{"title":"The question of the training analysis system. Notes from the debate in Oslo","authors":"A. Zachrisson","doi":"10.1080/01062301.2018.1564131","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01062301.2018.1564131","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The Norwegian discussion of the training analyst system and the pro et contra arguments are shortly presented. When this note is written, the Board is contemplating to propose a revision of the by-laws, making it somewhat easier to fulfil the criteria for being approved as training analyst.","PeriodicalId":346715,"journal":{"name":"The Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review","volume":"103 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124192620","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":"The lost object and the act of creation","authors":"J. Gammelgaard","doi":"10.1080/01062301.2019.1585679","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01062301.2019.1585679","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The aim of this article is to discuss the idea of the lost object and to throw light on its relation to creativity. The main thesis is that what is called the original or primary object cannot be considered lost in an absolute meaning. The original object is according to this author not lost, for the simple reason that it never was. In the beginning was only an encounter and so the lost object can only be said to be lost after the fact or afterwards. From this statement the author takes up the question of what this implies for a discussion of creativity and ask the question, what it is the artist creates or re-creates in his work of art, and how the idea of the lost object may throw light on the act of creation. The chosen example for illustration is Freud’s study of Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa.","PeriodicalId":346715,"journal":{"name":"The Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115595599","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":"Interpreted statues: collapse of femininity and psychotic denial of incest in The Winter’s Tale","authors":"Christopher W. T. Miller","doi":"10.1080/01062301.2019.1587696","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01062301.2019.1587696","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The Winter’s Tale (1610/1999), a late romance by William Shakespeare, on one level presents the delusional jealousy of Leontes regarding his wife Hermione, the visitations of death undoing the omnipotent defenses employed by Leontes, who is fatefully confronted by grief and the guilt of having wronged those close to him. The final two acts present us with the redemptive powers of nature and love, re-establishing the family unit through mutual forgiveness and a deus ex machina in the coming-to-life of Hermione’s statue. The comic formula Shakespeare utilizes after the first three acts attempts to undo the tragic plot unfolding thus far, inviting us to abandon the knowledge we acquired and adopt the solution of a safe Oedipal triangulation, materialized when the statue comes to life. On a darker note, Shakespeare undoes important dimensions of the source material, which provides a tragic ending to the Leontes character (Pandosto) after he lusts after his daughter. As Shakespeare alters the fates of the characters through largely disavowing the incestuous urges of Leontes, we are taunted with both knowing and not knowing that pairing off Leontes in the end with an adult female partner is an aesthetic resolution to much more troubling psychic realities.","PeriodicalId":346715,"journal":{"name":"The Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130155226","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":"Response to Björns Sahlberg’s article","authors":"Å. Lantz","doi":"10.1080/01062301.2018.1564130","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01062301.2018.1564130","url":null,"abstract":"I find many of Sahlberg’s (2018) contributions to be both insightful and convincing enough that they could easily suffice as an argument for the discontinuation of the training analyst system (hereafter abbreviated TA). Yet at the same time I notice that very few of his arguments appear to speak to the case for maintaining the TA. I initially wondered about Sahlberg’s detailed description of the French OPLF ‘The Quatriéme Groupe’ which counts Piera Aulagnier among its ranks. An organization that appears to be somewhat exemplary by Sahlberg but which is notably not affiliated with the international psychoanalytic association (IPA). In that, and later in other French associations affiliated with IPA, there has been a concerted effort toward anti-hierarchical structure and democratization. More so, the OPLF has taken the lead in a refusal to have a specialized group of training analysts. Arguably it is just such a democratization that is one of the defining features of the French model. Sahlberg makes reference to the historical background of TA as described in Harold Blum’s contribution to Peter Zagermann (2017) The Future of Psychoanalysis – The Debate About the Training Analyst System. Blum (2017) describes how Ferenczi worked to ensure that only a small selected group, analyzed by Freud, would have the authority that he felt was needed to guarantee ‘pure analytical theory’. Jones subsequently proposed the formation of a secret committee ‘... to protect the kingdom of their master...’ (p. 37) which Freud, perhaps understandably, then approved. Freud’s interest in the formation of this secret committee was to ensure that he retained his most faithful disciples. The committee, which preceded the formation of the Eitingon model in 1920 by a number of years, can in the words of Blum best be described as an something of an aristocratic family romance; there was a significant pride and status in being able to show a direct connection to Freud, who in turn gifted ornate signet rings to pioneers, such as Ferenczi, Abraham, Jones, Rank and Sachs. The rings were engraved with ancient symbols representing fealty to the father figure. The privilege of having had access to the individual arguments of the long line of experienced colleagues featured in Zagermann’s book, 15 in total from Israel, USA, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Germany and England, has only further reinforced my conviction of the need for the abolition of the training analyst system. The vast majority of the volume’s collected authors, almost all in fact, argue convincingly for the need for its discontinuation. Yet the discussion concerning the merits of the training analyst system continues unabated within the IPA. Piles (2017) writes that Eitingon, who joined the committee in 1919, and had been analyzed by Freud, was so fanatically devoted to Freud that he himself never authored any articles due to the fact that he believed all that was worth saying had already been said by Freud. Pyles contin","PeriodicalId":346715,"journal":{"name":"The Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125620192","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":"Infant psychopathology during the first year of life and its return during adolescence and adulthood","authors":"D. Rosenfeld, Anne Maria Vano, V. Penela","doi":"10.1080/01062301.2019.1599170","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01062301.2019.1599170","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This is a presentation of different clinical cases having in common severe infantile traumatic events during the first year of life. From the disappearance of mother and father during Latin-American dictatorships, to another patient who hallucinates that bats fly out of his cheeks, this paper tries to bring light into the difficult times of these patients and how the analysts worked with infantile parts of the self which were inside the adult patients.","PeriodicalId":346715,"journal":{"name":"The Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review","volume":"61 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124322356","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":"Reflections on Björn Sahlberg’s article: training analysis and training models","authors":"A. Larmo","doi":"10.1080/01062301.2019.1578523","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01062301.2019.1578523","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":346715,"journal":{"name":"The Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review","volume":"349 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122648255","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":"Forms of presence and absence in a digital age","authors":"Charlotta Björklind","doi":"10.1080/01062301.2019.1598747","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01062301.2019.1598747","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The structural importance of absence for human development is considered crucial in psychoanalytic thinking. The necessary conflict between the principles of pleasure and reality is situated in the intersection of presence/absence, gratification/frustration. However, nowadays a physical encounter with an-Other always contains a tangible aspect of partial absence, when the person you are with is in potential simultaneous interaction with someone else, through the portable screen. The author argues that digital technology has a profound impact on our daily existence, where a central aspect is this displacement of the dimension of presence/absence. Certainly, a relationship between two people has always contained a third, but we may now be facing something qualitatively different. In a world of omnipresent connectedness, we are never completely alone and never completely together. This constant connectedness can be seen to cause a transformation of the third position, altering the structure of triangular space. Furthermore, the digital presence of the other has specific imaginary qualities, rather than symbolic, and the full implications of this are yet to be discovered. The author discusses these issues in relation to everyday social settings as well as symptoms presented in the consulting room.","PeriodicalId":346715,"journal":{"name":"The Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134486340","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":"Comment on Björn Sahlberg’s paper","authors":"Johan Berg","doi":"10.1080/01062301.2018.1564132","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01062301.2018.1564132","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper is a comment on Björn Sahlberg’s paper on the function of training analysis in the Swedish psychoanalytic association and discusses some aspects of the candidates’ personal analysis and supervision. The paper further suggests some possible sources for inspiration and perspective on organizational and educational issues, for example taking an interest in the epistemology of professions, in what the concept of ‘reflection-in-action’ could mean in the training situation, or in empirical research about the educational models and the practice of psychoanalysis.","PeriodicalId":346715,"journal":{"name":"The Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123373770","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}