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Intimacy: The tank in the bedroom
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Source: The International Journal of Psychoanalysis - June 19, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Adrienne Harris Tags: Original Article Source Type: research

Intimacy: The drama and beauty of encountering the Other
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Source: The International Journal of Psychoanalysis - June 19, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Ruggero Levy Tags: Original Article Source Type: research

Intimacy thwarted and established: Following a girl from infancy to child psychotherapy
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Source: The International Journal of Psychoanalysis - June 19, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Bj örn Salomonsson, Majlis Winberg Salomonsson Tags: IPA Congress Papers Source Type: research

Reverie ‐informed research interviewing
Translations of summary Drawing on Thomas Ogden's notion of ‘reverie’, the role of self‐reflection in research interviewing is explored. Ogden views reverie as a co‐created intersubjective phenomenon, a ‘third’, distinct from both analyst and patient. Two face‐to‐face research interviews with adolescent depression sufferers are described, showing how reverie can be used to help overcome impasse, and develop research hypotheses. Participant‐centred research interviews were thus shown to be enhanced by psychoanalytically informed self‐reflection as accessed through reverie. The role of reverie in researc...
Source: The International Journal of Psychoanalysis - June 19, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Joshua Holmes Tags: Research Paper Source Type: research

Letter from Argentina
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Source: The International Journal of Psychoanalysis - June 19, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Virginia Ungar Tags: Letter From Source Type: research

Title Page
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Source: The International Journal of Psychoanalysis - June 19, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Issue Information Source Type: research

The work of psychoanalysis: Sexuality, time and the psychoanalytic mind by Dana Birksted ‐Breen Abingdon, Routledge, 2016; 300pp.
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Source: The International Journal of Psychoanalysis - June 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Ronald Britton Tags: Book Review Source Type: research

Freud's ‘transference’: Clinical technique in the ‘Rat Man’ case and theoretical conceptualization compared
Translations of summary A considerable gap exists between clinical psychoanalytic concepts and psychoanalytic practice. It can be traced back to the early beginnings of psychoanalysis and to Freud's own handling of concepts that he had developed himself. Focusing on the concept of ‘transference’ that Freud in several steps coined so precisely from his experiences with hysteric patients and especially from his understanding of the ‘Dora’ case, it can be shown that he – seen from today – could not fully apply the meaning of his own concept in the later treatment of the so‐called ‘Rat Man’. Freud's ‘Origin...
Source: The International Journal of Psychoanalysis - June 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Michael Diercks Tags: Psychoanalytic Theory and Technique Source Type: research

Achilles: A Homeric hero enamoured with the absolute
This article explores through a psychoanalytical lens the character of Achilles in Homer's Iliad, the matrix behind the Western conception of heroism. The contribution reveals the psychological link binding the words and acts of the most valiant of warriors in Antiquity, which is situated in myth and termed “the Eros of the absolute.” The paroxystic ideality underlying the aforementioned myth, which is rooted in the anthropological need to believe, is at the origin of Achilles’ legendary μῆνις, that is, the flood of rage triggered by contests for supremacy, aggravated by the loss of his war comrade, aroused by ...
Source: The International Journal of Psychoanalysis - June 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Nicolas Evzonas Tags: Interdisciplinary Studies Source Type: research

Dante's ‘Two Suns’: Reflections on the psychological sources of the Divine Comedy
Translations of summary The power of Dante's Divine Comedy is unmistakable, but surprising in view of its theological structure and assumptions that are no longer current among most modern readers. This paper suggests that its power derives from the deep psychological truthfulness with which Dante deals with the painful personal crisis that underlies the poem and is his starting point. It attempts to clarify what may have constituted that crisis, and why the structure of the Comedy, and in particular its use of two guides, Virgil and Beatrice, who might be thought a somewhat incompatible pairing, point significantly to the...
Source: The International Journal of Psychoanalysis - June 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: David M. Black Tags: Interdisciplinary Studies Source Type: research

Towards psychoanalytic contribution to linguistic metaphor theory
Translations of summary This paper lays out a formulation of the psychoanalytical contribution to linguistic metaphor theory. The author's main argument is that psychoanalysis can help enrich and shed light on linguistic metaphor theories, since these have focused on the cognitive aspect, to the exclusion of the role played by affect. Based on the tight link between metaphor and symbol – both configurations of figurative language – the author shall apply ideas sourced from some of the key psychoanalytic symbolization theories, focusing in particular on Klein, Winnicott, and Ogden. The course of exploration will serve t...
Source: The International Journal of Psychoanalysis - June 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Tair Caspi Tags: Interdisciplinary Studies Source Type: research

Love and melancholia in the analysis of women by women
This paper suggests that in the analysis of women by women a melancholic core may be encountered at the centre of the transference/countertransference situation that is an expression of the loss of the primary maternal object that has never been mourned. The attachment to the primary, lost object may be preserved in a melancholic, invisible way, and the longing that it is connected to might only reach representation in the après coup of the analytic process. The links between this primary love, melancholia and the unrepresentable in the analysis of women will be explored. These analyses powerfully evoke the relationship t...
Source: The International Journal of Psychoanalysis - June 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Rosine Jozef Perelberg Tags: Psychoanalytic Theory and Technique Source Type: research

‘For our garden of remembrance is somewhere else’: Narratives of separation through the eyes of Freud's patients
This article presents a unique collection of narratives of separation – unique because the separation here is from psychoanalysis and from Freud as analyst. These narratives were published as part of memoirs written about Freud by three of his patients. Their narratives of separation give us an innovative point of view on the psychoanalytic process, in particular with respect to the importance they place on the termination phase of the analysis at a time when Freud himself had not given it much consideration. The three autobiographical texts are Abram Kardiner's memoir (1977); the memoir of Sergei Pankejeff, known as the...
Source: The International Journal of Psychoanalysis - June 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Anat Tzur Mahalel Tags: History of Psychoanalysis Source Type: research

Hymenality in psychoanalysis: A reading of Boundaries and bridges: Perspectives on time and space in psychoanalysis 1 by Andrea Sabbadini Karnac, London, 2014; 162 pp; €20.69
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Source: The International Journal of Psychoanalysis - May 27, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Giuseppe Civitarese Tags: Book Review Source Type: research

Hymenality in psychoanalysis: A reading of Boundaries and bridges: Perspectives on time and space in psychoanalysis 1 by Andrea Sabbadini Karnac, London, 2014; 162 pp; €20.69
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Source: The International Journal of Psychoanalysis - May 27, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Giuseppe Civitarese Source Type: research