{"title":"\"The Dead Mother\": Delusion of Persecution, Negative Hallucination, and the Origins of the Screen Figure in the Clinic of Paranoia.","authors":"Cécile Prudent, Benjamin Lévy","doi":"10.1521/prev.2025.112.2.167","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1521/prev.2025.112.2.167","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In order to study the relation between hallucination and persecutory delusion, this article takes André Green's <i>dead mother complex</i> as its theoretical framework. The authors argue that the attention to the negative hallucination of the dead mother, preceding the emergence of delusion, allows for a better grasp of the distribution of primary identifications in the clinic of paranoia. They examine the entanglement of maternal and paternal identifications in the context of disharmonious infantile development, triggered by the infant's libidinal disinvestment from the primary object caused by maternal depression and bereavement. This analytic approach enables clinicians to address more fully <i>an object without percept</i> in the patient's psyche, to which the treatment must give new life.</p>","PeriodicalId":39855,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Review","volume":"112 2","pages":"167-184"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144508779","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 Ongoing Relevance of Paul Schilder to Clinical Practice.","authors":"Phillip L Kent","doi":"10.1521/prev.2025.112.2.223","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1521/prev.2025.112.2.223","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Paul Ferdinand Schilder, an early 20th century neurologist, psychoanalyst, and psychiatrist, made significant contributions to the areas of psychoanalysis, psychiatry, neuropathology, and cognitive neuropsychology. The extent of his contributions to assessment and psychotherapy is likely unknown to the majority of practicing clinicians trained in the past several decades. This article provides an overview of Schilder's eclectic and integrative contributions to clinical practice, focusing on his books published in English.</p>","PeriodicalId":39855,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Review","volume":"112 2","pages":"223-234"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144508784","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 Crowded Mirror: Heinz Kohut and the Myth of Adult-Infant Love.","authors":"Gila Ashtor","doi":"10.1521/prev.2025.112.2.131","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1521/prev.2025.112.2.131","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Outlining the history of transformations of narcissism and through the clinical material, this contribution puts in dialogue Heinz Kohut's understanding of adult-infant relationality with that of Jean Laplanche. In an effort to evaluate the merits of Kohut's developmental model in meta-psychological terms, the author is guided by two aims: to explore the clinical implications of different views on adult-infant relationality, especially as they manifest in the \"mirror-hungry personality,\" and to formulate a psychoanalytic conceptualization of self-love that can effectively challenge the narrow-minded mantras so popular today.</p>","PeriodicalId":39855,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Review","volume":"112 2","pages":"131-166"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144508783","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":"Love is the <i>Delusion</i> of Saying: \"I Love (<i>to</i>) You\".","authors":"Meera Lee","doi":"10.1521/prev.2025.112.2.185","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1521/prev.2025.112.2.185","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This contribution investigates the delusional structure of love as theorized by Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan, with particular emphasis on Lacan's axiom, <i>\"There's no such thing as a sexual relationship.\"</i> Tracing love's trajectory from narcissistic identification in the mirror stage to its later formulation as semblance and structural void, it argues that love functions both as an act of creation and as a delusional response to the absence of sexual rapport. Through close readings of Lacan's seminars and Freud's writings on narcissism, the author introduces the notion of everyday delusion as a clinical and ethical framework for the practice and transmission of psychoanalysis today.</p>","PeriodicalId":39855,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Review","volume":"112 2","pages":"185-197"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144508781","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":"Psychoanalytic Conceptions of Agoraphobia.","authors":"Morris Eagle","doi":"10.1521/prev.2025.112.2.199","DOIUrl":"10.1521/prev.2025.112.2.199","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This contribution addresses the agoraphobic syndrome in several important ways. Tracing the different formulations of agoraphobia reveals shifts in psychoanalytic theorizing. The etiology and maintenance of agoraphobia includes the role of genetic factors, intra- and interpersonal dynamics, and the influence of social conditions. As such, an understanding and treatment of agoraphobia requires a multimodal and interdisciplinary approach.</p>","PeriodicalId":39855,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Review","volume":"112 2","pages":"199-222"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144508782","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":"Masud Khan: A Collated Personality.","authors":"Candace Orcutt","doi":"10.1521/prev.2025.112.1.87","DOIUrl":"10.1521/prev.2025.112.1.87","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Based on recent biographies and the publication of his <i>Work Books,</i> this contribution reflects on life and work of the psychoanalyst Masud Khan, whose clinical and theoretical brilliance remains dimmed by his disenfranchisement and isolation. It locates Khan's \"fall\" not only in his personal history but also in several frustrated attempts at analysis, while highlighting that some of Khan's most generative concepts may have served as a guideline for self-cure.</p>","PeriodicalId":39855,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Review","volume":"112 1","pages":"87-116"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143732177","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":"Cracks in the Concrete: A Clinical Case Study.","authors":"Neil Herlands","doi":"10.1521/prev.2025.112.1.41","DOIUrl":"10.1521/prev.2025.112.1.41","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Traditional Freudian psychoanalysis has always considered interpretation to be the most effective tool for altering deeply ingrained unconscious thought patterns and perspectives. Through detailed vignettes, this case study describes how a persistently concrete response to interpretation is ultimately analyzed and worked through. The work of Alan Bass is used as a technical guide toward facilitating this process. His understanding of concrete resistances is an elaboration of Freud's interest in fetishism and disavowal (the predominant defense against differentiation) and Eros (the integrating but potentially traumatizing force within the psyche).</p>","PeriodicalId":39855,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Review","volume":"112 1","pages":"41-65"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143732172","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":"Mentorship, Access, and Racial Representation: The Case of Benjamin Karpman and <i>The Psychoanalytic Review</i>.","authors":"Anaís Martinez Jimenez","doi":"10.1521/prev.2025.112.1.35","DOIUrl":"10.1521/prev.2025.112.1.35","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article examines the series of studies edited by Benjamin Karpman under the title \"Psychogenetic Studies in Race Psychology,\" published in <i>The Psychoanalytic Review</i> between 1931 and 1943. It acknowledges Karpman's interest in marginal subjects and, by extension, in the work and experiences of his Black students at Howard University and highlights his correspondence with Richard Wright. It reflects on Karpman's position as editor, drawing attention to the pitfalls of gestures of accessibility and inclusion from White mentors and from historically White institutions.</p>","PeriodicalId":39855,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Review","volume":"112 1","pages":"35-40"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143732179","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}