{"title":"The unheimlich ghosts of Bildung: on reading Martin Bergmann reading Paul Federn.","authors":"Ian S Miller","doi":"10.1057/s11231-025-09515-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s11231-025-09515-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Martin Bergmann demonstrates different aspects of what is very distinctively, a psychoanalytic orientation of mind in extension of viewpoint and value, having no equal in our postmodern world. Unselfconscious in forthright use of the analyst's personality in demonstration of psychoanalytic thinking, Bergmann's 1963 paper \"The Place of Paul Federn's Ego Psychology in Psychoanalytic Metapsychology\" presents a Rosetta Stone for discerning the Jewishly inflected and particular cultural presence of Bildung (Mosse, 1985; Sorkin, 1983, 1987), the Enlightenment practice of self-development, in the textual history of psychoanalysis.</p>","PeriodicalId":52458,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144602188","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Changing Theoretical and Clinical Issues.","authors":"Lisa A Mounts, Michele A Muñoz","doi":"10.1057/s11231-025-09510-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s11231-025-09510-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52458,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144602187","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Trauma and disavowal: looking at the history of psychoanalysis through the case of Karen Horney.","authors":"Patricia Mafra de Amorim, Daniel Kupermann","doi":"10.1057/s11231-025-09512-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s11231-025-09512-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article examines the history of psychoanalysis through the lens of disavowal, focusing on the case of Karen Horney, a prominent second-generation psychoanalyst whose contributions were largely excluded from the official history. By analyzing Freud's institutional and theoretical dominance, the article explores how dissenting voices like Horney's were marginalized through mechanisms akin to Ferenczi's concept of disavowal. The discussion highlights how the exclusion of Horney and others shaped the development of psychoanalytic theory and practice, particularly regarding gender and authority within the field. The article advocates for recognition of these disavowals, to improve understanding of the internal resistances within psychoanalysis, and their impact on its history and development.</p>","PeriodicalId":52458,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144555693","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Strangers among us: psychoanalytic ethics at the crossroads.","authors":"Stan Case","doi":"10.1057/s11231-025-09513-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s11231-025-09513-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Psychoanalytic ethicists identify caring as the deepest virtue in our work, but what is our capacity for caring at the collective level? Beyond our \"groupish\" nature (Bion, 1961) and our collective unconscious (Jung, 1926), the author considers an emerging collective conscience, in our theories and practices. Freud (1930) believed that our post-oedipal superegos, through the sacrifice of individual instincts, builds civilization-the \"power of a community\" larger than each of us. By basing his theory on one intrapsychic actor in the tragic myth of Oedipus, Freud left out a whole cast of characters who Oedipus treated as outcasts. These strangers, and those he estranged, offered a community of care to the oedipal triad. In our time the Oedipal complex has transformed into oedipal complexity; individual Oedipus at the crossroads now encounters sociocultural intersectionality. Grounded by our phylogenetic, ontogenetic, and sociogenic beginnings to bond in groups through the ethic of caring, the author tracks the longer road we travel on towards the ethic of fairness.</p>","PeriodicalId":52458,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144555692","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Co-editors' note on change.","authors":"Lisa A Mounts, Michele A Muñoz","doi":"10.1057/s11231-025-09509-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s11231-025-09509-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52458,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144546135","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"We Don't Speak of Fear: Large-Group Identity, Societal Conflict and Collective Trauma, edited by Vamik D. Volkan, Regine Scholz, and M. Gerard Fromm, Phoenix Publishing House, Bicester, Oxfordshire, 2023, 294 pp.","authors":"Molly S Castelloe","doi":"10.1057/s11231-025-09505-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s11231-025-09505-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52458,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144327733","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Towards Happiness-A Psychoanalytic Approach to Finding your Way, by Ahron Friedberg with Sandra Sherman, Routledge, Abingdon and New York, 2023, 164 pp.","authors":"Glebs Troscenkovs","doi":"10.1057/s11231-025-09508-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s11231-025-09508-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52458,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144318678","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From Breakdown to Breakthrough: Psychoanalytic Treatment of Psychosis, by Danielle Knafo and Michael Selzer, Routledge, Abingdon and New York, 2024, 277 pp.","authors":"Miguel Angel Gonzalez-Torres","doi":"10.1057/s11231-025-09507-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s11231-025-09507-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52458,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144318677","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sexuality, Intimacy, Power (Classic Edition) by Muriel Dimen, Routledge, Abingdon and New York, 2024, (original work published in 2003), 221 pp.","authors":"Naomi Janowitz","doi":"10.1057/s11231-025-09502-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s11231-025-09502-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52458,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143732841","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Carl Gustav Jung's pioneering contributions to the humanization of psychiatry.","authors":"Alberto Stefana","doi":"10.1057/s11231-025-09497-7","DOIUrl":"10.1057/s11231-025-09497-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper explores Carl Gustav Jung's groundbreaking contributions to psychiatry and psychotherapy, with a particular focus on his humanistic approach. Jung emphasized the profound influence of both the clinician's and patient's personal histories and personalities in therapeutic outcomes, propelling a shift from a \"monopersonal\" to a \"bipersonal\" perspective in therapy. He stressed the crucial role of the transference-countertransference dynamic, accentuating mutual influence within the clinician-patient relationship. Moreover, Jung's approach to psychotic symptoms as inherently meaningful and communicative, rather than simply concealment, opened new possibilities for psychotherapeutic treatment methods. This investigation illuminates Jung's substantial influence on the humanization of psychiatry, highlighting his unique creativity and originality in the clinical and theoretical landscape.</p>","PeriodicalId":52458,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":" ","pages":"57-80"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143568808","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}