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{"title":"Martti Siirala and Gaetano Benedetti – Friends in the dialogical and psychotherapeutic sharing of burdens","authors":"J. Ihanus","doi":"10.1080/0803706x.2023.2181293","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0803706x.2023.2181293","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43212,"journal":{"name":"International Forum of Psychoanalysis","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44854850","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":"War, death, safety, and love in life and psychoanalysis","authors":"M. Conci, G. Cassullo","doi":"10.1080/0803706X.2023.2238526","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0803706X.2023.2238526","url":null,"abstract":"In his reflection on the possible motivations for human beings to continue fighting wars, Sigmund Freud pessimistically regarded destruction as inherent in human nature. In “Why war” he wrote, “The organism preserves its own life, so to say, by destroying an extraneous one” (1933, p. 211), answering the questions formulated to him by Albert Einstein in this regard. Freud called this notion “the death drive” and it soon became one of his most controversial concepts. As such, it appeared to many “as one of the most bizarre monster of all of Freud’s gallery of monsters” (Flugel, 1953, p. 43), as the influential social psychologist contemporary with him, William McDougall (1871–1938), put it. But we will return to this later. On February 22, 2022, the Russian army attacked and invaded Ukraine and once again psychoanalysts found themselves sharing with patients some extreme existential conditions. In the opening paper of the present issue of the International Forum of Psychoanalysis, “Voices from the war: Some notes on the emotional experience of the war in Ukraine told by two Ukrainian psychoanalysts,” the Italian colleagues Paola Solano and Michele Vargiu interview Mikhaylo Suslov (a training and supervising analyst of the Ukrainian Psychoanalytic Study Group and IPA member) and the young psychoanalyst Ksenia Zaitseva (a candidate of the Institute of the Ukrainian Psychoanalytic Study Group). The interviewees recall their very painful and almost incredible personal and professional experience of the Russian invasion. The interview took place on March 21, 2022 from 3 to 5 p.m. CET on the Zoom platform, with Solano and Vargiu in their offices in Genoa and Cagliari (Italy), respectively, while Suslov had just arrived in Dresden (Germany) and Zaitseva was currently in Lviv (Ukraine) but about to leave Ukraine herself. The article reports some fragments of the complex and painful emotional experience lived by these colleagues for which, as the interviewers observe, “there are no words other than those used by them to describe it.” In the interview, the four of them try to make sense of the horror, yet finally Dr. Suslov concludes: “It is not yet the moment for integration, if we want to use these terms, and we must respect the time of the split without judging it or consider it as a regressive structure.” In fact, from this point of view, those splittings are not the result of a regressive death drive but some kind of posttraumatic wound, which needs time and care in order to be healed. The following article, entitled “Laying the death drive to rest,” takes an even more radical stance. Its author, Alan Michael Karbelnig, is a training and supervising analyst at the NewCenter for Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles, working in Pasadena, California. After many years of studying the concept of the “death drive,” he proposes the “admittedly controversial recommendation that psychoanalysis get rid of this archaic idea – a proposal consistent with my political and s","PeriodicalId":43212,"journal":{"name":"International Forum of Psychoanalysis","volume":"32 1","pages":"67 - 69"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48538744","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":"Memories of a chaotic world. Growing up as the daughter of Annie Reich and Wilhelm Reich","authors":"G. Hristeva, Roland Kaufhold","doi":"10.1080/0803706X.2023.2232963","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0803706X.2023.2232963","url":null,"abstract":"Wilhelm Reich was one of the first authors to address the phenomenon of fascism. His analyses of a world out of control were formulated mainly in his monumental work Mass psychology of fascism. This is an insightful, innovative, and extremely instructive book. Mass psychology of fascism was Wilhelm Reich’s attempt to provide the scientific basis for a theory of fascism (Kaufhold & Hristeva, 2021; Peglau, 2013, 2020). Despite the author’s search for scientific objectivity, Reich’s approach is very passionate and subjective in the best sense of the word. After all, the monster of fascism had not only driven the world into the most dismal abyss, but also polluted his own life: “It [fascism] is the vampire on the body of the living, acting out murderous impulses when love calls for fulfillment in spring” (W. Reich, 1971; English edition, 2011, p. 16, translated by current authors; see also Hristeva, 2019). Wilhelm Reich’s daughter, American psychoanalyst and author Lore Reich Rubin, has now used the genre of the memoir to trace the life of the Reich family under the conditions of fascism. Published in English in 2021 after its original publication in German in 2019, the book is titled Memories of a chaotic world. Chaos is the leitmotif of the book – the social, economic, political and cultural chaos that the daughter encountered at all stages of her life, the chaos that had turned the family life upside down. Lore Reich Rubin, born and raised in Vienna in 1928 as the daughter of Annie and Wilhelm Reich, paints a picture of the neglected, overburdened daughter that she undoubtedly was. She found it difficult to reconcile the public image of her worldfamous father, who “almost compulsively” demanded sexual freedom (p. 191), with her own memories of him. Her mother Annie Reich, who had begun her own analysis with Wilhelm Reich and only discontinued it because she married him in 1922, had been active in sexual education during her own childhood and involved in communistoriented sexual counseling centers. She was also considered a leftist, a Marxist, was a psychoanalyst in Vienna and Berlin – and put her relationship with her own children on the back burner in the interest of her own psychoanalytic training. For their daughter, Lore Reich Rubin, now 94, it was a life of contradictions, of questionable loyalties, entangled in the fierce arguments of a breaking marriage. Reich Rubin writes in her own laconic way about the atmosphere of danger that had marked already the first years of her life: “The threats are more personal, later to be conflated with the bigger picture. My parents are both working, and my parents are not getting along” (p. 14). In 1930, Lore’s parents separated in Vienna, and Wilhelm Reich left for the vibrant, politically significant Berlin. Annie stayed in Vienna with her children, shared an apartment with Berta Bornstein (Wesenauer, 2008) – about whom the author makes some scathing judgments – but then moved to Berlin. Lore’s deeply am","PeriodicalId":43212,"journal":{"name":"International Forum of Psychoanalysis","volume":"32 1","pages":"125 - 130"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45283589","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":"Metaphors in psychoanalytic theory – Do we need them?","authors":"S. Zepf","doi":"10.1080/0803706x.2022.2075565","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0803706x.2022.2075565","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43212,"journal":{"name":"International Forum of Psychoanalysis","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47771878","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":"Safety in control-mastery theory","authors":"Eleonora Fiorenza, Marianna Santodoro, N. Dazzi, F. Gazzillo","doi":"10.1080/0803706X.2023.2168056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0803706X.2023.2168056","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This study presents an overview of the development of the main psychoanalytic conceptions regarding safety, an aspect that has received increasing attention within the psychoanalytic literature. After describing the hypotheses of Sigmund Freud, Joseph Sandler, John Bowlby, and Harry Stack Sullivan, the study focuses on the ideas proposed by Joseph Weiss and on control-mastery theory (CMT), a cognitive-dynamic relational theory of mental functioning, psychopathology, and psychotherapy. Unlike other models, CMT stresses that human beings need to feel that both themselves and the people they love are safe; each person, however, may need something different to feel safe. Two clinical vignettes are used to illustrate how the therapist can understand, from the outset of the therapeutic process, how to help the patient feel safe, stressing the case-specific nature of the conditions of safety.","PeriodicalId":43212,"journal":{"name":"International Forum of Psychoanalysis","volume":"32 1","pages":"93 - 104"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42542658","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":"Voices from the war: Some notes on the emotional experience of the war in Ukraine told by two Ukrainian psychoanalysts","authors":"P. Solano, Michele Vargiu, Ksenia Zaitseva","doi":"10.1080/0803706X.2023.2171117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0803706X.2023.2171117","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract What is the real experience of war? How does our mind react to the sudden threats and losses of our lives, homes, and beloved objects? What understandings can it offer to make sense of the atrocities it witnesses? What adjustments can we carry out in these circumstances? Two colleagues from Kharkiv, Ukraine, and affiliated to the Ukrainian Psychoanalytic Study Group and the Institute of the Ukrainian Psychoanalytic Study Group help us to shed light on these questions by sharing their personal experience and understandings of the current war that started on February 24, 2022 when the Russian Federation invaded Ukraine. This contribution aims to report their voices and the emotional experience of encountering their stories in order to provide readers with an unsaturated and unmediated contact with at least some aspects of the reality of war.","PeriodicalId":43212,"journal":{"name":"International Forum of Psychoanalysis","volume":"32 1","pages":"70 - 75"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44847073","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":"Conditions for love: The psychoanalytic situation and the analyst’s emotions","authors":"G. Lev","doi":"10.1080/0803706X.2023.2171118","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0803706X.2023.2171118","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Freud has stated that the psychoanalytic cure is effected through the love of the patient for the analyst. This paper claims that the analyst’s love towards the patient is often essential as well. Countertransference love might indeed be associated with therapeutic risks, yet it is often a crucial part of the analytic process, since in order to be able to change, many people need to feel loved. The analyst’s curative love is defined by being both sublimated and passionate, modulated as well as libidinal. In addition, it is conscious, aware, and reflective, and hence any act based on it is directed solely to the patient’s psychic growth. Developing and maintaining such love is not easy. What comes to the aid of the analyst is the special construction of the analytic setting, which brings up a profound, loving interest in patients’ psyche as well as a “second self” that is consistently benevolent and loving and acts at a level of empathy rarely encountered in ordinary life.","PeriodicalId":43212,"journal":{"name":"International Forum of Psychoanalysis","volume":"32 1","pages":"114 - 124"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43880806","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 green grass to green fields: Intersubjective thoughts about “generative” envy and jealousy","authors":"K. Eliezer","doi":"10.1080/0803706X.2022.2135762","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0803706X.2022.2135762","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In this paper ‘jealousy’ and ‘envy’ are discussed from a unique perspective: as therapeutic goals rather than as maladaptive mechanisms. Furthermore, I suggest that jealousy be regarded as a performance of love. Four states are distinguished here; two of them are ‘primal narcissistic’, and the other two are ‘intersubjective’. Intersubjective envy and jealousy should be embraced as a ‘welcome flag’ that signals a couple's entry into the oedipal layers. Mutuality and shared unconscious are described by means of ‘recognition’ as a central concept. This article views recognition as a form of identification that allows ‘me parts’ to be found and reclaimed from the significant ‘other’. In favor of historical justice and clarity, I introduce a less familiar case of Freud (1933) – Herr. P, and conclude with my own case story.","PeriodicalId":43212,"journal":{"name":"International Forum of Psychoanalysis","volume":"32 1","pages":"105 - 113"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47884439","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":"Veiling and unveiling: Identity formation in young Muslim women living in Germany","authors":"Lena Barth, P. Kaiser, Gonca Tuncel-Langbehn, B. Ruettner, L. Goetzmann","doi":"10.1080/0803706x.2022.2126519","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0803706x.2022.2126519","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43212,"journal":{"name":"International Forum of Psychoanalysis","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46391589","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 psychoanalytic ego psychology to relational psychoanalysis, a historical and clinical perspective","authors":"M. Conci, G. Cassullo","doi":"10.1080/0803706X.2023.2186002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0803706X.2023.2186002","url":null,"abstract":"In July 2019 one of us (M.C.) published a book with the title Freud, Sullivan, Mitchell, Bion, and the multiple voices of international psychoanalysis, in which he connected the clinical approach of those authors and their psychoanalytic perspective to their most important life experiences and to the scientific and interpersonal contexts in which their contributions developed, including the main partners accompanying their professional evolution. He thus tried to demonstrate not only the importance of the history of psychoanalysis for the practicing clinician, but also its relevance as a key to the pluralistic and international character of contemporary psychoanalysis. In the fall of 2018, M.C. had been contacted by Eva Papiasvili (New York) and Arne Jemstedt (Stockholm), who invited him to collaborate on the preparation of the item “Ego psychology” for the Inter-Regional Encyclopedic Dictionary of Psychoanalysis (IRED). The IRED was originally conceived by Stefano Bolognini at the time of his IPA presidency (2013–2017), and is published online by the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA). The task that M.C. readily accepted was to contribute to the revisitation of the development of ego psychology in Europe, the reconstruction of its development in North and South America being the task of the other two regional teams, with Arne Jemstedt coordinating the European team, and Eva Papiasvili coordinating the whole work. Fascinated by such a research project and determined to do his best, M.C. came to the following two discoveries. In the first place, ego psychology had been alive and well in Europe – and not only in North America – both before and after World War II. Important ego psychologists after the war were, for example, Alexander Mitscherlich (1908–1982) and Paul Parin (1916–2009), who both emphasized its critical potential – which they considered to have been lost in the North American emigration. Also ego-psychologically based is the German Kassensystem, that is, in the way in which a clinical report has to be written so that the treatment will be paid by the Kassen – the German Social Security System. The nature of the most important German analytic concept, that is, the concepts of “szenisches Verstehen” and “szenische Funktion des Ich” – scenic understanding and scenic function of the ego – is ego-psychological as well. Second, M.C. came to realize that the line of thought he was articulating in the book he was then writing (see above) was in fact also applicable to ego psychology. In other words, we have almost as many approaches to ego psychology as we have pioneers dealing with it, according to their personalities and priorities. Some examples include the following: Heinz Hartmann, whose priority was the ego as the center of a new general psychology; Otto Fenichel, before him, who looked at ego psychology as the best way to formulate the analytic technique he used with his patients; Paul Federn, who developed his own ego psyc","PeriodicalId":43212,"journal":{"name":"International Forum of Psychoanalysis","volume":"32 1","pages":"1 - 3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48117120","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}