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{"title":"Prejudice: Complicit and Implicit","authors":"Eugene J. Mahon","doi":"10.1353/aim.2024.a923503","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/aim.2024.a923503","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Abstract:</p><p>Prejudice could be defined as an irrational sense of superiority, an ironic expression of an unconscious feeling of inferiority that claims paradoxically that one human identity is worthier than another. <i>Implicit</i> prejudice would suggest the unconscious nature of a bias within an individual, whereas complicit prejudice would suggest a shared bias within a family, or group, or even a whole society. The two (implicit and complicit) are intimately connected, of course, and how they influence each other can be explored. The cultural disease called prejudice has been with us forever and there is no cure in sight. Psychoanalysis itself is not immune to it, and “physician heal thyself” must be considered, even as the psychoanalyst puts pen to paper. Prejudice is an expression of hatred that the science of psychoanalysis tries to study on the most granular level, so that each individual human ego can understand, possess, and embrace its barbaric animal nature without disowning, and attacking in the other, what it dares not see in itself and call its own.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":44377,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN IMAGO","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140322484","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":"Purity and Unity: Narcissism and Destructiveness in Nationalistic and Fundamentalistic Ideologies","authors":"Werner Bohleber","doi":"10.1353/aim.2024.a923502","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/aim.2024.a923502","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Abstract:</p><p>In recent decades, Western societies have been exposed to increasing dynamics of change and crisis as a result of ongoing globalization, and of flight and displacement in many regions of the world. The insecurity and humiliation of being more exposed to global developments than being able to influence them leads many people to seek social security. As a result, populist and far-right ideologies have become increasingly attractive to some. There has also been a revival of authoritarian thinking. Based on Erich Fromm’s concept introduced in the 1930s, its current forms are described in terms of the narcissistic self- and other-dynamics. Social science data show that, in addition to authoritarian thinking, a narcissistic longing for a homogeneous society makes populist and far-right ideologies increasingly attractive. If we analyze this phantasm of a homogeneous nation, we find at its root unconscious fantasies of care and sibling rivalry, of purity and the idea of the Other, the fantasy of a protective whole. Such ideal-narcissistic states of purity and homogeneity do not tolerate divergences and are therefore associated with paranoia and violence. Ultimately, the irreversibility of difference and ambivalence in human life is denied.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":44377,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN IMAGO","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140322482","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 Mystery of \"Passe\"","authors":"Sergio Benvenuto","doi":"10.1353/aim.2024.a923505","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/aim.2024.a923505","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Abstract:</p><p>This article analyzes how the philosopher Alain Badiou describes a process invented by Lacan, <i>la passe</i>, the pass—a procedure for deciding whether or not to admit to his student analysands about to complete their analysis. By deconstructing Badiou’s text, the author shows how the philosopher ascribes a sacramental presupposition to the pass, understood as a Catholic sacrament or mystical mystery. The author criticises a kind of dogmatic worship of psychoanalysis into which many philosophers fall, and shows how this uncritical belief in the sacramental effectiveness of psychoanalysis—and the cult of Freud’s work as a Revelation—fails to help psychoanalysis to improve in any way, but rather shuts it down in a narcissistic self-satisfaction. Instead, psychoanalysis lives of its own deconstruction.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":44377,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN IMAGO","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140323286","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":"\"Where, Meantime, Was the Soul?\": The Uncanny as an Aesthetic Image of Impossibility","authors":"Eeva Pihlaja","doi":"10.1353/aim.2024.a923508","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/aim.2024.a923508","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Abstract:</p><p>The uncanny experience refers to unsettling feelings that emerge when confronted with events that seem remotely familiar but still strange and opaque. It relies on magical thinking, as the experience seems to take place emphatically in the sensorial realm, partly lacking symbolic quality. In this article, I approach the uncanny as representing an inability to represent, revealing discontinuities and gaps in experience. I suggest that the uncanny representation can be approached creatively and turned into an aesthetic experience. The uncanny as an aesthetic experience enables a creative elaboration of being unable to overcome a gap. Thus, it can contribute to self-growth and deepening of a subjective sense of self. To illustrate the creative potential of the uncanny I look at two examples, one from literature and the other a personal account. I further elaborate on the position of the uncanny in the field of aesthetics by comparing it with the sublime experience and suggest that the uncanny is a negative of the sublime. In the sublime, a representation of the infinite and unspeakable is formed, while the uncanny, in contrast, represents the impossibility of doing so.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":44377,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN IMAGO","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140323428","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 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":null,"pages":null},"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":null,"pages":null},"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":"<span><span>In lieu of</span> an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:</span>\u0000<p> <ul> <li><!-- html_title --> Interview with Adrienne Harris on <em>Perversion is Us</em>?<span><em>Eight Notes</em>, by Muriel Dimen</span> <!-- /html_title --></li> <li> Adrienne Harris (bio) and Andrea Celenza (bio) </li> </ul> <strong>Andrea Celenza (AC)</strong>: <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <strong>Adrienne Harris (AH)</strong>: <p>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.</p> <strong>AC</strong>: <p>Yes, we've lost a lot of great colleagues and friends … Muriel included.</p> <strong>AH</strong>: <p>Which is why I am so glad to be doing this with you today.</p> <strong>AC</strong>: <p>It's a great way to honor and remember her.</p> <p>Back to you, you are also an Editor of <em>Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Studies in Gender and Sexuality</em>, 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 <strong>[End Page 791]</strong> relational psychoanalysis, a very important—and I think we can all agree—paradigm shift in psychoanalysis.</p> <p>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 <em>Psychoanalytic Dialogues</em>. Though this was over 20 years ago, it is a paper that is very relevant today.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>So, without further ado, let's go to the first note.</p> <h2>Note 1. How to Talk Abou","PeriodicalId":44377,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN IMAGO","volume":null,"pages":null},"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":"Contributors","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/aim.2023.a918113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/aim.2023.a918113","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 --> Contributors <!-- /html_title --></li> </ul> <p><strong>Dana Amir</strong> is a clinical psychologist and supervising and training analyst at the Israel psychoanalytic society, full professor, Vice Dean for Research and head of the interdisciplinary doctoral program in psychoanalysis at Haifa University, Editor-in-Chief of <em>Ma'arag</em> – <em>The Israel Annual of Psychoanalysis</em>, poetess, and literature researcher. She is the author of six poetry books, two memoirs in prose, and four psychoanalytic nonfiction books (and more than 50 articles), including <em>Cleft Tongue</em> (Karnac, 2014), <em>On the Lyricism of the Mind</em> (Routledge, 2016), <em>Bearing Witness to the Witness</em> (Routledge, 2018), <em>Psychoanalysis on the Verge of Language: Clinical Cases on the Edge</em> (Routledge, 2021), and <em>Psychoanalysis as Radical Hospitality</em> (Routledge, 2024). She is the winner of many literary and academic prizes, including five international psychoanalytic awards.</p> <p><strong>Sara Boffito</strong>, member of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society and of the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA), and IPA expert in Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis, works in Milan with children, adolescents, and adults. She is a member of the editorial boards of the COWAP IPA Book Series and the <em>Rivista di Psicoanalisi</em> (the <em>Journal of the Italian Society</em>), and she is Associate Editor of the <em>International Journal of Psychoanalysis</em>. She has published several works in Italian and international journals and collective volumes. Among the most recent is \"The Mule and the Dancer: Freud, Moses, and the Dilemma of the Hybrid\" (2022), which appears in the volume <em>On Freud's \"Moses and Monotheism,\"</em> edited by Lawrence Brown for the IPA Contemporary Freud Turning Points and Critical Issues Book Series. She has translated some fundamental English-language psychoanalytic authors into Italian, such as Thomas Ogden, Nina Coltart, Dana Birksted-Breen, and Melanie Klein.</p> <p><strong>Rachel Boué-Widawsky, PhD</strong>, is a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York. She is the Chair of Admissions at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research and Associate Clinical Professor at NYU Medical School. She is the Editor of the Foreign Books Reviews of the <em>Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association</em>. She is the author of numerous articles on French psychoanalysis. Her most recent contributions are \"Maternal Eroticism or the Necessary Risk of Madness,\" in <em>Eroticism</em>, edited by S. Akhtar and Rajiv Gulati (Routledge, 2020), and \"Maternal Eroticism and the Journey of a Concept in Julia Kristeva's Work,\" in <em>The Philosophy of Julia Kristeva</em> by Sara Beardsworth, published in the series The Library of Living Philosophers (Open Court, 2020). She is also the author of ","PeriodicalId":44377,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN IMAGO","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139579567","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":"From Perversion to the (Perverse) Edge of Excitement","authors":"Stanley J. Coen","doi":"10.1353/aim.2023.a918104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/aim.2023.a918104","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Abstract:</p><p>Once upon a time, in the 1970s and 1980s, perversion was still an untamed area ripe for psychoanalytic exploration. In exploring perversion, we were free to go beyond the constraints of classical theory about oedipal conflict and ponder where and how sexuality arose, developed, and was used by patients. Perversion, then and now, has been tainted by the sense of something bad, wrong, transgressive. Once we stopped defining perversion as behavior requisite for sexual functioning, we could begin to move toward what could be pleasurable in perversion, especially excitement. And then Laplancheans and Queer theorists would help us reclaim the perverse as valuable, and help us try to accept our patients' intense sexuality. Perverse excitement, rather than perversion, becomes our contemporary fascination. It becomes a way to engage another when ordinary calm caring is unimaginable. Infantile sexuality can be hijacked so as to stir up another when one feels uncared for, disregarded. Perverse excitement can be passed from generation to generation and experienced as something foreign, monstrous, unmanageable—a lust that has to be hidden behind barriers.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":44377,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN IMAGO","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139579694","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":null,"pages":null},"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}