Olivier Taieb, Jeanne Defontaine, Catherine Le Du, Mohammad Mouma, Thierry Baubet
{"title":"The representation of pandemic anxieties in a psychoanalytic group psychodrama for adolescents and young adults.","authors":"Olivier Taieb, Jeanne Defontaine, Catherine Le Du, Mohammad Mouma, Thierry Baubet","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2024.2434378","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00207578.2024.2434378","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Covid-19 pandemic posed challenges for the psychological care of adolescents, and in particular those in therapeutic groups. Exploring three sessions of a psychoanalytic psychodrama group in early 2021 in a day hospital in Paris, the article considers how the pandemic threatened the intra- and intersubjective relations, and how these dangers were elaborated. The psychodrama group helped the adolescents to create fantasy and symbolisation activities, so that a transitional space could be restored.</p>","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":" ","pages":"766-783"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143626068","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Response to Parsons: Correspondence concerning the psychoanalytic controversies section on the Israel-Palestine conflict (issue 1, 2025).","authors":"Shmuel Erlich","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2025.2527459","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00207578.2025.2527459","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":"106 4","pages":"856-857"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145042034","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Unmasking the moral fantasy of the \"underlying conflict\": A critique of Roberto D'Angelo's \"Do We Want to Know?\"","authors":"Oren Gozlan","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2025.2511307","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00207578.2025.2511307","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":"106 4","pages":"849-850"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145042112","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Crises and enactments while ending treatment.","authors":"Jill Salberg","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2025.2461087","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00207578.2025.2461087","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The difficulties involved in ending treatment are complex and can present a set of challenges and possibilities for both analyst and patient. When early trauma is part of the clinical picture, ending treatment may very well stir an experience of an earlier attachment rupture or loss. The author presents a case of a long-term analytic patient where an acute enactment crisis occurred causing a pause in ending the treatment. It is proposed that these very 'ending enactments' become necessary, crucially disrupting a bastion (Baranger & Baranger, 2009) formed by the dyad. This tearing/ending of the analytic frame (Bleger, 1967) may, catalyze a 'second look' which revealed a more chronic enactment. Ultimately more deeply buried pieces of the early relational trauma became accessible to the analytic process. The author argues that sometimes this very upheaval is needed to unblock a bastion. Thus, what was sequestered, and unknowable may enter the dyad as an enactment. In this way, insight, and the self-reflectiveness it entails, may occur post-enactment.</p>","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":"106 4","pages":"661-679"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145042006","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Processual readings of the drive trajectory of a perpetrator of domestic violence: Therapeutic perspectives in the prison environment.","authors":"Elise Pelladeau, Alexandre Cedano","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2025.2489630","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00207578.2025.2489630","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this article the author looks at the psychotherapeutic treatment of a patient imprisoned for acts of domestic violence. She describes how the inversion of the drive coordinates (in this case, hypercathecting thrust to the detriment of the aim, which is normally to reduce tension) can herald a surge in mastery, which is then difficult to contain within the ramparts of the therapeutic setting. The sensory dimension at work in the transference is mobilized to illustrate how withstanding mastery can perceptually serve to rehabilitate the aim to the detriment of the thrust. This reorganization of the drive coordinates serves to lower tension against the backdrop of a struggle against the loss of an object whose contours are already very precarious. While violent acting out may indeed be seen as a failure of symbolization, therapeutic work in prison seems to maintain in this restricted space the hallucinatory trace of the lost/found object in the transference. Capturing the object would illusorily circumscribe the risk, but it is precisely through the handling of the meaning and strength of the transference that the patient can be enabled to let go, thereby freeing the lost object, or rather its ghost, in favour of the experience of loss.</p>","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":"106 4","pages":"750-765"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145042007","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Israel-Palestine and the internal world.","authors":"Michael Parsons","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2025.2511309","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00207578.2025.2511309","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":"106 4","pages":"854-855"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145041982","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On man who lives once every two times: <i>The Days When I Do Not Exist</i> (2002).","authors":"Jan Borowicz","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2025.2518487","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00207578.2025.2518487","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The essay delineates a psychic phenomenon of incapacity to remain alive, as depicted in Jean-Charles Fitoussi's movie <i>The Days When I Do Not Exist</i> (2002). The film introduces a provocative thought experiment, illustrating the life of a man who vanishes every other day, only to reappear at precisely the same location twenty-four hours later. The author contends that this narrative serves as a poignant manifestation of the inability to metabolize emotions, thoughts, and memories, leading to their continual evacuation and ultimate loss. The recurrent disappearance of the protagonist diminishes his ability to feel alive, even upon his reentry into the world. This fragile psyche undergoes a potential transformation when the man falls in love, giving rise to the hope that the relationship with another human being may facilitate the integration of both the represented and unrepresented parts of his mind. An analysis of <i>The Days When I Do Not Exist</i> connects the cinematographic structure and the narrative plot to illustrate unrepresented states of severely damaged minds, which are under constant threat of dissolution.</p>","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":"106 4","pages":"818-831"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145041953","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lucy LaFarge (1948-2025): The experience of being known.","authors":"Nathan Kravis","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2025.2524919","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00207578.2025.2524919","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":"106 4","pages":"832-839"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145070985","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Marie Langer, psychoanalysis and science fiction: a yearning for change.","authors":"Francisco Pizarro Obaid, Rodrigo De la Fabián","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2024.2419852","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00207578.2024.2419852","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Marie Langer (1910-1987) has been recognised as a key psychoanalyst in the development of Argentine and Latin American psychoanalysis. However, in contrast to the many works devoted to exploring her life trajectory or the varied research on her contribution to institutional or theoretical psychoanalytic discussion, studies on her connection with science fiction (SF) have been anecdotal. Since the mid-fifties, Langer found SF to be a source of theoretical-clinical reflection on psychoanalysis, and a field in which to exercise her creativity by writing SF stories. This article proposes an analysis of Marie Langer's relationship with the SF of her time through an exhaustive review of the literature on this subject. On the one hand, it analyses the interdisciplinary reflections that she established between psychoanalysis and SF, in which she exposed theoretical, clinical, and sociological problems; on the other hand, it examines the literary production of SF that Langer developed in her short stories. This review concluded that her work on SF bears the same hallmark that guided her clinical and institutional relationship with Psychoanalysis: a desire for change.</p>","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":"106 4","pages":"799-817"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145042011","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}