Psychoanalytic QuarterlyPub Date : 2023-01-01Epub Date: 2023-11-30DOI: 10.1080/00332828.2023.2272609
Seth Aronson
{"title":"Karl Abraham, The Origins of Projective Identification and The Day of Atonement.","authors":"Seth Aronson","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2023.2272609","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00332828.2023.2272609","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Karl Abraham, one of Melanie Klein's analysts, undoubtedly influenced Klein in her clinical and theoretical thinking. Abraham was arguably the first analyst to focus on character, as well as the relationship between bodily experience and object relationships-central to the concept of projective identification. His writing on mourning (like Klein's, intensely personal) described identificatory processes with the lost object. In a lesser known essay, Abraham applied some of these ideas to the Jewish Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur. Through examination of this lesser known paper, this article describes how Abraham initiated ideas around the concept of projective identification, and then extends Abraham's early ideas to a more contemporary understanding of the concept. This extension represents a contemporary elaboration of a psychoanalytic contribution to a study of ritual, which was of great interest to many early psychoanalysts-among them, Abraham.</p>","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":" ","pages":"499-514"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136399733","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":"I Can't Forget What You Couldn't Tell Me: A Psychoanalyst Listens to Asylum Seekers.","authors":"Nanette C Auerhahn","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2023.2237507","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00332828.2023.2237507","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper details my psychoanalytic process evaluating refugees as part of their application for asylum. It focuses on the emergence of unrepresented content and abject states within the intersubjective matrix that lead to collaborative creation of a story of trauma. Such intra- and inter-personal encounters are structured by the larger social, political, and cultural contexts that support, limit, structure, erase, and determine what can be known and told. Knowledge of traumatic inscription necessitates attunement to nonverbal affective states in both survivor and witness as well a receptive society that is able to tolerate grief, acknowledge the degradation and depravity unleashed in victim and victimizer during violence, and absorb survivors' mournful morality tales.</p>","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":"92 2","pages":"185-221"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10158136","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 : 2023-01-01Epub Date: 2023-11-30DOI: 10.1080/00332828.2023.2267963
Richard Simpson
{"title":"Author Response to Letter to the Editor.","authors":"Richard Simpson","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2023.2267963","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00332828.2023.2267963","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":"92 3","pages":"539"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138463527","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":"Silence, Second Skin, and the Unrepresented.","authors":"Wendy Katz","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2023.2197890","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00332828.2023.2197890","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Using the concepts of <i>microdialect</i> and <i>second skin</i>, this paper explores the idea that a patient's silence in the session may function at multiple levels of psychic and relational organization, and-by virtue of its somatically experienced qualities and the special countertransference states these may elicit-might serve as a vehicle for movement between levels. It can thus be fruitfully approached as a potential portal for access to, and creative transformation of, unrepresented experience.</p>","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":"92 1","pages":"83-107"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9351843","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 Crises of Oedipus.","authors":"Lutz Goetzmann","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2023.2187580","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00332828.2023.2187580","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article describes the various crises of the Oedipus complex. In the beginning, I address the crisis of the first traumatic days when Oedipus was to be abandoned in the wilderness. This early breakdown takes place at what may be denoted as <i>stage zero</i>. During this first crisis, the defensive solution is an act of doubling, according to Quinodoz's <i>dédoublement</i> of the parental pair, accompanied by the defenses of splitting, foreclosure, and annihilation. Protected by these defenses, the child would be able to search for a solution to the neurotic part of the Oedipus complex. According to Freud's and Lacan's conception, these phases encompass the stages of the imaginary omnipotence, of the symbolic prohibition, and the symbolic reconciliation. The second crisis of Oedipus signifies therefore that the desire encounters the prohibition of the third (e.g., the father). I will show these stages in the 1967 film adaptation of <i>Oedipus Rex</i> and the life of its director, Pierre Paolo Pasolini. Against this background, the third crisis of Oedipus is considered: the impending ecological catastrophe.</p>","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":"92 1","pages":"109-128"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9357772","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":"Four Papers on the Concept of the Unrepresented: Editor's Introduction.","authors":"Lucy Lafarge","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2023.2171180","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00332828.2023.2171180","url":null,"abstract":"With increasing frequency over the past sixty years, analytic practice and theory have dealt with the problems presented by patients who appear to demand a way of working other than the “standard analytic technique” of free association and interpretation. Part or all of these patients’ inner worlds appears to be inaccessible; material does not take the shape of elaborated fantasies that emerge when conflict and defense are analyzed; rather, emerging material appears to be unsymbolized, concrete, and difficult to link to words or thoughts. Green, one of the first to theorize the psychopathology of these patients, hypothesized that their anxiety seemed “to relate essentially not to the problem of the wish (as in neurosis) but to the formation of thought” (Green 1975, p. 40). Over the years, a growing literature, drawing centrally upon the work of Green, Bion, and Winnicott, has been produced to consider the origin and dynamics of these problems with symbolization and thinking, which may be gathered together into the general category of the unrepresented. Most often, these problems are seen as linked to the earliest preverbal stage of development and believed to reflect a deficiency or disturbance of maternal care; correspondingly, although the technique prescribed by theorists of the unrepresented may rely in part upon interpretation of fantasy, conflict, and defense, it is also a reparative technique in which a capacity that is lacking or disturbed is internalized, at least in part for the first time. The four papers we present here reflect a wide range of attitudes and approaches to the unrepresented. In his overview, Levine makes a strong case for the value of this concept. Simpson, drawing upon the work of Laurence Kahn (2013), disputes both the theoretical underpinnings ascribed to the concept of the unrepresented and the shift toward a","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":"92 1","pages":"3-10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9361744","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 : 2023-01-01Epub Date: 2023-11-30DOI: 10.1080/00332828.2023.2267527
Robert A Paul
{"title":"Identity and Community: Erikson Reconsidered.","authors":"Robert A Paul","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2023.2267527","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00332828.2023.2267527","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this paper, I present a new reading of Erik Erikson's theory of epigenetic stages of development, with particular attention to the concept of identity. I show that Erikson's <i>psychosocial</i> approach requires close attention to the role of the community in the formation of individual identity and to the importance of the stage of <i>generativity</i> as an often overlooked component in understanding both identity and the whole Eriksonian life cycle.</p>","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":"92 3","pages":"377-405"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138463529","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":"Psychoanalytic Reflections on Writing, Cinema, and the Arts: Facing Beauty and Loss","authors":"M. Castelloe","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2022.2114277","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00332828.2022.2114277","url":null,"abstract":"If you’ve made your way to this point in the review, you likely are: a friend of the author or a friend of mine, subscribe to the basic tenants of modern ego psychology, are a student whose been assigned this paper, or are someone open-minded enough to read the writings of writers whose orientation has been cast in the shadows by America’s present preference for relational thinking. The extent to which analysts turn away from ideas expressed by those aligned with a different school of thought is most unfortunate; the hostility oftentimes expressed toward those who think differently seems indicative of Freud’s (see footnote 1) concept of “the narcissism of minor differences.” Is my cynicism warranted? Who knows? In one of his last chapters, Busch quotes Ogden as Ogden sets out to address the work of Isaacs who’s theoretic orientation differs from his own. Given this context, and the fact that Busch is about to critique Ogden’s thinking, Busch prefaces his thoughts by noting a larger issue within our field, “our tendency to dismiss critics from outside our circle, and thus lose whatever contributions they might make to our understanding” (p. 187). Wouldn’t it be nice, when expressing one’s analytic opinion, to not have to beg to differ? RICHARD TUCH (LOS ANGELES, CA)","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":"91 1","pages":"623 - 627"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48285001","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 Work of Whiteness: A Psychoanalytic Perspective","authors":"Deborah Choate","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2022.2115275","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00332828.2022.2115275","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":"91 1","pages":"628 - 632"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49246355","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":"A Fresh Look at Psychoanalytic Technique: Selected Papers on Psychoanalysis","authors":"R. Tuch","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2022.2112860","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00332828.2022.2112860","url":null,"abstract":"In his new volume of selected papers, Fred Busch—arguably America’s leading modern ego psychologist—treats readers to a glimpse of the breadth and depth of his writings, which largely focus on clinical technique. This book contains fifteen chapters of previously published papers, most of which appeared over the last twenty years either in Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association or in the International Journal of Psychoanalysis. Busch’s thinking is notably coherent, his clinical advice highly practical, and his writing remarkably clear and concise. While some might deem these qualities a sure sign of simplistic thinking, I beg to differ. In a word, Busch’s writing is accessible, which is why I routinely recommend his papers to candidates interested in learning more about the psychoanalytic method. Those familiar with Busch’s work will recognize such themes as the value of working at the surface—within the neighborhood of what a patient is able to recognize as a manifestation of his own mind (Chapter 3)—and the dangers of doing otherwise, of attempting to interpret deep psychic content that lays beyond the patient’s conscious awareness. Busch believes deep interpretations run the risk of leaving patients amazed and impressed (mystified) by the analyst’s acumen yet clueless as to how he/she arrived at such a conclusion. Busch argues, if the patient cannot track the analyst’s thinking it isn’t as likely he/she will advance to the point of being able to engage in self-analysis once analysis is over.","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":"91 1","pages":"614 - 623"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41325133","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}