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{"title":"DW Winnicott’s Debt to and Divergence from Melanie Klein: A Psychoanalytic Genealogy","authors":"Peter Lawner","doi":"10.1353/aim.2023.a909044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/aim.2023.a909044","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: This is a two-part paper. Its second part assays the development of DW Winnicott’s conceptions relative to Melanie Klein’s, particularly after 1945, regarding areas such as infantile development, pathogenesis, diagnosis, and therapeutics. It then explores his alignments with and departures from her depressive position views. Finally, it examines his revision of her depressive position formulations. It does this particularly in relation to his proposition that infants dissociate from one another their experience of themselves and of their mother conditioned either by having interacted with her in ruthlessly intense states directed to her or when having been tenderly nurtured by her.","PeriodicalId":44377,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN IMAGO","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135640188","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 Analyst as Storyteller/El Analista Como Narrador ed by Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau (review)","authors":"Jeffrey Berman","doi":"10.1353/aim.2023.a909050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/aim.2023.a909050","url":null,"abstract":"Reviewed by: The Analyst as Storyteller/El Analista Como Narrador ed by Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau Jeffrey Berman (bio) The Analyst as Storyteller/El Analista Como Narrador, Edited by Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau In what may be the first of its kind, Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau, a training and supervising analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and the chair of the International Psychoanalytic Association’s Cultural Committee, decided in 2020 to invite members and associates to participate in a short-story contest with the goal of publishing the 30 best stories. The result is The Analyst as Storyteller/El Analista Como Narrador (2021), a compilation of these tales appearing in both English and Spanish. Many analysts are drawn to fiction, Schmidt-Hellerau observes in the foreword, because it “fosters their capacity to immerse themselves in still inarticulate experience, some of which may seem of minor importance yet already carry the heart of the matter at stake” (p. ix). Interestingly, the “heart of the matter,” as Sander Gilman et al. (1994) observe in Reading Freud’s Reading, is the “line which Sigmund Freud scribbled in the margin of a number of his books when he found what seemed to him the essence of a text and its author” (p. xiii). It is no surprise that Schmidt-Hellerau has edited a volume of fiction, for she herself is a creative writer, the author of Memory’s Eyes: A New York Oedipus Novel (1920). The response to the invitation, Schmidt-Hellerau remarks, exceeded her expectations. She and the ten judges, all psychoanalysts, received submissions from 252 analysts from the United States, Canada, Mexico, South America, the United Kingdom, Europe, Australia, and India. The analysts range in age from young, still involved in psychoanalytic training, to elderly and in retirement. Ten of the authors are male, the remaining female. The stories are indeed short, ranging in length from under three pages to seven. Narrowing the selection to the [End Page 607] best 30 must have been daunting, but the result is a treasure trove. I found the tales intriguing, and it was difficult to limit myself to discussing a handful. Tellingly, few of the stories are about psychoanalysis. An unhappy character in the Brazilian analyst Vera Lamanno-Adamo’s story, “The Woman on the Second Floor,” living in “eternal grief and bitterness,” is asked whether she has been to therapy. “No way. I know myself better than anybody else” (p. 216). All she wants to do is obliterate consciousness. Her only delight is the little bag of poison, “the messenger of revenge,” that she keeps near her, recalling Nietzsche’s wry observation that the thought of suicide is a great consolation; it helps one get through many a bad night. In “The Underside,” written by the Brazilian analyst Carolina Scoz, a man has spent years in analysis, but the experience, as we shall see, has only made him more judgmental. The Chilean analyst Nicholás Correa Hidalgo’s story, “The Keys,” focuse","PeriodicalId":44377,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN IMAGO","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135640192","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":"Willem de Kooning’s Women: A Psychoanalytic Exploration, by Graeme J. Taylor (review)","authors":"Jane Hanenberg","doi":"10.1353/aim.2023.a909051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/aim.2023.a909051","url":null,"abstract":"Reviewed by: Willem de Kooning’s Women: A Psychoanalytic Exploration, by Graeme J. Taylor Jane Hanenberg (bio) Willem de Kooning’s Women: A Psychoanalytic Exploration, by Graeme J. Taylor In Willem de Kooning’s Women: A Psychoanalytic Exploration, Dr. Graeme Taylor has written a comprehensive art historical and psychoanalytic study. The book presents an interplay between de Kooning’s life, the creation of his abstract Women portraits, and a wealth of psychoanalytic reflections about the painter and his work. Willem de Kooning’s contributions to 20th-century American art appeared in his pioneering abstractions. The Women series, painted primarily in the 1950s and ’60s are his most well-known works, and have always evoked controversy. De Kooning’s career, which spanned 60 prolific years, was a springboard for many of the innovations of modern American painting. His work was inspired by the European modernists, and developed alongside other abstract and action painters whose work was shown in the emerging New York galleries at the time. In tandem with these changes, psychoanalysts were expanding the realm of psychoanalytic theory to include the role of environment, attachment, and trauma in human development. In this meticulous book, Dr. Taylor has brought contemporary psychoanalytic thinking to de Kooning’s life and art. De Kooning was a gifted artist with classical training in drawing and draftsmanship. As a child, he suffered hardship and abuse. At age 21 he fled his native Rotterdam as a stow-away. During childhood, he had developed a romantic fascination with America, reading about Walt Whitman, Frank Lloyd Wright, and the Wild West. He liked jazz and Hollywood movies (Taylor, 2022, p. 100). When he arrived in the US, he hoped to find work as a commercial artist. Eventually, he made his way to New York and met artists such as Arshile Gorky, Jackson Pollack, Franz Kline, and Robert Motherwell, with whom he shared a community of painters. These artists were the successors of the Cubists and created new techniques of abstraction. [End Page 615] De Kooning began the Women series in 1950 after he had been working on portraits of women for almost a decade. The paintings represented a departure from the purely abstract works that had brought prominence to the artist and his peers. His boyhood studies at art school gave de Kooning a unique entrée into the discipline of figurative work. He knew about color and techniques of paint application. He had used the bulky brushes and thick pigments that provided him with the tools to paint the abstractions of his earlier career. Later, they became part of the technique he used to develop the multilayered Women canvases. In the first chapter, Taylor describes the art world’s reactions to the Women. Six of the paintings in the series were featured in a 1953 gallery show, and they immediately evoked heated debate. Initially, most critics responded somewhat guardedly, commenting on the paintings’ technique, which e","PeriodicalId":44377,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN IMAGO","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135641148","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 Ethical Ideals in Hellenistic Philosophy and in Psychoanalysis","authors":"Peter Dews","doi":"10.1353/aim.2023.a909042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/aim.2023.a909042","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: Hellenistic philosophy invites comparison with psychoanalysis. The aim of its leading currents, Epicureanism and Stoicism, was explicitly therapeutic—to enable individuals to lead a good life. Pursuing this comparison, Freud may be regarded as a successor to Epicureanism because of his hedonistic theory of motivation, his materialistic outlook, and his critique of religion. However, both Epicureanism and classical Freudianism are faced with the problem of explaining how individuals can be motivated to pursue higher ethical and cultural ideals. In this regard the Stoic critique of Epicureanism reveals parallels with later developments in psychoanalytical theory, such as the work of Klein, Winnicott, and Hans Loewald. The work of Loewald is a special interest in this context, since he strives to give a coherent account of the problematic psychoanalytic concept of “sublimation,” which is often employed in attempts to explain the redirection of psychic energy toward higher goals. Loewald’s attendant challenge to the materialism and objectivism of much psychoanalytic theory suggests that writers such as Stephen Greenblatt, who emphasize only the affinities between Epicureanism and the modern world outlook, fail to tell the full story.","PeriodicalId":44377,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN IMAGO","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135641315","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":"Death Drive as the Precipitate of the Traumatic","authors":"Ilker Özyildirim","doi":"10.1353/aim.2023.a909043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/aim.2023.a909043","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: The death drive is one of the most controversial concepts in psychoanalytic literature. According to Freud, the death drive has, in essence, a biological origin. This formulation is said to be problematic with regard to the determining qualities inherent to psychoanalytical theory. This article sets forth a different interpretation of the formulation of the death drive, specifically in the context of the traumatic and drive-formation processes. The author asserts that inescapable traumatic impulses tended to gain a comprehensive resemblance with the drive and have connected this proposition (by giving additional details on the fact that phylogenesis refers to the experiences of social history rather than biology) with Freud’s view that drives are the residues of the effect of external stimulation, which caused alterations in the living matter during phylogenesis. Building on these arguments, I claim that the death drive could be designated as the phylogenetic precipitates of the repetitive traumatic experiences and accumulations of the prolonged stage of social history rather than being solely biological; moreover, this thesis of the death drive, which can be referred to as historical and not originary, could show a greater consistency with the whole of Freud’s text.","PeriodicalId":44377,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN IMAGO","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135641312","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 Writing of Mania: Thomas Melle’s Literary Strategies of Recovery","authors":"Bart Rabaey, Stijn Vanheule","doi":"10.1353/aim.2023.a909048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/aim.2023.a909048","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: In this article the authors discuss the work of German author Thomas Melle in relation to his manic-depressive experiences. In the autobiographical book The World at My Back Melle demonstrates how a dysregulation of language is essential to understanding the nature of his manic episodes. Furthermore, Melle explains how he used writing literature as a response to challenges posed by his manic experiences. In this article, the authors explore this link in detail. First the authors investigate the specific dysregulations of language in Melle’s episodes of mania. Based on The World at My Back , three characteristic language disruptions are discerned in the course of his manic episodes: language disintegrates, narrative consistency breaks down, and there is a breakdown of subject and ego. Subsequently, the authors discuss the literary strategies Melle employs throughout his oeuvre and how these address these three aspects of language disruption. Eight literary strategies are identified, which cluster into three broad genres: implicitly autobiographical fiction, explicitly fictional autobiography, and eventually new realism . Starting from Lacan, the authors discuss how Melle’s literary strategies aim at remedying a major issue that accompanies his manic experiences: the workings of language itself. During and in the wake of his autobiographic writing, Melle develops ways of treating language, of keeping language in check, through which he eventually manages to restore his faith in language. The authors discuss Melle’s writing practice and relate it to Lacan’s concept of the sinthome .","PeriodicalId":44377,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN IMAGO","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135641155","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":"Regressive (Im)Mutability and Human Degeneration in Samuel Beckett’s Endgame and Wilfred R. Bion’s The Dawn of Oblivion","authors":"S. Rossi","doi":"10.1353/aim.2023.a901548","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/aim.2023.a901548","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Beginning with an overview of the late-Victorian theory of degeneration, this article aims, first, to explore how the belligerent climate of the first half of the twentieth century gradually dismantled the late nineteenth-century belief that mental disorders were genetically transmissible from parents to the offspring. In this frame, the role played by psychoanalysis was central. The latter in fact proved that the ever-growing number of cases of mental pathologies among combatants and civilians during the two World Wars was not the result of a pandemic, but the tragic outcome of the mind-shattering impact of the conflicts. With this historical panorama in mind, I will delve into two post-World-War-II literary works, Samuel Beckett’s Endgame and Wilfred R. Bion’s The Dawn of Oblivion, to concentrate on the issues of ‘change’–thought of as a process through which an individual conforms to the environment and hopefully evolve–and ‘human degeneration’. Engaged in a kind of long-distance dialogue about the end of the world, Beckett and Bion depict decaying universes doomed to failure, whose inhabitants are unable not only to survive the inflexible conditions imposed by modern warfare, but also to implement beneficial changes for their existence. What emerges from these two works is a deep terror that Beckett and Bion shared of ‘tomorrow’, conceived by both as the brink of the abyss.","PeriodicalId":44377,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN IMAGO","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43612671","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":"Sigmund Freud and Suicide—In His Life and in His Writings","authors":"K. Larsen, A. Zachrisson","doi":"10.1353/aim.2023.a901545","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/aim.2023.a901545","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Freud did not construct a coherent theory about suicide, but reasoning about and analyses of suicide are scattered throughout his writings, both in the case histories and in his theoretical writings. In this article the authors present Freud’s reference and comments t suicide and self-harming actions, and an updated investigation of Freud’s biography regarding his person experiences of death and suicide and his reactions to them. Finally, the circumstances surrounding Freud’s own death by physician assisted suicide are presented.","PeriodicalId":44377,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN IMAGO","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66819172","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":"Mourner’s Kaddish and Its Connections: Psychoanalytic Thoughts on Mourning in the Jewish Religious Context","authors":"D. Rancour-Laferriere","doi":"10.1353/aim.2023.a901546","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/aim.2023.a901546","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Psychoanalysis teaches that the goal of mourning is for the bereaved eventually to be able to accept the death of a loved one. It may therefore come as a surprise that what religious Jews call Mourner’s Kaddish makes no reference whatsoever to death, the deceased, or the bereaved. Instead of having anything to do with the mourning process, this ancient prayer requires the bereaved to utter nothing but words of exaggerated praise for the “great name” of the “Holy One.” Psychoanalytically speaking, mourning is displaced because Yahweh needs narcissistic supplies. An “inability to mourn” plagues the history of the Jews–down to the present day. Well into the twentieth century this sort of thinking was maintained in American Reform Judaism’s editions of the Union Prayerbook, which encourages congregants to believe in an afterlife of the spiritual soul, which is, again a denial of the finality of death.","PeriodicalId":44377,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN IMAGO","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41702412","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":"Introduction to “Social Voices”—Oral History Workshop, American Psychoanalytic Association, February 2021","authors":"N. Thompson","doi":"10.1353/aim.2023.a901549","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/aim.2023.a901549","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The papers collected in this series were originally presented at the 83rd Oral History Workshop during the American Psychoanalytic Association’s meetings in February of 2021. The topic of the workshop, “The Social Voices of Psychoanalysts: The 1960s and 1970s”, was chosen because over the last several years, members of the psychoanalytic community had been debating the question of the role of psychoanalysts in a deeply divided political, social and cultural environment governed by an individual that many, both analysts and non-analysts, viewed as a dangerous and unstable leader. John Martin-Joy presented Erik Erikson’s “Reflections on the Dissent of Contemporary Youth” (1970), and Daniel H. Jacobs reviewed Andrew Peto’s “On Crowd Violence: The Role of Archaic Superego and Body Image” (1975). Their papers were discussed by Nancy Chodorow drawing on her experiences as member of this generation as well as her training in both sociology and psychoanalysis.","PeriodicalId":44377,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN IMAGO","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43721530","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}