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: 2024-10-14DOI: 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: 2024-05-22DOI: 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: 2024-10-14DOI: 10.1080/00332828.2024.2384390
Elena Molinari
{"title":"A Difficult Beginning: Commencement and Birth in the Analysis of an Adolescent.","authors":"Elena Molinari","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2024.2384390","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00332828.2024.2384390","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The author distinguishes between two kinds of beginning, conceptually tied to two ways of approaching the psychoanalytic situation described as <i>epistemological</i> and <i>ontological</i>. Through a clinical case, the author shows how her work with a troubled adolescent had two beginnings that corresponded to these types. In this way, she tries to expand on the literature about the <i>ontological turn,</i> focusing on what <i>beginning</i> means in this context. For treatment to succeed, a <i>birth</i> must emerge, a transformative moment with the potential for significant change. The combined ability to transform the most primitive, somatopsychic pain can be more effective if shared by analysts and patients in a predominantly aesthetic form.</p>","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":"93 4","pages":"621-646"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142477497","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: 10.1080/00332828.2024.2396863
Jeremy Elkins
{"title":"On \"Beginning\" in Analysis.","authors":"Jeremy Elkins","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2024.2396863","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00332828.2024.2396863","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>While we speak casually about <i>the</i> beginning of an analysis, we are also aware that there are different senses of <i>beginning</i> in the context of an analysis. Certain differences surrounding the nature of beginning reflect technical-theoretical debates within the field. But in addition and more broadly, the various senses of <i>beginning</i> represent different <i>dimensions</i> of our understanding and experience of analysis. In this essay, I explore some of these dimensions and consider the significance and challenges of <i>beginnings</i> throughout the course of analytic work.</p>","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":"93 4","pages":"567-591"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142477501","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: 2024-05-31DOI: 10.1080/00332828.2024.2349054
Michael Parsons
{"title":"Practice and Praxis: Psychoanalysis as an Act of Love.","authors":"Michael Parsons","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2024.2349054","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00332828.2024.2349054","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The concept of <i>praxis</i> in psychoanalysis includes the way clinical practice embodies the values on which psychoanalysis is founded. As psychoanalysis evolved from a medical treatment to a process of open-ended psychic development, its underlying values evolved as well. Free-floating attention has many facets, shown in the variety of names given to it. From being a means to an end clinically, it became an implicit statement about the human value of the person being attended to. Clinical vignettes, contributions from philosophers, and examples from literature converge around the idea that the unreserved openness of free-floating attention amounts to an act of love. It is underpinned by the values, which are also virtues, of hope, and faith in the possibility of good; it can also be seen, in non-religious terms, as a form of prayer.</p>","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":" ","pages":"219-248"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141180900","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: 10.1080/00332828.2024.2369507
Thomas H Ogden
{"title":"Giving Back What the Patient Brings: On Winnicott's \"Mirror-Role of Mother and Family in Child Development\".","authors":"Thomas H Ogden","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2024.2369507","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00332828.2024.2369507","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The author offers a creative reading of Winnicott's (1967) \"Mirror-role of mother and family in child development.\" Winnicott presents the idea that a pivotal experience in the process of the infant's coming into being as himself is the mother's communicating to the infant, by the look in her eyes, what she sees there when she looks at him. In the absence of the experience of being seen, the infant's capacity to feel real and alive atrophies. The author fleshes out Winnicott's thinking by suggesting that just as the infant comes more fully into being as he sees himself in his mother's eyes, so too, the mother comes more fully into being as a mother as she sees herself in the infant's eyes. The paradigm shift that Winnicott has contributed to psychoanalysis is reflected in the clinical work he presents: (1) the goal of psychoanalysis is no longer the enrichment of the patient's self-understanding; rather, the analytic goal is the patient's coming more fully alive to himself; and (2) the analyst helps the patient achieve this end not by making astute interpretations but by allowing the patient to experience the pleasure of making discoveries of his or her own.</p>","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":" ","pages":"413-430"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141761643","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}