{"title":"The Love Problem of a Student—Revisited: A Psycho-Ethical Map for Cases of Anima Projection","authors":"Niccolò Fiorentino Polipo","doi":"10.1111/1468-5922.12999","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-5922.12999","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In its typical form, an “anima projection” is a psychic experience in which a heterosexual man is caught up by an intense, almost magical attraction for a woman. What sets these numinous experiences apart from a common “crush” is a pattern of specific phenomenological characteristics. Anima projections are particularly common in late adolescence and early adulthood, when they can cause a deep sense of disorientation. Little education exists for young men on how to deal with these experiences and to actualize the developmental opportunity that underlies them. In this paper, I frame anima projections as an ethical problem and outline a psycho-ethical “map” that is intended for use by disoriented young men, or by any practitioner who may be tasked with helping them navigate this challenge along the path of individuation. The map considers four solutions to the love problem: the “concretistic-literal”, the “fearful-avoidant”, the “rational-depressive”, and the “transitional-developmental” solution, and indicates the latter as the one that is conducive to optimal psychic development. Although developed with a focus on young men, the map may apply to other relations based on projection, regardless of age, sex, gender, or sexual orientation.</p><p>Dans sa forme typique, une “projection de l’anima” est une expérience psychique dans laquelle un homme hétérosexuel est pris dans une attirance intense, presque magique, pour une femme. Ce qui distingue les expériences numineuses de simples béguins, c’est un ensemble de caractéristiques phénoménologiques spécifiques. Les projections de l’anima sont particulièrement fréquentes à la fin de l’adolescence et au début de l’âge adulte, où elles produisent un profond sentiment de désorientation. Il n’existe que peu de formation pour les jeunes hommes en ce qui concerne comment faire face à de telles expériences et comment utiliser de manière profitable l’opportunité de développement qui les sous-tend. Dans cet article, je considère les projections de l’anima comme étant un problème éthique et j’esquisse une “carte” psycho-éthique visant à aider les jeunes hommes désorientés - ou tout praticien dont la tâche est d’aider ces jeunes hommes - à relever ce défi sur le chemin de l’individuation. Cette carte envisage quatre solutions au problème de l’amour: la solution “concrète-littérale”, celle de “l’évitement angoissé”, la “dépressive-rationnelle” et la “transitionnelle-développementale”. La carte indique que cette dernière solution est celle qui permet un développement psychique optimal. Bien que conçue pour les jeunes hommes, cette carte peut également être utilisée pour d’autres relations fondées sur la projection, quel que soit l’âge, le sexe, le genre ou l’orientation sexuelle.</p><p>In ihrer typischen Form ist eine “Animaprojektion” eine psychische Erfahrung, bei der ein heterosexueller Mann von einer intensiven, fast magischen Anziehungskraft auf eine Frau erfaßt wird. Was diese numinosen Erfahrungen von einer ","PeriodicalId":45420,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY","volume":"69 3","pages":"389-410"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140827475","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":"Stille, Alexander. The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune. Farrar, Strauss & Giroux. 2023. Pp. 432. Hbk $30.","authors":"Raymond Buscemi","doi":"10.1111/1468-5922.13004","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-5922.13004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45420,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY","volume":"69 3","pages":"511-514"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140827476","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":"Salaam Abdel-Malek, Hana. (2023). “ A Group Psychoanalytic Approach to the Social Dreaming Matrix: A Found-and-Created Device”. British Journal of Psychotherapy, 39(4), 732–750. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjp.12862","authors":"Ali Zarbafi","doi":"10.1111/1468-5922.13008","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-5922.13008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45420,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY","volume":"69 3","pages":"497-499"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140827467","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":"Nissen, Bernd. (2023). “ Kairos and Chronos: Clinical-Psychoanalytic Reflections on Time”. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 104(3), 452–466, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00207578.2023.2182689","authors":"Katerina Sarafidou","doi":"10.1111/1468-5922.13007","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-5922.13007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45420,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY","volume":"69 3","pages":"500-502"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140827474","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":"List of Contributors","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/1468-5922.13001","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-5922.13001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45420,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY","volume":"69 3","pages":"518-520"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140801758","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":"Correction to “Henry Abramovitch: A Burst of Creativity”","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/1468-5922.12997","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-5922.12997","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Zemmelman, S. E. (2024) Henry Abramovitch: A Burst of Creativity. <i>J Anal Psychol</i>, 69: 143–147. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-5922.12963.</p><p>In the review of the play <i>The Analyst and the Rabbi</i> by Murray Stein and Henry Abramovitch, reference was made to a comment in the Appendix of the play by actor Paul Hill. This name was incorrect: The actor's name is John Hill.</p><p>The <i>Journal</i> apologizes to John Hill, Murray Stein, Henry Abramovitch, and to readers, for this error.</p>","PeriodicalId":45420,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY","volume":"69 2","pages":"358"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-5922.12997","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140544427","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":"There's Something about Uvalde: American Patriarchy and the Slaughter of Innocents","authors":"Carolyn M. Bates","doi":"10.1111/1468-5922.12995","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-5922.12995","url":null,"abstract":"<p>After every school shooting in the United States both a wish and a fear arise: Will this be the one? Will this be the tipping point for change in a nation so deeply divided over the meaning of “the right to bear arms?” Sandy Hook, Connecticut? No. Parkland, Florida? No. So, why might the killing of 19 children and 2 teachers in Uvalde, Texas, prove different? The American epidemic of mass school shootings betrays a country's willingness to let its children disappear, to sacrifice them on the altar of an archetypally violent ethos. While the internal experiences of alienation, resentment and contempt are often at play in the individuals who carry out such violence, the author suggests that the uniquely American glorification of “the lone wolf”, the “rugged individual” and the “misunderstood hero” fuels a supportive background for mass shooters in a nation that appears to be enamoured of ancient patriarchal attitudes as it doubles down on its valuing of weaponry. Such patriarchal attitudes, underscored by capitalism and the profits of the gun industry, are implicated in the territorial adhesion to American gun rights and in the high cost paid by the blood of innocents. Drawing on Vestergaard & Odde's (2021) concepts of socio-analysis and sociality, this paper explores the dynamic process of “mass-character” marked by “contagion, imitation, attraction and repulsion” that convolute cultural values of heritage and freedom into the perverse expression of mass violence.</p><p>Aux États-Unis, après chaque fusillade dans une école, un souhait et une crainte surgissent à la fois : est-ce que celle-ci fera une différence? Marquera-t-elle le point de basculement d'un changement dans une nation si profondément divisée sur la signification du « droit de porter des armes »? Sandy Hook, dans le Connecticut? Non. Santa Fe, au Texas? Non. Alors, pourquoi l’assassinat de 19 enfants et de 2 enseignants à Uvalde, au Texas, pourrait-il s'avérer différent? L'épidémie américaine de fusillades de masse dans les écoles trahit la volonté d'un pays de laisser ses enfants disparaître, de les sacrifier sur l'autel d'une philosophe archétypale de la violence. Alors que les expériences internes d'aliénation, de ressentiment et de mépris sont souvent en jeu chez les individus qui commettent de telles violences, l'auteur suggère que la glorification typiquement américaine du « loup solitaire », de « l'individu robuste » et du « héros incompris » alimente un arrière-plan favorable aux tireurs de masse. Ceci dans une nation qui semble éprise d’anciennes attitudes patriarcales et qui persiste et signe concernant son attachement pour les armes. De telles attitudes patriarcales, soulignées par le capitalisme et les profits de l'industrie des armes à feu, sont impliquées dans l'adhésion territoriale aux droits américains sur les armes à feu et dans le coût élevé payé par le sang d'innocents. S'appuyant sur les concepts de socioanalyse et de socialité de Vestergaard et Odde (2021","PeriodicalId":45420,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY","volume":"69 2","pages":"227-245"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140159185","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":"War: Mentalization and Totalitarian State of Mind","authors":"Iryna Semkiv","doi":"10.1111/1468-5922.12987","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-5922.12987","url":null,"abstract":"<p>For most residents of Europe, war is a new experience in which they find themselves both as witnesses and participants. In this paper the war in Ukraine serves as an illustration and case example. Like any unfamiliar experience, war elicits profound emotional responses which can be so overwhelming that an individual may be unable to fully process them and to create mental representations of the reality of war. When the psyche becomes entrapped in an unprocessed state, without the capacity to derive meaning from it, this results in the “fossilization” of the psyche akin to what McGinley and Segal describes as a totalitarian state of mind. Subjectivity and individual differences come under collective or personal attack, or both. This state of being prioritizes the needs of the collective psyche over the individual psyche. The image of Gorgon Medusa, who transformed living people into “fossilized” ones, is presented as a metaphor of total identification with the collective dimension. In contrast, the psyche can reveal a creative approach to resolving war-induced trauma. This is depicted in the concept of the Alchemical Stone and its creation, which symbolizes a harmonious connection between the external and internal realms, the subjective and objective experiences, and the real and the imaginal dimension.</p><p>Pour la plupart des habitants de l'Europe, la guerre est une nouvelle expérience dans laquelle ils se retrouvent à la fois témoins et participants. Dans cet article, la guerre en Ukraine sert d'illustration et de cas exemplaire. Comme toute expérience qui sort de l’ordinaire, la guerre suscite des réactions émotionnelles profondes qui peuvent être si accablantes qu'un individu peut se trouver incapable de les traiter pleinement et de créer des représentations mentales de la réalité de la guerre. Lorsque la psyché se retrouve piégée dans un état qu’elle ne peut pas traiter, sans la capacité d'en tirer un sens, il en résulte une « fossilisation » de la psyché, semblable à ce que McGinley et Segal a décrit comme un état d'esprit totalitaire. La subjectivité et les différences individuelles font l'objet d'attaques collectives ou personnelles, ou des deux. Cet état d'être donne la priorité aux besoins de la psyché collective plutôt qu'à la psyché individuelle. L'image de la Gorgone Méduse, qui a transformé des êtres vivants en êtres «fossilisés», est présentée comme une métaphore de l'identification totale à la dimension collective. En revanche, la psyché peut révéler une approche créative pour résoudre les traumatismes induits par la guerre. Ceci est représenté par le concept de la Pierre Alchimique et de sa création, qui symbolise un lien harmonieux entre les royaumes extérieur et intérieur, les expériences subjectives et objectives, et les dimensions réelles et imaginales.</p><p>Für die meisten Bewohner Europas ist Krieg eine neue Erfahrung, an der sie sowohl Zeuge als auch Teilnehmer sind. Als Veranschaulichung und Fallbeispiel dient in die","PeriodicalId":45420,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY","volume":"69 2","pages":"281-297"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140159186","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":"My Silent Story: Conflicted Memories, Silences and Intergenerational Traumas1","authors":"Manca Švara, Katja Hrobat Virloget","doi":"10.1111/1468-5922.12996","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-5922.12996","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article aims to present the interdisciplinary project “My Story from Silence”, conceived in 2022. The project represents a pioneering effort in assembling individuals from diverse communities, characterized by varying ethnic, national, and migratory backgrounds, along a historically dynamic border. Its primary objective was to provide a platform for these participants to articulate and share narratives previously shrouded in silence, offering insights into their historical pasts. Emphasizing reciprocal dialogue for the first time, the initiative fostered an environment where participants engaged in the dual act of narrating their own experiences and attentively listening to the narratives of others. These memories were explored in group workshops on both sides of the border. By combining elements of cultural anthropology fieldwork and analytical psychology, the workshops attempted to address hitherto unaddressed traumas and silent personal memories linked to major traumatic historical events such as fascism and Istrian exodus through the narratives of individuals. Three vignettes will illustrate the workshop dynamic and our Jungian understanding of it.</p><p>Cet article a pour objectif de présenter le projet interdisciplinaire « My Story from Silence » conçu en 2022. Ce projet représente un effort pionnier dans le rassemblement d'individus de diverses communautés, caractérisées par des origines ethniques, nationales et migratoires diverses, le long d'une frontière historiquement dynamique. Son objectif principal était de fournir à ces participants un cadre pour exprimer et partager des récits auparavant enfermés dans le silence, offrant un éclairage sur leur passé historique. En mettant pour la première fois l'accent sur le dialogue réciproque, l'initiative a favorisé un environnement où les participants se sont impliqués dans un double acte; raconter leurs propres expériences et écouter attentivement les récits des autres. Ces souvenirs ont été explorés dans le cadre d'ateliers de groupe, des deux côtés de la frontière. En combinant des éléments de l'anthropologie culturelle de terrain et de la psychologie analytique, les ateliers ont tenté d'aborder des traumatismes jusque-là non traités et des souvenirs personnels silencieux liés à des événements historiques traumatisants majeurs tels que le fascisme et l'exode d'Istrie, à travers les récits d'individus. Trois vignettes illustrent la dynamique de l'atelier et notre compréhension jungienne de celle-ci. Les photographies à la fin de l'article fournissent des images d'une table ronde de clôture et de l'installation in situ dans la vieille ville de Koper-Capodistrie, en Slovénie, une ville bilingue au passé troublé dans la zone contestée de la frontière italo-slovène (ex-Yougoslavie).</p><p>Ziel dieses Artikels ist es, das im Jahr 2022 konzipierte interdisziplinäre Projekt \"My Story from Silence\" vorzustellen. Das Projekt stellt eine bahnbrechende Anstrengung dar, Menschen aus verschiedene","PeriodicalId":45420,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY","volume":"69 2","pages":"298-322"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140159184","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}