International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies最新文献

The Vetala Panchavimshati: Reflections on the Death Instinct Vetala Panchavimshati：对死亡本能的反思

IF 0.4

International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies Pub Date : 2025-10-16 DOI: 10.1002/aps.70013

Robert S. White

引用次数: 0

The Socio-Political Dimension of Hysteria and Melancholia—Between Revolution and Stagnation 歇斯底里与忧郁症的社会政治维度——介于革命与停滞之间

IF 0.4

International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies Pub Date : 2025-10-16 DOI: 10.1002/aps.70015

Maria Ibrahim

{"title":"The Socio-Political Dimension of Hysteria and Melancholia—Between Revolution and Stagnation","authors":"Maria Ibrahim","doi":"10.1002/aps.70015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/aps.70015","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper explores the psychoanalytic distinction between hysteria and melancholia as mechanisms of trauma processing and their implications for socio-political dynamics. Through an examination of Freud and Klein, with reference to Lacan, Deleuze and Sartre, this study proposes a regression-oscillation hypothesis, arguing that subjects move in a fluid manner between hysterical externalization (conversion, reactionary symptoms, public outcry) and melancholic internalization (introjection, self-reproach, political stagnation). By engaging with Freud's case of Dora the article demonstrates how identification patterns shape the structure of symptom formation, suggesting that hysteria and melancholia function as pre-structured modes of engagement with loss and crisis. Deleuze and Guattari's critique of psychoanalysis provides a framework for understanding these responses as tracings rather than mappings (seemingly dynamic yet ultimately repeating pre-scripted trajectories). This perspective is then applied to collective historical and political movements more broadly, examining how cycles of revolutionary upheaval and melancholic resignation often fail to produce genuine transformation, instead producing the very structures they seek to dismantle. Ultimately, the discussion raises a fundamental question: to what extent are both individual and collective responses to “trauma” governed by a pre-ordained script, and what possibilities remain unarticulated—not because they are repressed, but because they have been erased before they could even be conceptualized?</p>","PeriodicalId":43634,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies","volume":"22 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2025-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/aps.70015","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145317445","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Burnout Syndrome and Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Cultural and Clinical Aspects in Czech Society 职业倦怠综合症和拉康精神分析：捷克社会的文化和临床方面

IF 0.4

International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies Pub Date : 2025-10-16 DOI: 10.1002/aps.70016

Tibor A. Brečka

{"title":"Burnout Syndrome and Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Cultural and Clinical Aspects in Czech Society","authors":"Tibor A. Brečka","doi":"10.1002/aps.70016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/aps.70016","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Burnout syndrome is currently one of the key phenomena of modern work culture. Although it is commonly examined within the frameworks of health and organizational psychology, the psychoanalytic approach—particularly the theory of Jacques Lacan—offers a deeper understanding of its structural dynamics. This article presents a Lacanian interpretation of burnout syndrome as a symptom of the subject's (le sujet) relationship to the symbolic order (l'ordre symbolique) and the Big Other (le Grand Autre). Burnout is here understood as a consequence of imaginary identification with the professional role, superegoic imperatives of endless jouissance (la jouissance), and the collapse of desire under the weight of unattainable expectations. Specific attention is paid to Czech society, where recent data from a representative study indicate a slightly declining trend in the prevalence of burnout syndrome over the past decade. This development is discussed within the Lacanian framework as a possible result of the subject's gradual cultural separation from the imperatives of the Big Other. The article connects psychoanalytic concepts with current developments in the Czech social and occupational context and emphasizes the importance of symbolic work with subjectivity as a path to understanding and preventing burnout syndrome.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":43634,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies","volume":"22 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2025-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145317443","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}

引用次数: 0

Book Review: Secrets in Psychotherapy. By Kathryn Zerbe, New York: Routledge, 206 pp. 35.99 (paperback). ISBN 9781032749235 书评：心理治疗的秘密。凯瑟琳·泽布著，纽约：劳特利奇出版社，206页，35.99页（平装本）。ISBN 9781032749235

IF 0.4

International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies Pub Date : 2025-10-15 DOI: 10.1002/aps.70014

Nathaniel R. Strenger

引用次数: 0

Correction to ‘A Psychoanalytic Reflection on Fascism, Populism and the Social Transitional Space of the Democracy’ 对“法西斯主义、民粹主义与民主社会转型空间的精神分析反思”的修正

IF 0.4

International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies Pub Date : 2025-10-04 DOI: 10.1002/aps.70011

引用次数: 0

Symbolic Storms: Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and the Collapse of Temporality in Climate-Anxious Youth 象征风暴：心理动力学心理治疗和气候焦虑青年的时间性崩溃

IF 0.4

International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies Pub Date : 2025-09-12 DOI: 10.1002/aps.70010

Georgios Giannakopoulos

{"title":"Symbolic Storms: Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and the Collapse of Temporality in Climate-Anxious Youth","authors":"Georgios Giannakopoulos","doi":"10.1002/aps.70010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/aps.70010","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The accelerating climate crisis is reshaping the psychic landscapes of children and adolescents, giving rise to new clinical presentations marked by catastrophic imagery, symbolic foreclosure, and a loss of future-oriented thinking. This theoretical paper explores the phenomenon of climate change anxiety in youth through the lens of psychodynamic psychotherapy, arguing that such anxiety constitutes a unique form of developmental, symbolic, and relational disruption. Drawing on classical and contemporary psychoanalytic theories—particularly those addressing symbolization, temporality, containment, and transference—the paper examines how climate anxiety interferes with the child's ability to metabolize emotional experience, maintain trust in adult authority, and construct a coherent narrative of self in time. The work challenges traditional clinical approaches by emphasizing the role of the therapist not only as interpreter but as co-regulator and symbolic anchor in a saturated emotional field. In this context, interpretation must yield to presence, and the therapeutic task becomes one of holding the tension between internal reality and external catastrophe. Attention is given to the dynamics of anticipatory mourning, intergenerational rupture, and the therapist's own countertransference in the face of collective dread. Ultimately, the paper argues that psychodynamic psychotherapy, when reframed to meet the demands of the climate era, offers a unique space in which meaning can be reestablished, temporality reconstructed, and psychic life preserved. In doing so, it asserts the enduring relevance—and moral responsibility—of psychodynamic thought in a world confronting existential collapse.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":43634,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies","volume":"22 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145038115","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}

引用次数: 0

A Psychoanalytic Reflection on Fascism, Populism and the Social Transitional Space of the Democracy 法西斯主义、民粹主义与民主社会转型空间的精神分析反思

IF 0.4

International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies Pub Date : 2025-08-29 DOI: 10.1002/aps.70009

Raffaele De Luca Picione, Shady Dell'Amico, Angelo Maria De Fortuna

{"title":"A Psychoanalytic Reflection on Fascism, Populism and the Social Transitional Space of the Democracy","authors":"Raffaele De Luca Picione, Shady Dell'Amico, Angelo Maria De Fortuna","doi":"10.1002/aps.70009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/aps.70009","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>During critical socio-political conditions of profound uncertainty, social disquietude, frustration, and an inability to creatively imagine future scenarios, regressive and defensive processes of collective nature are acted out to provide an illusory sense of omnipotence, protection, and stability by evacuating psychic pain, anguish, fears, and disorientation. The spread of fascism in the last century and the contemporary forms of populism in Western countries dramatically demonstrate a series of psycho-socio-political dynamics. This includes a denial of alterity forms, the organization of social space architecture through paranoid feelings, the dilution of a group's subjective responsibility accompanied by the need for identification with charismatic leaders, sensemaking processes ideologically shaped on a unique homologated form without the possibility of divergence or diversity, and the emergence of new hyper-simplified languages based on the immediacy of thought-action. From the perspective of psychoanalysis, all of these circumstances show the difficulties of dealing with the social transitional space of democracy. Indeed, by their very nature, democratic institutions are potentially unsaturated areas of thirdness and otherness where subjective and collective levels can meet, where it is possible to work on limits, recognize borders, and undertake regulatory, intermediary, and symbolic processes in service of growth, learning, and development.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":43634,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies","volume":"22 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144914885","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}

引用次数: 0

A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Malignancies in the American Psyche: Containing Destructive Populism, Large Group Regression, and Cultism 从精神分析的角度看美国人心灵中的恶性肿瘤：包含破坏性的民粹主义、大群体回归和邪教

IF 0.4

International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies Pub Date : 2025-07-30 DOI: 10.1002/aps.70008

Michael J. Diamond

{"title":"A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Malignancies in the American Psyche: Containing Destructive Populism, Large Group Regression, and Cultism","authors":"Michael J. Diamond","doi":"10.1002/aps.70008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/aps.70008","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Most of what goes on in political discourse tends to accommodate to conscious psychology and rational thinking; nonetheless, there remains a perplexing, powerful and much less visible, primarily unconscious piece that can help address the chaos that threatens democracy's rather fragile nature. The limits of rational thinking become apparent when we consider the forceful powers of phantasies underlying human destructiveness. Consequently, including a psychoanalytic lens is essential to appreciate <i>how and why</i> a rational approach, while necessary, remains insufficient to grapple with the non-rational, unconscious and highly emotionally charged forces in American politics as well as in democratic-leaning movements worldwide. This paper seeks to deepen understanding through addressing such components as the long-standing nature of American populism and its relationship to both democracy and authoritarianism; the conditions leading to large-group regression as well as the unique fit between malignant leadership and perverted containment within regressed groups; the psychic mechanisms, including delusional and other psychotic processes, that turn a regressed large group into a personality cult; and finally, the unique contributions psychoanalysis can make in managing such regressive, malevolent dynamics to help chart a realistically hopeful path forward.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":43634,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies","volume":"22 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144740156","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}

引用次数: 0

“Democracy,” USA

IF 0.4

International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies Pub Date : 2025-07-22 DOI: 10.1002/aps.70007

Marc Edelman

{"title":"“Democracy,” USA","authors":"Marc Edelman","doi":"10.1002/aps.70007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/aps.70007","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>What does it mean to be an effective citizen in a democracy? Answering this question requires unpacking “democracy” and an analysis of institutions that systematically disempower and alienate citizens. This paper briefly examines the contributions of psychoanalysis to understanding democracy and authoritarianism. It scrutinizes U.S. governance institutions and points to democratic deficits and backsliding present even before Trump 1.0 and 2.0. These range from the Electoral College, the Senate, and the Supreme Court to the Federal Communications Commission. All contributed to institutionalizing minority rule and elite capture. Governance institutions failed to deliver what the American people tell opinion pollsters they want, including affordable health care, a higher minimum wage, regulation of industry and finance, reduced educational, medical and housing debt, a serious climate change policy, an economy that provides meaningful work, abolition of the Electoral College, the popular vote for president, and labor, reproductive and consumer rights. Elite capture limits effective citizenship in multiple ways. Social exclusion involves the systemic, structural exclusion of people from institutions to which they are supposed to have access and from rights to which they are entitled. Elite capture and social exclusion have very real material effects on the population. They also deeply structure subjectivity and fuel beliefs in conspiracy theories and authoritarian demagogues. A full discussion of Trump 1.0 and 2.0 is beyond the scope of this paper. The rise of a deeply authoritarian and reactionary movement and administration, however, cannot be separated from earlier processes of systemic exclusion and disinformation that left significant portions of the electorate feeling enraged and abandoned.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":43634,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies","volume":"22 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144681043","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}

引用次数: 0

The Unconscious of Photography 摄影的无意识

IF 0.4

International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies Pub Date : 2025-07-12 DOI: 10.1002/aps.70006

Kinga Prochownik

引用次数: 0