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"Anything of Note": Recovering "Lost Life" in the Psychoanalytic Archive American Imago (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-16 Vanessa Smith
Abstract: This essay engages with the hitherto embargoed letters, drawings and case notes of Stella Coomber ("Susan"), the subject of Marion Milner's case history The Hands of the Living God. Using these documents as a starting point, I decode the identities of medical staff, institutions, and contacts whose names are disguised in Milner's book, and reconstruct some of Stella's life behind the scenes
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Freud and Marie Bonaparte's Correspondence (1925–1939): An Intimate Relationship American Imago (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-16 Francis Baudry
Abstract: This paper explores the correspondence between Freud and his patient Marie Bonaparte over the course of 14 years and illuminates their complex personal and professional relationship. The letters expose Freud's therapeutic challenges in balancing the theoretical concept of transference and its actual management in Freud's work in the late 1920s and 1930s.
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Nabokov and Freud: Solus Rex vs Oedipus Rex American Imago (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-16 Igor Kolmakov
Abstract: The enigma of Nabokov's lifelong enmity with Freud perpetually attracts research attention. In this article, the author analyzes the Russian-American writer Vladimir Nabokov's demonization of Freud by surveying previous explanations of this phenomenon and proposing an alternative explanation of Nabokov perceiving Freud not as a "father figure" or a "precursor," but as a dangerous and influential
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Nietzsche, Roquentin, and Suicide American Imago (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-16 Eric v.d. Luft
Abstract: Sartre's character Roquentin seeing his hand as a crab is analogous in some ways to Nietzsche dreaming a toad on his transparent hand. Examining both of these envisioned animals as metaphors reveals that each represents some sort of physical or psychological disease or pestilence, that each profoundly disturbs the status quo, and that each point in a different way toward suicide, but at the
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Understanding the Phenomenon of Negative Myths American Imago (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-16 Agnes Szajcz
Abstract: This article delves into the exploration of negative myths, examining their prevalence in both ancient and modern times. I focus on the psychoanalytic understanding of collective and group narratives, particularly within the context of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. Drawing from Levine's two-track model of psychoanalysis, this study investigates how negative myths function as containers
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Psychoanalysis and Poetry: A Dialogue about Emily Dickinson's "'Hope' is the thing with feathers" American Imago (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-16 Dawn Skorczewski, Andrea Celenza
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Psychoanalysis and Poetry:A Dialogue about Emily Dickinson's "'Hope' is the thing with feathers" Dawn Skorczewski (bio) and Andrea Celenza (bio) "Hope" is the thing with feathers – (314) "Hope" is the thing with feathers -That perches in the soul -And sings the tune without the words -And never stops – at all - And sweetest – in the Gale
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The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Psychoanalysis ed. by Vera J. Camden (review) American Imago (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-16 Murray M. Schwartz
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Psychoanalysis ed. by Vera J. Camden Murray M. Schwartz (bio) The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Psychoanalysis, edited by Vera J. Camden. As readers of American Imago know, literature and psychoanalysis have been companions since Freud recognized that the strategies of the
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The Poetry of Loss: Romantic and Contemporary Elegies by Judith Harris (review) American Imago (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-16 Dawn Skorczewski
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Poetry of Loss: Romantic and Contemporary Elegies by Judith Harris Dawn Skorczewski (bio) The Poetry of Loss: Romantic and Contemporary Elegies by Judith Harris The Poetry of Loss: Romantic and Contemporary Elegies by poet and critic Judith Harris contributes to studies of the elegy as a genre and to psychoanalytic interpretations
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Purity and Unity: Narcissism and Destructiveness in Nationalistic and Fundamentalistic Ideologies American Imago (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Werner Bohleber
Abstract: In recent decades, Western societies have been exposed to increasing dynamics of change and crisis as a result of ongoing globalization, and of flight and displacement in many regions of the world. The insecurity and humiliation of being more exposed to global developments than being able to influence them leads many people to seek social security. As a result, populist and far-right ideologies
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Prejudice: Complicit and Implicit American Imago (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Eugene J. Mahon
Abstract: Prejudice could be defined as an irrational sense of superiority, an ironic expression of an unconscious feeling of inferiority that claims paradoxically that one human identity is worthier than another. Implicit prejudice would suggest the unconscious nature of a bias within an individual, whereas complicit prejudice would suggest a shared bias within a family, or group, or even a whole
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The Problem of Constructivism in Psychoanalysis: A Winnicottian Perspective American Imago (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Joel Whitebook
Abstract: While this article begins by noting the positive role that constructivism has played in the development of psychoanalytic theory over the past 50 years, it also points to the limitations of the approach and argues they must be corrected. For at the same time as constructivism’s criticisms of biologism and essentialism have provided powerful weapons for combating psychoanalytic conservatism
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The Mystery of "Passe" American Imago (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Sergio Benvenuto
Abstract: This article analyzes how the philosopher Alain Badiou describes a process invented by Lacan, la passe, the pass—a procedure for deciding whether or not to admit to his student analysands about to complete their analysis. By deconstructing Badiou’s text, the author shows how the philosopher ascribes a sacramental presupposition to the pass, understood as a Catholic sacrament or mystical mystery
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Freud's Aphasia Book and Spielrein's Destruction Paper: A Shared Fate, To Be Ignored and Restored American Imago (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Frank Marchese
Abstract: This article discusses the early fate and subsequent revival of interest in Freud’s 1891 book, On Aphasia, and Sabina Spielrein’s 1912 Destruction paper. Early on, these authors shared a similar fate: a failure of recognition of the aforementioned works at the time of their initial publication. In Freud’s case, the number of books sold was minimal and the rest were shredded; it remained mostly
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Men Under the Microscope: The Gaze of Other Men, "The Subject Who Is Supposed to Know," and the Pursuit of Wholeness American Imago (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Elizabeth McManaman Tyler
Abstract: While numerous Men and Masculinities scholars discuss how men “perform” or seek to “prove” their masculinity to other men, a psychoanalytic investigation into the structural relations of this dynamic—especially with regard to young American high school- and college-age men—is needed. Using Peggy Orenstein’s Boys and Sex: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent, and Navigating the New Masculinity
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"Where, Meantime, Was the Soul?": The Uncanny as an Aesthetic Image of Impossibility American Imago (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Eeva Pihlaja
Abstract: The uncanny experience refers to unsettling feelings that emerge when confronted with events that seem remotely familiar but still strange and opaque. It relies on magical thinking, as the experience seems to take place emphatically in the sensorial realm, partly lacking symbolic quality. In this article, I approach the uncanny as representing an inability to represent, revealing discontinuities
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Special Issue on PERVERSION, American Imago American Imago (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Andrea Celenza, Murray M. Schwartz
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Special Issue on PERVERSION, American Imago Andrea Celenza (bio) and Murray M. Schwartz (bio) Introduction Psychoanalysis as a body of knowledge has always encompassed contested areas; some of these concepts and ideas are deemed controversial yet remain within our lexicon, while others are discarded or become taboo. The topic (or even
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From Perversion to the (Perverse) Edge of Excitement American Imago (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Stanley J. Coen
Abstract: Once upon a time, in the 1970s and 1980s, perversion was still an untamed area ripe for psychoanalytic exploration. In exploring perversion, we were free to go beyond the constraints of classical theory about oedipal conflict and ponder where and how sexuality arose, developed, and was used by patients. Perversion, then and now, has been tainted by the sense of something bad, wrong, transgressive
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Natural-Born Deviants: The Existential Escapades of Sex Tech American Imago (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Danielle Knafo, Rocco Lo Bosco
Abstract: This article underscores the inherent technological drive that exists in human beings, whose wellspring is mortal vulnerability coupled with human intelligence and mobile dexterity. It also stresses the progressive and refined interaction between humans and their machines, drawing connections between the technological enterprise and human sexuality, especially with regard to perversion. It
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Unbecoming Archives: Anne Sexton's "Perverse" Imagination American Imago (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Dawn Skorczewski
Abstract: It is impossible to read much about American poet Anne Sexton before encountering references to her "perverse" imagination. Critics routinely argue that she paints a perverse vision of childhood sexuality, female identity, and adult sexuality in her work, and they often object to her frank discussions of the body, its pleasures, and its dangerous powers. Her depictions of mental illness,
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Duchamp, Sadomasochism, and the Psychoanalytic Field American Imago (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Giuseppe Civitarese, Sara Boffito
Abstract: Some patients tediously describe depictions of their sexual perversions. These can bring the analyst to feel intense boredom and frustration. This "almost unavoidable monotony" can be interpreted in various ways. It can be seen as an expression of the patient's compulsion to repeat, whether one considers it a product of the death drive, or the need to give meaning to the traumatic experience
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Perversion as a Sexualized Withdrawal American Imago (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Franco De Masi
Abstract: In this article I distinguish sexual perversion from other forms of pathological interpersonal relationships, as I did in my book The Sadomasochistic Perversion: The Entity and the Theories. In fact, it is one thing to talk about sadomasochistic interpersonal dynamics, and another to distinguish the character of sexual perversion. I will start from Freud's work "A Child is Being Beaten,"
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Perversion, Sublimation, and Ethic American Imago (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Rachel Boué-Widawsky
Abstract: This article focuses on the notion of perversion in early sexual life, coined by Freud as a polymorphous perversity, in offering a rereading of the three prefaces to Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality. From there I comment on Lacan's study of Sade in order to highlight the tragic melancholia that underlies perversion, using sexual drives to compensate for the lack and the loss of objectal
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Perverse Characteristics of Governmental Oppression American Imago (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Dana Amir
Abstract: This article discusses the perverse characteristics of government oppression (as compared to the perverse characteristics of relations) and focuses on the main characteristic of two-dimensional perception of humans and humanity. Diverse forms of revolting against it will be discussed, including the example of the social protest in Israel, as well as testimony from the Israeli organization
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Interview with Adrienne Harris on Perversion is Us? Eight Notes, by Muriel Dimen American Imago (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Adrienne Harris, Andrea Celenza
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Interview with Adrienne Harris on Perversion is Us?Eight Notes, by Muriel Dimen Adrienne Harris (bio) and Andrea Celenza (bio) Andrea Celenza (AC): Welcome Adrienne, I am so grateful and honored that you are able to do this interview. I know that you need absolutely no introduction, but I'm going to go through a formal introduction and
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The Power of the Dog: Whose Gaze? Reading Savage's Novel, Watching Campion's Film American Imago (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 David Willbern
Abstract: The chapter compares and critiques two versions of one story: the original novel and its cinematic treatment over 50 years later. It briefly reviews changes in clinical and social ideas about gender and sexuality, especially homosexuality, during the 20th and 21st centuries. Then it addresses theoretical differences between the genres of text and film, and the idea of the "male gaze." Through
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Contributors American Imago (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-25
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Contributors Dana Amir is a clinical psychologist and supervising and training analyst at the Israel psychoanalytic society, full professor, Vice Dean for Research and head of the interdisciplinary doctoral program in psychoanalysis at Haifa University, Editor-in-Chief of Ma'arag – The Israel Annual of Psychoanalysis, poetess, and literature
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The Problem of Ethical Ideals in Hellenistic Philosophy and in Psychoanalysis American Imago (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-10-06 Peter Dews
Abstract: Hellenistic philosophy invites comparison with psychoanalysis. The aim of its leading currents, Epicureanism and Stoicism, was explicitly therapeutic—to enable individuals to lead a good life. Pursuing this comparison, Freud may be regarded as a successor to Epicureanism because of his hedonistic theory of motivation, his materialistic outlook, and his critique of religion. However, both
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Death Drive as the Precipitate of the Traumatic American Imago (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-10-06 Ilker Özyildirim
Abstract: The death drive is one of the most controversial concepts in psychoanalytic literature. According to Freud, the death drive has, in essence, a biological origin. This formulation is said to be problematic with regard to the determining qualities inherent to psychoanalytical theory. This article sets forth a different interpretation of the formulation of the death drive, specifically in the
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DW Winnicott's Debt to and Divergence from Melanie Klein: A Psychoanalytic Genealogy American Imago (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-10-06 Peter Lawner
Abstract: This is a two-part paper. Its second part assays the development of DW Winnicott’s conceptions relative to Melanie Klein’s, particularly after 1945, regarding areas such as infantile development, pathogenesis, diagnosis, and therapeutics. It then explores his alignments with and departures from her depressive position views. Finally, it examines his revision of her depressive position formulations
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Beyond the Dynamic Unconscious: Some Thoughts on Expanding Psychoanalytic Clinical Work American Imago (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-10-06 Franco De Masi
Abstract: After some reflections on the intuitive unconscious that scientists employ, the focus of the first part of this article concerns the analytic method, based on associations and symbolic interpretations, as formulated by Freud and his most important followers. I see this as a valid method when used with patients we can ascribe to the neurotic area, but not with the more seriously ill, non-neurotic
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The Politics of the Navel: Psychoanalysis and Affiliation American Imago (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-10-06 Emma Lieber
Abstract: This article examines psychoanalysis’s relationship to collective affiliation and group identity via its association with two foundational figures, that of the Woman and the Jew. It begins by exploring reportage on the war in Ukraine as it has touched on these figures (often with conflicting and self-contradictory messaging), and it argues that we need psychoanalysis to approach these problematics
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On Naming the Unnamable—Trauma and Testimony in A Girl's Story by Annie Ernaux American Imago (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-10-06 Linda Sandbæk
Abstract: Through its indirect, experimental, and often surprising depictions, fiction approaches the gap between experience and survival and can shed light on the complexities of trauma. In this article, Annie Ernaux’s depictions of the narrativization process in her novel A Girl’s Story is used as a point of departure for reflections on how and under what circumstances it might be possible to find
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The Writing of Mania: Thomas Melle's Literary Strategies of Recovery American Imago (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-10-06 Bart Rabaey, Stijn Vanheule
Abstract: In this article the authors discuss the work of German author Thomas Melle in relation to his manic-depressive experiences. In the autobiographical book The World at My Back Melle demonstrates how a dysregulation of language is essential to understanding the nature of his manic episodes. Furthermore, Melle explains how he used writing literature as a response to challenges posed by his manic
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The Analyst as Storyteller/El Analista Como Narrador ed by Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau (review) American Imago (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-10-06 Jeffrey Berman
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Analyst as Storyteller/El Analista Como Narrador ed by Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau Jeffrey Berman (bio) The Analyst as Storyteller/El Analista Como Narrador, Edited by Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau In what may be the first of its kind, Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau, a training and supervising analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic
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Willem de Kooning's Women: A Psychoanalytic Exploration, by Graeme J. Taylor (review) American Imago (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-10-06 Jane Hanenberg
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Willem de Kooning’s Women: A Psychoanalytic Exploration, by Graeme J. Taylor Jane Hanenberg (bio) Willem de Kooning’s Women: A Psychoanalytic Exploration, by Graeme J. Taylor In Willem de Kooning’s Women: A Psychoanalytic Exploration, Dr. Graeme Taylor has written a comprehensive art historical and psychoanalytic study. The
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Contributors American Imago (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-10-06
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Contributors Jeffrey Berman is Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University at Albany, where he has been teaching for 50 years. He is the author of many books, including, most recently, Psychoanalysis: An Interdisciplinary Retrospective (SUNY Press, 2023). He is an Honorary Member of the American Psychoanalytic Association. Franco
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D.W. Winnicott's Debt to and Divergence from Melanie Klein: A Psychoanalytic Genealogy American Imago (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-07-08 Peter Lawner
Abstract: This is a two-part paper. Its first part examines Winnicott’s early phase work vis-à-vis that of his mentor, Melanie Klein, by whom he was significantly influenced. It focuses on two of his pivotal papers, one from 1941, when he was at the end of a period of intensive tutelage with her, the other in 1945, when he announced new conceptions that constituted decisive breaks from several of
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Sigmund Freud and Suicide—In His Life and in His Writings American Imago (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-07-08 Kim Larsen, Anders Zachrisson
Abstract: Freud did not construct a coherent theory about suicide, but reasoning about and analyses of suicide are scattered throughout his writings, both in the case histories and in his theoretical writings. In this article the authors present Freud’s reference and comments t suicide and self-harming actions, and an updated investigation of Freud’s biography regarding his person experiences of death
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Mourner's Kaddish and Its Connections: Psychoanalytic Thoughts on Mourning in the Jewish Religious Context American Imago (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-07-08 Daniel Rancour-Laferriere
Abstract: Psychoanalysis teaches that the goal of mourning is for the bereaved eventually to be able to accept the death of a loved one. It may therefore come as a surprise that what religious Jews call Mourner’s Kaddish makes no reference whatsoever to death, the deceased, or the bereaved. Instead of having anything to do with the mourning process, this ancient prayer requires the bereaved to utter
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Mystical Gnosis and Esoteric Technē in the Writings of W.R. Bion American Imago (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-07-08 John Boyle
Abstract: This paper proposes the existence of a series of developments in Bion’s later writings that were obliquely indebted to his utilization of mystical texts and esoteric techniques, which it is proposed he deployed as resources for revitalizing traditional psychoanalytic theory and practice. To support this hypothesis, evidence is adduced to support the contention that Bion was covertly inspired
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Regressive (Im)Mutability and Human Degeneration in Samuel Beckett's Endgame and Wilfred R. Bion's The Dawn of Oblivion American Imago (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-07-08 Stefano Rossi
Abstract: Beginning with an overview of the late-Victorian theory of degeneration, this article aims, first, to explore how the belligerent climate of the first half of the twentieth century gradually dismantled the late nineteenth-century belief that mental disorders were genetically transmissible from parents to the offspring. In this frame, the role played by psychoanalysis was central. The latter
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Introduction to "Social Voices"—Oral History Workshop, American Psychoanalytic Association, February 2021 American Imago (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-07-08 Nellie Thompson
Abstract: The papers collected in this series were originally presented at the 83rd Oral History Workshop during the American Psychoanalytic Association’s meetings in February of 2021. The topic of the workshop, “The Social Voices of Psychoanalysts: The 1960s and 1970s”, was chosen because over the last several years, members of the psychoanalytic community had been debating the question of the role
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Erik Erikson and the 1960s: "Reflections on the Dissent of Contemporary Youth" American Imago (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-07-08 John Martin-Joy
Abstract: The papers collected in this series were originally presented at the 83rd Oral History Workshop during the American Psychoanalytic Association’s meetings in February of 2021. The topic of the workshop, “The Social Voices of Psychoanalysts: The 1960s and 1970s”, was chosen because over the last several years, members of the psychoanalytic community had been debating the question of the role
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Andrew Peto on Crowd Violence American Imago (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-07-08 Daniel Jacobs
Abstract: The papers collected in this series were originally presented at the 83rd Oral History Workshop during the American Psychoanalytic Association’s meetings in February of 2021. The topic of the workshop, “The Social Voices of Psychoanalysts: The 1960s and 1970s”, was chosen because over the last several years, members of the psychoanalytic community had been debating the question of the role
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The Social Voices of Psychoanalysis: A Participant Observer's Commentary American Imago (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-07-08 Nancy Chodorow
Abstract: The papers collected in this series were originally presented at the 83rd Oral History Workshop during the American Psychoanalytic Association’s meetings in February of 2021. The topic of the workshop, “The Social Voices of Psychoanalysts: The 1960s and 1970s”, was chosen because over the last several years, members of the psychoanalytic community had been debating the question of the role
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Contributors American Imago (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-07-08
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Contributors John Boyle has a Ph.D. in Psychoanalytic Studies from the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex. He also has an M.A. in Western Esotericism (University of Exeter). He has completed clinical M.Sc. degrees in integrative psychotherapy and psychoanalytic psychotherapy and is registered with
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Sieg Maandag: Life and Art in the Aftermath of Bergen-Belsen American Imago (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-03-30 Dawn Skorczewski, Karen Maandag
Abstract: This paper introduces Sieg Mandaag's life and work, including his boyhood before, within and after the camp, as well as his adult life as a husband, world traveler and artist.
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Sieg Maandag and Holocaust Art American Imago (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-03-30 Dan Stone
Abstract: According to Sarah Gendron, following Terrence Des Pres's notion of "Holocaust etiquette", there are two forms of art which government sponsored museums and memorials feel to be "safe" in representing the Holocaust: pure abstraction or direct, realist representation. The former is permissible since, with its "perceived capacity to sidestep misrepresentation", it "does not seek to portray
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Seeing and Doing: A Meditation on an Afterlife in Art American Imago (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-03-30 Ruth Ost, Laura Levitt
Abstract: This two part meditation begins with a reading of Sieg Maandag's life and work, and then moves to a sustained exploration of a doubled portrait of the artist in a painting and a photograph. We explore how Skorczewski and Maandag-Ralph become witnesses to the witness as they locate Sieg Maandag's art on the "aching dark terrain of life after trauma and violence" (Levitt, 2020, 9).
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The Story of the Jewish Dutch Diamond Workers during WWII American Imago (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-03-30 Bettine Siertsema
Abstract: This article sketches the historical background of Sieg Maandag's story. His father was a Jewish diamond worker who, when the Netherlands were occupied by the Germans, was exempted from deportation. The Germans wanted to set up a diamond industry of their own and the diamond workers managed to negotiate their exemption to include their direct families as well. However, in the course of 1943
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"Privilege" and Trauma: Sieg Maandag's Climb Upwards American Imago (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-03-30 Christine Schmidt
Abstract: How has "privilege" been represented and incorporated in the study and understanding of the Holocaust, especially through accounts of those who survived? The prolific Dutch Jewish painter and ceramicist, Sieg Maandag, was among the few surviving orphaned children of Amsterdam's so-called Diamond group of prisoners. For a time, they and their families formed part of a "privileged" group of
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The Transformation of Aesthetic Precedent in the Art of Sieg Maandag American Imago (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-03-30 Adele Tutter
Abstract: The oeuvre of the Dutch artist and Holocaust victim Sieg Maandag constitutes an important addition to the psychoanalytic discourse around the art of trauma. The author enumerates and underlines the cumulative traumatic losses that mark Maandag's experience as a child in the Bergen-Belsen Nazi concentration camp, including the loss of much of his family, and argues that these losses factor
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"The Northern Suburbs Seem to be Quite Frequently Afflicted by Raging Elephants": Identity Fluidity in Beatrix Potter's Tales and Life American Imago (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-03-30 John Rosegrant
Abstract: Central to the effect of Beatrix Potter's tales is her talent at creating fluidity in the boundary between human and animal identities, manifested by her characters' clothing, behavior, and conflicts, as well as by her styles of drawing and writing. This talent flowed from Potter's developmental experience of several jolts to her own identity while her deep connection to animals remained
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Olga Tokarczuk's Protagonist in Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead as a High-Functioning Autistic Woman American Imago (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-03-30 Sagit Blumrosen-Sela
Abstract: The paper sheds light on the psychology of the protagonist of the novel Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by the Polish author Olga Tokarczuk, winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature, as a high-functioning autistic. The prism of autism explains the intricacies of this extraordinary character, providing a coherent framework for understanding her and the characteristics of the
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Intersectionality and Relational Psychoanalysis: New Perspectives on Race, Gender, and Sexuality ed. by Max Belkin and Cleonie White (review) American Imago (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-03-30 Deborah Shilkoff
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Intersectionality and Relational Psychoanalysis: New Perspectives on Race, Gender, and Sexuality ed. by Max Belkin and Cleonie White Deborah Shilkoff, LICSW (bio) Intersectionality and Relational Psychoanalysis: New Perspectives on Race, Gender, and Sexuality, Edited by Max Belkin and Cleonie White Psychoanalytic metapsychology
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Contributors American Imago (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-03-30
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Contributors Sagit Blumrosen-Sela is a clinical psychologist and has a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She has published various articles and books on the subjects of literature and psychology, including Personality Disorders in Israeli Literature (Resling, 2017) and Asperger's Lost Generation (Resling
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Editor's Note: A Farewell and an Introduction American Imago (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-12-08 Murray Schwartz
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Editor’s Note: A Farewell and an Introduction Murray Schwartz Beginning in January, 2023, American Imago will have a new Editor. She is Jane Hanenberg, a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and currently an Associate Editor. Jane, who is a painter with deep knowledge of the history of art
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Apocalyptic Psychic Landscapes, Haunting Internal Objects, and the Murderousness of Group Dynamics in Julius Caesar American Imago (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-12-08 Christopher Miller
Abstract: Julius Caesar (1599) presents a progressive shaping of the group mindset through projective identification. Cassius, envious of Caesar, fuels a murderous desire in Brutus and the co-conspirators, culminating in Caesar’s assassination. After the murder, Antony and Brutus attempt to sway collective opinion toward their respective interpretations of the event. Antony astutely pushes the crowd
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"Internal difference, / Where the Meanings, are—": Dickinson's Animate Poetics American Imago (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-12-08 Rose Howell
Abstract: This paper, a psychoanalytic, vitalist, materialist investigation, uses a new critical lens and takes up Emily Dickinson’s poetics as the active, irreducible labyrinth of the psyche itself. Specifically, it argues how four defining psychical features—the presence of contradiction and predicament, movement, process and passage, and unconscious forces—are also the distinguishing elements of
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Daddy's Girl: Incest in Life and Literature American Imago (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-12-08 Jeffrey Meyers
Abstract: Eric Gill wallowed in his depravity and didn’t care about the terrible effects on the young girls in his family. Djuna Barnes was permanently wounded by her double trauma. Diana Arbus supposedly felt no guilt, but killed herself. Sappho Durrell, psychologically damaged, also committed suicide. In the literary works, the brother-sister incest ranges from doubly tragic in John Ford to mythically