{"title":"Why I Write: I Write to Bring My Dreams to Life.","authors":"Charles P Fisher","doi":"10.1177/00030651251317601","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00030651251317601","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47403,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association","volume":" ","pages":"399-405"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143494040","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 the Editor.","authors":"Anne Adelman","doi":"10.1177/00030651251325529","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00030651251325529","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47403,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association","volume":" ","pages":"339-343"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143664832","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 <i>Not</i> Having it All: Exploring the Fetishization of Trans Women by Heterosexual Men.","authors":"Alessandra Lemma","doi":"10.1177/00030651241263929","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00030651241263929","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The appeal of transgender pornography, especially involving \"pre-op\"(erative) trans women, has steadily increased placing it in the top six most searched categories. In this paper I explore one unconscious function of the \"pre-op\" trans woman sexual fantasy that I have observed in some young heterosexual gynandromorphophilic men (i.e., men sexually drawn to the MtF \"pre-op\" body) who use transgender pornography and/or escorts. In contrast to a psychoanalytic reading of gynandromorphophilia in which the \"pre-op\" trans woman's body is understood to be \"missing nothing\" because she has breasts <i>and</i> a penis, I suggest that what is psychically compelling and sexually arousing for some men is quite the opposite: <i>because</i> the \"pre-op\" trans woman has a penis, she therefore has no vagina/womb. It is the triumph over what <i>is</i> missing and that should be there. The penis in lieu of the vagina/womb is evidence of her damaged procreative potential. In these cases, I propose that the sexual preference exposes the man's underlying womb envy. The \"pre-op\" trans woman is projectively identified with a felt-to-be \"infertile\" part of the man. The phantasized damaged woman's procreative body temporarily relieves the man of his sense of inadequacy and anxieties about his capacity to create and enliven. I illustrate this dynamic with clinical examples.</p>","PeriodicalId":47403,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association","volume":" ","pages":"301-326"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141761630","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":"Recognition in Winnicott’s “The Use of an Object and Relating Through Identifications”","authors":"Giuseppe Civitarese","doi":"10.1177/00030651251337421","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00030651251337421","url":null,"abstract":"A seminal text in psychoanalytic literature, “The Use of an Object and Relating Through Identifications,” like the Sphinx, continues to challenge us. At birth, the infant attempts to destroy the object, and if the mother survives this destruction, the child gains a sense of reality. In this essay, Winnicott challenges classical conceptions of aggression, viewing destruction as an expression of love and innate vitality. He critiques idealized views of the mother-child relationship, emphasizes the role of the real object, and anticipates a social theory of subjectivity where creation of meaning is central. He reiterates that destruction is typically only potential. The essay argues that, like negation in Hegel’s dialectic of recognition, destruction—even if partial—must occur and be reciprocal. Only through “alteration of each” (Nancy) can the transition be made from an omnipotent relationship (“relating”) to a more mature one (“use”). Winnicott’s lexical choices—“destruction,” “relating,” and “use”—contribute to the enduring relevance of the essay. Rereading this classic work today highlights the metapsychological significance of recognition as a framework for understanding therapeutic action. Above all, it helps avoid misinterpreting recognition as merely a deliberate or conscious act, or reducing it to a purely descriptive clinical term.","PeriodicalId":47403,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144188843","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":"Introduction to HelÍ Rafael Morales Ascencio's Psychoanalytic Work.","authors":"Mina Levinsky-Wohl, Gabriela Legorreta","doi":"10.1177/00030651251337386","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00030651251337386","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47403,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association","volume":" ","pages":"30651251337386"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144162665","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: Emerging Adulthood: A Psychodynamic Approach to the New Developmental Phase of the 21st Century Book Review: Emerging Adulthood: A Psychodynamic Approach to the New Developmental Phase of the 21st Century. By Karen Gilmore and Pamela Meersand . Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Publishing, 2024, 324 pp., $74 paperback.","authors":"Timothy Rice","doi":"10.1177/00030651251342529","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00030651251342529","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47403,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association","volume":"57 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144122686","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":"Why I Write: The Warp and Weft.","authors":"Lisa Gornick","doi":"10.1177/00030651251333052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00030651251333052","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47403,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association","volume":"42 1","pages":"30651251333052"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144065652","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}
Ronny Jaffé, Sarantis Thanopulos, Michele S. Piccolo
{"title":"Foreign Book Review Book Review: Il disagio psichico, la psicoanalisi, i ruoli pubblici: Testimonianze [Mental Distress, Psychoanalysis, Public Roles: Testimonies]. Edited by BettiLoredanaGalianiRiccardoRuggieroVincenzo. Rome, Italy: Alpes Italia, 2024, 142 pp.","authors":"Ronny Jaffé, Sarantis Thanopulos, Michele S. Piccolo","doi":"10.1177/00030651251335601","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00030651251335601","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47403,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association","volume":"38 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143939700","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: Life After Death: Surviving Suicide Life After Death: Surviving Suicide. By BrockmanRichard. New York: Arcade Publishing, 2023, 389 pp., $26.99 hardcover.","authors":"Judith L. Lewis, Grace E. Andrews","doi":"10.1177/00030651251329171","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00030651251329171","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47403,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association","volume":"229 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143932396","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”: Response to Fredric Busch","authors":"Anne Erreich","doi":"10.1177/00030651251334707","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00030651251334707","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47403,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143910038","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}