{"title":"The Truth in a Cliché: Response to Ahlskog.","authors":"Carl Jacobs","doi":"10.1521/prev.2026.113.3.339","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1521/prev.2026.113.3.339","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39855,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Review","volume":"113 3","pages":"339-342"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149018042","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":"Erasing the Other: Disavowal and Object Annihilation in Unilateral Termination.","authors":"Kris Di Wu, Sophia Shieh, Derrick Hassert","doi":"10.1521/prev.2026.113.3.309","DOIUrl":"10.1521/prev.2026.113.3.309","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Human bonds confront the inevitability of their end: In psychoanalysis, this truth is reflected in termination, which differs from relational ruptures in its staged intentionality. Termination is the final act of analysis itself, wherein the subject's relation to desire and therapeutic gains is accosted. The notion of a \"good enough termination,\" rooted in Winnicott's concept of the \"good enough mother,\" privileges reparative continuity over ideals of closure. As maternal failures allow a child to confront reality, the clinician's capacity to survive ruptures models relational endurance. Yet unilateral terminations-either by analyst need or institutional countertransference-risk foreclosing this potential: Termination acquires heightened ethical stakes. This paper engages with Levinas, Winnicott, and neuropsychoanalysis to underscore how a good enough termination is both an ethical and a biological process that leaves the work open rather than falsely complete. Termination becomes a generative site for working through fragility and injustice in relational life.</p>","PeriodicalId":39855,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Review","volume":"113 3","pages":"309-329"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149017965","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}
Giselle Appel, Michael Garrett, Samuel Greenstein, Anshuman Srivastava
{"title":"Online Virality as a Persecutory Experience: A Psychodynamic Case Study.","authors":"Giselle Appel, Michael Garrett, Samuel Greenstein, Anshuman Srivastava","doi":"10.1521/prev.2026.113.3.259","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1521/prev.2026.113.3.259","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Online virality can generate sudden destabilizing visibility in individuals with mood or psychotic disorders. This case report describes a 21-year-old man with bipolar disorder and cannabis use disorder who developed paranoid and persecutory delusions shortly after a video he posted went viral, worsened by an arrest that led to insomnia, withdrawal, hypervigilance, and the belief that he and his family were in danger. During hospitalization, he described feeling as if his life was being broadcast, an organizing explanation for his distress. His decompensation reflected inconsistent antipsychotic adherence, daily cannabis use, a traumatic arrest, and viral visibility. The shift from grandiosity to guilt to projected threat suggests paranoid-schizoid regression triggered by the online virality. Symptoms improved with antipsychotic optimization. This case underscores the need to assess digit platform use when evaluating psychotic decompensation.</p>","PeriodicalId":39855,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Review","volume":"113 3","pages":"259-267"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149018104","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":"Meaning and Music: Lacan's Non-All.","authors":"William John Healey Iii","doi":"10.1521/prev.2026.113.3.347","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1521/prev.2026.113.3.347","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article examines musical meaning through the lens of Lacanian psychoanalysis. While music and language are often treated as fundamentally different forms of communication, both are shaped by structures of meaning that resist complete articulation. Drawing on Lacan's theory of the signifier, the Real, and the non-all, as well as Alenka Zupančič's account of the missing signifier, I argue that music cannot be understood as organized around a missing signifier in the same way as language. Rather, music is non-all: it generates meaning without being reducible to a universal or totalizing system of signification. Musical meaning is therefore neither inherent nor ineffable but emerges through culturally learned structures, subjective interpretation, and contradiction.</p>","PeriodicalId":39855,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Review","volume":"113 3","pages":"347-354"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149018066","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 Gary Ahlskog.","authors":"Carl Jacobs","doi":"10.1521/prev.2026.113.3.345","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1521/prev.2026.113.3.345","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39855,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Review","volume":"113 3","pages":"345"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149018088","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":"In the Comfort of the Rabbi.","authors":"Yocheved L Rabinowitz","doi":"10.1521/prev.2026.113.3.355","DOIUrl":"10.1521/prev.2026.113.3.355","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>From infancy, humans exhibit a profound psychological need for strong, protective figures, shaping both individual behavior and societal structures. I explore how early caregiver relationships, as conceptualized by Freud, Klein, Bowlby, Winnicott, and Kohut, serve as templates for later attachments to authority figures, ideologies, and traditions. Examining historical and contemporary examples-including political movements and adherence to psychological frameworks-I argue that the quest for security underlies both stability and rigidity in personal and cultural contexts. By considering the implications for both patients and clinicians, I highlight the tension between dependency and autonomy, offering a psychoanalytic perspective on authority and its role in therapeutic and societal dynamics.</p>","PeriodicalId":39855,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Review","volume":"113 3","pages":"355-373"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149017970","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":"Intrastellar: An Exploration of Nonlocal Unconscious Communication in the Quantum Field of Analysis.","authors":"Giuseppe Fulco","doi":"10.1521/prev.2026.113.3.269","DOIUrl":"10.1521/prev.2026.113.3.269","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>By presenting an apparently telepathic experience as a possible manifestation of nonlocal field dynamics rather than as a supernatural event, this article broadens psychoanalytic conceptions of nonlocal unconscious communication, particularly in the way it may emerge during moments of intense emotional resonance between patient and analyst. By placing psychoanalysis in dialogue with contemporary scientific perspectives, this study seeks to foster interdisciplinary reflection while maintaining clinical sensitivity, theoretical rigor, and openness toward phenomena that challenge the assumptions of classical physics. The inquiry concludes with considerations regarding the possible effects that the analyst's stance toward telepathy may have within the analytic process.</p>","PeriodicalId":39855,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Review","volume":"113 3","pages":"269-308"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149018015","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":"Thoughts in Response to Carl Jacobs's Critique.","authors":"Gary Ahlskog","doi":"10.1521/prev.2026.113.3.343","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1521/prev.2026.113.3.343","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39855,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Review","volume":"113 3","pages":"343-344"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149018028","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":"Bion and Transcendental-Slow Cinema: Toward a Psychoanalytic Cinema-Viewing Practice.","authors":"Collin Ruffino","doi":"10.1521/prev.2026.113.3.233","DOIUrl":"10.1521/prev.2026.113.3.233","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Filmmaker Paul Schrader (2018) defined Transcendental-Slow Cinema as a style that seeks to convey an ineffable experience using the formal qualities of cinema. The filmmaking techniques employed create a frustrating, withholding experience for the viewer, a cinema journey that is far from mainstream entertainment movie-viewing. This experience maps onto Bion's theory of thinking and growth and its relationship to frustration, as well as his further development and complication of those ideas in his work on transformations and O. It is recommended that by enduring the experience of these films, a psychoanalyst, or trainee, can practice Bion's recommendations for analytic attention-a state denuded of memory, desire, and understanding necessary for apprehension of a session's ultimate emotional reality, O.</p>","PeriodicalId":39855,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Review","volume":"113 3","pages":"233-257"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149017945","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}