Psychoanalytic QuarterlyPub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2025-10-30DOI: 10.1080/00332828.2025.2568013
Frank Marra
{"title":"Novel Object Survey in Spike Jonze's <i>Her</i>.","authors":"Frank Marra","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2025.2568013","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00332828.2025.2568013","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Employing an applied psychoanalytic lens to Spike Jonze's <i>her</i> (2013), this paper expands on meaning-making opportunities available to the film. Such expansion is pursued by focusing additional attention to cinematic strategies and language, attended to by a psychoanalytic appreciation of object relations and Andre Green's thoughts on negation. With such considerations in place, the paper further articulates unconscious material pertinent to the film and culture at large, as it better appreciates the developmental crisis endured by the film's protagonist.</p>","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":" ","pages":"639-667"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145410473","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}
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: 2025-11-05DOI: 10.1080/00332828.2025.2569599
Jessica Tran The, François Ansermet
{"title":"Freud, Heredity, and Genetics.","authors":"Jessica Tran The, François Ansermet","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2025.2569599","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00332828.2025.2569599","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>To emphasize how interwoven <i>innate</i> and <i>acquired</i> factors are in the aetiology of mental disorders, Freud introduced the concept of <i>complemental series</i>. Today, current genetic research data is shedding new light on this hypothesis. The development of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) has highlighted the interaction of genetic and environmental factors in the aetiology of psychiatric diseases. By reinterpreting the evolution of Freud's positions regarding the aetiological role of heredity through the prism of current literature, this article aims to introduce a dialogue between psychoanalysis and contemporary genetics.</p>","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":" ","pages":"723-766"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145453629","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: 10.1080/00332828.2025.2518925
Alice Jones
{"title":"Ever Ending.","authors":"Alice Jones","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2025.2518925","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00332828.2025.2518925","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Reflections on the process of psychoanalytic termination led to reexamination of a long-term case of a person who experienced major dissociation in response to severe neglect in infancy and beyond. Her need to return one year after our ending led to a reconsideration of what ending is possible for our more traumatized patients. This essay also considers larger themes of aging, dying, and departure as they relate to increased access to aliveness in the present.</p>","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":"94 3","pages":"497-517"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144790361","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}