{"title":"<scp>The Magic of a Fetal Fetish in the Face of Climate Crisis and the Expanse of Dense Temporalities</scp>","authors":"Katie Gentile","doi":"10.1080/00107530.2023.2247797","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00107530.2023.2247797","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In times of cultural upheaval, the image of the child, typically a White girl, has been used to represent the vulnerability of humanity as a whole. In the face of escalating climate crisis the fetus is now standing in to represent the future, and the uterus has become the only environment many politicians are willing to legislate. It appears the fetus has become a flexible fetish object used both to displace growing annihilation anxieties in the present and as a way of racially colonizing the future. As fetal protection and anti-abortion laws spread across the United States, gestating bodies have been identified as the primary threats to healthy pregnancy. Integrating psychoanalytic theory with concepts from anti-Blackness and Indigenous theories, I outline a situation where the fetal fetish functions as a colonizing temporal system of affect regulation that is currently being used consolidate and secure White, cisgender, able-bodied, heteromasculinity and human exceptionalism.","PeriodicalId":46058,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Psychoanalysis","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135982362","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reproductive Agency and the Transgenerational Transmission of Trauma","authors":"Tracy Sidesinger","doi":"10.1080/00107530.2023.2242578","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00107530.2023.2242578","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article supports the development of reproductive agency as a means of intercepting the transgenerational transmission of trauma through maternal subjectivity. Reproductive agency includes, among other things, abortion as a viable choice. It is my view that reproductive agency is predicated on maternal subjectivity – that is, the individual selfhood that mothers possess. However, women’s capacity for agency around reproduction as well as maternal subjectivity have long been denied, even within psychoanalysis. Under patriarchy lies the institution and mandate of motherhood. The institution implicitly demands women be passive, yet burdens them with guilt for choices they are forbidden to make themselves. In contrast, the experience of mothering is highly personal and active, and psychoanalysis has the potential to make more space for maternal subjectivity, agency, consent, and mourning. In doing so, we can support women in reckoning with reproductive decisions after the fact, as well as affecting change in future generations and intercepting the transgenerational transmission of trauma before it occurs. Importantly, exercising maternal reproductive agency is seen as a relational function. Rather than addressing the needs of one in opposition to the needs of another, it is about making discerning decisions to impact a lineage of interconnected beings. This article is part of an ongoing attempt to write theory from outside patriarchy (Cixous & Clement, 1986/1975), specifically using the author’s personal voice, to help illustrate maternal subjectivity.","PeriodicalId":46058,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Psychoanalysis","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42495053","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Psychoanalysis and Reproductive Justice: Reflections on Dobbs and the Possibilities of Psychoanalytic Political Praxis","authors":"Nikol G. Alexander-Floyd","doi":"10.1080/00107530.2023.2241975","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00107530.2023.2241975","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This essay addresses the aftermath of Dobbs, the Supreme Court Decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, by looking to what can be learned from other countries, specifically psychoanalytically-informed praxis. Focusing on the role of psychoanalysts in particular, and psychoanalysis, more generally, in Argentina, I make the case for a psychoanalytic political praxis. This engages a Black feminist commitment to reproductive justice, a more expansive frame for politics that can embrace intersectional aims across a range of policy issues connected to the human right to have or to not have children, in a social and political context that supports the common good and facilitates human and environmental flourishing. In doing so, I highlight psychoanalysis’s somewhat hidden history of political commitment and engagement, particularly in terms of the interpersonal approach. I argue that only a sustained commitment from progressive forces, including among those in psychoanalysis, can forestall the further encroachment of authoritarian, anti-democratic forces operating in the US.","PeriodicalId":46058,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Psychoanalysis","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44031885","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Patriarchal Religion in U.S. Constitutional Law (Dobbs v. Jackson): Originalism as “Political Religion” (Burke) Unmasked1","authors":"D. A. Richards","doi":"10.1080/00107530.2023.2239683","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00107530.2023.2239683","url":null,"abstract":"1 Abstract. The Supreme Court’s recent overruling of Roe v. Wade in Dobbs v. Jackson reflects the influence of a group of conservative Catholic thinkers, the “new natural lawyers,” 2 whose views, if made explicit, would be inconsistent with the constitutional requirement that basic rights can only be abridged on a secular basis. This inconsistency has been masked by an appeal to originalism, requiring that constitutional interpretation must be limited by the things in the world to which the founding generation would have applied the text, and nothing beyond that. This approach to constitutional interpretation does not fit much of the interpretation of basic rights to date, and is thus demonstrably inadequate. How psychologically can we understand the appeal of such an indefensible method of interpretation to recently Trump appointed justices to the Supreme Court and other justices, and to the President and Senate that appointed them? Using the framework of Edmund Burke’s (1790/2014) psychological analysis of the violence of the utopian idealization of “political religions,” this article offers a psychoanalytic account of how the conservative justices, appealing to new natural law, have developed originalism as a way of masking a sectarian patriarchal misogyny inconsistent with constitutional values, in effect, a “political religion” in Burke’s sense.","PeriodicalId":46058,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Psychoanalysis","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41770724","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Abject, the Silence and the Crime: Intricacies of Abortion in Iran","authors":"N. Moshtagh","doi":"10.1080/00107530.2023.2236508","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00107530.2023.2236508","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The author uses Kristeva’s concept of “abject” to explain the disgust, horror, and hatred toward woman’s internal organs, experienced by both men and women. The abject marks the moment when we separate ourselves from the mother. It is where we are confronted with an archaic space before linguistic binaries of self/other or subject/object. Patriarchy is conceptualized as a defense against the abject. The silence of Iranian women and the defensive criminalization of abortion by Iranian men are discussed through examining the family dynamics and power differentials within an Iranian household. The author postulates how “Name of the Mother” replaces Lacan’s “Name of the Father” out of the necessity of managing patriarchy.","PeriodicalId":46058,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Psychoanalysis","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48000905","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Effect of Lipopolysaccharide-Stimulated Adipose-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells on NAFLD Treatment in High-Fat Diet-Fed Rats.","authors":"Reza Afarin, Fereshteh Aslani, Shahla Asadizade, Bahar Jaberian Asl, Mehrnoosh Mohammadi Gahrooie, Elham Shakerian, Akram Ahangarpour","doi":"10.5812/ijpr-134807","DOIUrl":"10.5812/ijpr-134807","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) are 2 common liver diseases that currently lack effective treatment options.</p><p><strong>Objectives: </strong>This study aimed to investigate the effect of lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-stimulated adipose-derived stem cells (ADSCs) on NAFLD treatment in an animal model.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Male Wistar rats were fed a high-fat diet (HFD) to induce NAFLD for 7 weeks. The rats were then categorized into 3 groups: Mesenchymal stem cell (MSC), MSC + LPS, and fenofibrate (FENO) groups. Liver and body weight were measured, and the expression of genes involved in fatty acid biosynthesis, β-oxidation, and inflammatory responses was assessed.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Lipopolysaccharide-stimulated ADSCs were more effective in regulating liver and body weight gain and reducing liver triglyceride (TG) levels compared to the other groups. Treatment with LPS-stimulated ADSCs effectively corrected liver enzymes, including alanine aminotransferase (ALT) and aspartate aminotransferase (AST), and lipid factors, including low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) values, better than treatment with both FENO and MSCs. ADSCs + LPS treatment significantly decreased transforming growth factor β (TGF-β) and genes associated with inflammatory responses. Additionally, there was a significant reduction in reactive oxygen species (ROS) levels in the rats treated with ADSCs + LPS.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Lipopolysaccharide-stimulated ADSCs showed potential in alleviating NAFLD by reducing inflammatory genes and ROS levels in HFD rats, demonstrating better results than treatment with ADSCs and FENO groups alone.</p>","PeriodicalId":46058,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Psychoanalysis","volume":"9 1","pages":"e134807"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10728850/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80861714","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A review of Toward a Unified Psychoanalytic Theory: Foundation in a Revised and Expanded Ego Psychology","authors":"Morty Rosenbaum","doi":"10.1080/00107530.2023.2194817","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00107530.2023.2194817","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46058,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Psychoanalysis","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47064911","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Review of Trauma and Dissociation-Informed Psychotherapy: Relational Healing and the Therapeutic Connection","authors":"Jonathan Kurfirst","doi":"10.1080/00107530.2023.2184627","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00107530.2023.2184627","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46058,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Psychoanalysis","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41583096","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of Culture, Politics and Race in the Making of Interpersonal Psychoanalysis: Breaking Boundaries","authors":"S. Buechler","doi":"10.1080/00107530.2023.2184626","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00107530.2023.2184626","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46058,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Psychoanalysis","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45038385","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"They Are All Pam","authors":"Cassandra Neyenesch","doi":"10.1080/00107530.2023.2246003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00107530.2023.2246003","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractThe author reflects on an experience with a young Laotian woman seeking an abortion in West Philadelphia in 1991. The experience led her to reflect on her mother’s abortion much earlier, following the mother’s rape.Keywords: abortionabortion storiesabortion clinicrapePhiladelphia 1991 Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 Station 11 is a 2021 American post-apocalyptic dystopian fiction miniseries that ran for 10 episodes on HBO MAX about an devastating flu epidemic that wipes out humanity (see Wikepedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Station_Eleven_(miniseries)).2 See: Escalante-De-Mattei, S. (2022, May 9). Artists and activists banded together to tell abortion stores at an impassioned New York event. Art News. Accessed from: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/abortion-stories-cassandra-neyenesch-lena-chen-1234628089/ See also: https://ourabortionstories.com.Additional informationNotes on contributorsCassandra NeyeneschCassandra Neyenesch, B.A., is a Brooklyn, NY-based writer and curator. Anticipating the overturning of Roe v. Wade, she organized the first Abortion Stories: An Interactive Art Festival with psychologist Carolina Franco, which took place on May 6–8, 2022. Since then, Abortion Stories has facilitated storytelling events at public demonstrations and art shows in collaboration with Planned Parenthood, the Brooklyn Museum, Lump Projects, and Ross-Sutton Gallery. Her reviews and cultural pieces have appeared in The Guardian, Brooklyn Rail, the Huffington Post, Latino Rebel, Public Books, The International Herald Tribune, and Art in America. She is the author of the forthcoming novel Perdita.","PeriodicalId":46058,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Psychoanalysis","volume":"154 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135717884","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}