{"title":"The Psychoanalytic Act in the Preschool Space, or How to Be Useful Instead of Right.","authors":"Olga Poznansky","doi":"10.1521/prev.2024.111.3.319","DOIUrl":"10.1521/prev.2024.111.3.319","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This contribution examines the position of expert knowledge in the institutional context of an American preschool and a consulting psychoanalyst's refusal to join in its unquestioned dynamic. It interrogates the shift, both theoretical and clinical, occurring if and when the authority of knowledge is supplanted by attention to transference. By arguing that a classroom is the space for the psychoanalytic act and by making a distinction between what it means to be <i>useful</i> rather than <i>right,</i> the author opens a perspective for psychoanalysis in extension that the cared-for children may welcome more than the caring adults.</p>","PeriodicalId":39855,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Review","volume":"111 3","pages":"319-325"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142356028","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":"An Analyst's Hallucination as a Manifestation of Osmotic Communication.","authors":"Justyna Zalewska","doi":"10.1521/prev.2024.111.3.277","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1521/prev.2024.111.3.277","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article conveys the psychoanalyst's hallucinatory experience during a session with a patient who experienced premature birth trauma. Engaging with the patient's primal fears of disappearance and confusion with the object through hallucinosis initiated the analyst's engagement with her own trauma. The concept of osmotic communication within the patient-analyst relationship is viewed as central to description and understanding of the primal dialogue of two unconscious minds. The filtration of psychic content from the patient's to the analyst's unconscious is facilitated by the semipermeable membrane of analyst's receptivity. As a recipient, the analyst embodies and processes the patient's unmentalized experiences in a transformative manner.</p>","PeriodicalId":39855,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Review","volume":"111 3","pages":"277-300"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142356022","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":"From Anxiety to Aesthetics: \"Rank Horror: An International Symposium\".","authors":"Nathan Gorelick","doi":"10.1521/prev.2024.111.3.327","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1521/prev.2024.111.3.327","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This report on the proceedings of the \"Rank Horror\" symposium, convened in May 2024 to reconsider Otto Rank's life, work, and enduring contributions to psychoanalytic theory and practice, includes a brief historical survey of Rank's relationship to Sigmund Freud and other original members of the International Psychoanalytic Association's Central Committee, and an account of the symposium's wider intellectual and political context. It outlines the reasons for returning to Rank now, and a summary of the papers presented. Particular focus is afforded to Rank's 1924 book, <i>The Trauma of Birth.</i></p>","PeriodicalId":39855,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Review","volume":"111 3","pages":"327-337"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142356024","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":"A Note on a Genre.","authors":"Aleksandra Wagner","doi":"10.1521/prev.2024.111.3.301","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1521/prev.2024.111.3.301","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39855,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Review","volume":"111 3","pages":"301-302"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142356021","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 in Extension: Can the Conference as a Genre Be Properly Psychoanalytic?","authors":"Jason Royal","doi":"10.1521/prev.2024.111.3.303","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1521/prev.2024.111.3.303","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This reflection problematizes the notion and practice of the psychoanalytic conference, a genre that, while useful, also embodies deadness. By first reminding what is at stake in conferences as usually staged-readings of texts-the reflection is focused on what is at stake in the prospect of psychoanalytic conferences that function psychoanalytically. Using an event he helped imagine and execute as both a matrix of thinking and a source of examples, the author examines the challenges and potentials of new forms of participation, co-existence, and exchange in the psychoanalytic field.</p>","PeriodicalId":39855,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Review","volume":"111 3","pages":"303-313"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142356025","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":"Finding Integration in a Splintered World: Contemporary Psychoanalytic Thoughts on Clinical Work.","authors":"Janet L Bachant, Arnold D Richards","doi":"10.1521/prev.2024.111.3.233","DOIUrl":"10.1521/prev.2024.111.3.233","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Practitioners interested in the process of helping people change are confronted today with such a burgeoning array of perspectives, theories, and treatment modalities that even the most diligent can feel overwhelmed by the number of choices. This plethora of approaches calls into question whether there is <i>anything</i> that can tie them together. Asking if the psychoanalytic field is destined to be splintered into fragments that defy cohesion or if it is possible to generate a way of thinking and working that is more inclusive, this paper takes a historical and integrationist approach, grounded in a clinical focus on mental organization and Leo Rangell's total composite theory. It discusses trends in the development of psychoanalysis and argues for the importance of integration of the findings from neuropsychology and neuropsychoanalysis into psychoanalytic clinical work.</p>","PeriodicalId":39855,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Review","volume":"111 3","pages":"233-251"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142356023","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 Attacks on Linking and the Thinking-Function in the Writings of W. R. Bion.","authors":"Gila Landau","doi":"10.1521/prev.2024.111.3.253","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1521/prev.2024.111.3.253","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article revisits W. R. Bion's theory of thinking by highlighting how thinking and linking are attacked. The author's theoretical reflections and clinical vignettes draw attention to the fact that patients may attack the analyst's thinking-function in two particular states: when they experience the analyst as attacking them precisely when the analyst is able to create a link, but one that is too threatening, painful, unsettling and frustrating or in response to the analyst's failure to create the link the patient had been expecting. <i>How</i> the analyst deals with and reacts to the complexity of the analytic relationship and to these two kinds of attacks is what will be internalized. In turn, it will affect <i>the methods of communication within the psyche and with the environment</i> and the development of a patient's emotional thinking.</p>","PeriodicalId":39855,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Review","volume":"111 3","pages":"253-276"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142356026","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}
Elitsa Tsigoriyna, Maria Kalinova, Kamelia Spassova
{"title":"Freud in Bulgaria: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Translation: An Experience with the Singular.","authors":"Elitsa Tsigoriyna, Maria Kalinova, Kamelia Spassova","doi":"10.1521/prev.2024.111.2.189","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1521/prev.2024.111.2.189","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This contribution considers a monthly seminar, Literature and Psychoanalysis, that has been taking place at Sofia University (Sofia, Bulgaria) since 2017. Three of the seminar's founders reflect on the transferences between literature and psychoanalysis, and on the ways in which literature and psychoanalysis can meaningfully converse. The exchange also touches on the fate of Freud's textual legacy in communist and post-communist Bulgaria.</p>","PeriodicalId":39855,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Review","volume":"111 2","pages":"189-210"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141499255","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}