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Prologue: The Emergence and Education of the Analytic Mind Psychoanal. Inq. (IF 0.19) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Stephen B. Bernstein
Published in Psychoanalytic Inquiry: A Topical Journal for Mental Health Professionals (Vol. 44, No. 2, 2024)
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Responding to Childhood Trauma: Developing and Learning from Collaborations Beyond the Consulting Room Psychoanal. Inq. (IF 0.19) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Steven Marans
Whether within or outside of the psychoanalytic consulting room, when individuals or professional groups can recognize their limitations in addressing familiar challenges and have the opportunity t...
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The Making of the IPA Podcast: Psychoanalysis On and Off the Couch Psychoanal. Inq. (IF 0.19) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Harvey Schwartz, Stephen B. Bernstein
We discuss the conceptual and technical origin of this podcast and its function of highlighting the creative work of psychoanalysts both on and off the couch. We review the challenges and controver...
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Teaching Freud: Challenges and Opportunities Psychoanal. Inq. (IF 0.19) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Daniel Jacobs
This article addresses the challenges and opportunities involved in teaching Freud’s work to psychoanalytic candidates. The obstacles on the part of students, teachers and institutes in learning an...
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In the Teachers’ Lounge: Creating a Community Space for Psychoanalytic Teachers Psychoanal. Inq. (IF 0.19) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Mark Moore
The author describes how a teaching forum was started at his local institute, with the goal of helping to support and sustain faculty in their work as psychoanalytic teachers. Psychoanalytic teache...
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Engaging Minds: Toward Developing Psychoanalytic Candidates Psychoanal. Inq. (IF 0.19) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Janet E. Noonan
The future and vibrancy of psychoanalysis rests on increasing the accessibility to training for early career clinicians. By recognizing and addressing the numerous barriers to the immersive experie...
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“No Mortal Can Keep a Secret”: Reading Freud’s Cases as Preparation for Candidates’ First Efforts to Write About Their Patients Psychoanal. Inq. (IF 0.19) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Jennifer Stuart
Clinical writing is sometimes viewed cynically, as a way to ensure progression – through training and beyond – by demonstrating one’s allegiance to received views. For candidates and faculty alike,...
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Epilogue: The Emergence and Education of the Analytic Mind Psychoanal. Inq. (IF 0.19) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Stephen B. Bernstein
Published in Psychoanalytic Inquiry: A Topical Journal for Mental Health Professionals (Vol. 44, No. 2, 2024)
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Remembering The Sane Society: An American Lament Psychoanal. Inq. (IF 0.19) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Daniel Burston
Erich Fromm’s book The Sane Society was published in 1955, the second year of President’s Eisenhower’s administration, but had a profound impact on the ideas and agendas of social activists during ...
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Prologue: Erich Fromm’s Relevance for Our Troubled World Psychoanal. Inq. (IF 0.19) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Mauricio Cortina Issue Editor
Published in Psychoanalytic Inquiry: A Topical Journal for Mental Health Professionals (Vol. 44, No. 1, 2024)
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The Social Determinants of Psychoanalytic Therapy: Fromm’s Anti-Authoritarian “Calling Card” Psychoanal. Inq. (IF 0.19) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Peter L. Rudnytsky
This article examines Fromm’s 1935 paper, “The Social Determinants of Psychoanalytic Therapy,” situating it in the context of Fromm’s life and setting forth its contrast between Freud’s “authoritar...
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Long Shadows of Racism and Genocide: Learning from Erich Fromm’s Social Psychoanalysis Psychoanal. Inq. (IF 0.19) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Roger Frie
As a psychoanalyst, Fromm felt compelled to speak to the social and political crises of his time. Fromm’s social psychoanalysis was a radical departure from the Freudian mainstream and has importan...
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Erich Fromm: Ancestor of Social Psychoanalytic Practice Psychoanal. Inq. (IF 0.19) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Lynne Layton
Erich Fromm offered two key psychoanalytic concepts that bridge the psychic and the social: social unconscious and social character. In his view, these concepts are not only critical for understand...
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On the Psychodynamics of Right-Wing Populism: A Frommian Perspective Psychoanal. Inq. (IF 0.19) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Rainer Funk
The paper analyzes right-wing populism according to Erich Fromm’s social-psychoanalytic approach and using his social-characterological insights on authoritarianism and narcissism. Right-wing popul...
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The Plague of Certitude: Why Fromm Matters Today Psychoanal. Inq. (IF 0.19) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Ilene Philipson
Today, a plague of certitude is spreading within American psychoanalysis. This socially constructed virus is increasingly dominating our unmoderated list serves, appearing in our journals, and slow...
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How Erich Fromm Can Help Address the Jordan Peterson Problem in Psychoanalysis Psychoanal. Inq. (IF 0.19) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Neil McLaughlin, Neil Wegenschimmel
The current political climate is marked by polarization, which presents new difficulties for psychoanalysis. Erich Fromm, as a Freudian theorist and clinician, is uniquely positioned to address the...
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Is There Room for Otherness in Humanism? Erich Fromm’s Alternative Psychoanal. Inq. (IF 0.19) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Matheus Capovilla Romanetto
Humanism has been criticized as a philosophical and political stance from different points of view in recent decades. The paper summarizes four common types of criticism, stemming from political, e...
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Erich Fromm – His Views on the Human Condition and Human Needs: Comparative Analysis with Maslow’s and Maccoby’s Need Schemes Psychoanal. Inq. (IF 0.19) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Julio Boltvinik
Fromm’s concept of the human condition and the existential dichotomies are described first; this is followed by Fromm’s scheme of needs, including positive and negative responses; finally, Fromm ne...
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Rethinking Erich Fromm’s Humanism and His View of Human Nature Psychoanal. Inq. (IF 0.19) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Mauricio Cortina
This article reviews Fromm’s view of human nature that is the basis for his existential humanism. Fromm’s core idea was that the combination of minimal instinctual endowment, enormous expansion of ...
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Erich Fromm: Clinical Mountain Guide Psychoanal. Inq. (IF 0.19) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Sandra Buechler
Each psychoanalytic theory influences the clinician’s focus. This paper examines the impact of Erich Fromm’s writing on the analyst’s attention to the material in sessions. Briefly, Fromm’s work hi...
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How Fromm’s Ideas Resonate Politically as well as Philosophically: The Contemporary Case of Guaranteed Income Psychoanal. Inq. (IF 0.19) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Lynn S. Chancer
Erich Fromm is not generally associated with policy positions and politics. Yet, Fromm was an early proponent of guaranteed income as an important practical entitlement necessary if greater human f...
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Epilogue: Erich Fromm’s Relevance for Our Troubled World Psychoanal. Inq. (IF 0.19) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Mauricio Cortina
Published in Psychoanalytic Inquiry: A Topical Journal for Mental Health Professionals (Vol. 44, No. 1, 2024)
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Communicating Without Words in Psychotherapy … and Why We Can’t Talk About It Psychoanal. Inq. (IF 0.19) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Mary Jo Peebles
Cross-disciplinary findings affirm that a continuous flow of un-worded communication occurs between humans. Therapists and patients are no exception. In fact, when un-worded communication is synchr...
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Stephen Sondheim: Relational Psychoanalyst of the American Musical Theater Psychoanal. Inq. (IF 0.19) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Ilene Philipson, D. Bradley Jones
In 1913 Sigmund Freud wrote that he was incapable of obtaining any pleasure from music because his mind rebelled “against being moved by a thing without knowing why I am thus affected.” Therefore, ...
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Prologue: Musicality in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis Psychoanal. Inq. (IF 0.19) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 John R. Paddock
Published in Psychoanalytic Inquiry: A Topical Journal for Mental Health Professionals (Vol. 43, No. 8, 2023)
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Searching for Embodied Connection in the Age of COVID-19 Psychoanal. Inq. (IF 0.19) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Heather Ferguson
As teletherapy continues to be an ongoing mode of treatment during the pandemic, clinicians grapple with the loss of shared in-person space. Without access to the same richness of expression throug...
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Early Years: Creating Perceptual Space Where Music and Language Can Meet Psychoanal. Inq. (IF 0.19) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Diana Thielst
Auditory perception and auditory cognition development in early years are foundational for social and emotional development and language acquisition. The ability to recognize sound patterns around ...
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And He Showed Me Things: The Transformative Power of Sondheim’s Songs – A Discussion of Philipson and Jones’ Stephen Sondheim: Relational Psychoanalyst of the American Musical Theater Psychoanal. Inq. (IF 0.19) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Matt Aibel
In this discussion of Ilene Philipson and D. Bradley Jones’ paper, “Stephen Sondheim: Relational Psychoanalyst of the American Musical Theater,” I contextualize Sondheim’s transformative impact on ...
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Epilogue: Musicality in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis Psychoanal. Inq. (IF 0.19) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 John R. Paddock
Published in Psychoanalytic Inquiry: A Topical Journal for Mental Health Professionals (Vol. 43, No. 8, 2023)
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Greek Chorus and the Tactful Therapist Psychoanal. Inq. (IF 0.19) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Giuseppe Civitarese, Sara Boffito
The article explores the metaphor of the “Greek chorus” as an image of the position of the analyst who, in the analytic field model, reverberates and returns the emotional content, sometimes slight...
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Drama and Narration: The Architecture of Psychoanalytic Play Psychoanal. Inq. (IF 0.19) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Philip Ringstrom
Beginning with a fantasy interview with Donald Winnicott and William Shakespeare – one in which Winnicott espouses the essential nature of play in psychoanalysis – he then joins Shakespeare in find...
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Dramatology Revisited: The Person as Doer and Dreamer Psychoanal. Inq. (IF 0.19) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Henry Zvi Lothane
The author revisits his previous papers on dramatology published in 2009, 2011, and 2015, adding the results of new research. The additions are ideas about dramatic action by philosophers William J...
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Sanford Meisner, Improvisation, and the Art of Psychoanalysis Psychoanal. Inq. (IF 0.19) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Arthur A. Gray
This paper challenges the strictures in psychoanalysis that seem to decry creativity. Sanford Meisner, a renowned theater teacher, trained actors to perform the same script night after night with a...
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Epilogue: Bridging Drama and Psychoanalysis Psychoanal. Inq. (IF 0.19) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Daniel Goldin
Published in Psychoanalytic Inquiry: A Topical Journal for Mental Health Professionals (Vol. 43, No. 7, 2023)
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Prologue: Bridging Drama and Psychoanalysis Psychoanal. Inq. (IF 0.19) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Daniel Goldin
Published in Psychoanalytic Inquiry: A Topical Journal for Mental Health Professionals (Vol. 43, No. 7, 2023)
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The Psychoanalyst as Dramatist Psychoanal. Inq. (IF 0.19) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Alan Michael Karbelnig
Extending psychoanalysis-drama comparisons proffered by prior theorists, Dr. Karbelnig introduces the novel concept of the psychoanalytic denouement. He differentiates these from Aristotle’s concep...
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Listen Like an Actor: The Key to the Performing Art of Therapy Psychoanal. Inq. (IF 0.19) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Mark O’Connell
As both a therapist and an actor, O’Connell proposes that: 1) The artforms of acting and psychotherapy share the same core goal: to invite another person to embody a range of their humanity; and 2)...
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Mimetic Understanding: The Embodied Dance of Words and Action Psychoanal. Inq. (IF 0.19) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Susanna Federici, Gianni Nebbiosi
In this article we emphasize that Greek tragedy, surprisingly, can prove to be close to current psychoanalytic practice in exploring the paradoxical dimension of subjectivity. The interweaving of e...
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What Aristotle and Hollywood Taught Me About Psychoanalysis Psychoanal. Inq. (IF 0.19) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Daniel Goldin
Drawing on Aristotle’s Poetics and my work as a screenwriter in Hollywood, I look to some commonalities in the ways dramatists and psychoanalysts generate meaning through action and interactions. T...
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Listening into Being Psychoanal. Inq. (IF 0.19) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Robin Weigert
Drawing on my work as an actor, I make a case for the importance of a dialogue between actors and analysts about the aspect of an actor’s creative process I experience as listening a character into...
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Sigmund Freud’s Final Home Psychoanal. Inq. (IF 0.19) Pub Date : 2023-09-20 Carol Seigel
Sigmund Freud’s escape from Austria at the end of his life, and his experiences during his last year in London, are explored. The two homes where Freud lived in London and Vienna are compared, and ...
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Prologue: HOME Psychoanal. Inq. (IF 0.19) Pub Date : 2023-09-20 Sandra G. Hershberg
Published in Psychoanalytic Inquiry: A Topical Journal for Mental Health Professionals (Vol. 43, No. 6, 2023)
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On Children’s Books, Home, and the Beginnings of Self: Tell Me a Mitzi and Little Boy Brown Psychoanal. Inq. (IF 0.19) Pub Date : 2023-09-20 Ellen Handler Spitz
By highlighting two classic children’s books in which the setting of New York City plays a starring role, Tell Me a Mitzi and Little Boy Brown, this essay explores ways in which childhood reading e...
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Mother Tongue Psychoanal. Inq. (IF 0.19) Pub Date : 2023-09-20 Alexandra Viets
In language studies, mother tongue is linked to culture—its literature, artifacts, wisdom, generational ties, its jokes and proverbs, the names of flowers. A mother tongue carries the archive of on...
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Mapping Obscura: Locating the Space and Non-Space of Memory and Home through the Photograph Psychoanal. Inq. (IF 0.19) Pub Date : 2023-09-20 Yamini Nayar
What does it mean to inhabit? Our many selves find dimensionality through time and in place. This is complicated through the event of mass migration and trauma. One is continuously mapped through a...
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Leaving, Losing and Finding Home: Through the Shadow of Trauma Psychoanal. Inq. (IF 0.19) Pub Date : 2023-09-20 Anne J. Adelman
The author, having grown up in the shadow of the Holocaust, formed a sense of home around the idea that the past was a broken and vanished continent. In this article, the author explores the challe...
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At Home in Oneself: Self-States and the Treatment of Trauma Psychoanal. Inq. (IF 0.19) Pub Date : 2023-09-20 Heather Craige
What does it mean to be at home in oneself? How is that sense created, lost, and restored? This paper explores psychoanalytic self-state theory and illustrates its application to the treatment of p...
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Homesickness: Its Particular Relevance to Children of Separation and Divorce Psychoanal. Inq. (IF 0.19) Pub Date : 2023-09-20 Linda Gunsberg
This article addresses the similar effects on the very young child of abrupt weaning after breastfeeding, and overnight parenting access with the father when the mother is the primary caretaker and...
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A Space Odyssey: The Impact of Changing the Physical Aspects of the Analytic Setting on the Analyst, the Patient and Their Relationship Psychoanal. Inq. (IF 0.19) Pub Date : 2023-09-20 Sandra G. Hershberg
The re-modeling of my consulting room space, as a senior analyst became a transformative process. Through clinical examples that traverse themes of envy, pleasure in the new, loss of the familiar a...
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Rooms to Live In: An Architect’s Recollections Psychoanal. Inq. (IF 0.19) Pub Date : 2023-09-20 Frank Harmon
Our homes are our unwritten autobiographies, the places to which we are most emotionally attached. As such, our houses should be as unique as we are, satisfying our deepest desires and enriching ou...
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Leaving Home: Prokofiev’s “Peter and the Wolf” Psychoanal. Inq. (IF 0.19) Pub Date : 2023-09-20 Julie Jaffee Nagel
This article will explore some of the ways I conceptualize music as it pertains to the concept of “home,” and specifically here, about leaving home. Using composer Sergei Prokofiev’s music in his w...
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Epilogue: HOME Psychoanal. Inq. (IF 0.19) Pub Date : 2023-09-20 Sandra G. Hershberg
Published in Psychoanalytic Inquiry: A Topical Journal for Mental Health Professionals (Vol. 43, No. 6, 2023)
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The Complex Relationship between Structural and Psychic Space: When Two Cultures/Homes Collide Psychoanal. Inq. (IF 0.19) Pub Date : 2023-09-20 Monisha Nayar-Akhtar
The relationship between one’s home and its internal representation is a complex one. Imbued with memories of desire, loss, fear and anxiety, these often emerge in the analytic space and wait for i...
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Shame and Self-Alienation: A Trauma-Informed Psychoanalytic Perspective Psychoanal. Inq. (IF 0.19) Pub Date : 2023-08-22 Daniel Shaw
ABSTRACT Self-alienation is an expression of deeply internalized shame. The self-alienated individual feels trapped, imprisoned by shame. Psychotherapy patients with significant relational trauma typically reveal a persistent internal battle against self-doubt, self-condemnation, and often self-loathing. They are referencing shameful fears and beliefs about themselves that are born from problematic
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Prologue: Fictional Characters: Psychoanalytic and Literary Perspectives Psychoanal. Inq. (IF 0.19) Pub Date : 2023-08-14 Richard M. Waugaman
Published in Psychoanalytic Inquiry: A Topical Journal for Mental Health Professionals (Vol. 43, No. 5, 2023)
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The Dark Room Problem: Scapegoating and Audience Complicity in Twelfth Night Psychoanal. Inq. (IF 0.19) Pub Date : 2023-08-14 Christopher W. T. Miller
ABSTRACT In Twelfth Night (1601–02), the pressure to enforce a comedic ending competes with problematic and overtly abusive behaviors towards certain characters, particularly the steward Malvolio, who is identified as a target for scapegoating by a persecuting group. As Malvolio is subject to mounting pressures to take in the projections of the group, the mistreatment levied against him gains in cruelty
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Origins of Fictional Characters: Creating Life on the Page Psychoanal. Inq. (IF 0.19) Pub Date : 2023-08-14 Fred L. Griffin
ABSTRACT There are many perspectives from which the origins of fictional characters may be explored. In this essay the author draws from the voices of a selected group of creative writers who openly describe the manner in which their life experience and personal psychology play important roles in the creative process giving rise to their fictional characters. For some writers whose experience of loss
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Our Lives in Literature Psychoanal. Inq. (IF 0.19) Pub Date : 2023-08-14 Paula Marantz Cohen
ABSTRACT The article traces the evolution of literary theory, beginning in the 1970s when it moved away from the New Criticism that saw the text as removed from the life of its readers toward Reader-Response Theory, where readers are encouraged to see themselves in what they read. I argue that this theory of reading leads to an awareness of how literature helps us fashion a coherent self. I use three
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Still Alice, Always Elena: New Stories about Dementia Psychoanal. Inq. (IF 0.19) Pub Date : 2023-08-14 Jehanne Gheith
ABSTRACT As a hospice social worker and tenured professor of Russian literature, I have seen how the stories we tell and re-tell affect how patients, caregivers, and medical professionals live with many different diseases. My essay explores one aspect of this: how the stories we tell about dementia shape our understanding and treatment of cognitive decline. Through an analysis of the novels Still Alice
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Love’s Labor’s Lost: The Lived-Experience, A Pan-European Play Psychoanal. Inq. (IF 0.19) Pub Date : 2023-08-14 Elisabeth Pearson Waugaman
ABSTRACT This article addresses Abel Lefranc’s analysis of Love’s Labor’s Lost. Lefranc was a member of the Académie française, a highly respected Renaissance specialist, who published Behind the Mask of William Shakespeare in 1918. Nothing in Shakespere of Stratford’s hundreds of business records or will (the only records we have) reveal any knowledge of French. He never travelled abroad. He was a