{"title":"Thinking under fire: What can psychoanalysis contribute to understanding aspects of the Israel-Palestine conflict and our feelings about it?","authors":"Elizabeth Allison","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2025.2453293","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00207578.2025.2453293","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":"106 1","pages":"139-143"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143626494","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 and the Israel-Palestine war: Perspectives on our relevance.","authors":"Harriet Wolfe","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2025.2453292","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00207578.2025.2453292","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The relevance of psychoanalysis to geopolitical matters of war and large group suffering is explored. The presence of polarization within small and large psychoanalytic collectives is seen as an effort to manage clinicians' sense of helplessness in the face of overwhelming human suffering. The impact on the clinician of the inability to alleviate suffering that is occurring on a massive level, the difficulty in remaining empathic when the suffering of the other is unimaginable, and the use of projection to maintain internal coherence are considered. The ethical foundation of psychoanalysis defined by Levinas as responsibility for the other is highlighted as essential to restoring cohesion within the profession. A ceasefire within the profession is posited as an essential step toward a restored ability to think together, engage productively with one another, and determine a constructive role for psychoanalysis in the currently violent sociopolitical surround.</p>","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":"106 1","pages":"144-154"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143626487","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":"Challenges to maintaining the analytic frame during the 2023/24 war on Gaza.","authors":"M Fakhry Davids","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2025.2453291","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00207578.2025.2453291","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":"106 1","pages":"174-183"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143626285","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 butterfly painting its own colours: Enactment, visualisation and differentiation.","authors":"Sebastian J Kohon","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2024.2369850","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00207578.2024.2369850","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The clinician's emotional and somatic responses to patients are an essential source of information, but how can we disentangle what belongs to whom? A certain blurring of boundaries is inevitable in psychoanalytic work, with oscillations between more and less differentiated states of mind↔body, patient↔clinician and patient-clinician dyad↔wider institutional setting. In one sense, psychoanalytic work can be conceived as a cycle of repeated regressive enactments, followed by elaboration and differentiation après-coup. Referring to two clinical vignettes with pubertal/young adolescent patients, I reflect on the role of the clinician's visual imagination in this process. Accessing an internal, dimensional space can re-establish a boundary, while simultaneously processing a communication, thus forming a bridge between somatic reaction and thought. The particular relevance of this in relation to working with young adolescent patients is considered.</p>","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":"106 1","pages":"62-81"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143626282","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":"Thank you to contributors and reviewers for 2024.","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2024.2439166","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00207578.2024.2439166","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":"105 6","pages":"i-ii"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143392314","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":"Manifestations of the archaic in character within the analytic field: From memories in behaviour to chronic and acute enactments.","authors":"Roosevelt Cassorla","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2024.2371993","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00207578.2024.2371993","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The objective of this paper is to discuss the ways in which primitive aspects of the mind, in particular, the archaic elements of character, become manifest within the analytic field. After a review of the concept, it is proposed that a \"normal\" character manifests through memories in behaviours/feelings, which seek the object to satisfy their needs. The characterological structure keeps primitive traumatic inscriptions under control. Other emotional experiences can activate these inscriptions, causing them to detach from the seemingly stable organization. New attempts to freeze traumatic situations occur within the analytic field and manifest as a mimetic theatre that keeps the analytic pair paralysed. So-called chronic enactments take root. Analytical work in parallel areas disrupts the collision, leading to an acute enactment. The abrupt access to triangularity revives traumatic situations. Understanding these situations expands the symbolic network of thought. The text articulates the behaviours/feelings using the Freudian concept of Agieren. Its two connotations - discharge and mimetic theatre - are discussed and their similarities and differences with enactments are highlighted. The accompanying feeling of uncanniness (Unheimlich) reflects the ambiguity of the known (registered) and the unknown (unsymbolized). The ideas presented stem from clinical investigation. The facts are discussed through detailed clinical material.</p>","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":"105 6","pages":"991-1008"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143061199","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":"\"We are made of time\": reverberation and the elasticity of time in psychoanalysis. Negotiating different temporalities in the session.","authors":"Catalina Bronstein","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2024.2429309","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00207578.2024.2429309","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Inspired by Dana Birksted-Breen's ideas on reverberation time, the author explores the changeability and transformation of the sensations of time and space and their connection to early embodied phantasies in the treatment of a 10-year-old boy. The experience of time changes (summarized under \"time elasticity\" to reflect the various forms this can take) is lived out in the transference relationship from the beginning of the therapeutic encounter. The author proposes the simultaneous development of the capacity to accept \"objective\" time, the establishment of a tri-dimensional space within the self and between objects and tolerating separateness and separation. The development of a capacity for symbolic thinking and depressive anxiety, as well as acceptance of the Oedipal situation and separation, has, as Dana Birksted-Breen underlined, a fundamental effect on the acceptance of objective time. This paper also discusses the difference between dealing with the difficulty of accepting objective time under the impact of fear of death and from the terror and nameless dread arising from the phantasy of the annihilation of time.</p>","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":"105 6","pages":"921-937"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143061165","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 signification of the principle of constancy in Freud's psychoanalysis.","authors":"Pablo Lerner","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2024.2357185","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00207578.2024.2357185","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article examines the signification of the principle of constancy in Freud's pre-psychoanalytic drafts and papers and in <i>Entwurf</i>. It is argued that Freud's principle differs from seemingly similar principles proposed by Breuer and Fechner, and that it constitutes an assumption about the maintaining of a constant amount of mobile biophysical energy whose purpose is <i>not</i> to return to equilibrium, but, proceeding from the primary functions of discharge (principle of inertia) and accumulation (exigencies of life), to consolidate an asymmetry within the nervous system. This gives rise to a set of quasi-psychological dualisms: an energetic dualism between kinetic and tonic energy; a systemic dualism between impermeable and permeable neurons; and a processual dualism between courses of the excitation with and without the inhibiting influence of the ego. Further, it is argued that the principle of constancy makes itself redundant, to the extent that it opens up a psychological domain operating relatively independent of its biophysical basis, thus enabling its \"auto-subtraction\" from the psychological theory. Lastly, it is argued that the constitution of psychoanalysis is dependent on an \"epistemological repression\" of this principle, and that \"Beyond the Pleasure Principle\" may be understood as the return of the repressed principle of constancy.</p>","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":"105 6","pages":"1078-1098"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143061204","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":"Thank you to contributors and reviewers for 2024.","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2024.2439166","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00207578.2024.2439166","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":"105 6","pages":"i-ii"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143123027","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":"Loss and memorialization.","authors":"Lucy LaFarge","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2024.2429306","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00207578.2024.2429306","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Drawing upon Dana Birksted-Breen's work on temporality, and the contrast which she draws between linear, developmental time, seen as a series of unchanging moments, and bidirectional, process time, which is retranscribed again and again (Birksted-Breen [2003] 2016. \"Time and the Apres-Coup.\" In <i>The Work of Psychoanalysis</i>, edited by D. Birksted-Breen, 139-157. London: Routledge.), the author considers the role of unchanging elements in mental life. She argues that these elements are a form of memorialization, which defends against loss. Incorporated throughout life, they have a core of concrete, sensory experience but evoke larger scenes that are not entirely sensory. The author explores the operation of two kinds of memorial tokens: screen memories, which remain inalterable, and recurrent dreams whose unchanging structure serves as a frame in which change can take place. In analysis, both of these preserve memories of the analytic process and re-evoke the presence of the analyst. Both are particularly prominent at termination, when they function both as markers of approaching termination and as defenses against the loss of the analyst. Two brief clinical examples from patients who are nearing termination Illustrate these points.</p>","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":"105 6","pages":"950-959"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143061198","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}