Lutz Goetzmann, Marie Eichenlaub, Christian Benden, Annette Boehler, Adrian M Siegel, Josef Jenewein, Annina Seiler, Uwe Wutzler, Barbara Ruettner
{"title":"Traces of the transplantation complex in Jean-Luc Nancy's body-ontological work.","authors":"Lutz Goetzmann, Marie Eichenlaub, Christian Benden, Annette Boehler, Adrian M Siegel, Josef Jenewein, Annina Seiler, Uwe Wutzler, Barbara Ruettner","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2025.2488295","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00207578.2025.2488295","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Lung transplantation is a complex psychodynamic process. In a prior study, the authors investigated 40 patients who had just undergone lung transplant operations. Using the analysis of a dream, they elaborated what they termed the \"transplantation complex\". They also demonstrated that references are made to this transplantation complex in the further interviews of the total sample. In this paper, they examine whether aspects of the transplantation complex in the philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy's essay \"The Intruder\", in which he described his own heart transplant operation, can also be found in the eponymous work by the filmmaker Claire Denis. In fact, the themes of the transplantation complex appear both in Nancy's essay and in Claire Denis's film (such as fantasies that the donor is killed, that the recipient's body is broken open and that the organs or the donor are devoured). The article closes with some explanations concerning Nancy's \"body ontology\".</p>","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":"106 5","pages":"998-1014"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145497082","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":"Dissociation, repression, and return. The thirty-year arc of the concept of defence in Freud and towards contemporary psychoanalysis.","authors":"Giuseppe Riefolo","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2025.2466464","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00207578.2025.2466464","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The early Freud recognised a wide range of defences. Between 1894 and 1926, the only defence is repression. Breuer differentiates between <i>splitting of the mind</i> and <i>splitting of consciousness</i>. The former concerns the structure while the latter concerns the psychic content. Freud went on make dissociation coincide with repression by giving importance only to the splitting of consciousness, while for Breuer hysteria is founded on \"splitting of the psyche.\" In 1926 he proposed an enlargement of the field of defences in addition to repression with the recognition of particular defences in phobias and obsessions. This broadening retrieves Janet's concept of dissociation as 'loss of the capacity for synthesis,' which for the early Freud and Breuer occurred in hypnoid states and in the suspension of associative capacities. Contemporary psychoanalysis takes up Freud's initial concept of defences. It retrieves the concept of dissociation considered both as repression and as the inability to integrate experience caused by blocking the fluid dissociative dynamic between multiple states of the Self. Using clinical examples it is therefore proposed that the analytic process simultaneously includes positions of repression as well as positions of dissociation considered as suspension of the patient's and analyst's integrative capacities. Repression concerns the avoidance of conflict, while dissociation suspends the process of access to conflict.</p>","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":"106 5","pages":"938-957"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145497076","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":"Response to Marie Lenormand.","authors":"Thomas H Ogden","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2025.2558446","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00207578.2025.2558446","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":"106 5","pages":"1057"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145497110","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":"Before and after the fall: Horizontal and vertical object orientations in the analysis of a patient with grievances.","authors":"John Steiner","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2025.2533869","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00207578.2025.2533869","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this paper I describe how a vertical relationship of mutual grievance is commonly set up when the idealised horizontal relationship between infant and mother collapses. Mourning is interrupted if the lost object is internalised as a critical superego making the patient feel inferior and humiliated. He attempts then to turn the tables on the object in a response of manic triumph which creates the vertical, \"up or down\" world. This pattern is examined in clinical material which seemed to show progress even though the grievances were deeply entrenched. The reasons for the softening of his resentment were examined and the role of the vertical as well as other obstacles to mourning were reviewed.</p>","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":"106 5","pages":"873-891"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145497008","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":"Perverse sexual enactment.","authors":"Steven Groarke","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2025.2480735","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00207578.2025.2480735","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper is about sexual perversion and its enactment. It is divided into three parts, including, a consideration of William Gillespie's reading of Freud with Klein as the basis on which he formulated a general theory of perversion; a selective reading of more recent works on the psychoanalysis of perversion; and a clinical contribution to the analysis of a case of scopophilia.</p>","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":"106 5","pages":"892-914"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145497096","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":"Ontological psychoanalysis and types of experience of being.","authors":"Leopoldo Fulgencio","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2025.2458540","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00207578.2025.2458540","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The discussion about the nature of what is achieved in the analytical process gained a significant contribution with Ogden's proposal, which characterises two modi operandi of the psychoanalytic treatment method (one that seeks understanding, and the other that seeks experiences so that the self may integrate and become more profoundly itself). However, he did not focus on describing the different types of experiences of the self, achievable within the analytical process. This article aims to partially fill this gap by drawing on Winnicott's work, associating experiences of Being with the way he conceives of object relations in the context of the analyst-patient relationship, differentiating and characterising the following experiences: am-ness, when the analyst acts as a subjective object for the patient; am-with, when patient and analyst share transitional phenomena; I-am-different-from and I-am-predicated-on, when the analyst is understood as an external object; and I-am-finite, as an experience, perceived or apperceived, by the self in relation to itself, the other, and the world over time. This understanding can broaden the comprehension of the various ways of experiencing and managing transference within the analytical process.</p>","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":"106 5","pages":"915-937"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145497071","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 baby?\": creative disavowal during second pregnancy - a protective parallel world.","authors":"Alejandra Perez","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2025.2483299","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00207578.2025.2483299","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Pregnancy and early motherhood are periods of great psychic demands, in part, due to the various physical changes the mother faces. Women may have a wide range of experiences during this time due to various factors: their early childhood, internal objects, current relationships and environment, as well as their physical state. This paper will explore the experiences of three women, who before starting analysis, had suffered extreme and prolonged physical difficulties in their first pregnancies or post-partum periods, which gave rise to claustrophobic panic and feelings of disintegration. Once in analysis, the three women each went on to have a second baby. Each mother navigated her second pregnancy through a complex process of disavowal of her unborn baby, which I have termed 'creative disavowal' as it allowed an intermediate area which protected them and their baby from the violent bodily experiences, primitive anxieties, and hatred that they felt, as well as opened space for more passionate feelings to unfold and take shape. The analytic work in each case involved giving meaning to the mother's somatic experiences, and containing her intense hostile and primitive unconscious phantasies, whilst also creating space for the psychological or imagined baby to be born and held.</p>","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":"106 5","pages":"958-977"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145497031","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":"Marie Lenormand","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2025.2505302","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00207578.2025.2505302","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":"106 5","pages":"1053-1056"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145497127","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}
Olivier Taieb, Jeanne Defontaine, Catherine Le Du, Mohammad Mouma, Thierry Baubet
{"title":"The representation of pandemic anxieties in a psychoanalytic group psychodrama for adolescents and young adults.","authors":"Olivier Taieb, Jeanne Defontaine, Catherine Le Du, Mohammad Mouma, Thierry Baubet","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2024.2434378","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00207578.2024.2434378","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Covid-19 pandemic posed challenges for the psychological care of adolescents, and in particular those in therapeutic groups. Exploring three sessions of a psychoanalytic psychodrama group in early 2021 in a day hospital in Paris, the article considers how the pandemic threatened the intra- and intersubjective relations, and how these dangers were elaborated. The psychodrama group helped the adolescents to create fantasy and symbolisation activities, so that a transitional space could be restored.</p>","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":" ","pages":"766-783"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143626068","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}