{"title":"How psychoanalysis can contribute to understanding racism.","authors":"Sharon Numa","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2023.2255473","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00207578.2023.2255473","url":null,"abstract":"In this article I hope to highlight what psychoanalysis has to o ff er to an understanding of racism and to point to its potential to contribute further. Psychoanalysis has an impressive reach in relation to its understanding of mental phenomena, and particularly of pathological states, investigating at a deep level the unconscious drives, motivations and phan-tasies that shape our inner world and colour our emotional experiences. It was one of Freud ’ s signi fi cant contributions to demonstrate that the ego is not master in its own house. We are not just creatures of reason, being in fact propelled by all sorts of unconscious thoughts and memories. These unconscious forces may also limit our development – compromising the stability of our sense of self, our identity, and restricting our ability to engage not only with ourselves but with our objects and our external environment. Even when we are able to achieve greater emotional maturity (which we could think of in terms of the depressive position described by Melanie Klein), in the face of certain deprivations, frustrations or other unwelcome a ff ects arising from within, we are prone to retreat to a paranoid-schizoid world of splitting and projection. This is a world where terrifying objects are created in phantasy and through projective identi fi - cation, in which symbolic functioning gives way to concrete thinking (a marked feature of the racist state of mind). In serious pathology, defensive systems and pathological organisations are erected, a fortress against knowledge of reality and associated anxiety. Whether we think of deep-seated racism as a manifestation of Freud ’ s “ death drive ” or as part of the deeply embedded early anxieties that belong to the paranoid schizoid position, it surely re fl ects the primitive hatred and aggression that need to be expelled outwards into the object world, the “ not-me ” world. All of these aspects of unconscious life, developed within psychoanalytic theory, lend depth to an understanding of racism at a psychological level (perhaps expanding political and socio-economic","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71427918","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":"Passivity and Gender: Psychical inertia and maternal stillness.","authors":"Lisa Baraitser","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2023.2255470","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00207578.2023.2255470","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Who is afraid of passivity? Historically, women and minoritized people have had good reason to be, given that passivity has been a way to keep them out of the world of \"reason.\" Freud's move from the activity/passivity binary as the principle of all instinct, to its gendering as femininity/passivity and masculinity/activity, leads him to assert the \"repudiation of femininity\" as the bedrock of psychic life (Freud, S. 1937. \"Analysis Terminable and Interminable.\" In <i>The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud</i>, 23, 209-254. London: Hogarth Press). This has led to a generative history of feminist, queer and Black psychoanalytic scholarship that constantly re-opens the question of female subjectivity and sexuality, and what we mean by psychic femininity and masculinity. However, what does remains as \"bedrock,\" even in this theorizing, is the figure of the mother in the internal world of the infant - supposedly castrated yet all-powerful, and requiring that the infant defend itself against what is stirred up as a result of dependency on her. After reviewing some of the psychoanalytic debates about femininity, I turn to \"stillness\" rather than passivity to suggest that we can identify a maternal element that is on the side of development, a figuration of psychical inertia that holds the capacity for waiting, stopping, ceasing and withdrawing in a world in which these mental functions are sorely missing.</p>","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71414758","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 identity <i>in vivo</i>: Permanence and change.","authors":"Ricardo Bernardi","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2023.2255477","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00207578.2023.2255477","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Psychoanalytic identity \"<i>in vivo</i>\" means psychoanalysis as an authentic, lived experience, socially and historically situated. What we have inherited from the psychoanalytic tradition now needs to be collectively and individually updated and shaped as therapy, as research and as theory. The focus of this paper is on developing a more critical and realistic sense of psychoanalytic identity, grounded in our clinical experience. We need to recognise our identity in what we actually do and achieve with our patients in our daily practice and avoid idealisations or devaluations arising from theoretical speculation. The important role of the Three Level Model (3-LM) and similar working parties is discussed. Psychoanalysts need a pluralistic professional identity, which implies triangulating our clinical perspectives with those of other colleagues, as happens in 3-LM clinical discussion groups, and contextualizing our knowledge from a broad perspective, including extra-clinical research and interdisciplinary dialogue with both health sciences and hermeneutic disciplines. A psychoanalytic identity that is open to the future requires an acknowledgement of the different positions that exist within our discipline and neighbouring fields, and a willingness to critically examine and discuss these differences.</p>","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71414760","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 constitutes a psychoanalytic identity?","authors":"Elizabeth Allison","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2023.2255475","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00207578.2023.2255475","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71414679","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 missing: Exploring the use of photographs in \"working through\" the natal body with transgender youth.","authors":"Alessandra Lemma","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2023.2238040","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00207578.2023.2238040","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper focuses on how for some young people who identify as transgender, the anticipation, and/or the actual process, of transitioning represents a movement away from something in themselves that feels wrong, painful, or traumatic and that has not yet been consciously recognised as such. This becomes a 'missing' part of the self's experience, locked into the body. I suggest that the process of identifying and restitution of 'the missing' part requires working through the natal body in its metaphorical and literal senses, in the service of expanding autonomous choice about how to find a hospitable home in the body. Building on Money-Kyrle's three 'facts of life', I propose a fourth one, namely the inescapable fact of our embodied nature, to underscore that our personal history always includes our embodied history, hence the importance of working through what the natal body unconsciously represents. I describe the use of photographs during psychoanalytic psychotherapy with young people who have commenced social transitioning, to work through visual representations of the natal body in the service of facilitating the working through, in its psychoanalytic sense, of the natal body's unconscious narrative. I suggest that deploying this visual mode may be especially helpful in engaging young people on the autistic spectrum who nowadays comprise a significant minority of transgender young people.</p>","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71414764","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 Lacanian perspective on identity.","authors":"Lionel Bailly","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2023.2255476","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00207578.2023.2255476","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71414748","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 Congress Cartagena 2023: Asistencia psicoanalítica en crisis humanitarias: En la línea de fuego (Psychoanalytic assistence in humanitarian crises: In the line of fire).","authors":"Simone Hazan","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2023.2256154","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00207578.2023.2256154","url":null,"abstract":"All participants of the panel are members of the International Psychoanalytic Association ’ s committee Psychoanalytic Assistance in Crises and Emergencies (PACE), Mónica Cardenal being its chair, Ricardo Readi the co-chair for Latin America, and Jeanne Magagna and Alicia Monserrat link members in their respective institutions. PACE is a recently created committee whose importance for the IPA was demonstrated by the assignment of the main auditorium for this event, with simultaneous translation; although there were only about 30 people in the audience, the hybrid modality allowed for an additional 70 people to attend remotely. PACE provides assistance and psychoanalytic interventions around the globe to populations facing crises, establishing links between our fi eld, other professions, governmental agencies and humanitarian organisations","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71414750","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":"Terrorism: The impact on the fabric of our communities and in our consulting rooms.","authors":"Johanna Velt","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2023.2256174","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00207578.2023.2256174","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71414762","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":"Letter to the Editor.","authors":"Richard Rusbridger","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2023.2222517","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00207578.2023.2222517","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10311575","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":"Lacan and the transference.","authors":"Gilbert Diatkine","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2023.2230767","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00207578.2023.2230767","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Lacan papers reading is difficult and often disappointing. His technique, using shortening of sessions as a way of interpreting transference (\"scansion\") is unacceptable. His great project of create a united structural theory of psychoanalysis, linguistic and anthropology has failed. However, his works on transference are worth being red. Lacan has reminded psychoanalysts that they are \"divided subjects\", meaning that their unconscious remains unconscious to themselves, that they have to listen to themselves as much as they have to listen to their their patients; he has rediscovered the importance of après-coup, already stressed by Freud, but often forgotten; and above all, he has rediscovered the importance of words in transference interpretation, showing the importance of the link between two signifiers, more than the link between signifier and signified.</p>","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41148001","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}