{"title":"On Children’s Books, Home, and the Beginnings of Self: <i>Tell Me a Mitzi</i> and <i>Little Boy Brown</i>","authors":"Ellen Handler Spitz","doi":"10.1080/07351690.2023.2235257","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07351690.2023.2235257","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTBy highlighting two classic children’s books in which the setting of New York City plays a starring role, Tell Me a Mitzi and Little Boy Brown, this essay explores ways in which childhood reading expands a young person’s nascent and burgeoning sense of self in part by elaborating the notion of home. Books such as those described here stand to enable young children to develop flexible ideas about the nature of home and to imagine what it feels like to live elsewhere and differently.KEYWORDS: Children’s bookssense of selfhomesecrets Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.Notes1 See “Children’s Rooms, Sites of Refuge, and Being Lost” in Ellen Handler Spitz, The Brightening Glance: Imagination and Childhood, 2006, pp. 132–141.2 See “Art without History” in Ellen Handler Spitz, Image and Insight: Essays in Psychoanalysis and the Arts, 1991. New York: Columbia University Press.3 See Jerome Bruner, The Process of Education, 1960 (Harvard University Press) and Thomas Balmès, Bébés (documentary film, 2010).4 Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space, 1964. Translated from the French by Maria Jolas. Boston: Beacon Press.5 In A Velocity of Being: Letters to a Young Reader, 2018, eds., Maria Popova and Claudia Zoe Bedrick, see pp. 190–191.6 Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are, 1963. New York: Harper and Row.7 Judith Viorst, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, 1972. New York: Simon and Schuster.8 Lore Segal, Tell Me a Mitzi, 1970. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. See also my “Mitzi is Back. Tell Me a Lore.” Fuse#8, ed., Elizabeth Bird, March 9, 2018 (online), on which I draw in the current essay.9 Lore Segal, Other People’s Houses, 1964. New York: The New Press.10 See D.W. Winnicott, “The Use of an Object” in The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 1969, No. 50, pp. 711–716.11 See Selma H. Fraiberg’s eternally brilliant The Magic Years, 1959. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons.12 See Fraiberg again, as in supra, note #x.13 Ernst Gombrich, Meditations on a Hobby Horse and Other Essays on the Theory of Art, 1963.14 Isobel Harris, Little Boy Brown, 2013. New York: Enchanted Lion Books. Originally published in 1949, Philadelphia: Lippincott.15 My host was the University of the South; the convener was Dr. Linda Mayes of the Child Study Center, Yale University, who originated an ongoing interdisciplinary program to study life in rural Appalachia.16 See my Inside Picture Books, 1999, New Haven and London: Yale University Press.Additional informationNotes on contributorsEllen Handler SpitzEllen Handler Spitz, Ph.D., is Senior Lecturer in Humanities at Yale University, Fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities, and Member of the Council of Scholars at the Erikson Institute of the Austen Riggs Center. She is the author of seven books: Art and Psyche, Image and Insight, Museums of the Mind, Inside Picture Books, The Brightening Glance, Illuminating Childhood, and Magritte’s L","PeriodicalId":46458,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Inquiry","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136064916","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":"Sigmund Freud’s Final Home","authors":"Carol Seigel","doi":"10.1080/07351690.2023.2235237","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07351690.2023.2235237","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTSigmund Freud’s escape from Austria at the end of his life, and his experiences during his last year in London, are explored. The two homes where Freud lived in London and Vienna are compared, and their unique characteristics examined. During Freud’s final year at home in London he was busy and active, writing, seeing patients, receiving visitors, surrounded by family and friends, until his cancer was no longer treatable. Freud died at home in September 1939. Freud’s legacy is preserved today in museums in both his homes, Berggasse 19 and 20 Maresfield Gardens.KEYWORDS: Sigmund FreudAnna FreudMartha FreudAthenaBerggasseMaresfield GardensViennaLondondeath Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.Notes1 Freud-Ernst Freud 12.5.1938, FML, quoted in ed. Ernst Freud, Letters of Sigmund Freud 1873–1939, 1957, p. 438.2 Freud- Lampl-de-Groot, 22.8.1938, FML.3 August Aichhorn, quoted in interview with Edmund Engelman, The Independent newspaper, 31.7.1999.4 Freud-Sam Freud 4.6.1938, Freud Museum London (FML).5 Freud-Eitingon, 7.6.1938, FML.6 Hilda Doolittle (HD), Tribute to Freud, 1956.7 Freud- Marie Bonaparte, 8.6.1938, FML.8 Freud-Silberstein, 1875, Sigmund Freud Archive, Library of Congress.9 Freud-Lampl-de-Groot, 13.6.1938, FML.10 Freud – Alexander Freud, 22.6.1938, Sigmund Freud Archive, Library of Congress.11 Freud-H.G.Wells, 16.7.1939, FML.12 Ivan Ward, Freud’s English Home, Education Blog, 14.4.2020, www.freud.org.uk.13 FML Archive material.14 Gay, Peter Freud: A Life for Our Time, 1971 p. 635.15 Freud -Lampl-de-Groot, 8.10.1938, FML.16 Freud -Lampl-de-Groot, 13.6.1938, FML.17 Freud-Eitingon, 19.12.1938, FML.18 Martha Freud-Lilly Freud Marte, 22.6.1938, LOC.19 Freud-Lampl-de-Groot, 20.11.1938, FML, quoted in Michael Molnar, The Diary of Sigmund Freud 1929–39, 1992.20 Kurzeste Chronik, 10.11.1938, quoted in Michael Molnar, The Diary of Sigmund Freud 1929–39, 1992.21 Anna Freud-Clinton McCord, 28.8.1938, FML.22 Preface, 20 Maresfield Gardens, A Guide to the Freud Museum, 1998.23 Victor Mazin, Art Dreams and Revolution, chapter in ed. Monika Pessler & Daniela Finzi, Freud, Berggasse 19, The Origin of Psychoanalysis, 2020.24 Victor Mazin, Art Dreams and Revolution, chapter in ed. Monika Pessler & Daniela Finzi, Freud, Berggasse 19, The Origin of Psychoanalysis, 2020.25 Tom Derose, “Home is Where the Heart is”, Education Blog 7.4.2020, www.freud.org.uk.26 Letter Freud-Fliess, quoted in Burke, Janine, The Gods of Freud, 2006, p. 139.27 “My Recollections of Sigmund Freud”, in The Wolf-Man by the Wolf-Man, ed. Muriel Gardiner (1971), quoted in Freud: A Life for Our Time by Peter Gay, P. 170.28 Hilda Doolittle (HD), Tribute to Freud, 1956.29 Kurzeste Chronik, 8.8.1938, quoted in Michael Molnar, The Diary of Sigmund Freud 1929–39, 1992.30 Hilda Doolittle (HD), Tribute to Freud, 1956.31 Jones, Ernest, Life and Work of Sigmund Freud, 1953.32 Freud-Eitingon, 8.10.1938, FML, quoted in 20 Maresfield Gardens: A Guide ","PeriodicalId":46458,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Inquiry","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136064748","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":"Leaving, Losing and Finding Home: Through the Shadow of Trauma","authors":"Anne J. Adelman","doi":"10.1080/07351690.2023.2235274","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07351690.2023.2235274","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThe author, having grown up in the shadow of the Holocaust, formed a sense of home around the idea that the past was a broken and vanished continent. In this article, the author explores the challenges of leaving home, the trauma of losing home, and the reparation of finding home across the intergenerational trauma and loss.KEYWORDS: HomeHolocausttraumaparentinglossmourningseparationintergenerational repair Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.Notes1 When The Garden Isn’t Eden: More Psychoanalytic Stories from Life, with Kerry Malawista and Linda Kanefield (Columbia University Press, 2022).Psychoanalytic Reflections on Parenting Teens and Young Adults: Changing Patterns of Modern Love, Loss and Longing (Routledge, 2018).The Therapist in Mourning: From the Faraway Nearby, with Kerry Malawista (Columbia University Press, 2013).Wearing my Tutu to Analysis and Other Stories, with Kerry Malawista and Catherine Anderson (Columbia University Press, 2011).Additional informationNotes on contributorsAnne J. AdelmanAnne J. Adelman, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and Supervising and Training analyst at the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis, and a recipient of that institute’s award for excellence in teaching in 2019. She is also a Teaching Analyst at the Contemporary Freudian Society. She has published several articles and is the coauthor and editor of four books.Footnote11 When The Garden Isn’t Eden: More Psychoanalytic Stories from Life, with Kerry Malawista and Linda Kanefield (Columbia University Press, 2022).Psychoanalytic Reflections on Parenting Teens and Young Adults: Changing Patterns of Modern Love, Loss and Longing (Routledge, 2018).The Therapist in Mourning: From the Faraway Nearby, with Kerry Malawista (Columbia University Press, 2013).Wearing my Tutu to Analysis and Other Stories, with Kerry Malawista and Catherine Anderson (Columbia University Press, 2011). As Co-Editor of JAPA Review of Books, she launched a feature column called “Why I Write,” inviting analysts to reflect on the experience of writing. She is a cochair of the New Directions in Writing Program and maintains a private practice in Chevy Chase, Maryland.","PeriodicalId":46458,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Inquiry","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136064749","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":"Mother Tongue","authors":"Alexandra Viets","doi":"10.1080/07351690.2023.2235260","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07351690.2023.2235260","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTIn language studies, mother tongue is linked to culture—its literature, artifacts, wisdom, generational ties, its jokes and proverbs, the names of flowers. A mother tongue carries the archive of one’s own history—a sense of belonging at the heart of identity, one’s central core. Language is among the first bonds between mother and child, words forging intimacy and communication. Yet, what happens when a mother tongue is associated with war and trauma? When language conveys displacement or the reenactment of a too-painful past? This essay explores the impact of growing up with a mother who suppressed her mother tongue and a daughter’s search for the language of home that followed.KEYWORDS: Languagewarwomendislocationmotherhome Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.Additional informationNotes on contributorsAlexandra VietsAlexandra Viets is a writer/screenwriter and journalist whose work focuses on women and dislocation. Her first feature-length screenplay, Cotton Mary, won a New York Foundation for the Arts award and was produced by Merchant Ivory. Her film/theater reviews and essays have appeared in publications such as The International Herald Tribune/NYT, The Far Eastern Economic Review and the Asia Wall Street Journal. Viets has taught in the MFA programs at Towson University’s Department of Theater Arts and at The American University in Washington, DC, specializing in literature and film. She currently teaches in the MA in Writing Program at Johns Hopkins University. Excerpts from her memoir entitled, Maryna, After the War, have been published in Thin Air, Nowhere Magazine and shortlisted for Wasafiri’s New Writing Prize in London. Viets received her B.A. from Oberlin College in political science and an MFA from Columbia University.","PeriodicalId":46458,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Inquiry","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136064750","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":"Rooms to Live In: An Architect’s Recollections","authors":"Frank Harmon","doi":"10.1080/07351690.2023.2235254","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07351690.2023.2235254","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTOur homes are our unwritten autobiographies, the places to which we are most emotionally attached. As such, our houses should be as unique as we are, satisfying our deepest desires and enriching our lives in our specific time and place. The purpose of this essay was to determine what factors, both physical and emotional, make it possible to design such unique houses for ourselves. For an architect-designed home, what information must be discovered and revealed to the architect to achieve this goal? The author discusses the process he employed over 40 years of designing houses that their owners loved and cherished, beginning with having clients remember and analyze their favorite childhood places. He suggests that “only a detailed, intimate, and uniquely specific description will tender a unique house,” and that “the most valuable guide to what makes you comfortable” – more than photos, magazine clippings, or thousands of links to shelter websites – is the memory of that special childhood place. Determining what made that place so special, he concludes, is the beginning of our journey toward a new home that is as unique as we are.KEYWORDS: Psychology of homecustom homesdesigning unique homesarchitect-designed housesdesigning your own home Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.Additional informationNotes on contributorsFrank HarmonFrank Harmon, FAIA, has designed sustainable modern buildings across the Southeast for 40 years. He discovered architecture as a child playing in the streams and woods of his native Greensboro, North Carolina. His work engages pressing contemporary issues such as placelessness, sustainability, and restoration of cities and nature.The buildings he designs are specific to their sites and use materials such as hurricane-felled cypress and rock from local quarries to connect them to their landscapes. Airy breezeways, outdoor living spaces, deep overhangs, and wide lawns embody the vernacular legacy of the South while maintaining a distinguished modernism.Frank is a graduate of the Architectural Association in London and a professor at the North Carolina State University College of Design. He has taught at the Architectural Association and has served as a visiting critic at Harvard, the University of Virginia, and Auburn University’s Rural Studio.His buildings are frequently published and have garnered over 200 design awards. He recently received the AIANC Gold Medal for Architectural Design. ORO Editions published his new book Native Places: Drawing as a Way to See in October 2018.","PeriodicalId":46458,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Inquiry","volume":"307 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136064907","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":"At Home in Oneself: Self-States and the Treatment of Trauma","authors":"Heather Craige","doi":"10.1080/07351690.2023.2235305","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07351690.2023.2235305","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTWhat does it mean to be at home in oneself? How is that sense created, lost, and restored? This paper explores psychoanalytic self-state theory and illustrates its application to the treatment of painful, dissociated states originating in childhood trauma, using a blend of psychoanalytic and somatic approaches.KEYWORDS: Traumaself-statesdissociationchildhoodpsychoanalysissomaticmind-body AcknowledgmentsThis paper was originally presented in September 2017 at the University of North Carolina Friday Center under the title, “Moving into Wholeness: Self-States and the Treatment of Trauma.” Conceived as a talk for early-career therapists, it is written in plain language and suitable for sharing with patients and family members.Dedicated with love to my brother, Vincent Paul Barkley, and to the memory of our sister, Dawn.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.Notes1 Psychic trauma refers to an experience which has an emotionally unbearable quality. Psychic trauma has two ingredients: a difficult or life threatening event, and the lack of sensitive, human support. Because overwhelming experiences at any age may precipitate dissociation, the self-state model can be applied to people of all ages who experience psychic trauma.2 Although this paper does not address the treatment of DID, self-state theory would be a most helpful model for understanding that personality organization. (See psychoanalytic writings of Brenner, Citation2001, Citation2004, Citation2009, Citation2014; Chefetz & Bromberg, Citation2004; Kluft, Citation2000. Other excellent references for treating DID include Fisher, Citation2017; Steele et al., Citation2016; van der Hart et al., Citation2006).Additional informationNotes on contributorsHeather CraigeHeather Craige, MSW, is a clinical social worker, psychoanalyst and somatic experiencing practitioner working in Raleigh, North Carolina. She graduated from the University of North Carolina-Duke Psychoanalytic Institute, now the Psychoanalytic Center of the Carolinas, serves as a training and supervising analyst.","PeriodicalId":46458,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Inquiry","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136064909","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 Space Odyssey: The Impact of Changing the Physical Aspects of the Analytic Setting on the Analyst, the Patient and Their Relationship","authors":"Sandra G. Hershberg","doi":"10.1080/07351690.2023.2235251","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07351690.2023.2235251","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThe re-modeling of my consulting room space, as a senior analyst became a transformative process. Through clinical examples that traverse themes of envy, pleasure in the new, loss of the familiar and privileging my subjectivity, the influence of the altered physical setting on my patients, myself, and our relationship is examined. Conceptualizations of my professional home as nest, matricial space, holding environment and selfobject experience are considered along with examples of evocative physical objects in relational and developmental contexts. This nourishing space became a sanctuary while working virtually during the pandemic.KEYWORDS: Psychoanalytic officehomematricial spacetransformationevocative objectholding environment Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.Additional informationNotes on contributorsSandra G. HershbergSandra G. Hershberg, M.D., is a psychoanalyst and adult and child psychiatrist. She is the Director of Psychoanalytic Training, Founding Member and Training and Supervising Analyst at the Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis in Washington, DC. She is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis, where she received an award for excellence in teaching in 2019. Dr. Hershberg is a Geographical Supervising Analyst at the St. Louis Institute of Psychoanalysis and the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center. She is a Clinical Associate Professor at Georgetown University Medical School and serves on the Program Committee of the American Psychoanalytic Association. Dr. Hershberg is an Associate Editor of the journal Psychoanalysis, Self and Context and is on the Editorial Board of Psychoanalytic Inquiry.Dr. Hershberg has published and presented papers on variety of subjects including biography and psychoanalysis, pregnancy and creativity, therapeutic action, ethics, and the mother/daughter relationship. Her most recent papers include Mothering a Child with a Visible Facial Difference: The Gaze of the Mother and the Gaze of the Other and A Female Gaze in/on the Female Body in Art and Psychoanalysis: Paula Modersohn-Becker. Dr. Hershberg is the Co-Editor and a contributor to the book Psychoanalytic Theory, Research, and Clinical Practice: Reading Joseph D. Lichtenberg published by Routledge in 2016. In 2021 she co-edited an issue of Psychoanalytic Inquiry entitled Writing a New Playbook: Confronting Theoretical and Clinical Challenges of the Twin Pandemics of COVID-19 and Systemic Racism.","PeriodicalId":46458,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Inquiry","volume":"440 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136064908","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":"Epilogue: HOME","authors":"Sandra G. Hershberg","doi":"10.1080/07351690.2023.2235441","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07351690.2023.2235441","url":null,"abstract":"Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.Additional informationNotes on contributorsSandra G. HershbergSandra G. Hershberg, M.D., is a psychoanalyst and adult and child psychiatrist. She is the Director of Psychoanalytic Training, Founding Member and Training and Supervising Analyst at the Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis in Washington, DC. She is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis, where she received an award for excellence in teaching in 2019. Dr. Hershberg is a Geographical Supervising Analyst at the St. Louis Institute of Psychoanalysis and the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center. She is a Clinical Associate Professor at Georgetown University Medical School and serves on the Program Committee of the American Psychoanalytic Association. Dr. Hershberg is an Associate Editor of the journal Psychoanalysis, Self and Context and is on the Editorial Board of Psychoanalytic Inquiry.Dr. Hershberg has published and presented papers on variety of subjects including biography and psychoanalysis, pregnancy and creativity, therapeutic action, ethics, and the mother/daughter relationship. Her most recent papers include Mothering a Child with a Visible Facial Difference: The Gaze of the Mother and the Gaze of the Other and A Female Gaze in/on the Female Body in Art and Psychoanalysis: Paula Modersohn-Becker. Dr. Hershberg is the Co-Editor and a contributor to the book Psychoanalytic Theory, Research, and Clinical Practice: Reading Joseph D. Lichtenberg published by Routledge in 2016. In 2021 she co-edited an issue of Psychoanalytic Inquiry entitled Writing a New Playbook: Confronting Theoretical and Clinical Challenges of the Twin Pandemics of COVID-19 and Systemic Racism.","PeriodicalId":46458,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Inquiry","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136064747","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":"Homesickness: Its Particular Relevance to Children of Separation and Divorce","authors":"Linda Gunsberg","doi":"10.1080/07351690.2023.2235371","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07351690.2023.2235371","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThis article addresses the similar effects on the very young child of abrupt weaning after breastfeeding, and overnight parenting access with the father when the mother is the primary caretaker and the child is primarily attached to the mother’s home as their home. The role of the young child’s unconscious fantasies is considered, particularly in perceiving the mother in these situations as rejecting, hostile and persecutory towards the young child, as well as the short-term and long-term effects of these early experiences on child, adolescent and adult development. The conflict existing between the application of sound psychoanalytic child development theory and research and the legal Best Interests of the Child standard is raised for discussion. Finally, how these adverse experiences impact on the creation and use of nostalgia are addressed.KEYWORDS: Homesicknessseparation/divorcebreastfeeding/weaningovernight parenting accessabandonmentfantasiesnostalgia AcknowledgmentsI am indebted to Vivian Eskin, Ph.D., who introduced me to Melanie Klein’s contributions on weaning and the role of the young child’s unconscious fantasy life in how such developmental experiences are internalized. I also wish to acknowledge Anice Jeffries for her important questions raised regarding the concept of home and home-base, which took place in multiple communications while writing this paper.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.Notes1 These mothers were not patients of mine. They consulted me solely due to the extreme distress manifested by their young children. The children ranged in age from 10 to 24 months. The pilot study consisted of 4 boy and 4 girls, all first-born children. Fathers were not participants in the pilot study since the focus was on the distressed infants/toddlers in the homes of their primary caretakers. According to these mothers, the fathers did not notice any signs of distress when their infants/toddlers were with them.2 Krystal’s (Citation1978) seminal paper on early trauma reveals going to sleep as a defense against trauma.3 Different authors have observed young children’s separations from their mothers under very different circumstances and for very different periods of time. However, the responses of the young children seem similar.4 The author is not addressing situations where infants and young children live half-time with each parent since the beginning of the child’s life. Situations addressed in this article refer to primary time with the mother and the introduction of greater increments of time with the father.5 Since the young children I referred to in my pilot study were only beginning to be verbal, it was not possible to know that children experienced spending time with their father and going to their father’s home as their mother not loving them. I had the opportunity to follow up on these children as they became more verbal, and it was at a later time that some of the children e","PeriodicalId":46458,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Inquiry","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136064752","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}
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