{"title":"The Innate Capacity for Representing Subjective Experience: The Infant’s Mind is Neither Primitive nor Prerepresentational","authors":"Anne Erreich","doi":"10.1177/00030651231223961","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00030651231223961","url":null,"abstract":"The author cites the prominence of theories that locate serious adult psychopathology in the preverbal infant’s inability to formulate or represent traumatic experience. The work of two such authors, H. Levine and D. B. Stern, is briefly considered. The frame of reference for this investigation is that clinical and academic research findings are highly relevant to psychoanalytic theorizing. It is argued that when such findings are considered, a view of the infant with “primordial and unrepresented” states of mind has little evidence to support it. In fact, research findings summarized herein point to an opposite view: that of the “competent infant,” one with highly accurate perceptual discrimination capacities and an innate ability to register and represent subjective experience in both procedural and declarative memory, even prenatally. Given the infant’s competencies, it seems implausible to hold that representational deficits are at the heart of serious adult psychopathology, which is instead seen to be the result of defensive maneuvers against unknowable and unspeakable truth rather than the absence of a preverbal representational capacity. Current research findings seem to pose a significant challenge for psychoanalytic theories that espouse “primitive mental states”; “unrepresented,” “unformulated,” or “unsymbolized” experience; or “nonconscious” states.","PeriodicalId":47403,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association","volume":"66 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140954278","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":"“That’s What You Say”: Reply to Levine and Stern","authors":"Anne Erreich","doi":"10.1177/00030651241231224","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00030651241231224","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47403,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association","volume":"85 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140953965","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 Process of Case Writing: A Fourth Pillar of Analytic Training","authors":"Stephen B. Bernstein","doi":"10.1177/00030651231224703","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00030651231224703","url":null,"abstract":"The educational and clinical effects of the process of case writing during analytic training have not been extensively studied, even though the case report, as a product, has prompted attempts to make it a more revealing and accurate document. Countertransference experiences during an analysis can constrain both the candidate’s writing and the analytic work, while examining them during the writing process can deepen the candidate’s analytic work. Three overlapping resistances to the writing, and their underlying anxieties, are described. These are publication resistances: concerns about the anticipated reception of the candidate’s work by potentially critical readers; transference resistances: feelings toward the analytic institute that requires the writing; and countertransference or reimmersion resistances: fears of reawakening reactions from the analysis. These can interfere with finding a safe internal space in which to write. Examples are given of writing through of these resistances during case supervision, resulting in more open writing and in a deepening of the analytic work. As the case writing process can have direct and potentially profound effects on the candidate’s current and future analytic work, it is proposed that the process of case writing is a fourth pillar of analytic training, in addition to the candidate’s personal analysis, case supervision, and didactic seminars.","PeriodicalId":47403,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association","volume":"38 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140953989","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":"Commentary: The Role of the Theory of Unformulated Experience in Anne Erreich’s “The Innate Capacity for the Representation of Subjective Experience: The Infant’s Mind Is Neither Primitive nor Prerepresentational”","authors":"Donnel B. Stern","doi":"10.1177/00030651241231222","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00030651241231222","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47403,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association","volume":"160 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140953971","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":"About Your Next Patient: A Response to Anne Erreich","authors":"Howard B. Levine","doi":"10.1177/00030651241232226","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00030651241232226","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47403,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association","volume":"38 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140954257","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":"Creative Essay Section: Introduction","authors":"Kerry Malawista","doi":"10.1177/00030651241238406","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00030651241238406","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47403,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association","volume":"38 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140954232","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":"Book Review: Psychoanalysis and Colonialism: A Contemporary Introduction","authors":"Jeffrey A. Bernstein","doi":"10.1177/00030651241247771","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00030651241247771","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47403,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association","volume":"40 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140903194","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":"Book Review: Opera on the Couch: Music, Emotional Life, and Unconscious Aspects of Mind","authors":"Timothy Sawyier","doi":"10.1177/00030651241242726","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00030651241242726","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47403,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140903246","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":"Book Review: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Writing, Cinema and the Arts: Facing Beauty and Loss","authors":"Bradley Collins","doi":"10.1177/00030651241242730","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00030651241242730","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47403,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140903080","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":"Book Review: Boundaries, Boundary Crossings, and Boundary Violations","authors":"Kristen Miller Beesley","doi":"10.1177/00030651241243041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00030651241243041","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47403,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140903217","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}