{"title":"Psychoanalysis, philosophy and politics: Aspects of 50 years of the Institut für Psychoanalyse Zürich-Kreuzlingen","authors":"K. Hoffmann","doi":"10.1080/0803706x.2023.2213873","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0803706x.2023.2213873","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43212,"journal":{"name":"International Forum of Psychoanalysis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47491222","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":"One hundred years of psychotherapy and fifty years of clinical practice: Reflections of a psychotherapist and questions for psychoanalysis1","authors":"Alejandro Ávila Espada","doi":"10.1080/0803706x.2023.2183864","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0803706x.2023.2183864","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43212,"journal":{"name":"International Forum of Psychoanalysis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42615065","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 analytic field as bipersonal and multidimensional container","authors":"M. Bezoari","doi":"10.1080/0803706x.2023.2210274","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0803706x.2023.2210274","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43212,"journal":{"name":"International Forum of Psychoanalysis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46067714","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":"Attempting a metapsychology for tele-copresence1","authors":"Lucio Alberto Gutiérrez Herane","doi":"10.1080/0803706x.2023.2210794","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0803706x.2023.2210794","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43212,"journal":{"name":"International Forum of Psychoanalysis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45893279","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}
Jacqueline Oliveira Moreira, Angela Bucciano do Rosario, Fuad Kyrillos Neto
{"title":"The objectification of mankind in consumerist societies: A post-Lacanian perspective","authors":"Jacqueline Oliveira Moreira, Angela Bucciano do Rosario, Fuad Kyrillos Neto","doi":"10.1080/0803706x.2023.2174271","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0803706x.2023.2174271","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43212,"journal":{"name":"International Forum of Psychoanalysis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45002451","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":"Origins and destinies of the Bion field theory","authors":"A. Ferro, L. Nicoli","doi":"10.1080/0803706x.2023.2183896","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0803706x.2023.2183896","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43212,"journal":{"name":"International Forum of Psychoanalysis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46715430","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":"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":null,"pages":null},"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":null,"pages":null},"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":null,"pages":null},"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":null,"pages":null},"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}