Psychoanalytic QuarterlyPub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2025-08-06DOI: 10.1080/00332828.2025.2518933
Rosemary Balsam
{"title":"Thoughts On Ending Analyses.","authors":"Rosemary Balsam","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2025.2518933","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00332828.2025.2518933","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Starting with the English translations of Freud's 1937 nuanced concept of ending analysis, the author touches on the history of subsequent ego psychologists' more exact notions of <i>termination</i>. Merton Gill's radical shift in perspective away from that attempt, shows how more modern, post-1990 theoretical developments have evolved toward more subjective, intersubjective, and ranging judgments about what may be <i>practical</i> (Freud's own final 1937 word). Resuming ego development as a goal, for example, and the role of analyst as <i>new object</i> (Loewald 1960 for example), is linked to a creative process of a patient's increased subjective well-being-one feature of ending that cannot be precisely measured. There are two clinical examples of terminations: (1) The author's experience of hearing Hanna Segal tell impressively about a case and its ending, circa 1970; (2) a longitudinal account of a four-part analytic involvement, from a patient's teenage to middle years, that demonstrates different kinds of endings over a patient's life. The last analysis, with a new analyst, after the original analyst's death, was supervised by the author. Summed up, the <i>termination phase</i> is a deep study of the complexity of human existence for both analyst and analysand. This appreciation, including its limitations, helps many analysands fruitfully continue their life journey.</p>","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":"94 3","pages":"381-410"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144790373","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}
Psychoanalytic QuarterlyPub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2025-08-06DOI: 10.1080/00332828.2025.2525908
Steven H Goldberg
{"title":"There is No Usual Way: Editor's Introduction to Seven Papers on Endings in Analysis.","authors":"Steven H Goldberg","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2025.2525908","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00332828.2025.2525908","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This introductory essay provides an integrative summary and critical analysis of seven papers on endings in psychoanalysis. There is strong agreement regarding the essential individuality of each ending, rather than any usual criteria that apply to some but not to all endings of treatment. Recent developments in analytic theory and practice that focus on early trauma, dissociation, and the need for development of missing and inadequate structures and capacities raise new and newly emphasized questions regarding analytic endings. The advantages and disadvantages of different forms of post-treatment contact are considered, as are the implications of remotely conducted analysis. The analyst's resistance to ending emerges as a consistent emphasis in this series of papers.</p>","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":"94 3","pages":"343-359"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144790364","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 : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2025-08-06DOI: 10.1080/00332828.2025.2523442
Stephen D Purcell
{"title":"On Terminating, Ending, and Not Ending.","authors":"Stephen D Purcell","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2025.2523442","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00332828.2025.2523442","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The author describes and reflects upon his clinical experiences with both mutually desired terminations and coerced endings. He addresses issues of technique, <i>being real</i> in termination and post-termination contact in addition to offering his perspectives on the role of theory in determining the phenomena of termination, retraumatizing aspects of termination, termination and death, and the question of whether analytic relationships could or should be ended.</p>","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":"94 3","pages":"519-549"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144790363","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}