{"title":"Lacan's reinterpretation of Freud's theory on trauma.","authors":"Jessica Tran The, François Ansermet","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2025.2591918","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00207578.2025.2591918","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Lacan's reinterpretation of Freud's theory on trauma Abstract In this article we consider the Lacanian theory of trauma, with the aim of demonstrating which of Freud's theories Lacan sought to build on and develop in his own model. This approach highlights the continuity, as well as the divergences, between Lacanian psychoanalysis and the Freudian model of trauma. Approaching Lacanian psychoanalysis through the concept of trauma reveals how his theories did not focus only on the subject as determined by the register of language. Rather, Lacanian psychoanalysis emphasises the intimate relationship between the unconscious and the sexual. The Lacanian model of trauma is also of interest for clinical practice, since it provides a better understanding of the Lacanian concept of 'structure'. This is a concept that considers the impact of events experienced on the psychic functioning of the subject. It can guide the analytical listening during therapeutic work with patients. Aside from its clinical relevance, approaching Lacan's work through trauma makes it possible to clarify the fundamental difference between psychoanalysis and contemporary nosographic approaches to the treatment of trauma, and aetiology in psychopathology.</p>","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":"107 4","pages":"615-636"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149026296","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":"\"Sometimes I think and sometimes I am\": On the article by Giuseppe Civitarese \"Upgrade to PI.4, or rethinking projective identification from the vertex of the analytic field\" (Civitarese, 2025).","authors":"Michel Sanchez-Cardenas","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2026.2658091","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00207578.2026.2658091","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":"107 4","pages":"694-698"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149026371","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":"Freud and the use of iconography in curating his public profile.","authors":"Roger Willoughby","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2025.2596029","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00207578.2025.2596029","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Visual images of Freud abound in popular and psychoanalytic culture, though they have been largely bypassed without scrutiny in the literature. This neglect obscures a proper understanding of this important part of psychoanalytic iconography and in particular the genesis of Freud's drive (and that of early colleagues and other key stakeholders) to promote \"brand-Freud\" and psychoanalysis locally, nationally, and internationally. Offering the first in-depth exploration of this topic, the present article considers Freud's relation to his imaging, the functions of this in promoting recognition and affiliation, and the key curated \"official\" forms this took during the period from 1906 to 1939. In doing so, close scrutiny is paid to Freud's imaging in three domains: the 1906 medal by Carl Schwerdtner, Max Halberstadt's photographs, and selected portraits and sculptures, noting in each case how these images were disseminated in the psychoanalytic literature and as material objects. In the process of doing this, the paper reveals an underappreciated mechanism in the propagation of psychoanalysis and some of the vital functions such imaging served.</p>","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":" ","pages":"563-597"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148550793","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 establishment of primal repression and its consequences in contemporary clinical practice.","authors":"Juan Francisco Artaloytia","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2025.2585379","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00207578.2025.2585379","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Freud himself never clearly and unequivocally defined his concept of primal repression, which has been considered mythical, obscure, mysterious, incomplete, enigmatic or controversial. This paper revisits the concept with the support of the hypothetical conceptual clarity provided by the heard word (soundimage) and the visual image discussed in Freud's book On Aphasia: A critical Study (1953[1891]). The heard word allows for affective change and reorganisation according to Oedipal law, which is postulated as the essence of primal repression. Thing-presentation takes place prior to word-presentation. The word would retrospectively generate two elements that the author calls the Ding- and the Sach- elements of the thing-presentation. An everyday scene is used to illustrate the theoretical approach. Three vignettes are subsequently examined: a neurotic patient's dream to illustrate how primal repression works when it has been adequately established; a contrasting clinical experience with a schizophrenic patient in which the opposite is true; and finally, an intermediate situation is presented, in which the analyst's primal repression of filicide is fundamental to resolve an enactment. The latter two situations also illustrate the role of supporting the generation of primal repression in contemporary analytical work.</p>","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":"107 4","pages":"543-562"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149026319","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 Michel Sanchez Cardenas.","authors":"Giuseppe Civitarese","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2026.2659770","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00207578.2026.2659770","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":"107 4","pages":"699-701"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149026317","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":"IPA in the Asia-Pacific region: Reflections on national stereotypes and prejudices. The view of others from one's own perspective.","authors":"Harriet Wolfe, Kai Ogimoto, Tomas Plaenkers","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2025.2511319","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00207578.2025.2511319","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>For the 2023 IPA Asia-Pacific Congress in Delhi, the authors of this paper prepared a panel titled \"Reflections on National Stereotypes and Prejudices: The View of Others from One's Own Perspective\" with the aim to stimulate further reflection and discussion on this topic among the Asia-Pacific analytic groups. Authors invited psychoanalysts from the six psychoanalytical groups in the Asia-Pacific region to participate. Those psychoanalysts provided analytic perspectives to shed light on the historical context and psychological factors that contribute to national stereotypes and prejudices, the dynamics of splitting and projection, and the idealization of one's own country. These processes not only impact individual psyches but also shape societal attitudes and interactions. The papers highlighted the need for deeper understanding and empathy, emphasizing the importance of listening to and being curious about the other, especially within the six psychoanalytic groups represented. The collective reflection on the shared, conflict-ridden history and its unconscious underpinnings represents the beginning of a process within the envisioned Asia-Pacific region of the International Psychoanalytical Association.</p>","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":"107 4","pages":"637-642"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149026321","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 tyranny of relationality: Psychosocial implications of Ronald Fairbairn's \"object-seeking\".","authors":"Nini Kerr","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2025.2582498","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00207578.2025.2582498","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The paper revisits Fairbairn's concept of \"object-seeking\", situating it within the complex, often fraught relational dynamics between self and other in everyday life. Adopting a psychosocial lens, it explores how this \"old\" idea can generate new possibilities for sociopolitical critique. The discussion begins by contextualising Fairbairn's thinking within his biography, foregrounding the interplay between contextual relations and social relations. It then revisits object-seeking as the primary libidinal force binding individuals to groups, culture, and institutions. From there, the paper examines the deeper, often unconscious tendencies that drive object-seeking, shaped by the conditionalities embedded in the endopsychic structure. In doing so, it critiques the idealised discourse of \"relationality\" often associated with Fairbairn, revealing its entanglement with dynamics of domination and subordination. These relational forms, it argues, sustain broader social structures marked by tyranny. The paper reimagines a psychoanalytic frame from the position of radical marginality - the liminal space where oppression and political resistance intersect - as a crucial site for cultivating relational alternatives and critical thinking capable of challenging entrenched hierarchies.</p>","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":" ","pages":"676-693"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147876088","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 Nathansohn family - Sigmund Freud's maternal heritage.","authors":"Georg Augusta","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2025.2585064","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00207578.2025.2585064","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The intention of this paper is to trace the family history of Sigmund Freud's mother Amalia. It is the influence of the intellectual, cultural and religious values of the mother's side of the family over several generations that has remained underestimated in previous biographical research. For more than two centuries, the Nathansohns were among the most influential upper-class Jewish families in the city of Brody, an important trading center in Poland and in the Habsburg Monarchy. Specific religious, economic and political upheavals led to several members of the Nathansohn family settling elsewhere, including Sigmund Freud's grandfather Jacob and his family, who came to Vienna in 1854. Furthermore, knowledge of the biographies of close relatives enables a more nuanced perspective on Freud's own specific development.</p>","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":"107 4","pages":"598-614"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149026346","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}