Psychoanalytic QuarterlyPub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2025-04-15DOI: 10.1080/00332828.2025.2478936
J David Miller
{"title":"Learning from Vermeer: What \"The Allegory of Painting\" Means for Clinical Theory.","authors":"J David Miller","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2025.2478936","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00332828.2025.2478936","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Vermeer's masterpiece, \"The Allegory of Painting,\" which is the one work that he refused to sell, brings to mind the successful outcome of psychoanalytic treatment. In its incongruities, this painting presumably contains and reflects the conflicted inner world of the artist, but it also evokes a remarkable sense of coherence and harmony. To develop a credible explanation for Vermeer's achievement in analytic terms, I found it helpful to employ several major theoretical models; this finding suggests that for clinical analysis as well, a multi-theory approach would be optimal.</p>","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":"94 2","pages":"185-215"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144053772","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Psychoanalytic QuarterlyPub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2025-01-17DOI: 10.1080/00332828.2024.2442117
Anne Golomb Hoffman
{"title":"The Child in the Adult: Narrative and <i>Nachträglichkeit</i> in Henry James and Freud.","authors":"Anne Golomb Hoffman","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2024.2442117","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00332828.2024.2442117","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>At the intersection of literature and psychoanalysis, this essay draws on Freud's discovery of the infantile sexual unconscious to explore moments in the late novels of Henry James, in which an adult protagonist both recognizes and disavows the visible evidence of a sexual relationship. The essay considers Hans Holbein's 1533 painting, The Ambassadors, as a possible source for Henry James' choice of title for his 1903 novel: the painting's visual play with point of view touches on the narrative disavowal of what is there to be seen. The essay explores some narrative dimensions of Freud's writing to highlight the dynamic disclosure of the infantile within the adult. The concept of Nachträglichkeit, recognizing the deferred or belated impact of disruptive recurrences in mental life, helps to understand such moments and gives insight, more broadly, into narrative experience. Drawing on Nachträglichkeit as a principle of mental life, the essay explores the resonances of infantile sexuality, fantasy, and trauma in narrative, and more generally, as a resource in creative expression.</p>","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":" ","pages":"93-122"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143014123","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Psychoanalytic QuarterlyPub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2025-01-17DOI: 10.1080/00332828.2024.2442418
Neal Vorus
{"title":"The Interpretive Process.","authors":"Neal Vorus","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2024.2442418","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00332828.2024.2442418","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The purpose of this paper is to reformulate the concept of interpretation in a way that better reflects the interpsychic and processive dimensions of this concept as increasingly represented in psychoanalytic writings. Implicit in my redefinition is the view that, while the interpretive process is essential to therapeutic action, the notion of <i>making interpretations</i> is an artificial and problematic way of viewing the work of analysis. In this paper I will review an expanded definition of interpretation as developed through the writings of Hans Loewald and elaborated by more contemporary thinkers such as Sheldon Bach, Ronald Britton, and Antonino Ferro.</p>","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":" ","pages":"63-92"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143014124","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Psychoanalytic QuarterlyPub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2025-04-30DOI: 10.1080/00332828.2025.2479602
Nikos Lamnidis
{"title":"Symbolization of the Primal Scene and Psychic Development.","authors":"Nikos Lamnidis","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2025.2479602","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00332828.2025.2479602","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this paper, the Primal Scene (PrS)-a par excellence primal phantasy, is considered in its function as a central scheme of the primordial psychic world, a kind of core template, which not only constraints the symbolizing urges of mental life \"into certain channels\" (Freud 1938, p. 187) but also canalizes, contains, and organizes them, thus furthering their elaboration. Through extended clinical vignettes taken from different phases of a long analysis, this symbolizing and channeling function, under the aegis of the PrS-enhancing and containing at the same time-is demonstrated, as the material is gradually transitioning from under-represented, archaic psychic derivatives to repressible, sublimated (e.g., symbolically higher) organized imagos.</p>","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":"94 2","pages":"245-275"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144021725","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Psychoanalytic QuarterlyPub Date : 2024-01-01Epub Date: 2024-10-14DOI: 10.1080/00332828.2024.2384384
Rodrigo Barahona
{"title":"Initiating Analysis.","authors":"Rodrigo Barahona","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2024.2384384","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00332828.2024.2384384","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Psychoanalysis is defined in this paper as a process that initiates in the analyst's mind with the framing of the patient's material in terms of <i>transference</i> and <i>resistance</i>. Once the analyst is able to do this, a first level of transformation of experience is effectuated that then must be <i>consummated</i> through interpretation to the patient of what is occurring in their mind as it is lived out in the experience with the analyst. For this author, Bion's model of container-contained complements Freud's transference and resistance model; it also offers an example to his thesis that only within a clear model of mind and a corresponding theory of therapeutic action can the psychoanalyst define for themselves and for their patients a way of knowing that they are doing analysis. The patient's unconscious storm is present from the moment of the first interviews, and the analytic process begins whenever the analyst is ready to experience, think, and talk about it with his or her patient.</p>","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":"93 4","pages":"593-620"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142477500","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Psychoanalytic QuarterlyPub Date : 2024-01-01Epub Date: 2024-07-24DOI: 10.1080/00332828.2024.2373424
Nancy C Winters, Caron Harrang, Stefanie Sedlacek
{"title":"Transformations in O Online: Group Process in the Virtual Realm.","authors":"Nancy C Winters, Caron Harrang, Stefanie Sedlacek","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2024.2373424","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00332828.2024.2373424","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The authors describe their experiences as members of an international online study group, initiated before the COVID-19 pandemic to read aloud and discuss Bion's (1965) <i>Transformations</i>. The three separately authored essays and commentary included here reflect the multifaceted phenomena in which images and voices in Zoom rectangles are transformed into shared emotional experience, the O of the group in Bion's language. These observations show how group members translate online experience into a felt sense of being with others, and suggest that oscillations in the sense of being inside or outside the group demonstrate the dialectical and constantly changing nature of the analytic field in an online group.</p>","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":" ","pages":"497-525"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141761646","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Psychoanalytic QuarterlyPub Date : 2024-01-01Epub Date: 2024-05-22DOI: 10.1080/00332828.2024.2345050
Christopher W T Miller
{"title":"The Wisdom of Shadows: Chaos, Disintegration, and Psychic Growth in <i>King Lear</i>.","authors":"Christopher W T Miller","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2024.2345050","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00332828.2024.2345050","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><i>King Lear</i> is a timeless exposition of humankind's attempt to find meaning amidst the ceaseless turbulence of existence. This entails navigating the disintegrating pulls of nature and harmful human action that exist alongside affiliative, life-promoting gestures shown toward one another. As the predictability and safety afforded by social and two-dimensional psychic constructs collapse, several characters in this play are forced to reckon with the untamed, less organized realms of the mind and natural world. This leads to movements toward psychic paralysis and disintegration, as well as toward growth and interpersonal healing, dynamics that hinge on the characters' internal structuring.</p>","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":" ","pages":"349-383"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141082426","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Psychoanalytic QuarterlyPub Date : 2024-01-01Epub Date: 2024-05-30DOI: 10.1080/00332828.2024.2345047
Brett H Clarke
{"title":"\"Mourning and Melancholia\" Meets <i>The Babadook</i>: Emptiness and its Relation to Absence.","authors":"Brett H Clarke","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2024.2345047","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00332828.2024.2345047","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper explores how the film <i>The Babadook</i> illuminates psychoanalytic understandings of melancholia and mourning. The author attempts to unwind the complicated character of melancholia, using Freud as an initial point of orientation, then relying on a few ideas from Klein and later writers. The paper attempts to refine our understanding of the difference between absence and emptiness, especially the difference between being captured in the nothing or deadness of melancholic emptiness, on the one hand, and being alive enough to suffer the absence of a lost object, which bears a potential for mourning, on the other. The possibility of psychic tension between these states is explored. Some implications of the relationship between absence and emptiness for the mourning process are considered. The author uses the film as a resource throughout.</p>","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":" ","pages":"321-347"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141176540","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}