{"title":"The Significance of the Interpretant in the Field of Speech","authors":"Gregory S. Rizzolo","doi":"10.1177/00030651251356983","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00030651251356983","url":null,"abstract":"In his classic paper “The Function and the Field of Language and Speech in Psychoanalysis,” Lacan wrote that psychoanalysis had abandoned its original interest in speech. It had turned instead to the countertransference as a window of insight into the patient’s preverbal fantasies. The danger, as the Lacanian tradition emphasizes, is that we might fall into “me-centered attention”: a focus on our own meanings and resonances over those of the patient. We find an echo of this concern in the more recent worry among some American analysts that we now privilege visual-behavioral evidence, that is, the data of nonverbal transference-countertransference enactment, often anchored in the data of infant observation, over aural-oral data. There is, however, another way to think about language, an alternative grounded neither in Lacan, nor in Saussure, but in Peirce’s theory of signs. I argue that when we use the countertransference—or at least when we use it well—we are not listening with egocentric attention, but, rather, engaging an interpretant, a beat in the signifying process, to hear the patient more fully. Far from abandoning speech, we find ourselves immersed in a semiotic field. I illustrate this approach in the case of single, middle-aged father.","PeriodicalId":47403,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144923921","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 Editors","authors":"Anne Adelman","doi":"10.1177/00030651251359323","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00030651251359323","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47403,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144899759","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 Austin Ratner's \"Attention Must Be Paid\".","authors":"Kerry L Malawista","doi":"10.1177/00030651251356968","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00030651251356968","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47403,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association","volume":"161 1","pages":"30651251356968"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144787106","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 Editors.","authors":"Anne Adelman, Rachel Boué-Widawsky","doi":"10.1177/00030651251343053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00030651251343053","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47403,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association","volume":"73 4","pages":"459-463"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144650884","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: Surprise.","authors":"Steven Luria Ablon","doi":"10.1177/00030651251321468","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00030651251321468","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47403,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association","volume":" ","pages":"527-530"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143524850","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":"Impact of Siblings on Development Across the Lifespan: Case Study of a Sibling Pair over 60 Years.","authors":"Wendy Olesker","doi":"10.1177/00030651251356981","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00030651251356981","url":null,"abstract":"This paper provides a rare opportunity to see how a sibling relationship contributes centrally to how one finds one's place in the world of equals. The siblings studied were observed in Mahler's research nursery study of mother-child pairs, from birth to age 3, and were then followed over a 60-year period with a focus on the evolution of self and object mental representations, the vehicle through which earliest health or pathology is expressed. The lateral developmental trajectory of the sibling relationship is charted within the framework of the developing hierarchical relationship to the primary attachment figures-the parents. The extraordinary longitudinal data-which include not only in-depth details of the earliest mother-child interaction patterns, but also the details, and ramifications, of the introduction of a sibling into the family system-demonstrate how a sibling relationship can influence the development of the sense of self and other and reveal the powerful role a sibling can play as validator and confirmer of one's true sense of self. The data also show how therapeutic intervention can facilitate the restructuring of self and object representations, enhancing sibling bonds, which, in this case, facilitated improved understanding of their parents and a higher level of differentiation. These findings reinforce the importance of considering sibling dynamics in psychoanalytic theory and clinical practice.","PeriodicalId":47403,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association","volume":"1 1","pages":"30651251356981"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144737199","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: All Fours Book Review: All Fours. By Miranda July . New York: Riverhead, 2024, 400 pp., $29.00 hardcover.","authors":"Robert C. Abrams","doi":"10.1177/00030651251355908","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00030651251355908","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47403,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association","volume":"47 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144669631","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 Essay: Before There Were Words, There Was Music Melodies of the Mind: Connections Between Psychoanalysis and Music. By Julie Jaffee Nagel . New York: Routledge, 2013, 168 pp., $38.39 paperback.Career Choices in Music Beyond the Pandemic: Musical and Psychoanalytic Perspectives. By Julie Jaffee Nagel . Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2023, 150 pp., $36 paperback.Here I’m Alive: The Spirit of Music in Psychoanalysis. By Adam Blum, Peter Goldberg, and Michael Levin . New York: Columbia University Press, 2023, 328 pp., $35 paperback.","authors":"Jenifer Nields","doi":"10.1177/00030651251344608","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00030651251344608","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47403,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association","volume":"47 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144611281","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: A Shimmering Landscape: The Imaginative and Actual in Psychic Life Book Review: A Shimmering Landscape: The Imaginative and Actual in Psychic Life. By Dodi Goldman . London: Routledge, 2025, 171 pp., $32.99 paperback.","authors":"Jeffrey Berman","doi":"10.1177/00030651251344050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00030651251344050","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47403,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144565674","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":"What I’m Reading Now: Fiction and Readerly Self States The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. By Laurence Sterne . New York: Penguin, 1978. (Original work published 1759-1767)","authors":"Richard M. Waugaman","doi":"10.1177/00030651251347647","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00030651251347647","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47403,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144513177","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}