{"title":"Introduction. Melanie Klein at work: The case of Mr B.","authors":"Christine English, Abbot Bronstein","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2025.2585391","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00207578.2025.2585391","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":"107 1","pages":"55-57"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147639942","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":"The Medusa Gaze in war media: Trauma, shame, envy, and voyeurism in the eyes of an analyst-victim.","authors":"Hana Salaam Abdel-Malek","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2025.2569886","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00207578.2025.2569886","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this article, I argue that war victims, unlike distant viewers, turn to war media not only to satisfy unconscious sadistic and masochistic desires or voyeuristic pleasure, but also as a strategy for psychic survival. Amid trauma, they seek containment and control. They imagine the media screen, like a containing mother, to frame war experiences - making them digestible and offering a coherent mirror in which the fragmented self can find recognition. For war victims, the media is not a neutral window onto the world but a reflective surface - a gaze they hope will reflect an integrated image of self. When sensational, graphic violence is broadcast, the media gaze dehumanises the victims depicted and destabilises the viewers, amplifying emotional disarray and psychic fragmentation. The media's gaze morphs into an <i>Evil Eye</i>, whose envious power inflicts psychic harm. Those consuming footage of their war become both subjects of this gaze and its casualties. Their shame in helplessness transforms into envy, and their gaze turns into defensive voyeurism, where vulnerability and complicity coexist. Instead of providing containment, trauma coverage - like dreaming and dream-telling - should facilitate the psychic digestion and symbolisation of shared experience.</p>","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":"107 1","pages":"88-100"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147640123","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":"Letter: On the analytic work in wartime - A problem of simple decisions.","authors":"Igor Romanov","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2025.2606304","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00207578.2025.2606304","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":"107 1","pages":"109-111"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147640105","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":"Discussion: Melanie Klein at work: The case of Mr B.","authors":"John Steiner","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2025.2585389","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00207578.2025.2585389","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":"107 1","pages":"71-77"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147639821","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":"Discussion: Melanie Klein at work: The case of Mr B.","authors":"Rachel B Blass","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2025.2585370","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00207578.2025.2585370","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":"107 1","pages":"78-87"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147640376","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":"Beating an undead horse: Toward a conceptualization of nuisance in the analytic process.","authors":"Steven H Cooper","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2025.2569891","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00207578.2025.2569891","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Winnicott (1945a) suggested that some types of aggressive behaviour of the child returning from sustained separation from their parents may be regarded as an expression of hope, one in which they can yield their forms of defensive self-sufficiency to trust a parent again. The author parses Winnicott's later various approaches to understanding both instinctual and reactive aggression and how applying his later views can obfuscate the meaning of aggression in nuisance-making behaviour. The author offers a specific definition of nuisance in the analysis of adults and how it manifests itself in the analytic context. In the adult patients he describes, anger and hostility have become featured as expressions of grievance or greed regarding earlier ruptures in an experience of the parent's or analyst's registration of the patient's needs for attention. He considers two clinical contexts involving the conscious reluctance to agree with the analyst's interpretations as well as making demands on the analyst outside the setting as forms of nuisance. He explores how the analyst needs to hold two psychic realities - the patient's hope that is expressed in their nuisance-making as well as the analyst's limits in absorbing the patient's own self-destructive hatred of dependency. Holding these two realities helps to transform these self-destructive bids for attention into an opportunity for mourning. The analyst is required to work with his or her own subtle experiences of disturbance including hostility, helplessness and the pull to act out roles in the patient's earlier life.</p>","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":"107 1","pages":"4-20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147640305","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":"History: Melanie Klein at Work - The Case of Mr. B.","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2025.2588028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00207578.2025.2588028","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":"107 1","pages":"58-61"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147639855","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":"The transference thread: trauma, pain and separation anxiety in an adolescent migrant patient.","authors":"Silvia Flechner","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2025.2582502","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00207578.2025.2582502","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In my work with a migrant family, I explored the youngest daughter's symptomatology and relationship with her mother; analysis offered an approach to her traumatic history, as well as her private pain, which I was initially able to experience through the complex psychological fabric woven between both mother and daughter. The ideas contributed in this paper are drawn from the clinical case, where the central focus on traumatism, pain and migration were the ostensible grounds with which the family sought assistance; however, other issues arose, such as the daughter's entry into adolescence, psychic pain in the body which marked difficulties left in the wake of fear of separation, and losses which were at first be experienced as external, but referred to experiences of internal loss. In addition, there were numerous mournings originating in early traumata, which descended from transgenerational mournings and traumatic situations.</p>","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":"107 1","pages":"21-37"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147640097","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}