{"title":"Memory traces and sensory perceptions. When dance enters the session.","authors":"Solange Carton","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2025.2571082","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00207578.2025.2571082","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper looks at how sensory perception and motility in the session can activate and reshape memory-traces of unconscious infantile sexuality. It investigates how listening to them in the transference serves as an appeal to drive representation, the redeployment of the autoerotism of infantile sexuality and its participation in the production of fantasy, contributing to the accomplishment of infantile wishes. The author explores this hypothesis in the psychoanalytic work of a female patient who practises dance and makes particular use of sensory perceptions and motility in the session. She asks herself which sensory elements have permeated memory, that is to say the original memory traces that can never be retrieved, and how and for what purposes this is expressed in the session through speech or perception. She shows how sensory perception is an ally of language inasmuch as it is capable of qualifying internal processes, but also emphasizes its duplicity, in that it partially and momentarily escapes the long path of inhibition.</p>","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":"107 2","pages":"133-150"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148165023","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, Sebald and the head of Medusa: The unconscious sense of guilt.","authors":"Sophie Boswell","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2025.2569887","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00207578.2025.2569887","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper explores Freud's concept of unconscious guilt (Freud, S. 1923. \"The Ego and the Id\". In The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, Vol. 19. 1-66), as illuminated in Sebald's masterpiece, <i>Austerlitz</i> (Sebald, W. G. 2001. <i>Austerlitz</i>, Translated by Anthea Bell. London: Penguin Books). Both writers examine the human impulse to look away from suffering, personal and collective, and the guilt inherent both in avoidance and in bearing witness. Sebald, preoccupied with Germany's post-war \"self-amnesia\" (Sebald, W. G. 2003. On the Natural History of Destruction, Translated by Anthea Bell. New York: Random House, p. 11), invoked Medusa's head to symbolise the terrors of confronting trauma, and his novel illuminates both the compulsion to see and the terror of doing so. Austerlitz's gradual uncovering of his past mirrors the analytic process, where unconscious guilt intensifies the dread of facing unbearable truths. A clinical example illustrates unconscious guilt in the countertransference, where a patient's pain provoked an impulse to turn away. The paper suggests psychic truths can emerge through the slowing of muscular psychic states and through sustained contact with an analyst who can bear painful projections and retain compassion in the face of guilt.</p>","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":"107 2","pages":"184-202"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148164961","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}
Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber, Siri Erika Gullestad, Charles Fisher
{"title":"How to train psychoanalysts in our time? Exploring controversies around teleanalysis.","authors":"Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber, Siri Erika Gullestad, Charles Fisher","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2026.2649782","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00207578.2026.2649782","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The question of how the next generation of psychoanalysts can best be trained is as old as psychoanalysis itself. Currently, there is intense debate within the IPA regarding whether and how teleanalysis should be integrated into psychoanalytic training. The IPA Board has approached the Research Committee (RC) to launch a systematic research project to investigate this question. The RC proposed conducting an action research project. Action Research (AR)-in contrast to \"traditional research\"-emphasizes the processual nature of insights gained through a professionally facilitated exchange between polarizing groups. AR can contribute to defusing or even resolving complex institutional conflicts characterized by passionate emotions by bringing latent conflicts, fantasies and desires, personal and ideological, professional and personal beliefs, as well as prejudices and fantasies about opponents' intentions to the table, thus opening them up to individual, institutional, and public discussion and critical reflection. In the context of the IPA Congress in Lisbon in July 2025, a first action research cycle was conducted. This article reports on its findings. The course and outcomes of the discussions at this meeting were summarized in a report, which was subsequently systematically refined by all participants in several steps through a process known as expert validation.</p>","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":"107 2","pages":"274-286"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148165003","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":"Introduction: Questions about internal, external and shared frames, types of loss, methods for scientific dialogue, and the sources of power and authority.","authors":"Bernard Reith","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2026.2646734","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00207578.2026.2646734","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The institutional debates about the inclusion of teleanalysis in psychoanalytic training, as well as about session frequency in training, involve important questions grounded in psychoanalytic practice and experience. The divergent views on these matters will require close collaboration between as many members of the International Psychoanalytic Association as possible to understand their reasons. Our common ground as psychoanalysts may lie most of all in our ability to do this psychoanalytic exploratory work together. Ultimately, the authority behind institutional decisions must derive from the authority of psychoanalysis as a clinical and scientific discipline which we develop and perfect together.</p>","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":"107 2","pages":"223-234"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148165040","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":"Issues of power and authority in relation to psychoanalytic training: Tensions between international and local aims.","authors":"Harriet Wolfe","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2026.2649777","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00207578.2026.2649777","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The author describes current tensions within the international psychoanalytic collective regarding changes in training standards that reflect a long history of professional conflict about the aims of training. Conflicts are reflected in issues of power and authority that tend to usurp collaborative definition of the essentials of analytic formation. The importance of moving away from polarization and both recognizing and respecting the inevitable differences of opinion that characterize educational discord is emphasized as vital to the future of the profession in a sociopolitical era in which psychoanalytic values of humane interpersonal relationships and dialogic problem-solving are increasingly threatened and sorely needed.</p>","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":"107 2","pages":"246-250"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148164976","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":"Marion Milner's foundational influence on Bion's conception of reverie and Winnicott's conception of play.","authors":"Bruce Reis","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2026.2645564","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00207578.2026.2645564","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper argues that Marion Milner occupies a foundational position in the development of two central concepts in contemporary psychoanalysis: Wilfred Bion's conception of reverie and Donald Winnicott's understanding of play. Milner was the originating theorist whose innovations established the conceptual ground upon which both Bion and Winnicott built their most celebrated contributions. Milner introduced \"reverie\" into psychoanalytic discourse before Bion, deploying it to describe states of creative absorption within a protected analytic frame - a formulation Bion would later refine and claim as his own. Milner's theorisation of absent-mindedness, bodily awareness and the dedifferentiation of \"me\" and \"not-me\" boundaries provided the essential scaffolding for both Bion's reverie technique and Winnicott's conception of play. The creative potential of omnipotence, the therapeutic value of pre-logical thinking, aesthetic experience and regressive processes - ideas now routinely attributed to her male contemporaries - originated in Milner's work, as will be shown here. Her integration of artistic sensibility with psychoanalytic theory constitutes an independent and generative intellectual achievement. Recovering Milner's priority transforms our understanding of reverie and play not as competing frameworks but as two tributaries flowing from a common source. A more historically accurate account of these concepts' development places Milner at its centre.</p>","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":"107 2","pages":"168-183"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148165014","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}
Siri Erika Gullestad, Tormod Knutsen, Erik Stänicke, Mette Hvalstad
{"title":"Letter from Oslo.","authors":"Siri Erika Gullestad, Tormod Knutsen, Erik Stänicke, Mette Hvalstad","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2026.2647565","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00207578.2026.2647565","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Several Norwegian analysts trained at the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute established a Norwegian psychoanalytic society (IPA-membership 1934). Due to the emergence of Nazism, Wilhelm Reich and Otto Fenichel ended up in Oslo in 1933/4. Their importance for the development of Norwegian psychoanalysis became immense and dramatic. The IPA Congress in 1949 was a disaster for Norwegian psychoanalysis: exclusion from the IPA. Only after many years did the Norwegian society regain its IPA membership in 1975. Norway's first Professor of psychology, Harald Schjelderup, entering his professorship in 1928, was a psychoanalyst, trained in Vienna. Establishing the depth psychological method as a specific scientific method, Schjelderup's main academic project was the integration of psychoanalysis with general psychological science. Ever since, the Norwegian Psychoanalytical Society has maintained a close relationship with the university. During the last twenty years, Norwegian analysts have developed a most successful programme for psychoanalytic psychotherapy in China and participated in training the first Chinese analysts approved by IPA. Thus, they have made a substantial contribution to the IPA-psychoanalytic training in China, resulting in the establishment of the IPA study group in 2022. The inner life of the Norwegian Society has also renewed an enthusiasm through its development of a new training analyst system.</p>","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":"107 2","pages":"287-296"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148165020","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":"For intensive in-person psychoanalysis in psychoanalytic training: Do we know where we are going?","authors":"Denis Flynn","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2026.2651277","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00207578.2026.2651277","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The paper makes a detailed argument for retaining as central the importance of intensive immersive in-person analysis for personal analysis and for control cases in psychoanalytic training. Fundamental is personal analysis and evaluation of the capacities of the analyst-in-training including, importantly, a capacity for analytic listening and intervention. A concern is discussed that recent International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA) rule changes to propose a less intensive and immersive training may undermine this foundational base. In-person analysis allows simultaneous different perspectives, the rawness of immediate experience including the bodily, the sexual or the aggressive to emerge and be felt, and for the emergence of different types of transference that may include enactments by the patient or by the analyst. These lead to a fuller psychoanalytic understanding and are intrinsic to a capacity for growth needed to become a psychoanalyst. Brief vignettes from complex cases of adult, adolescent and child analysis illustrate this view of the centrality of in-person psychoanalysis.</p>","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":"107 2","pages":"263-273"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148164990","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 reflection on the approval process of the three training models in the IPA: Twenty years later.","authors":"Cláudio Laks Eizirik","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2026.2649778","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00207578.2026.2649778","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The author offers a historical account of the process of approval of the three training models in the IPA, during the administrations of Otto Kernberg, Daniel Widlocher and Cláudio Eizirik. He describes the different points of view, concerns, and discussions that were developed at the IPA Board and the membership at large, and reflects on the possible unconscious motivations behind them. He also reflects on tradition, dogmatism and innovation in psychoanalytic institutions and suggests possible ways of understanding and overcoming prevailing resistances to innovation.</p>","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":"107 2","pages":"240-245"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148164946","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 the institutional dialectic between unity and diversity in psychoanalytic education.","authors":"Heribert Blass","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2026.2649776","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00207578.2026.2649776","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The aim pursued by Freud and Ferenczi in 1910, when they founded the International Psychoanalytical Association-to establish a regulatory body for the safeguarding of psychoanalysis-was supported by the international 'Guidelines for Psychoanalytic Training' developed by Max Eitingon and adopted in 1925. However, resistance to this centralised conception of psychoanalytic training soon emerged. This resistance grew as psychoanalysis spread worldwide across different cultures. The fact that differing approaches and regional autonomy in psychoanalytic training were able to gain a foothold under the umbrella of the IPA was demonstrated by the 2007 decision-still in force today-to grant equal recognition to the three training models: the Eitingon model, the French model and the Uruguayan model. A tension has arisen between central and local authorities regarding the organisation of psychoanalytic training within the IPA, which, depending on its intensity, can be either paralysing or creative for the further development of psychoanalysis. In the author's view, different translations into English of the German term 'Gleichgesinnte' used by Ferenczi highlight these contrasts. \"Gleichgesinnte\", who form the IPA as \"people who think in the same way\" (Haynal's translation), may leave less room for cultural differences than \"Gleichgesinnte\", who form the IPA as \"like-minded people\" (the author's translation). The author emphasises the value of a democratically legitimised, central authority, which must, however, remain in dialogue with local authorities within the IPA.</p>","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":"107 2","pages":"235-239"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148164956","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}