{"title":"When remote analysis is used as an attack on the frame.","authors":"Kristin White","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2025.2476214","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00207578.2025.2476214","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Henri Rey's theory of claustro-agoraphobia is helpful for the understanding of the difficulties that can arise when the frame of treatment is modified in remote analysis or psychoanalytic psychotherapy. The felt intense closeness and the actual distance of remote analysis lend themselves to a defensive position in remote analysis when the patient feels at once trapped in the analysis and yet unable to be without the analysis. I suggest here that such claustro-agoraphobic fears arise particularly at times in the analytic process in which change is imminent. The patient is then confronted with giving up old systems of defence. Moving away and changing to remote analysis can provide a relief in the face of the simultaneous fear of closeness and of distance. With such patients, the two steps of moving away and changing to remote analysis can be seen as an unconscious attack on the frame by a part of the patient that is defending itself against such fears in the face of change. Once the setting has changed in remote psychotherapy, the analyst too can be drawn into the claustro-agoraphobic position in the face of the patient's attacks on the analyst's symbolic thinking and his internal frame.</p>","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":"106 2","pages":"416-430"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144034973","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":"\"What do his lips want from me?\" Infantile sexuality and enigmatic messages in psychoanalytic parent-infant psychotherapy.","authors":"Björn Salomonsson","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2024.2380328","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00207578.2024.2380328","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper's clinical material derives from psychoanalytic parent-infant psychotherapy (PIP). It applies Freud's concept of infantile sexuality to clinical processes in PIP. Freud's sources were everyday baby observations and adult patients' childhood accounts. He was unclear as to when infantile sexuality emerged in babies, claiming it was observable in the newborn as well as unobservable only until about three years of age. Furthermore, he argued that the sexual drive leant on the survival instinct, thereby adding erotic pleasure to breastfeeding. This process remained unclear until Laplanche suggested a traffic of enigmatic messages in dyadic interactions. Their meanings were unconscious to the adult and incomprehensible to the baby. The paper investigates if the baby might experience certain communicative expressions as especially enigmatic. It applies an observational and interpretative method, layered analysis, to a clip of a video-recorded PIP session. It shows the analyst approaching a gaze-avoidant baby by greeting and smiling. These efforts were conscious to him. In contrast, as his lips made two kiss-like motions they were unconscious to him and retroactively interpreted as signifying his infantile sexuality. The paper discusses if such micro-events correspond to Laplanche's enigmatic messages.</p>","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":" ","pages":"267-287"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143732348","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":"What we don't talk about enough when we talk about teleanalysis: A response to \"The phenomenology of teleanalysis\" by Dr N. Zapien.","authors":"Alessandra Lemma","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2025.2457243","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00207578.2025.2457243","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":"106 2","pages":"363-374"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144020588","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":"Some reflections on the nature of psychoanalytic debate in academic publishing: A response to Roberto D'Angelo's: \"Do we want to know?\"","authors":"Alessandra Lemma","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2024.2427021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00207578.2024.2427021","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":"106 2","pages":"440-443"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144051364","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":"Vicissitudes of the psychoanalytic setting.","authors":"Antonio Pérez-Sánchez","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2025.2476211","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00207578.2025.2476211","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The outbreak of the pandemic forced a temporary change from an in-person setting to a distance setting via a screen, generating a debate about the viability of the psychoanalytic process in the case of distance settings. This discussion leads us to reconsider the fundamental elements of the setting, such as the hitherto unquestioned co-presence of the bodies of the patient and the analyst in the same space. After reviewing key moments in the evolution of the concept, from Freud to Bleger, and analysing the contemporary situation, including recent IPA reports, it is emphasised that the physical presence of the body, in which psychic life is rooted, is essential to enable unconscious communication. To support this idea, clinical examples and a detailed vignette are presented. In addition, the importance of the frequency of sessions is highlighted, underlining the fact that the quantitative factor is crucial to the nature of psychic life and any attempt to modify it.</p>","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":"106 2","pages":"385-399"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144020585","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":"Upgrade to PI.4, or rethinking projective identification from the vertex of the analytic field.","authors":"Giuseppe Civitarese","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2024.2381063","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00207578.2024.2381063","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The paper attempts to answer a key question: does the concept of projective identification (PI) still have a place in the metapsychology of post-Bionian analytic field theory (AFT)? Over time, PI has been characterized as increasingly interpersonal, especially as revised by Bion and Ogden. Beginning with the Barangers, writers on AFT have also spoken about what might best be called \"crossing\" PI as the foundation of the analytic field. However, on the one hand, they have understood this intersection negatively, as the basis of paired bastions or collusions; on the other hand, with Bion, they have always maintained a certain unidirectionality in writing that the flow of PI normally goes from the patient to the analyst, and can only occasionally be reversed. Strictly speaking, this notion clashes with the radically intersubjective idea that every fact of analysis is unconsciously co-created and represents a \"character\" in the analytic field or an affective hologram of the couple. The author suggests that this apparent contradiction can be resolved and, if properly rethought, PI can retain an important place in the metapsychology of AFT. If we consider the dialectic of recognition to be at the centre of therapeutic action, PI is the concept in psychoanalysis that best describes it. In order to highlight this theoretical and heuristic value of PI, the proposal is to re-read it in the light of some of Merleau-Ponty's concepts (chiasmus, entanglement, intercorporeality, flesh of the world, etc.) that emphasize the essentially social and embodied texture of subjectivity.</p>","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":"106 2","pages":"219-247"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144040945","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":"Lost and found in translation.","authors":"Gregorio Kohon","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2025.2461370","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00207578.2025.2461370","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":"106 2","pages":"444-445"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144053361","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":"Psychoanalysis embodied or remote? A call for research, reflection and dialogue.","authors":"Bernard Reith","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2025.2480952","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00207578.2025.2480952","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The introduction of remote communication technology in psychoanalytic practice and training raises multiple psychoanalytic, clinical, and ethical issues that require qualitative and empirical process and outcome research, careful psychoanalytic reflection, and open but transparent searching dialogue between practitioners.</p>","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":"106 2","pages":"337-339"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144054808","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":"Ilse Grubrich-Simitis, 22 February 1936-8 August 2024.","authors":"Mark Solms","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2024.2444162","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00207578.2024.2444162","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":"106 1","pages":"191-200"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143626311","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":"Doubts about ending analysis and the internal parental couple.","authors":"Lesley Steyn","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2024.2382255","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00207578.2024.2382255","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Describing countertransference feelings and conflicts towards end of treatment is difficult for analysts and the literature on termination tends to focus on what should happen not what does. The inherent incompleteness and inevitable frustrations of patient's and analyst's wishes can throw both into confusion at the very point when the wish for certainty and completion is heightened. This paper describes a case where patient and analyst repeatedly felt thrown into doubt about whether and how analysis should end. The analyst came to think that, unconsciously, the doubts related to the patient's position with the internal parental couple. As the patient struggled with feelings of disintegration and exclusion the analyst experienced periods of theoretical confusion, which stood for her relationship with her analytic parents. The analyst came to see these periods of disintegration, situated within the transference-countertransference field, as crucial to the developmental process, pushing the analytic couple away from what could have become false \"depressive\" coherence towards more truthful encounters. She views the patient's capacity to bear this as a sign of readiness for termination. Retrospectively she finds helpful light can be thrown on this experience by Britton's concept of post-depressive paranoid- schizoid position, synthesizing Bion's extension of Kleinian theory and Steiner's concept of pathological organisations, but she places more emphasis than Britton does on describing the countertransference struggle. Ultimately, the author argues, the patient can be helped to achieve fuller integration if the analyst can tolerate some disintegration, repeatedly losing and regaining an internal parental couple.</p>","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":"106 1","pages":"42-61"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143626399","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}