{"title":"Articulation without a witness: A reply to Jakub Kuchar's letter \"On the facilitative dimension of AI in analytic work\".","authors":"Alessandra Lemma","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2026.2670467","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00207578.2026.2670467","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":"107 3","pages":"515-517"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148406348","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":"IJP: A place for debate and discussion.","authors":"Francis Grier","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2026.2673736","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00207578.2026.2673736","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":"107 3","pages":"331"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148406285","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 self in psychoanalysis.","authors":"Eugenio Gaddini","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2025.2525570","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00207578.2025.2525570","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":"107 3","pages":"440-448"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148406412","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":"Playing as a basic form of living: on Winnicott's \"Playing: A Theoretical Statement\".","authors":"Thomas H Ogden","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2025.2574867","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00207578.2025.2574867","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The author offers a creative reading of Winnicott's \"Playing: A theoretical statement,\" a paper in which Winnicott makes his most fully developed statement of his understanding of the phenomenon of playing. Winnicott is less interested in the symbolic content of play than in the experience of playing. Interpretation may at times supplement the psychic work the child and analyst achieve in playing together, but the principal agent of psychic change is the experience of playing. In the course of this paper, the author (1) views Winnicott's concept of transitional objects and phenomena as a significant step in the expansion of contemporary object relations theory; (2) understands Winnicott's view of playing as inherently self-therapeutic as an extension of Freud's conception of dreaming; (3) points out Winnicott's struggles with the limits of language to communicate what is conveyed in the medium of paradox;(4) offers his own experience of playing with children outside of a clinical setting to illustrate ideas introduced by Winnicott; and (5) notes that if the child does not know her baby is not a real baby, she is psychotic; if she sees the doll as only a doll, she is unable to play. Play rests on the simultaneity of the make-believe and the real.</p>","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":"107 3","pages":"332-351"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148406407","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":"A response to Lemma's \"At the meniscus of self-understanding\": On the facilitative dimension of AI in analytic work.","authors":"Jakub Kuchař","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2026.2667856","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00207578.2026.2667856","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":"107 3","pages":"513-514"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148406293","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":"An Italian in the Indian jungle(re)locating Emilio Servadio in the history of psychoanalysis and India.","authors":"Amrita Narayanan","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2025.2569892","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00207578.2025.2569892","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The largely unread India-period writings of Emilio Servadio (1904-1995), an Italian psychoanalyst, include courses on psychoanalysis, short stories, essays on art, and the experience of internment, and several India-themed papers that pushed at the boundaries of early psychoanalysis' intellectual territory. This essay, based on his archive, is the first reading of his India period to be written, and it is divided into three parts. Part I tells the story of Servadio in India based on the archived correspondence between Servadio and Girindrasekhar Bose, the first president of the Indian Psychoanalytical Society (IPS). Part II uses psychoanalytic theorizing on colonialism from Klein (1937), Mannoni (1950) and Eng (2016) to consider whether the affective stakes of studying psychoanalysis in India during the colonial period might relate to Servadio's historical neglect. This section also describes my subject position with respect to this research. Part III reproduces a text from an essay by Servadio about which Bose was enthusiastic: \"Notes on oral and phallic elements in a single hour\". The essay ?cuál closes by suggesting that Servadio's case presentation of his Indian patient may have given further energy to Bose's well-documented argument with Freud on the subject of cultural factors in the castration complex. Re-forging the missing link between Servadio and India, I conclude, may give a fuller picture of the history of psychoanalysis and India.</p>","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":"107 3","pages":"371-390"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148406370","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":"A scholar of the human mind: Eugenio Gaddini.","authors":"Benedetta Guerrini Degl'Innocenti","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2025.2525569","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00207578.2025.2525569","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper explores the psychoanalytic thought of Eugenio Gaddini, one of the most original and influential figures in Italian psychoanalysis. A detailed analysis of his writings and the cultural context in which his thought developed reconstructs his reflections on the early phases of mental development, the mind-body relationship, and the clinical implications of his theories. Particular attention is devoted to the concepts of <i>primitive imitation</i>, <i>fantasies in the body</i>, <i>basic mental organisation</i>, and <i>acting out</i>, with which Gaddini contributed to the understanding of the genesis of the Self and the birth of the psyche from the soma. The paper also sheds light on the relationship of Gaddini's thinking with the psychoanalytic tradition, in particular with Freud, Winnicott, and the anglophone schools, and his innovative approach to psychoanalytic theory and practice. Lastly, the relevance of his ideas to contemporary psychoanalysis is highlighted, especially in the treatment of pathologies characterised by non-represented mental states and psychosomatic disturbances.</p>","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":"107 3","pages":"449-464"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148406377","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 Echo of Narcissus: An \"as-if\" experience.","authors":"Rosemary H Balsam","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2025.2577821","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00207578.2025.2577821","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The clinical dilemmas in this 6 year analysis, with this single woman in her 30s, (whom I saw mostly in candidacy), unfolded into a dramatic, yet simultaneously stalled analysis that remained intrapsychically frozen. My conceptualization of the interaction was of the patient and me as Echo and Narcissus. The best I felt I could do for her, and for the analysis, was to explore those dimensions - yet always the enactment seemed more of a self-exploration than a meaningful communication with her. I include some ideas of how I might proceed somewhat differently, many years later. The despair in the contact led me to a more empathic view of the yearning of Narcissus, which has classically been interpreted as his cruel failure to appreciate Echo's beauty and love for him, due to his self-absorbed love of himself. I introduce his deeper yearning as a constantly frustrated desire to contact the mind of the other. The punishment of Echo, reduced to echolalia, deprived her of an intercommunicative mind, except for a sound suggesting a craven dependency. This was frustratingly far from her intention too, and confined her to her physicality alone. Their stall led to emotional death. Did ours?</p>","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":"107 3","pages":"477-492"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148406401","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":"Psychoanalytic education and teleanalysis: The role of the frame in the formation of psychoanalytic identity.","authors":"Lena Theodorou Ehrlich","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2026.2649779","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00207578.2026.2649779","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this manuscript, I describe my experience of the evolving place of teleanalysis in psychoanalytic practice and education, focusing on the central role of the analyst's internal frame in sustaining analytic work across settings. Drawing on clinical, supervisory, teaching, and personal analytic experience, I argue that the usefulness of psychoanalysis depends less on the external setting than on the analyst's capacity to function analytically in the face of absence, uncertainty, and loss. I suggest that a priori views of teleanalysis as \"less real\" or \"less effective\" often reflect defensive efforts to avoid these anxieties, foreclosing analytic inquiry. Rather than treating differences between in-office and teleanalytic work as indicators of equivalence or inferiority, I propose that we view each setting as mobilising distinct transference-countertransference configurations that require symbolic elaboration. I consider the educational implications of these observations, arguing that teleanalytic treatment and supervision during training can provide a vital context for engaging, testing, and strengthening candidates' internal analytic frame and psychoanalytic identity. I contend that given the worldwide and widespread adoption of the teleanalytic frame, teaching candidates how to practise analysis while working teleanalytically during their training has become an existential issue for psychoanalysis.</p>","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":"107 2","pages":"251-262"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148165000","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}