{"title":"Tales of COVID-19: Fear of Contagion and Need for Infection","authors":"G. Civitarese","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2022.2047388","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00332828.2022.2047388","url":null,"abstract":"The pandemic has been such a dramatic experience that it has newly illuminated the factors that can transform Hegel’s necessary “infection”—a permeability to the other and the intersubjective foundation of the ego—into a contagion that alienates the subject. The dialectic between these two kinds of otherness represents what is truly at stake in any encounter—i.e., mutual recognition. Therefore, despite the terrible load of concreteness and suffering that bears directly on psychoanalysis, the theater of analysis still stands, so that the “tales of COVID-19” should also be listened to as fictional, that is, as unconscious communications in the here and now.","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":"91 1","pages":"89 - 118"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43416193","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":"On Trying to Pass off Transphobia as Psychoanalysis and Cruelty as “Clinical Logic”","authors":"Avgi Saketopoulou","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2022.2056378","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00332828.2022.2056378","url":null,"abstract":"A libel placed on the very existence of trans children... is what passes for a rational object of “debate” among adults every day in the media, online, in schools and clinics, and in the social milieu in which trans children must find a way, despite all the odds [against them], to survive, to grow, and to endure.... [Trans children are] subject... to being dismissed as unreal or brainwashed... as if such determinations are not procedurally genocidal in their holding open the world where trans life would be violently extinguished in the first place.","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":"91 1","pages":"177 - 190"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48810307","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":"Shared Catastrophe, Resistance, and Learning in the Countertransference","authors":"S. Cooper","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2022.2045848","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00332828.2022.2045848","url":null,"abstract":"In light of the 2020–2021 pandemic and consequent necessity for radical changes in psychoanalytic treatment, the author discusses transference-countertransference, resistance, and the analytic setting, among other themes. In particular, the author explores how elements of regression induced in patient and analyst during times of external challenge sometimes obscures elements of unconscious conflict and fantasy that analysis mobilizes and can help to elucidate. He explores an element of the analyst’s work with his own resistance to learning about what this catastrophe means psychologically to our patients and to those trying to help them. Three illustrative clinical vignettes are present and discussed.","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":"91 1","pages":"39 - 61"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41494956","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":"Wisdom Won From Illness: Essays in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis.","authors":"Cuneyt Iscan","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2022.2047570","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00332828.2022.2047570","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":"91 1","pages":"197 - 201"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45602597","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 Inner Speech to Dialogue: Psychoanalysis, Linguistics, and Development—Collected Papers of Theodore Shapiro.","authors":"Daniel Jacobs","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2022.2052655","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00332828.2022.2052655","url":null,"abstract":"For Theodore Shapiro, psychoanalytic process remains primarily a linguistic event, still the talking cure. The use of words “reveal[s] and render[s] accessible that which until then had been cast in nonlinguistic derivatives of action and symbolic representation” (p. 195). We learn words first, then build thoughts with them. Through thoughts, we learn life. In naming things and feelings, we get to know them. Through dialogue, we get to know one another. As Shapiro notes, “Language is a means of bridging the gap between two subjective participants” (p. 87). He states that our interpretations are acts of naming by which unconscious fantasies are placed in the realm of ego control by turning them into language. Translation of wishes and fantasies into inner and outer speech allows for control of behavior related to them. That is why so many of the papers in this collection concentrate on understanding the development and structure of language. Shapiro’s attention to words is evident in his writing style. It is clear, direct, and rational—without much adornment. This approach makes his arguments even more compelling. Shapiro emphasizes that, since psychoanalysis is essentially the study of symbolic systems, a knowledge of semiotics and linguistics is important. After all, “we are a profession of word users” (p. 87). In many of his papers, he emphasizes that our listening and speaking should be understood and studied within the frames of syntax (the organization of","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":"91 1","pages":"193 - 197"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46114629","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":"Greenberg and the Analyst's Heresy/Orthodoxy Matrix.","authors":"Nathan Kravis","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2022.2145778","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00332828.2022.2145778","url":null,"abstract":"Orthodoxy and heresy in psychoanalysis continuously interact with and inform each other according to a principle of mutual influence. Greenberg’s seminal contributions to psychoanalysis reflect his commitment to a ceaseless dialectical tension between orthodoxy and heresy. The analyst’s heresy/orthodoxy matrix is suggested as a way of conceptualizing this tension, one that is applicable to the personal and intellectual journey of every analyst. Resisting adjudication as well as enduring and being enriched by cacophony are among the guiding principles of Greenberg’s vision of comparative psychoanalysis and an explicit focus in his most recent work. In my reading of Greenberg, maintaining an optimal tension between orthodoxy and heresy is a core intellectual value.","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":"91 4","pages":"685-708"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9345551","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 Know That My Redeemer Liveth\": Schreber and the Matter of Music.","authors":"Mark Stoholski","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2023.2153510","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00332828.2023.2153510","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>For Imre Hermann, a central figure of Hungarian psychoanalysis, the aesthetic relation to music, entailing an objectless, affect-laden situation, offers a privileged point for understanding infantile sexuality and its reemergence in regressive states. Schreber's <i>Memoirs of My Nervous Illness</i>, a text permeated with music, drew Hermann's interest as a model for comprehending psychotic regression. Building upon Hermann's observations, it is argued that music becomes a contested means to give form to affect where language is compromised. Within the throes of psychotic regression where there is no third and representation is experienced as violent and perverse, the aesthetic relation becomes a means of survival.</p>","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":"91 4","pages":"669-684"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10816286","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":"An Analyst's Loss of a Child: A Brief Communication.","authors":"Abby Wolfson","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2022.2109895","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00332828.2022.2109895","url":null,"abstract":"a","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":"91 3","pages":"581-585"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40687614","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":"Author Reply To Letters To The Editor Regarding \"Trying to Pass off Transphobia as Psychoanalysis and Cruelty as 'Clinical Logic.'\".","authors":"Avgi Saketopoulou","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2022.2126196","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00332828.2022.2126196","url":null,"abstract":"In their letters, Susan and Marcus Evans, David Bell, and Roberto D’Angelo, Lisa Marchiano, and Shlomit Gorin, protest that my review “contributed to the shutting down of much-needed discussion and debate.” I certainly hope they are right. Debate about whether trans childhood exists needs to stop. Such debate is cruel and it is damaging. The sooner we stop entertaining a multiplicity of opinions as to whether trans childhood is of “delusional intensity,” the closer we will be to ending the conversion practices Gender Dysphoria licenses, if not models—and the closer we will be to exploring how to work with trans children rather than against them. Lest “conversion therapy” sounds excessive, ask yourselves this: if, as the Evanses advocate, we see childhood transness as an epidemic in need of explanation, containment, and treatment, what will stop us from seeing trans adults as grown-ups who didn’t get “good” (i.e., gender-corrective) therapy? It’s not hard to see where the Evanses’s and Bell’s positions lead: to the eradication of transness overall. The Evanses dedicate their letter to protesting the Journal’s choice of me as reviewer and the title of my essay. My position, they write, demonstrates “significant bias” because I am “unable to hold... complexities.” But my saying that there is nothing psychoanalytic about conversion therapy is neither an idiosyncratic nor a fringe position: it is literally the position adopted by the IPA itself. “Psychoanalytic technique,” the IPA’s position statement reads, “does not encompass purposeful attempts to convert or change an individual’s sexual","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":"91 3","pages":"601-604"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40672552","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":"Growing Up Wild: Reflections on Early Middle Childhood as Captured by Neil Gaiman's <i>The Ocean at the End of the Lane</i>.","authors":"Jean Vogel, Mary Ayre","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2022.2151791","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00332828.2022.2151791","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A pattern of psychic fragmentation followed by consolidation occurs throughout life and can be seen in all developmental stages. Using Neil Gaiman's novel, <i>The Ocean at the End of the Lane</i>, the authors focus on the experience of disorganization and re-organization in early middle childhood. The frequency with which young boys use fantasy to contain affects and impulses makes the literary genre of magic realism especially well-suited for the exploration of psychological states during early middle childhood.</p>","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":"91 4","pages":"741-760"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10816287","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}