and Limits of Language","authors":"Dario Alparone, V. L. La Rosa","doi":"10.1080/01062301.2022.2113954","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01062301.2022.2113954","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The following article is a short reflection on the production of the subject as an effect of significant and language in general. Miller, the disciple of Lacan, uses the image of the dentist as a metaphor for this kind of production: the extraction of a tooth. We use a dreamlike association with Wittgenstein’s example of toothache to explain the limitations of empirical language. The fundamental absence of the object can be translated as the effect of the production of private sensation by linguistic games. Furthermore, this model of explanation of subjectivity is radically different from the classical way of thinking about subjectivity, such as the cognitive psychological model. The production of reality results from a process of extraction of the object, of separation between subject and object as an effect of language.","PeriodicalId":346715,"journal":{"name":"The Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review","volume":"256 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123609057","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}
{"title":"Psychoanalysis and covidian life: common distress, individual experience","authors":"Sølvi Kristiansen","doi":"10.1080/01062301.2021.1982545","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01062301.2021.1982545","url":null,"abstract":"The cover image of the recently published book, Psychoanalysis and Covidian Life is Edward Hopper’s painting ‘Cape Cod Morning’. A woman stands alone inside her house looking out of the bay window – waiting or watching? Outside is the wood, dark, impenetrable, and yellow autumn grass beautiful and scaring in its intensity, as on fire. The sky is blue. The atmosphere is uncanny. The painting captures what has been, and in some parts of the world still is, daily life during the pandemic period: isolation, anguish, uncertainty, paranoid watchfulness but also, wishful waiting for good news. During this extraordinary period, which has affected all of us, psychoanalysts have continued their clinical practice, though under new and challenging frames. Discussions and reflections on experiences began almost immediately, shared in different channels – online discussions, international journals and in this new book from Phoenix publishing house. The editors, Howard B. Levine and Ana de Staal, invited well-known psychoanalysts and authors from different continents to contribute (altogether sixteen, including the editors), and the result is a book trying to","PeriodicalId":346715,"journal":{"name":"The Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128846105","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}
{"title":"Dear Candidate: Analysts from around the World Offer Personal Reflections on Psychoanalytic Training, Education, and the Profession","authors":"Kari Høydahl","doi":"10.1080/01062301.2021.1966593","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01062301.2021.1966593","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":346715,"journal":{"name":"The Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131075661","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}
{"title":"Excursions in countertransference: treating complex trauma, structural fragmentation, and psychosis in a bipolar gay man","authors":"J. Mills","doi":"10.1080/01062301.2021.2002096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01062301.2021.2002096","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article chronicles an extended psychoanalytic treatment of a bipolar gay man who suffered from unremitting suicidal depression, mania, paranoid psychosis, and psychic fragmentation due to severe complex trauma and developmental deficits in attachment and cohesive self-structure. Following his initial hospitalization within an inpatient psychiatric facility after a suicide attempt, I present his course of treatment in outpatient practice over a four-year period that highlights the psychodynamics of the case, the treatment parameters, and the multiple crises that led to chronic suicidality, re-hospitalization, manic psychosis, and an eventual incarceration in prison for criminal theft and fraud due to an unconscious death wish and need for self-punishment for being homosexual. In atypical clinical honesty, I discuss the various countertransference enactments I engaged in as I struggled with the treatment, such as encouraging the permeability of the treatment frame, offering unsolicited self-disclosure, visiting his house, running personal errands, taking him to the hospital, giving him a gift, precipitously accepting and returning phone calls, engaging in lengthy, ongoing email discussions, and letting the patient run up a large debt. It is for these reasons that it becomes instructive to consider just how far one should go in the name of therapy. Implications for clinical discourse in countertransference are discussed.","PeriodicalId":346715,"journal":{"name":"The Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review","volume":"621 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134483861","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}
{"title":"Important thoughts on becoming and being a man, and on sexes and gender generally","authors":"Jussi Kotkavirta","doi":"10.1080/01062301.2020.1846389","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01062301.2020.1846389","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":346715,"journal":{"name":"The Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review","volume":"89 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133784218","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}
{"title":"Unrepressed unconscious: A developmental-relational approach","authors":"G. Craparo","doi":"10.1080/01062301.2020.1830599","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01062301.2020.1830599","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT According to Freud, the dynamic unconscious has a: 1) social-relational nature, because it is strictly related to the internalization of early intersubjective experiences; 2) verbal-symbolic nature, in rapport with psychic representations (vorstellung); 3) repressive nature (the word repression is a synonym of unconscious). Contemporary psychoanalysis also considers the role of a more primitive and pre-reflexive type of unconscious: the unrepressed unconscious. This unconscious does not exist from the beginning, but is linked to the quality of sensory experiences between infant and caregiver. For several authors, the unrepressed unconscious is an emotional and preverbal unconscious useful to capture and to symbolize emotional stimuli. Moreover, it has a developmental bond with the repressed unconscious, in the sense that the development of the repressed unconscious is affected by the development of the unrepressed unconscious. Starting with an overview of neuroscientific and psychoanalytic literatures on this unconscious, the author explores the psychological characteristics of the unrepressed unconscious as well as its importance for clinical work.","PeriodicalId":346715,"journal":{"name":"The Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126438171","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}