Psychoanalytic QuarterlyPub Date : 2023-01-01Epub Date: 2023-11-30DOI: 10.1080/00332828.2023.2270510
Michael Rustin
{"title":"Identity or Identification? Why the Difference Between These Concepts Matters.","authors":"Michael Rustin","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2023.2270510","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00332828.2023.2270510","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper examines two major issues related to the concept of identity. The first of these concerns the place of this concept in psychoanalytic theory and practice, particularly taking note of its limited presence in the psychoanalytic literature of the British School of psychoanalysis. My argument is that the concept and phenomena of identification has been preferred to that of identity in the discourse of British Object Relations and considers why that might be the case. The second issue concerns the salience of the concept of identity in contemporary political and cultural debate, as this has come to denote differences of a socially-constructed kind such as those of race, gender, ethnicity, and religion. In this context, the idea of identity has become an important point of reference in much recent psychoanalytic thinking. The significance of this development will be considered in its relevance for psychoanalytic and wider social practices.</p>","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":"92 3","pages":"435-461"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138463530","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":"Intercorporeity, Un-Distancing, and Aura in Skype Analysis.","authors":"Giuseppe Civitarese","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2023.2236603","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00332828.2023.2236603","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Covid pandemic has forced analysts around the world, some more than others, to work using Zoom and Skype. The technical innovation is here to stay and raises questions on a theoretical level. Is online analysis 'real' analysis or not? What is lost from the analytical experience? What, if anything, is gained? The global health emergency, on the one hand, has made these questions inescapable; on the other, it has provided a kind of huge experimental field to deal with them. Here, the author argues that when viewed from the perspective of the concepts of intercorporeity (Merleau-Ponty), un-distancing (Heidegger), and aura (Benjamin), some of the issues of 'presence' in teleanalysis become clearer.</p>","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":"92 2","pages":"223-261"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10520897","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: 10.1080/00332828.2023.2270542
Howard B Levine
{"title":"Mea Culpa? In Response to Richard Simpson's Article, \"Questioning The Unrepresented: The Essential And Accidental In Psychoanalysis, Part 2,\" Volume XCII, NO.1, 2023, PP. 27-58.","authors":"Howard B Levine","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2023.2270542","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00332828.2023.2270542","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":"92 3","pages":"527-537"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138463532","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: 10.1080/00332828.2023.2267965
Lucy Lafarge
{"title":"Editor's Introduction to Three Papers On The Concept of \"Identity\".","authors":"Lucy Lafarge","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2023.2267965","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00332828.2023.2267965","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":"92 3","pages":"367-375"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138463528","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: 10.1080/00332828.2023.2268612
Alessandra Lemma
{"title":"The Seductions of Identity: Thinking About Identity and Transgender.","authors":"Alessandra Lemma","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2023.2268612","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00332828.2023.2268612","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this paper I first outline a conceptual compass to think about identity generally before addressing more specifically the question of transgender identity. To this end, I draw on Gilles Deleuze's (1993) related concepts of the rhizome and of the fold. I then argue that the body has always been and is ever-more-so the place for figurating the self, for finding and substantiating identity-hence, the unconscious psychic investments that we have in our bodies are key to our theorizing about any kind of identity. I propose that this focus provides a more productive, generative starting point for thinking about transgender identity specifically than any individual developmental theory because it accommodates the heterogeneity subsumed under the umbrella term transgender.</p>","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":"92 3","pages":"407-434"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138463534","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: 2023-08-09DOI: 10.1080/00332828.2023.2237506
Mauro Manica
{"title":"A Letter from Winnicott to Bion: An Imaginative Conjecture to Illustrate a Paradigm Transformation.","authors":"Mauro Manica","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2023.2237506","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00332828.2023.2237506","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>On the evening of October 5, 1955, Bion presented the paper <i>Differentiation between the psychotic and non-psychotic personalities</i> to the British Society of Psychoanalysis. Two days later, on October seventh, Winnicott commented on Bion's paper in a letter and in particular, discussed its clinical material. The author makes use of this exchange to examine how the transformations that took place in Bion's thought and Winnicott's contributions helped bring about a <i>quantum</i> revolution of the psychoanalytic paradigm. These may have facilitated the transition from an <i>epistemological</i> psychoanalysis (where what matters is what the analyst knows and what the patient comes to know about himself) to an <i>ontological</i> psychoanalysis (where the presence of the analyst becomes crucial-everything that the analyst is and the way in which he manages to <i>become</i> the patient's emotional experience). And what we witness in ontological psychoanalysis is a significant clinical transformation in which a theory of technique that focuses on interpretation can coexist with a theory of technique enriched, in the author's perspective, with new tools that make it possible to treat the most severely ill patients.</p>","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":"92 2","pages":"263-288"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10164857","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":"Deception in Anorexia Nervosa: An Aspect of The No-Entry System of Defense.","authors":"Tom Wooldridge","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2023.2236601","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00332828.2023.2236601","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>As Williams (1997) describes, patients with anorexia nervosa have been on the receiving end of intrusive maternal projections and consequently develop a no-entry system of defense. This paper explores how deception may function as an aspect of this system in two ways. First, deception may serve as a self-preservative effort to evade emotional contact with the maternal object, which is experienced as overflowing with projections, and to attenuate accompanying persecutory anxiety. Second, rumination-painful thoughts, feelings, and sensations-about the deception being discovered by the object leverages the mind's hypnoid capacities to construct an omnipotently generated container for the self that further protects the patient from emotional contact with the maternal object's projections. These ideas are illustrated with a clinical case of a patient with anorexia nervosa who engaged in frequent deception.</p>","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":"92 2","pages":"309-330"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10223612","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}