{"title":"Freud as a Social and Cultural Theorist: On Human Nature and the Civilizing Process.","authors":"E. Carrillo","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2022.2141513","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00332828.2022.2141513","url":null,"abstract":"Howard L. Kaye has written an engaging and remarkably well-researched book on the social and cultural interests of Freud, going a long way to sustain the importance of Freudian thought in non-clinical fields. While the reader is not obliged to agree with all of Kaye’s conclusions, the rigorousness of his research and argument compels one to take them seriously. Freud As a Social and Cultural Theorist is comprised of ten chapters and a conclusion. The first chapter is a brief introduction into the central inquiry of the book: is Freud developing a biological or social view of humankind? Unequivocally, Kaye asserts that “Freud...must be read as we would a Marx, Durkheim or Weber...with the same sensitivity to development, ambiguity, and nuance which the totality of their work requires.” (p. 12). He goes on to argue this point throughout the book. After taking the reader through an overview of Freud’s initial psychoanalytic discoveries such as defense, infantile sexuality, and moving beyond the seduction hypothesis, Kaye begins an exploration of Freud’s social, cultural, political, and religious interests. To my mind, what is truly original here is the manner in which the author manages to almost constantly alternate between Freud’s theoretical works and personal epistolary. In this way, Kaye evokes a conversation in the reader’s mind","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":"91 1","pages":"763 - 766"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45238382","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 Analyst’s Vulnerability: Impact on Theory and Practice","authors":"David Raniere","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2022.2146948","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00332828.2022.2146948","url":null,"abstract":"“the transmission of an experience that is not intimidated by intimacy even when the intimacy of the dialogue might buffet and injure you, and does not flinch from bearing witness to the injustice and pain connected to it” (p. 151). Psychoanalysis, Borgogno holds “only brings change if the analyst ‘is’ good, in the double sense of good as a ‘professional’ and good as a ‘person’” [Citing Racker (1958), p. 152]; and he seems hopeful that—having accompanied him on this very personal journey of remembrance—the reader’s experience will include an understanding of what Borgogno’s version of “being good”means. DAVID G. POWER (CAMBRIDGE, MA)","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":"91 1","pages":"788 - 795"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49248221","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":"One Life Heals Another: Beginnings, Maturity, Outcomes of a Vocation","authors":"D. G. Power","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2022.2146947","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00332828.2022.2146947","url":null,"abstract":"Emily Dickinson” is aptly titled. We experience Ogden’s associations, feelings, and his evocation of experience in reading two poems. It is an important part of this book because he embodies his aliveness in a setting with these poets. He invites us into his internal setting as a reader and how he is coming to life in the reading room—an experience related to coming alive in the consulting room. In a previous work (see footnote 1), Ogden cited Stoppard’s elegant definition of poetry as a literary form that simultaneously expands meaning as it contracts language. In this chapter, Ogden embodies a parsimony of language as he illustrates his responsiveness to patients. This volume itself enacts so beautifully the feeling of coming alive in the consulting room, an effort to live and create in potential space. My internal, ongoing conversations with Thomas Ogden over the years were once again enormously deepened. I am grateful to him as a clinician, theoretician, and, as I wish to emphasize again, a revolutionary student of tradition. STEVEN COOPER (NEW YORK, NY)","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":"91 1","pages":"780 - 788"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46064903","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":"Masculinity and its Discontents: The Male Psyche and the Inherent Tensions of Maturing Manhood. By Michael J. Diamond. London/New York: Routledge, 2021. 152 pp.","authors":"J. Lieberman","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2022.2109889","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00332828.2022.2109889","url":null,"abstract":"Michael J. Diamond, a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Los Angeles Institute and Society for Psychoanalytic Studies, has successfully integrated a wealth of theory and clinical evidence about the gender development of boys as they become men. He identifies with the West Coast version of the American independent tradition. He is quite grounded in modern Freudian theory and has added to and embellished Freud’s legacy with today’s pluralistic ideas and concepts. Bion, Lacan, British object relations, relational theorists, and others are frequently invoked. Diamond has authored more than ninety articles and three books, and his work is widely cited when the subject of male gender comes up. The reader encounters, on the very first pages, a wealth of accolades and praise by eight prominent psychoanalysts who took on the considerable task of reading this book. This book is dense and encyclopedic. Practically every sentence is loaded with concepts, old and new, that pertain to how male gender identity develops over time. Diamond delineates the path by which a boy becomes a man (mensch). Freud described his understanding of female development as the dark continent. With the advent of feminism in the late 20th Century, many psychoanalysts put light on female development. Diamond and others have explored the other dark continent, that of male development.","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":"91 1","pages":"609 - 614"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42182655","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 Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy","authors":"Sharon Zalusky Blum","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2022.2099701","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00332828.2022.2099701","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":"91 1","pages":"438 - 440"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42252690","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 Emergence of Analytic Oneness: Into the Heart of Psychoanalysis.","authors":"D. G. Power","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2022.2094651","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00332828.2022.2094651","url":null,"abstract":"Ofra Eshel of Israel brings a wealth of clinical and theoretical background to this exploration of what she describes as analytic oneness, arguing for its centrality in current psychoanalytic praxis. Eshel is a training and supervising analyst of the Israel Psychoanalytic Society, vice president of the International Winnicott Association, and the founder and head of the postgraduate track “Independent Psychoanalysis: Radical Breakthroughs” at the advanced studies of the Program of Psychotherapy, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University. As she says at the outset, the book traces her theoretical and clinical development over the course of a long career—a career focused on working with very severe pathology, difficult-to-treat patients, and treatment-of-last-resort situations in both institutional settings and, as her career developed, in a more familiar, analytic office practice. A truly impressive body of work extending over thirty years, much of it previously published, is now gathered in one volume that, as the title announces, is centered on tracing the evolution of her analytic oneness concept as the core of psychoanalysis. This organization of the book allows the reader to follow along with her as she discovers, describes, reflects on, and refines her understanding of this central idea. Alongside this opportunity to grasp what is a conceptually nuanced and sophisticated perspective on our analytic task, we come to know Eshel’s remarkable spirit, style, tone, and sensibility. In addition to the theoretical and clinical contributions she offers, the analytic ethic she","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":"91 1","pages":"413 - 420"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43011700","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":"Cézanne and The Post-Bionian Field: An Explroation and a Meditation.","authors":"H. Levine","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2022.2096331","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00332828.2022.2096331","url":null,"abstract":"Inspired by his visit to an exhibition of C ezanne’s portraits at the National Portrait Gallery in London, Robert Snell has combined his passions and his expertise as art historian and analytic psychotherapist to create a remarkable book. C ezanne and the Post-Bionian Field: An Exploration and a Meditation is “an exploration and meditation” that places C ezanne’s visual concepts in a contrapuntal dialogue with Bion’s oneiric models and Nino Ferro’s field theory. The result is a beautifully illustrated and deeply informative volume that works well on many levels–-art historical and cultural commentary, introduction to Bion and Ferro’s field theory, and applied psychoanalytic comparative investigation–-as it invites readers to accompany the author in this extraordinary encounter between art and psychoanalysis. Here, art “‘serve[s] to interpret psychoanalysis,’ in a collaborative meeting that can open up new meanings in both arenas... [as] multiple voices claim a hearing: those of artists, art historians, psychoanalysts, philosophers, some contemporaries of C ezanne and... that of the painter himself” (p. xiv). It is Snell’s contention that:","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":"91 1","pages":"431 - 438"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41330206","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":"Toward a Unified Psychoanalytic Theory: Foundation in a Revised and Expanded Ego Psychology.","authors":"F. Busch","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2022.2095797","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00332828.2022.2095797","url":null,"abstract":"Morris Eagle, one of our leading analyst-scholars, has written an important book that resurrects ego psychology from the theoretical dustbin where many believe it belonged. His formidable integrative capacities are on full display in his new book, and he succeeds admirably in demonstrating that–-amongst the plethora of psychoanalytic perspectives–ego psychology provides the strongest basis for a theory of mind and the place for a unified theory of psychoanalysis that integrates multiple psychoanalytic schools. He supports his views with a stunning array of research, often from studies outside of psychoanalysis, and his discussion of the critiques of ego psychology from within psychoanalysis are clear and convincing. To remind readers, the beginnings of ego psychology were outlined by Freud in his 1923 and 1926 papers, The Ego and the Id and “Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety.” Summarizing his views in the New Introductory Lectures, Freud (1933) suggested that we change our attention from “the repressed to the repressing forces” (p. 58). However, it is important to remember that in this same article Freud was, as it turns out, justifiably wary of how his introduction of ego psychology would be welcomed: “I must, however, let you know of my suspicion of this ego psychology will affect you differently from the introduction into the psychic underworld which preceded it” (p. 58). He went on to say:","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":"91 1","pages":"420 - 427"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49599523","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":"Three Characters: Narcissist, Borderline, Manic Depressive","authors":"J. Frosch","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2022.2096330","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00332828.2022.2096330","url":null,"abstract":"tent” (p. 235). As he notes later, Gray’s emphasis is exclusively on uncovering resistances for the purpose of uncovering drive derivatives, believing that these will emerge on their own once resistances are analyzed. I believe this was too optimistic on Gray’s part. In the final chapter, Eagle is critical of newer psychoanalytic schools that portray their contributions as the new, best, complete theory rather than additions to existing theory. He also sees views of common ground amongst disparate theories as illusory. As Eagle has portrayed how different theories can be integrated within ego psychology in previous chapters, there is no grand finale. In summary, this is a book in the Hartmann-Rapaport tradition. It presents a theory of mind that integrates various theories within an ego psychological paradigm that would be useful for all psychoanalysts to understand. While the book isn’t written with a clinical focus, it could be useful to psychoanalytic clinicians from all schools to consider.","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":"91 1","pages":"427 - 431"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41572455","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":"Response to Book Review Essay “Trying to Pass off Transphobia as Psychoanalysis and Cruelty as ‘Clinical Logic.’” by Avgi Saketopolou. Psychoanal. Q., 91:177-190.","authors":"R. D'angelo, Lisa Marchiano, Shlomit Gorin","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2022.2124080","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00332828.2022.2124080","url":null,"abstract":"As psychoanalytic clinicians who have worked with trans-identifying youth for many years, we resolutely agree with Avgi Saketopoulou's assertion that there are no one-size-fits-all formulations that adequately capture the diverse experiences of these youth. However, we argue that she falls seriously short of convincingly arguing her criticism of the Evanses’ understanding of gender dysphoria and their approach to working with trans-identified individuals. Instead, Saketopoulou, mischaracterizes the Evanses' position as \"so extreme... and so excessive in its claims,\" and produces an ad hominem reprimand of colleagues rather than a reasoned critique of their book. That said, it is essential to carefully consider her main points in light of the developmental and psychoanalytic theories that have long informed and shaped clinical practice. For us, her problematic critique raises one of the most crucial questions in this debate: how do clinicians best help young people who are experiencing gender-related distress? This is where Saketopoulou and the Evanses diverge, each privileging different discourses. Saketopoulou recommends that practitioners","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":"91 1","pages":"591 - 594"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45373176","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}