Psychoanalytic QuarterlyPub Date : 2024-01-01Epub Date: 2024-07-22DOI: 10.1080/00332828.2024.2376130
Richard M Billow
{"title":"Kaës' Internal Groups and Actual Groups: A Relational Perspective.","authors":"Richard M Billow","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2024.2376130","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00332828.2024.2376130","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Rene Kaës (2007), an influential French psychoanalyst relatively unknown to English-speaking readers, extends the field of psychoanalytic investigation and practice to groups. Building on Klein, Anzeiu, Bion, and Lacan, Kaës presents a dual-axes theory in which early oedipal and <i>sibling</i> complexes structure unconscious dynamics of <i>internal groups</i>. According to Kaës, analytic group psychotherapy provides access to the phantasies, affects, and action tendencies contained within internal groups that would be otherwise inaccessible. While a few reference articles have appeared in the English literature, Kaës' bold assertions, core concepts, and praxis have not been subject to critical evaluation. I introduce Kaës' main ideas, demonstrate their influence on my group work, and by comparing two case examples, from his practice and mine, articulate our differences, some of which arise from different conceptions of and approaches to <i>intersubjectivity</i>. The discussion continues in the final section which briefly considers the nature of psychoanalytic learning and how we may employ the therapeutic group to reach this goal.</p>","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":" ","pages":"473-496"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141749190","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}
{"title":"History Flows Through Us: Germany, The Holocaust, and the Importance of EmpathyHISTORY FLOWS THROUGH US: GERMANY, THE HOLOCAUST, AND THE IMPORTANCE OF EMPATHY. Edited by RogerFrie. New York: Routledge, 2018. 194 pp.","authors":"Tyger Latham","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2023.2253090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00332828.2023.2253090","url":null,"abstract":"Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes1 Eisenhower, D. D. (1945). Diplomatic message to George C. Marshall, April 15, 1945. https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/eisenhowers/quotes2 See, for example: Prince, R. (2009). Psychoanalysis traumatized: the legacy of the Holocaust. Am. J. Psychoanal., 69:179-194; Kuriloff, E. (2014). Contemporary Psychoanalysis and the Legacy of the Third Reich. New York: Routledge (hereafter referred to as CP<R); Aron, L. & Starr, K. (2013). A Psychotherapy for the People: Toward a Progressive Psychoanalysis. New York: Routledge.3 Strozier, C. B. (2001). Heinz Kohut: The Making of a Psychoanalyst. New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux.4 CP<R, p. 396.5 Kohut, H. (1979). “The two analyses of Mr. Z.” Int. J. Psychoanal., 60:3-27.6 Ibid., p. 7.7 Ibid.8 Kohut, H. (1978). Self psychology and the sciences of man. In Self Psychology and the Humanities: Reflections on a New Psychoanalytic Approach, ed. C. B. Strozier. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1980, pp. 73-94.9 Ibid., p. 6.10 Ibid.11 Ibid.12 Faulkner, W. (1951). Requiem for a Nun. New York: Random House, p. 73.","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":"66 6","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135474599","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}
{"title":"Intersectionality and relational psychoanalysis: New perspectives on race, gender, and sexualityINTERSECTIONALITY AND RELATIONAL PSYCHOANALYSIS: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON RACE, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY. Edited by Max Belkin and Cleonie White. London/New York: Routledge, 2020. 232 pp.","authors":"Deborah Choate","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2023.2253698","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00332828.2023.2253698","url":null,"abstract":"Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes1 Unless otherwise noted, page numbers are from Belkin M. & White C. (2020). Intersectionality and Relational Psychoanalysis: New Perspectives on Race, Gender, and Sexuality. London/New York: Routledge.2 Crenshaw’s piece is the source of critical race theory (CRT), currently so woefully distorted by politicians.3 Bromberg, P. M. (2012). Credo. Psychoanal. Dialogues, 22:273-278, p. 273.","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":"74 6","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135432442","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}
{"title":"Creative Engagement in Psychoanalytic Practice.","authors":"David Raniere","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2023.2231319","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00332828.2023.2231319","url":null,"abstract":"Think of Henry Markman’s offering as a musical album with thirteen tracks, and when you read/listen along, you will find this metaphor is no stretch. For one thing, Markman writes explicitly about music as metaphor, jazz in particular, as he elaborates distinct forms of psychoanalytic accompaniment and improvisation in clinical practice. He even goes so far as to recommend for the reader specific pieces of music that illustrate distinct ways a drummer accompanies the soloist. For example, the palpable and energetic presence of Elvin Jones on drums provides John Coltrane with non-impinging “steady rhythmic support”—a pulse—that is “both strong and relaxed” on Coltrane’s Impressions (p. 127). If you find it on your preferred music platform and listen along, you can hear and feel what Markman means. As someone not at all musically versed, I found this and the book as a whole to","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":"92 1","pages":"356 - 363"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44546629","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}
{"title":"Ruptures in the American Psyche: Containing Destructive Populism in Perilous Times","authors":"Henry J. Friedman","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2023.2231316","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00332828.2023.2231316","url":null,"abstract":"fungi living symbiotically with their roots and the rhizomes of other herbaceous plants, they are able to secretly exchange essential nutrients. Mother trees can send their carbon to understory plants, increasing their chances of survival. The metaphor is illuminating. For survival, an invisible and vast network of communication relies on the foreign elements that are the filaments of mycelia for trees, true intermediaries as words are for humans. We almost see the chains of signifiers—even for us, largely foreign, that is, unconscious—that constitute the meaning that we are, and through which, through moments of at-one-ment or (Virginia Woolf’s) moments of being, we are born to ourselves from our prereflexive selves as subjects. This profound ethical sentiment of humanity as deeply immersed in nature and sharing the fate of all living beings is the gift Moss gives us with his book. Of course, the plague is not just the pandemic, but the plague in Igmar Bergman’s movie The Seventh Seal, a figure of death.","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":"92 1","pages":"342 - 348"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43703774","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}
{"title":"From Listening to Overhearing. A Review of Psychoanalysis in a Plague Year","authors":"G. Civitarese","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2023.2230067","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00332828.2023.2230067","url":null,"abstract":"At the time, I considered it an honor to have the opportunity to review Moss’s book I &You. And the same is true now for his new book Psychoanalysis in a Plague Year, which is just as fascinating as the first. The technique employed to write it is no different, and the author tells us about it in the preface. After each session, he would choose a sentence and extract it one at a time, leaving it where it lay. He would then proceed to link up the sentences and collate them into a daily verse. In this way, day after day, Moss composed 189 poems.","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":"92 1","pages":"333 - 342"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46025467","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}
{"title":"Hatred of Sex","authors":"E. Zickler","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2023.2232236","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00332828.2023.2232236","url":null,"abstract":"have seen unfold in the United States that are worth considering but is not explanatory. Since Donald Trump announced his intention to seek the Presidency in 2015, the media has bombarded us with Trump stories, including details of a plainly disordered character who, while called by many commentators a narcissist, went far beyond the garden variety narcissistic personality. Such individuals—who are well known to those of us who work as psychoanalysts—are known to be destructive of their wives (or husbands) and children, but they don’t achieve the status and power of Hitler, Stalin, and Trump. The ability of certain individuals to mislead a nation—including Trump’s campaigns, presidency, and public incitement of an insurrection—remains a mystery despite attempts to explain their emergence as leaders of large and powerful countries. Michael J. Diamond is a psychoanalyst who cares deeply about what he has seen happening. In this book, the author’s effort to utilize his psychoanalytic knowledge to increase the reader’s understanding of unconscious factors that may determine why Donald Trump has been partially successful is, in a certain sense, a tour de force. But, in the end, I believe he will have to conclude, as I do, the unconscious cannot substitute for following what continues to happen in plain sight. HENRY J. FRIEDMAN (CAMBRIDGE, MA)","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":"92 1","pages":"348 - 355"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44402272","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}
{"title":"The Life of Gregory Zilboorg 1890-1940: Psyche, Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis, 283pp/The Life of Gregory Zilboorg 1940-1959: Mind Medicine and Man","authors":"Daniel Jacobs","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2023.2181565","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00332828.2023.2181565","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":"92 1","pages":"144 - 148"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43836345","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}
{"title":"Plato’s Ghost: Minus Links and Liminality in Psychoanalytic Practice","authors":"H. Levine","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2023.2168448","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00332828.2023.2168448","url":null,"abstract":"tained if we overlook important happenings: the accusations of sexual relations with a patient; his greed (charging $400 a session to some, the equivalent of $1200 today); and the curtailment of his training analyst responsibilities. Nevertheless, Caroline Zilboorg has done a great favor for those interested in history of psychoanalysis. Her book deserves to be read, not only as a colorful account of a fascinating analytic figure, but also as the portrait of a life of spectacular accomplishment as well as moral and ethical weakness.","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":"8 1","pages":"148 - 153"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"58813433","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}
{"title":"The Surviving Object: Psychoanalytic Clinical Essays on Psychic Survival-of-The-Object","authors":"K. Melikian","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2023.2168450","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00332828.2023.2168450","url":null,"abstract":"“What is it to be seen in the right way? As who you are? A splash of color? A blur in the crowd. Something spectacular but untouchable.” So writes the poet Ada Limon speaking to the subjective experience of being seen and of not being seen. When is it joyful and when is it inhibiting of a true self? Such existential thoughts are also at the heart of Jan Abram’s The Surviving Object. This book is a rejuvenated collection of her essays on the dual concept of an intrapsychic surviving and non-surviving object—a concept based on her interpretations of Winnicott’s thoughts on destruction, dependency, and psychic development. The essays are a master class on some of Winnicott’s most compelling theoretical contributions and an example of how those contributions live on in the creative interpretations of those who make use of his work to make their own meaning. Jan Abram, a training analyst and fellow at the British Psychoanalytical Society and a visiting professor at University College London, is a wellpublished and highly regarded Winnicott scholar. Her most significant writings include the remarkable The Language of Winnicott—1997 Outstanding Academic Book of the year—and her 2013 editing of Donald Winnicott Today. Her work contributes to our ongoing appreciation for the enormity of Winnicott’s psychoanalytic legacy and how it informs subsequent theoretical contributions. Abram’s comfort level with important British and French psychoanalytic thinkers brings a richer dimension to her formulations on how Winnicott’s thinking continues to influence the creative gestures of newer generations of psychanalysts around the globe.","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":"92 1","pages":"139 - 143"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41886846","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}