AMERICAN IMAGOPub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/aim.2023.a901544
Peter Lawner
{"title":"D.W. Winnicott’s Debt to and Divergence from Melanie Klein: A Psychoanalytic Genealogy","authors":"Peter Lawner","doi":"10.1353/aim.2023.a901544","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/aim.2023.a901544","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This is a two-part paper. Its first part examines Winnicott’s early phase work vis-à-vis that of his mentor, Melanie Klein, by whom he was significantly influenced. It focuses on two of his pivotal papers, one from 1941, when he was at the end of a period of intensive tutelage with her, the other in 1945, when he announced new conceptions that constituted decisive breaks from several of her core understandings and inaugurated his mature theory development. His 1945 contribution nevertheless implied continued endorsement of her important concept of the depressive position, which he continued to affirm throughout his career.Its second part assays the development of his conceptions relative to hers, 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":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48051886","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}
AMERICAN IMAGOPub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/aim.2023.a901551
Daniel Jacobs
{"title":"Andrew Peto on Crowd Violence","authors":"Daniel Jacobs","doi":"10.1353/aim.2023.a901551","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/aim.2023.a901551","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":"42472864","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}
AMERICAN IMAGOPub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/aim.2023.a901552
N. Chodorow
{"title":"The Social Voices of Psychoanalysis: A Participant Observer’s Commentary","authors":"N. Chodorow","doi":"10.1353/aim.2023.a901552","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/aim.2023.a901552","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":"41902530","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}
AMERICAN IMAGOPub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/aim.2023.a901547
John Boyle
{"title":"Mystical Gnosis and Esoteric Technē in the Writings of W.R. Bion","authors":"John Boyle","doi":"10.1353/aim.2023.a901547","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/aim.2023.a901547","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This paper proposes the existence of a series of developments in Bion’s later writings that were obliquely indebted to his utilization of mystical texts and esoteric techniques, which it is proposed he deployed as resources for revitalizing traditional psychoanalytic theory and practice. To support this hypothesis, evidence is adduced to support the contention that Bion was covertly inspired by Jungian ideas, which he utilized as a catalyst for developing his own theoretical and clinical innovations. In this context Jung is identified as a contemporary avatar of esoteric ideas and practices transposed into a psychoanalytic register. It is further proposed that certain elements in Bion’s later writings effectively constitute a defacto ‘esoteric matrix’ developed out of a bricolage of mystical and esoteric texts, which he utilized as tools to augment and enhance his own lines of thinking. By way of conclusion, some tentative comparisons are made between elements of Late Antique theurgy and their corresponding analogues encountered within late Bionian 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":"46771471","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}
AMERICAN IMAGOPub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/aim.2023.a901550
John S. Martin-Joy
{"title":"Erik Erikson and the 1960s: “Reflections on the Dissent of Contemporary Youth”","authors":"John S. Martin-Joy","doi":"10.1353/aim.2023.a901550","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/aim.2023.a901550","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":"42666589","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}
AMERICAN IMAGOPub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1353/aim.2023.0000
Dawn Skorczewski, Karen Maandag, Daniel P. Stone, R. Ost, Laura S. Levitt, B. Siertsema, Christine Schmidt, A. Tutter, J. Rosegrant, Sagit Blumrosen-Sela, J. Hecht, Deborah Shilkoff
{"title":"Sieg Maandag: Life and Art in the Aftermath of Bergen-Belsen","authors":"Dawn Skorczewski, Karen Maandag, Daniel P. Stone, R. Ost, Laura S. Levitt, B. Siertsema, Christine Schmidt, A. Tutter, J. Rosegrant, Sagit Blumrosen-Sela, J. Hecht, Deborah Shilkoff","doi":"10.1353/aim.2023.0000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/aim.2023.0000","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This paper introduces Sieg Mandaag's life and work, including his boyhood before, within and after the camp, as well as his adult life as a husband, world traveler and artist.","PeriodicalId":44377,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN IMAGO","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44625936","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}
AMERICAN IMAGOPub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1353/aim.2023.0007
Sagit Blumrosen-Sela
{"title":"Olga Tokarczuk's Protagonist in Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead as a High-Functioning Autistic Woman","authors":"Sagit Blumrosen-Sela","doi":"10.1353/aim.2023.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/aim.2023.0007","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The paper sheds light on the psychology of the protagonist of the novel Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by the Polish author Olga Tokarczuk, winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature, as a high-functioning autistic. The prism of autism explains the intricacies of this extraordinary character, providing a coherent framework for understanding her and the characteristics of the narrative itself, as it is narrated by the protagonist. At the same time, the novel provides us with an extraordinary inner portrait of an autistic psyche that may enrich our understanding of the autistic consciousness.","PeriodicalId":44377,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN IMAGO","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44357879","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}
AMERICAN IMAGOPub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1353/aim.2023.0003
B. Siertsema
{"title":"The Story of the Jewish Dutch Diamond Workers during WWII","authors":"B. Siertsema","doi":"10.1353/aim.2023.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/aim.2023.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article sketches the historical background of Sieg Maandag's story. His father was a Jewish diamond worker who, when the Netherlands were occupied by the Germans, was exempted from deportation. The Germans wanted to set up a diamond industry of their own and the diamond workers managed to negotiate their exemption to include their direct families as well. However, in the course of 1943 the exemption turned out to be temporary. The diamond workers and their wives and children were deported first to the Dutch transit camp Westerbork, then on to Bergen-Belsen. In her 1995 video testimony Lize Elion relates the effect of the exemption on the diamond people, e.g. their decision not to go into hiding because the exemption seemed to offer better chances of survival. From the perspective of a child from a manual worker's family Gerrit Cohensius gives an account of what happened in Westerbork and Bergen-Belsen. Personal interviews with Robby Engelander and personal documents from his family give detailed insight into the fate of the men, the women and the children of the diamond transport, of which Sieg Maandag and his family were part too.","PeriodicalId":44377,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN IMAGO","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44199359","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}
AMERICAN IMAGOPub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1353/aim.2023.0004
Christine Schmidt
{"title":"\"Privilege\" and Trauma: Sieg Maandag's Climb Upwards","authors":"Christine Schmidt","doi":"10.1353/aim.2023.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/aim.2023.0004","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:How has \"privilege\" been represented and incorporated in the study and understanding of the Holocaust, especially through accounts of those who survived? The prolific Dutch Jewish painter and ceramicist, Sieg Maandag, was among the few surviving orphaned children of Amsterdam's so-called Diamond group of prisoners. For a time, they and their families formed part of a \"privileged\" group of prisoners held in Bergen-Belsen. This essay will consider Maandag's oeuvre as a vehicle for the development of a language of self-expression related to his own trauma and sense of his \"privilege\", demonstrating how former \"privileged\" persecutees endured periods of alternating or simultaneous expectation, uncertainty, waiting, hope, and fear connected specifically to the capricious status of exemption that they shared, and how knowledge of their \"privileged\" status was later assimilated into narratives of survival. Maandag's allusive work demonstrates recurring expressions of the psychological terrain of \"privilege\" and trauma, which are inextricably bound together due to the trajectory and fate of his family during the Holocaust.","PeriodicalId":44377,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN IMAGO","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45236860","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}