Psychoanalytic QuarterlyPub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2025-01-22DOI: 10.1080/00332828.2024.2443090
Igor Kolmakov
{"title":"The Strange Case of Dr. Freud, Mr. Holmes, and Dr. Watson.","authors":"Igor Kolmakov","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2024.2443090","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00332828.2024.2443090","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Although the comparison between two great Victorian masterminds, Sigmund Freud and Sherlock Holmes, and their respective methods, is in itself not new (see for example Ginzburg 1979, 1980; Brooks 1984; Marcus 1984; Shephard 1985; Spence 1987), it merits further investigation, as it raises important questions regarding the nature and structure of clinical evidence, clinical epistemology, and clinical narration. In this article, the author: refers both to the common cultural background of these two projects (including the <i>disenchantment</i> of the modern world and the complicated dialog between rationality and imagination) and their common epistemological situation; analyses their <i>search for a plot</i> and <i>search for clues</i>, and characterizes both Holmes and Freud as <i>applied historians</i> and <i>applied semioticians</i>. Their <i>modi</i> operandi are described as hermeneutical procedures, methodologically similar to Charles Sanders Peirce's <i>abduction</i>. Moreover, the author argues that both can be viewed as manifestations of Aristotle's <i>phronesis</i>. Finally, the author points out one important difference between Freud and Holmes, namely that in fact <i>the Viennese Holmes</i> is at the same time <i>the Viennese Watson</i>.</p>","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":" ","pages":"29-61"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143025212","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: 2025-04-15DOI: 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: 2025-04-15DOI: 10.1080/00332828.2025.2475760
Michel Thys
{"title":"Between Past and Present: on the Psychoanalytic Preoccupation with Memories and Life History.","authors":"Michel Thys","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2025.2475760","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00332828.2025.2475760","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Psychoanalysis focuses both on the patient's inner life history and on what happens in the actual analytic situation. Psychoanalysts differ in the extent they pay attention to memories and the past or to the actuality of the analytic session as such and in the extent they link both. The main goal of this paper is to give an overview of ideas in the history of psychoanalytic thought on the relationship between past and present. The paper examines five possible positions: historicization (the past colors the present), actualization (back and forth between past and present), dehistoricization (the here and now), posteriority (the present colors the past), and <i>natality</i> (present without link with the past). New positions are added to old ones rather than replacing them. Together, all the positions testify to a lively dynamic in psychoanalysis that both repeats and transforms itself in everyday analytic thinking and practice.</p>","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":"94 2","pages":"217-243"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144057437","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: 10.1080/00332828.2025.2485181
Isaac Jean-Francois
{"title":"\"Self-Slaughter\": Gary Fisher's Racialized Fantasies Bridge Black Studies And Psychoanalysis.","authors":"Isaac Jean-Francois","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2025.2485181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00332828.2025.2485181","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Black Studies and psychoanalysis both consider how socio-sexual dynamics contour the skin. Black Studies scholar Hortense Spillers (1987) alongside psychoanalytic theorist Didier Anzieu (1985) trace the skin as a porous enclosure, albeit in different discursive environments. Also a scholar of psychoanalysis, Spillers's work emphasizes the intersubjective nature of embodiment: history carries notions of race, which frames interactions between desiring subjects. As a case study, the journals of writer and English doctoral student Gary Fisher (1961-1994) provide a narrative surface to place both traditions in conversation. This article investigates the fraught relationship between the imagined and historical in the psyche's processing of racial trauma. Fisher's exploration of his racialized fantasies and sexuality unfurls across his writing at the height of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, an epidemic which continues today. Fisher's prose reveals that abject sexual practices, those which rely on racial tropes to efface and excite the desiring subject, can inspire meaningful self-actualization and broaden understandings of race and sexuality.</p>","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":"94 2","pages":"277-301"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144053767","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: 2025-04-15DOI: 10.1080/00332828.2025.2481955
Michael J Diamond
{"title":"Toward Eradicating the Unbearable: The Dangerous Allure of Fascistic States of Mind.","authors":"Michael J Diamond","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2025.2481955","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00332828.2025.2481955","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>To understand fascistic group movements, it is necessary to understand the dynamics of fascistic states of mind within all of us. Following a note on the American polity, the author differentiates <i>fascism</i> from <i>authoritarianism</i> before reviewing the dynamics of fascistic states of mind, including the omnipotent longing for purity and its relationship to destructive narcissism. Considering the role of the death drive, the allure of the fascistic state is explored, based largely in the need to avoid primary terrors of annihilation. In addressing the movement of such states from the individual psyche to the larger group mind, the author examines the symbiotic fit between the leader and the group's unconscious fears and phantasies, as illustrated by perverse containment within the cult of Trumpism. Finally, in noting the inability of reason alone to contain destructive forces, he ponders how we might deal with fascistic states of mind most effectively in individuals, groups, and ourselves.</p>","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":"94 2","pages":"153-183"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144030082","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: 2025-02-12DOI: 10.1080/00332828.2024.2442119
Oren Gozlan
{"title":"Novel Revolts as Crafting of a Self.","authors":"Oren Gozlan","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2024.2442119","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00332828.2024.2442119","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The psychoanalytic field continues to struggle with the dilemmas of conceptualizing gender and the experience of gender transition, even though gender appears to be very present in its multiple and transitional forms in the realm of the psyche as it manifests through the affective situation of the transference. In this paper, I want to move to an understanding of different situations of transitions that are grounded in gender but that suggest a wider world of experience with the claim that understanding the self is a complicated matter; and while this in itself is obvious to everyone, its complexity still comes as a surprise because of the unconscious. I turn to four memoirs: P. Carl's <i>Becoming a Man</i>; Susan Faludi's <i>In the Darkroom</i>; Masha Gessen's \"To Be or Not To Be\"; and Jane Gallop's <i>Sexuality, Disability and Aging: Queer Temporalities of the Phallus</i>. Each text depicts different notions of transition that suggest a wider world of experience: physicality (age, illness, disability), generation, sexuality, and relationality. In unpacking each narrative as unique figurations of transitioning, I show how each gives us a foothold into a new way of imagining gender. I argue that by reading memoirs the analyst enters a world that is theirs and not theirs. It is a way into an imaginative realm that allows us entrance into conflicts, questions, and representations of being in the world.</p>","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":"94 1","pages":"5-27"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143411243","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: 2025-01-30DOI: 10.1080/00332828.2025.2450252
Wendy W Katz, Daria Colombo, Steven H Goldberg, Jane G Tillman
{"title":"Comings and Goings 2024.","authors":"Wendy W Katz, Daria Colombo, Steven H Goldberg, Jane G Tillman","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2025.2450252","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00332828.2025.2450252","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":" ","pages":"3-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143068656","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}