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{"title":"The Problem of Constructivism in Psychoanalysis: A Winnicottian Perspective","authors":"Joel Whitebook","doi":"10.1353/aim.2024.a923504","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/aim.2024.a923504","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Abstract:</p><p>While this article begins by noting the positive role that constructivism has played in the development of psychoanalytic theory over the past 50 years, it also points to the limitations of the approach and argues they must be corrected. For at the same time as constructivism’s criticisms of biologism and essentialism have provided powerful weapons for combating psychoanalytic conservatism, an exclusively constructivist approach has also made it difficult, if not impossible, to address an essential issue for psychoanalysts: namely, the normative basis of the enterprise and the goal(s) of development and treatment. The author claims that Winnicott’s theory provides a way out of this difficulty. For although Winnicott is often construed as a strict constructivist owing to his introduction of the notion of the environment, it is argued that his concept of “inherited potential” retains biological foundation for psychoanalysis while avoiding the dangers of essentialism.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":44377,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN IMAGO","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140322473","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Natural-Born Deviants: The Existential Escapades of Sex Tech","authors":"Danielle Knafo, Rocco Lo Bosco","doi":"10.1353/aim.2023.a918105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/aim.2023.a918105","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Abstract:</p><p>This article underscores the inherent technological drive that exists in human beings, whose wellspring is mortal vulnerability coupled with human intelligence and mobile dexterity. It also stresses the progressive and refined interaction between humans and their machines, drawing connections between the technological enterprise and human sexuality, especially with regard to perversion. It examines the new sexual landscape emerging as a result of advanced technology, offering a brief summary of four clinical cases.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":44377,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN IMAGO","volume":"166 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139579569","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Interview with Adrienne Harris on Perversion is Us? Eight Notes, by Muriel Dimen","authors":"Adrienne Harris, Andrea Celenza","doi":"10.1353/aim.2023.a918111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/aim.2023.a918111","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;In lieu of&lt;/span&gt; an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:&lt;/span&gt;\u0000&lt;p&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;!-- html_title --&gt; Interview with Adrienne Harris on &lt;em&gt;Perversion is Us&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;span&gt;&lt;em&gt;Eight Notes&lt;/em&gt;, by Muriel Dimen&lt;/span&gt; &lt;!-- /html_title --&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; Adrienne Harris (bio) and Andrea Celenza (bio) &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Andrea Celenza (AC)&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;p&gt;Welcome Adrienne, I am so grateful and honored that you are able to do this interview. I know that you need absolutely no introduction, but I'm going to go through a formal introduction and then, in a less formal way, I'm going to introduce you and your work.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Adrienne Harris, PhD, is on the faculty and is Supervisor of the NYU [New York University] Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, also known as the NYU Postdoc. And she is on the faculty and is Supervisor of the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California, also known as PINC. You are an adjunct professor at The New School for Social Research where you teach a seminar in clinical psychoanalysis (and the students are very lucky to have you). Also through The New School, you co-founded the Sándor Ferenczi Center.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Adrienne Harris (AH)&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;p&gt;And also I just want to say that I did that with Lew Aron and Jeremy Safran. Having lost both of them in this last decade is very painful.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;strong&gt;AC&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;p&gt;Yes, we've lost a lot of great colleagues and friends … Muriel included.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;strong&gt;AH&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;p&gt;Which is why I am so glad to be doing this with you today.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;strong&gt;AC&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;p&gt;It's a great way to honor and remember her.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Back to you, you are also an Editor of &lt;em&gt;Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Studies in Gender and Sexuality&lt;/em&gt;, and an Editor of the Relational Perspectives book series, put out by Routledge. You have written numerous articles on various subjects of contemporary psychoanalysis and you are among the generation that founded &lt;strong&gt;[End Page 791]&lt;/strong&gt; relational psychoanalysis, a very important—and I think we can all agree—paradigm shift in psychoanalysis.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;In a less formal way, you were one of Muriel Dimen's best friends, who we are honoring today by discussing her seminal paper on perversion: \"Perversion is Us?: Eight Notes,\" which she published in 2001 in &lt;em&gt;Psychoanalytic Dialogues&lt;/em&gt;. Though this was over 20 years ago, it is a paper that is very relevant today.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;We are going to go through each one of the notes, I will extract an excerpt—a sentence or two—from each that caused me to pose a question to you, Adrienne, to see where you might stand today, where Muriel might stand, perhaps what Muriel would say, and more than anything, I'm interested in what you would say in relation to today's psychoanalysis, in terms of how we view the concept of perversion, how it is used clinically (or not) and how it is objected to, especially in the United States.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;So, without further ado, let's go to the first note.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;h2&gt;Note 1. How to Talk Abou","PeriodicalId":44377,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN IMAGO","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139579570","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Unbecoming Archives: Anne Sexton's \"Perverse\" Imagination","authors":"Dawn Skorczewski","doi":"10.1353/aim.2023.a918106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/aim.2023.a918106","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Abstract:</p><p>It is impossible to read much about American poet Anne Sexton before encountering references to her \"perverse\" imagination. Critics routinely argue that she paints a perverse vision of childhood sexuality, female identity, and adult sexuality in her work, and they often object to her frank discussions of the body, its pleasures, and its dangerous powers. Her depictions of mental illness, initiated in <i>To Bedlam and Part Way Back</i>, also earned the derision of many critics who urged her \"not to enquire further.\" Helen Vendler (1988) argued that \"a poem was never better for having a uterus in it,\" and James Dickey objected to being exposed to so much \"naked suffering\"; that quote was in Anne's wallet when she killed herself in her garage in 1974. In her interviews and her poetry, Sexton answered these critics as a confessional poet and a cultural critic. But even after her death, accusations of her perversion abound. First, her biographer, Diane Middlebrook, exposed her sexual abuse of her daughter Linda. And then Sexton's sister Blanche referred to the poet's \"perverse imagination\" in a 1991 letter to the <i>Boston Globe</i>, where she and her daughters objected to how Middlebrook's biography represented Sexton's family as riddled with alcoholism, child neglect and/or abuse, and suicide.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":44377,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN IMAGO","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139579566","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Duchamp, Sadomasochism, and the Psychoanalytic Field","authors":"Giuseppe Civitarese, Sara Boffito","doi":"10.1353/aim.2023.a918107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/aim.2023.a918107","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Abstract:</p><p>Some patients tediously describe depictions of their sexual perversions. These can bring the analyst to feel intense boredom and frustration. This \"almost unavoidable monotony\" can be interpreted in various ways. It can be seen as an expression of the patient's compulsion to repeat, whether one considers it a product of the death drive, or the need to give meaning to the traumatic experience that caused the perversion itself. On the other hand, it may be seen as an aspect of the unconscious emotional function that binds the couple together in the analysis. Monotony, then, is no longer intrinsic to \"the patient's\" perversion, but becomes the search for \"mono-tony\" or \"at-one-ment\" in the here and now of the session. At the root of this may be the fear of the tensions that arise from confrontation and difference, which may cause the pair to stay rigidly on the same wave. Then, analyst and patient maintain an adhesive identification with each other to prevent separation, and they pay the price of boredom and immobility. The field theory point of view is distinguished by two important aspects. As the analyst listens from the perspective of a \"narrative We,\" this protects the pair from a judgmental attitude and, consequently, from a form of perversion of the analytic relationship. Second, it detects precise and distinct signs of how the process of mutual recognition unfolds on the level of the third, intersubjective or \"common,\" unconscious. The fundamental postulate is that psychic suffering, including that which is expressed in sadomasochism, stems from important deficits in this same process in the primal relationship to the object. Consequently, it is important to privilege the level of being-with rather than that of knowing-about.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":44377,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN IMAGO","volume":"38 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139579565","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Special Issue on PERVERSION, American Imago","authors":"Andrea Celenza, Murray M. Schwartz","doi":"10.1353/aim.2023.a918103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/aim.2023.a918103","url":null,"abstract":"<span><span>In lieu of</span> an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:</span>\u0000<p> <ul> <li><!-- html_title --> Special Issue on PERVERSION, <em>American Imago</em> <!-- /html_title --></li> <li> Andrea Celenza (bio) and Murray M. Schwartz (bio) </li> </ul> <h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Psychoanalysis as a body of knowledge has always encompassed contested areas; some of these concepts and ideas are deemed controversial yet remain within our lexicon, while others are discarded or become taboo. The topic (or even the word) perversion is one such vexed subject—pathologizing in tone and connotation, with outdated referents that arouse enormous anxiety and even hostility.</p> <p>This is not without reason or merit. Historically, the term has been used in ways that have harmed certain subgroups (homosexuals being the most flagrantly harmed group) to very real exclusionary and damaging effects. Despite a complete reversal in recent years, the damage (and guilt) remains palpable and the mere utterance of the word perversion can rankle and alienate. Hence, for some psychoanalytic practitioners, the term has become forbidden territory, and those who dare to even think it are judged immoral, while others make use of it, but often without being explicit about its parameters.</p> <p>At least aspirationally, we are not an industry that traffics in moralism and judgmentalism. We judge (as part of thinking) but do not <em>pre</em>-judge, and we do not value judgment<em>alism</em>—that being a proclivity to view others absent compassion, empathy, and understanding. We aspire to openness and free communication of even hateful feelings and thoughts. Our unconscious houses the full range of human potentiality, for good or ill. Doesn't free association promote the expression of destructive forces that live in our psyche so that the naming of such can lead to greater understanding? In this vein, does naming have to be pathologizing in such a way that harms rather than facilitates understanding? The relevance of these questions varies around <strong>[End Page 627]</strong> the psychoanalytic world. Some analysts use the term perversion freely, while others, especially in North America, revile it.</p> <p>Perhaps it would be helpful to begin by defining basic psychoanalytic ideals and goals that surround and embed—indeed, are definitional of—mental health. Psychoanalysis is a process with implicit assumptions about what it means to grow and flourish in ways that are healthy and expansive. What are the elements that make up such a mind and life? Though we do not legislate ways of being or instruct our patients about the choices they should make, we promote a <em>process</em> that engenders <em>mentally healthy capacities</em>, ways of being toward oneself and others that are mutually vitalizing and constructive. To cultivate these capacities is to expand the range of choices for our patients. Among these are the capacity to experience the full range of feelings, to","PeriodicalId":44377,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN IMAGO","volume":"55 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139579695","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Power of the Dog: Whose Gaze? Reading Savage's Novel, Watching Campion's Film","authors":"David Willbern","doi":"10.1353/aim.2023.a918112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/aim.2023.a918112","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Abstract:</p><p>The chapter compares and critiques two versions of one story: the original novel and its cinematic treatment over 50 years later. It briefly reviews changes in clinical and social ideas about gender and sexuality, especially homosexuality, during the 20th and 21st centuries. Then it addresses theoretical differences between the genres of text and film, and the idea of the \"male gaze.\" Through close readings of the novel and the film, it demonstrates energies and tensions between concepts of male and female, gay and straight.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":44377,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN IMAGO","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139579758","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Perversion, Sublimation, and Ethic","authors":"Rachel Boué-Widawsky","doi":"10.1353/aim.2023.a918109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/aim.2023.a918109","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Abstract:</p><p>This article focuses on the notion of perversion in early sexual life, coined by Freud as a polymorphous perversity, in offering a rereading of the three prefaces to <i>Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality</i>. From there I comment on Lacan's study of Sade in order to highlight the tragic melancholia that underlies perversion, using sexual drives to compensate for the lack and the loss of objectal satisfaction. The study of the psychosexual dynamic of perversion leads us to the key role of sublimation as the reverse of perversion. This review of the notion of perversion, as an <i>agieren</i> out of depression and out of the lack of satisfactory sublimation, thus provides a conceptual frame to reflect on the paradoxes of the contemporary sexual landscape, sexually liberated but diseroticized.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":44377,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN IMAGO","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139579563","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Perversion as a Sexualized Withdrawal","authors":"Franco De Masi","doi":"10.1353/aim.2023.a918108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/aim.2023.a918108","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Abstract:</p><p>In this article I distinguish sexual perversion from other forms of pathological interpersonal relationships, as I did in my book <i>The Sadomasochistic Perversion: The Entity and the Theories</i>. In fact, it is one thing to talk about sadomasochistic interpersonal dynamics, and another to distinguish the character of sexual perversion. I will start from Freud's work \"A Child is Being Beaten,\" which examines seven cases of children who all have masochistic fantasies that lead to sexual pleasure. I will discuss the reasons why the sadomasochistic perversion appears so early and often is maintained throughout life, preventing the development of an integral love relationship. In particular, I consider the masochistic perversion in patients who have had emotionally traumatizing experiences, who attack the vital self and have eroticized submission.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":44377,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN IMAGO","volume":"323 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139579702","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Politics of the Navel: Psychoanalysis and Affiliation","authors":"Emma Lieber","doi":"10.1353/aim.2023.a909046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/aim.2023.a909046","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: This article examines psychoanalysis’s relationship to collective affiliation and group identity via its association with two foundational figures, that of the Woman and the Jew. It begins by exploring reportage on the war in Ukraine as it has touched on these figures (often with conflicting and self-contradictory messaging), and it argues that we need psychoanalysis to approach these problematics. It then goes on to explore psychoanalysis’s historical relationship to both femininity and Jewishness, and it suggests that reexamining psychoanalysis both as a Jewish science and as a discourse that takes femininity distinctively seriously, via the frame of the conflict in Ukraine, might do something for our vantage on psychoanalysis itself as a historical, political, and ethical development. Ultimately, its claim is that the mutual imbrication of psychoanalysis, Jewishness, and femininity suggests a model of affiliation and relation based on the critical category of the navel, whose mechanics might offer new ways of imagining the collective life of psychoanalysis itself.","PeriodicalId":44377,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN IMAGO","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135640193","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}