International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies最新文献

{"title":"The erasure of a people: Gaps in Lithuanian Holocaust memory","authors":"Audre Jarmas","doi":"10.1002/aps.1896","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/aps.1896","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper examines a 1950 essay published by my immigrant father in the Lithuanian-language press in the U.S. By focusing exclusively on the brutal Soviet occupation during WWII, his piece erases Lithuanian Jews and the Holocaust. Lithuanians' “chosen trauma”, using Vamik Volkan's term, lasted 5 decades and remains the cataclysmic event in their historical accounting. Caught between Stalin and Hitler, however, Lithuania was also a site of the Holocaust by bullets, where many Lithuanians assisted Nazis in murdering over 90% of the country's approximately 200,000 Jews. Afterwards, Lithuanians clung to an idealized Lithuania, characterized by victimhood, washed clean of collaboration in nationwide massacres, and largely erased of the memory of its once-thriving Jewry. As a psychoanalyst born to postwar Lithuanian immigrants, I discovered this essay while researching the intergenerational impact of that whitewashing. Its dramatic language reflects the mindset of the Lithuanian American community in which I was raised. Without any reference to either Jewish Lithuanians or the Holocaust, the piece creates an alternate reality that conjures a shadow tragedy precisely by what is <i>not</i> said. Whether through deliberate obfuscation or dissociative mechanisms, a collective failure to grapple honestly with culpability may have left Lithuania suspended between an unsustainable illusion of innocent victimhood and an enactment of unconscious guilt. Global threats of authoritarianism and antisemitism underscore a need to grasp how unprocessed shame and guilt can fuel resurgent fears, prejudices and the repetition of atrocity. Granular exploration of the kind of thinking represented in the essay offers an opportunity.</p>","PeriodicalId":43634,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143120323","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":"Racism as ontological terror and onticide","authors":"Jerry S. Piven","doi":"10.1002/aps.1895","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/aps.1895","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper elucidates the existential and psychological dynamics of onticide: the malicious annihilation of another's existential-emotional being. On any given day, chances are we're going to read a new account of racist violence and injustice that is, simply put, grotesque. This cannot be adequately explained as mere ignorance or prejudice. An existential phenomenology of racism is needed to explain that disgust, malice, and disdain. What arouses such fear, hatred, loathing, and the desire to punish or humiliate? This paper explores the ways in which inner impoverishment and wounds are turned into fantasies of evil in the outer world, and how the ontological dread of annihilation and nonbeing induce the desire to harm, diminish, and annihilate the menacing other.</p>","PeriodicalId":43634,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies","volume":"21 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/aps.1895","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143252938","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}

{"title":"Fantasy and anti-capitalist resistance: Some implications for psychoanalytic liberation psychology","authors":"Nick Malherbe","doi":"10.1002/aps.1894","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/aps.1894","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Drawing from liberation psychology as well as progressive traditions within psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic liberation psychology represents a paradigmatic approach to practice, one that moves away from regressive disciplinary orthodoxies and toward the flows of desire and emotion that characterize emancipatory political spaces. For psychoanalytic liberation psychology, the manner by which fantasy is engaged within anti-capitalist movements remains, somewhat curiously, under-considered. In this article, I reflect on my work with a South African social movement to flesh out some of the progressive and regressive valances of fantasy in the context of social movement building. Specifically, I consider how psychoanalytic liberation psychology may and may not be of use to anti-capitalist resistance movement actors whose political activity is undergirded by a bricolage of fantasies, breakdowns in fantasy, and holding reality accountable to liberatory fantasies. I conclude by speculating what fantasy might mean for future psychoanalytic liberation psychology work.</p>","PeriodicalId":43634,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies","volume":"21 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/aps.1894","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143253078","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}

{"title":"‘Like a rabbit in the headlights’: A psychoanalytically oriented exploration of performance anxiety in professional musicians","authors":"Angelina Miley,&nbsp;John O’Connor,&nbsp;Eithne Ní Longphuirt","doi":"10.1002/aps.1893","DOIUrl":"10.1002/aps.1893","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Performance anxiety is a significant professional problem among musicians. A psychoanalytically oriented qualitative research design was employed to explore the psychological realities of six professional musicians from various genres, including classical, folk, jazz, and crossover music. Each participant took part in three unstructured hour-long interviews. Analysis focused on the integration of conscious and unconscious elements in order to provide some insight into participants' internal worlds. Three interrelated themes emerged from the data: 1. ‘The masquerade’, conveying the idea of a covering up of the visible signs of anxiety, and a simulation of confidence on stage; 2. ‘The lair of the beast’, describing the backdrop of the music industry, experienced as a threatening underworld; and 3. ‘The ghost’, reflecting a sense of the overhang of anxiety from earlier generations. Emergent themes were linked to psychoanalytic concepts, including Winnicott's concept of a false self and Freud's discussion of the uncanny. The multifaceted nature of performance anxiety, as evidenced in the material brought by participants in this study, is explored within the discussion. Directions for further research and clinical implications in relation to the culture of the music industry and working with performance anxiety in a psychotherapeutic context, are also outlined.</p>","PeriodicalId":43634,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies","volume":"21 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/aps.1893","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142199903","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}

{"title":"The “virtual” child: The unconscious functions of child sexual exploitation material","authors":"Julie Brown,&nbsp;Ray O' Neill","doi":"10.1002/aps.1892","DOIUrl":"10.1002/aps.1892","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The narratives of individuals using child sexual exploitation material (CSEM) highlight the individual and unconscious functions of this type of sexual offense. Fluid cycles of projection into and identification with the children in the imagery were evident, as were marked differences in the intensity and exclusivity of pedophilic sexual preference. Anger was a common trigger, but conscious awareness of any associated hostilities toward the child in the imagery was vigorously defended against. The Internet, the now dominant context of child sexual abuse, offers a distinct type of environment, on the porous boundary between the internal and the external, that seems to encourage regression to early, varied paraphilic sexuality and part-object relations. Interactions in online forums facilitated the projection of pedophilic interests and sadistic impulses into other users. Broad empirical findings on the characteristics of those who use CSEM, coupled with this study and clinical experience, suggest that many who engage in this activity have an essentially neurotic structure.</p>","PeriodicalId":43634,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies","volume":"21 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/aps.1892","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142199916","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}

{"title":"From mind-deadness to mindedness, from collaboration to cooperation","authors":"Dana Amir","doi":"10.1002/aps.1888","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/aps.1888","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Looking at the October 7, 2023, events in Israel, this paper suggests a unique configuration of Bion's minus links, called \"broken links.\" The broken links not only represent a negation of a connection—but also a negation of the object. When the link of Love is broken, it is replaced by a unique formation of Love without an object, in which the lack-of-object installs itself as the sole object, replacing the work of mourning with pseudo, blank mourning. When the link of Hate is broken, the result is a murderous version of hatred, one that exceeds any proportion or context. When the link of Knowledge is broken, what ensues is a language that functions as a sealing material: instead of signifying and making differences, it drives to overgeneralize, erase differences, and remove distinctions, losing its metaphorical qualities and reducing to its literal meaning. These broken links lead to another twisted link: the link of solidarity, turning positive solidarity, which is based on cooperation—into negative solidarity, based on collaboration. The discussion suggests the shift from the state of mind-deadness, characterizing broken links on both sides of the conflict, to the state of mindedness, in which the links are reclaimed and restored.</p>","PeriodicalId":43634,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies","volume":"21 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/aps.1888","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143252790","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}

{"title":"Editorial introduction anti-mind: Untruthful collusions in groups","authors":"Nilofer Kaul","doi":"10.1002/aps.1891","DOIUrl":"10.1002/aps.1891","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43634,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies","volume":"21 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142199917","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":"“Thus far and no further”: Inquiry into a dreamless society","authors":"Giuseppe Civitarese,&nbsp;Edward Distel","doi":"10.1002/aps.1889","DOIUrl":"10.1002/aps.1889","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Humans are highly social primates who naturally seek out groups in which to live. Our individual psychology is inherently intertwined with that of the group, forming an inextricable link between the two. In keeping with Bion's insights into group dynamics, we approach contemporary conflicts by examining them through both social and psychoanalytic lenses. Drawing on Foucault's and Deleuze's analyses of societies, as well as considering the impact of technology and the COVID-19 pandemic, we illustrate how modern societies function under the influence of three behaviors observed by Bion. Activated as a result of a psychological disaster, the ruins consist of the symptomatologic triad of arrogance, stupidity, and curiosity. We have called this functioning Bion's disastrous triad. We suggest that when it is set in motion, it leads to a withdrawal from the beauty of life, as Bion well expresses with the phrase “Thus far and no further.” Using Meltzer's notion of aesthetic conflict, we suggest that while operating under the mandates of the triad, recognition of the other becomes an impossibility. A plea for relationships based on mutual recognition—namely, aesthetic relationships—is in order.</p>","PeriodicalId":43634,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies","volume":"21 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142199915","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":"On messianic links","authors":"Nilofer Kaul","doi":"10.1002/aps.1890","DOIUrl":"10.1002/aps.1890","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The messianic structure of human experience is manifest in the form of waiting—for an object who will alleviate suffering, and thereby, bring about change. The underpinning of such waiting is imagined here as messianic hope. In individuals, families, cults, religion, and politics, we may detect such hope—one that perhaps makes the unbearability of life bearable. This longing may get concretized in the shape of a person who comes to represent a link with God. From different vertices, messianic power may get located in the analyst, patriarch, the godman, or the political leader. Links that get forged between such figures and those who are waiting, may be thought of as messianic links. As a messianic group gets consolidated, it often displays certain primitive features. Such groups tend to veer towards a display of omnipotence, resolute action, a solution-driven language. They may seek to cut off contact with painful reality and anoint someone who can enable that. Ideas of time are wrenched away from its painful association with loss. Time is made predictable and repetitive. Deliverance is promised, incertitude discarded. Messianic language is often evocative and enigmatic. It can be an expression of impotency. But language may also be used to fuel omnipotent longing, as with the use of omniscience by the anointed messiah. Such messianic groups may come together with shared magical beliefs in the annointed figure. But links by their very nature are dynamic and so, a link fueled by awe may also devolve into paranoia or else dependency or may be discarded altogether. This paper looks at two documentaries, and a novel, to give shape to messianic links. Here we see instances of how enigma may be replaced by charisma, and strength by hypervigilance. In that sense it seems that regardless of how they originate, they are condemned to move towards what Bion (1962) calls “minus links” or links that lead away from truth and the growth of the mind. We see that messianic links may either end catastrophically, or decay and degenerate to the point of disappearing, or else, lose the kernel, but assiduously preserve the shell, or finally institutionalized as deifying links.</p>","PeriodicalId":43634,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies","volume":"21 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142199913","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 relationships of personality organization, mental illness attitudes and perspectives toward psychotherapy: The mediating role of emotional self-disclosure","authors":"Mojtaba Rahimian Bougar,&nbsp;Sara Khavasi,&nbsp;Siamak Khodarahimi,&nbsp;Nasrollah Mazraeh,&nbsp;Alireza Merati,&nbsp;Maeda Hesam,&nbsp;Pantea Sadat Alavi","doi":"10.1002/aps.1887","DOIUrl":"10.1002/aps.1887","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study investigated the relationships between personality organization, Mental Illness Attitude (MIA), and Perspectives Toward Psychotherapy (PTP) with regard to the mediating role of Emotional Self-Disclosure (ESD) by utilizing structural equation modeling (SEM). A sample of 266 outpatients with mental health disorders was selected using a purposive sampling method. Data collection involved the use of the Inventory of Personality Organization, The Illness Attitudes Scale, Emotional Self-Disclosure Scale, and Attitudes Toward Seeking Professional Psychological Help-The10-item (ATSPPH-SF). The results revealed that personality organization, MIA, and ESD have significant associations with PTP. Also, MIA has a positive indirect relationship with PTP through ESD as a mediator, while personality organization negatively correlated to PTP through ESD. Personality organization, MIA, and ESD collectively accounted for 72.8% of the variance in PTP. Findings demonstrated an adequately fitting model about the direct and indirect associations of personality organization and MIA with PTP about the mediating role of ESD. This model has implications for psychotherapeutic and community-based initiatives in individuals with mental health disorders.</p>","PeriodicalId":43634,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies","volume":"21 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141777590","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}