On the persistence of very early memory traces in psychoanalysis, myth, and religion.

abstract：:It is appropriate to conclude this study with a statement that characterizes Freud and his search for particular models, and this is: "A genius chooses his family from among heroes." His historical heroes were Cromwell, Napoleon, Masséna, Garibaldi, Bismarck, Adler, Lasalle, Lasker, and Wilson. Of course, toward many ...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Szaluta J

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An attempt is made to place bestophilia in cultural, clinical, and theoretical perspective. Archeological and anthropological documentation and records of the widespread appearance in mythology of this practice are cited. This archaic form of perversion is still practiced in rural environments and isolated communities...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Traub-Werner D

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Is child analysis really analysis? The child patient does not free associate, communicates to the analyst in large measure nonverbally, and operates from a different psychic organization than the adult. Nevertheless, child and adult analysis share the same basic principles, despite different techniques. Using clinical...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Yanof J

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A phase in the analysis of a young man is presented, demonstrating evidence of maternal sexual overstimulation from infancy through early adulthood. A consequence of this overstimulation was a regression to an unstable gender identity. The developmental line of gender identity proved useful in understanding this man's...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Beatrice J

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tennessee Williams called his first great work, The Glass Menagerie, his "memory play." The situation in which Williams found himself when he began writing the play is explored, as are the ways in which he used the declarative memory of his protagonist, Tom Wingfield, to express and deal with his own painful conflicts...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Jacobs D

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Freud (1905, 1917, 1937) throughout his lifetime sought empirical scientific confirmation of the validity of his discoveries. In pursuit of this goal, he persistently emphasized the importance of establishing agreement between analytic reconstructions and the results of naturalistic child observation. The same objecti...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Barglow P,Jaffe CM,Vaughn B

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unforgivability in Euripides' Medea is explored in the context of intrapsychic forces favoring disruption and narcissistic withdrawal and precluding the influence of forces favoring repair of bonds, not necessarily to the betrayer, but to the social and moral order. The forces underlying disruption and withdrawal oper...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Lansky MR

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The contrasting perspectives of historical (actual, material) truth as opposed to narrative (intrapsychic) truth in psychoanalytic reconstruction parallel the controversial shift in Freud's thinking from a traumatic theory of neurosogenesis to a greater emphasis on fantasy and psychic reality. Freud and analysts since...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Good MI

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The author surveys his work with gay and bisexual men and his evolving clinical understanding, spanning a thirty-five-year period from 1965 to 2000. Four cases are discussed briefly, one from each decade, to illustrate the changing clinical approach, and the following conclusions drawn: (1) sexual orientation and ment...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Roughton RE

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1973 Robert Stoller wrote a paper on a series of dreams-his own and his patients'--that he reluctantly found himself calling "telepathic." He never submitted the paper for publication, though he returned to the topic of unconscious communication and telepathy with increasing fascination in the years before his deat...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Mayer EL

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The choice of a particular language for the conduct of analysis becomes an important theoretical and clinical question when both the analyst and the analysand are multilingual and share the same languages. Shift from one language into another language during analysis is an equally important question. This paper offers...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Movahedi S

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper examines some of the internal and external eventualities in the situation of illness in the analyst. The current emphasis on the use of the self as part of the analyzing instrument makes impairments in the analyst's physical well-being potentially disabling to the analytic work. A recommendation is made for...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Clark RW

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have presented a developmental history and an account of the treatment of an eighteen-month-old boy who had a bamboo phobia. Conceptual problems concerning drive organization, the expression of drive derivatives, and object relations have been explored. The correlation of these with Mahler's separation-individuatio...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Renik O,Spielman P,Afterman J

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study of Giorgio Morandi, the great twentieth-century Italian painter, departs from the model of Freud's essay on Leonardo, in which he creates a psychodynamic hypothesis by linking the art with facts and conjecture about the artist's life. Because personal information about Morandi is remarkably scarce, we can m...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Miller JD

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Material is presented from three cases, where analysis of repetitive dreams of feeling embarrassment at being partially or totally naked was an important feature of the treatment. The indifference by the other people in the dream to the dreamer's nakedness was initially linked to perceived transference slights at the ...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Myers WA

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Freud's experience on the Acropolis is reviewed and reappraised. Also, the experience of Elie Wiesel at the Wall in Jerusalem and Patient X's reaction visiting an Egyptian temple are examined. Carl Jung's wish to go to Rome and his inability to do so are noted. The aim of the paper is to offer deeper understanding abo...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Weiss SS

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Throughout childhood and adolescence, psychological growth proceeds in a sequence of progressive hierarchical organizations. Consequently, children are continuously consolidating existing positions or are in transition from one to another. When analytic treatment is proposed, analysts often find themselves in the posi...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Abrams S,Solnit AJ

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The traditional psychoanalytic view of menopause regards it as inevitably accompanied by reactive depression resulting from the loss of reproductive function. This view is grounded on a theory of female sexual development that stresses the centrality of the phallic castration complex. The inevitable menopausal depress...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Bemesderfer S

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dave Eggers's memoir is an important addition to the tradition of autobiography in America, and offers significant contributions to our understanding of creativity, sublimation, and the psychology of the memoir-writing process. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is really two books--an autobiographical narrativ...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Miller E

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Psychoanalysts have tended to view the diagnosis of AD/HD either with skepticism or as a contraindication to analytic treatment. The author reviews the history of this puzzling diagnostic entity, which is estimated to account for up to fifty percent of child referrals, and suggests that a psychoanalytic perspective on...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Gilmore K

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The discourse on psychic bisexuality is explored as it unfolds in Freud's writings, in contemporary papers by LGBTQ psychoanalysts, and in a volume of essays, Psychic Bisexuality, published in 2018 by a group of prominent French and British analysts (Perelberg 2018). The greater acceptance of nonnormative sexualities ...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Gulati R,Pauley D

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A psychoanalytic candidate explores his experience of participating in a research project at his institute during his training. The candidate has been a member of Sabrina Cherry's prospective study of psychoanalytic practice and professional development conducted at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Tr...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Hadge L

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have shown that the ventral tegmental pathway stimulates both dreaming and drug craving. To investigate a possible clinical link between these two psychic phenomena, psychotherapy notes from the first six months of an addicted patient's treatment were reviewed, together with verbatim notes from the four...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Johnson B

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical material is presented leading to a discussion of beating fantasies which varies from Freud's model. Analysis shows that the fantasied role girls assign to mother as the punisher in the oedipal drama is equivalent to the fantasied role boys ascribe to father as castrator. For both sexes, castration anxiety spu...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Lax RF

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is in the best interest of psychoanalysis that new schools of thought (earlier examples of which are the classical, Kleinian, and self psychological perspectives) evolve. Generating a new school of thought, however, is almost impossible in this postmodern era. The postmodern paradigm in psychoanalysis (intersubject...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Govrin A

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Time is an important source of containment vis-à-vis the pressure of affects and the nondimensional immensity of mental space experienced by difficult patients. A more articulated spatiotemporal integration can be facilitated by the analyst's musical "reverie" during intense emotional exchanges in analytic sessions. T...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Lombardi R

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examines how reflective functioning (RF) can be assessed in analytic sessions and throughout psychoanalytic psychotherapy. The goals are to replicate in part a study by Josephs and colleagues (2004) by applying the RF Scale to analytic sessions and to study fluctuations of RF within each session. Additional...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Hörz-Sagstetter S,Mertens W,Isphording S,Buchheim A,Taubner S

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysts use the concepts of subjectivity and intersubjectivity to support many different technical recommendations; this represents a misuse of theory. The dichotomy between subjectivity and objectivity is a false one. Arguing against the notion of objectivity, analysts conflate it with the idealized notion of pure o...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Smith HF

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper takes up Romain Rolland's description of a nearly universal "oceanic feeling" and considers Freud's avowed disinterest in this concept. Herman Melville elaborates and expands the concept of the oceanic in the text of Moby Dick, juxtaposing Ishmael's oceanic reverie while up high on the masthead with Ahab's ...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Ackerman S

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Psychoanalysis has paid scant attention to the role of grandparenthood, especially as it may appear in treatment. Clinical material is presented to illustrate the transference-countertransference phenomenon of what will be called the good grandparent; this is not an uncommon occurrence in the treatment of patients who...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Imber RR

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00