Analytic Relationship Research Articles

Simple Model for Discharge of Lithium Battery

Abstract Shell-progressive framework was applied to lithium ion battery to arrive at a simple analytic relationship for the discharge of the battery. The relationship provides the depth of discharge as a function of time with a coefficient involving physical properties and another representing potential discharge capacity, given the discharge rate and the state of charge in the previous charge-discharge cycle. Also derived is a relationship between the discharge time and the current, which can be used as an alternative to Peukert’s law. The results should be useful for assessing the discharge behavior and for designing the electrode.

Humanizing Different Archetypal Expressions of Gender Expansiveness1.

This article explores the concept of gender expansiveness. This term refers to a person's self-identifying as gender fluid, genderqueer, transgender, non-binary, gender diverse, or gender nonconforming. Young people, including older children and adolescents, increasingly are experimenting with crossing gender lines. This trend can be understood as a sociocultural process for humanizing more terrifying archetypal forms of gender diversity. Using Henderson's (1988) concept of the cultural unconscious, the author posits that current social developments among youth are attempting to bring gender expansiveness more into collective consciousness. This issue has occasioned a strong counterreaction with panicked appeals to upholding traditional gender norms and needing restrictions on gender-affirming care. Examples from myth, literature and clinical practice help to contextualize the intense emotions aroused by gender diversity. A case example shows how gender fantasies are worked through within an empathic analytic relationship. The author makes an appeal for updating and humanizing older psychological theories that have relied heavily on splits, polarities, and oppositions, all of which are more characteristic of a 20th century way of thinking about the psyche. A potential approach to incorporate gender expansiveness is through a model of the psyche as a mosaic.

Diffraction efficiency management by complex binary gratings.

The diffraction efficiencies of a complex binary diffraction grating with a rectangular profile are controlled through the steps' phases, amplitudes, and duty cycle, based on analytical expressions. It is demonstrated that the zeroth-diffraction order can be canceled for any arbitrary value of the duty cycle, provided that a π-phase difference is imposed, along with a specific ratio of the steps' amplitudes. This feature is not feasible for separated amplitude-only and phase-only rectangular binary gratings in the context of one-dimensional gratings. In this framework, a key analytic relationship between the duty cycle and the steps' amplitude ratio is derived, allowing the design of such gratings with this desired feature across a wide range of conditions, not limited to a duty cycle of 0.5. Concerning the higher diffraction orders, it is proved that their intensities cancel or maximize for fixed duty cycle no matter the amplitude and phase values of the steps. The intensity of the m-th diffraction order possesses m maxima and m - 1 zeros on the full range of the duty cycle. All these features were corroborated experimentally. The broad insight of such a grating allows the design of gratings with diffraction efficiencies tailored for specific applications.

Reflections on Attacks on Linking and the Thinking-Function in the Writings of W. R. Bion.

This article revisits W. R. Bion's theory of thinking by highlighting how thinking and linking are attacked. The author's theoretical reflections and clinical vignettes draw attention to the fact that patients may attack the analyst's thinking-function in two particular states: when they experience the analyst as attacking them precisely when the analyst is able to create a link, but one that is too threatening, painful, unsettling and frustrating or in response to the analyst's failure to create the link the patient had been expecting. How the analyst deals with and reacts to the complexity of the analytic relationship and to these two kinds of attacks is what will be internalized. In turn, it will affect the methods of communication within the psyche and with the environment and the development of a patient's emotional thinking.

My Analyst Has Dementia, I Might Need a Donut

ABSTRACT This paper explores a ten-year analytic relationship through the lens of analyst as patient dealing with love and loss. The patient is witness to her analyst’s mind succumbing to dementia. The vault of encrypted memory, containing the years of work, is under attack. Juxtaposing moments of dementia madness are shared space connected to significant expansion of mind and emotional experience. This experience challenges all framework of psychoanalytic work, and yet it doesn’t. Psychoanalysis espouses giving patients: meaning, vitality, sturdiness, and an expansive emotional range of experiences. This analytic work accomplished these features and more. But, what does it mean to be held in mind when the analyst mind has been highjacked by a paranoid delusion momentarily? Moreover, delusions of persecution reflect profound fear and anxiety with the loss of the ability to tell what’s real and what’s not. Delusions are a common feature of dementia. Delusions are often triggered by memory loss connected to simple things like losing one’s keys. My lived story of personal transformation lives among the mind field of sporadic delusions sometimes expressed by my analyst’s mind. What happens to psychoanalytic work when the vault of the analyst mind is compromised by dementia?

The Affective Charge of Sulphur and Salt in Working with Compulsion.

The author presents a long analysis of a patient, Giulia, whose obstinate will to achieve evokes the workings of alchemical sulphur at its fieriest and a dread of its coniunctio with alchemical salt. Jung's description of these symbols in Mysterium Coniunctionis offers a useful imaginal perspective to clinical work in the area of compulsion and its possible transformations. Right from the start, the analytic relationship appeared to be mirrored and affected by this alchemical perspective. However, it was only after much time, uncertainty and emotional endurance that a fuller psychological experience of sulphur and salt could be accessed, allowing the analysis to take a more imaginative and mercurial turn. In the course of his work with Giulia the author has witnessed and experienced a range of intense affects-the many colours that the combustion of sulphur can generate-whether on the verge of unstoppable creation or ruthless destruction, often of archetypal intensity. This experience has been lived through and has undergone a transformative relation with salt, which until then had lived a dissociated existence in the fixed trauma of the compulsion and in a nocturnal underworld of tears.

On a Path

ABSTRACT This article explores intersections between the author’s process of making art and the analytic relationship. The author makes correlations between witnessing a deeply moving impressionist painting, engaging in Jung’s method of active imagination, and the experience of reverie and opening to the imagination in the clinical relationship. Opening to the unconscious, and relating consciously to what emerges, is an art and a dance that involves the capacity to play. When there are unconscious and conscious meetings, a creative process ensues and can constellate what Jung called the transcendent function, a process that often catalyzes personal transformation. In witnessing great art and engaging in a creative process within the analytic situation, there is a curiosity and willingness to be affected and bear uncertainty for the sake of new discoveries, as well as dedication to becoming a more whole human being.

Reply to Kottler

ABSTRACT The author appreciates Kottler’s suspension of her own theoretical framework in order more fully to enter and grasp his framework. He finds his theory of needed relationships/complex selfobjects and hers of twinship/alterego selfobject experience to be compatible if it is recognized that the two sets of constructs represent two different categories of analytic theorizing: what the author terms “holistic” vs. “categorical” constructs. Holistic theories and constructs pertain to the analytic relationship as a whole whereas categorical theories and constructs describe particular dimensions of that relationship. He argues that the major concepts of his model—the needed relationship, fittedness, specificity of recognition and specificity of connection—are all holistic constructs whereas twinship and alterego transference phenomena are categorical in that they refer to particular dimensions of certain treatments. The author’s concept of complex selfobject experience is also a categorical construct but “moves in the direction of” a holistic construct. Finally, the author is in full agreement with Kottler that our theories and ways of working need to take into account and address the realities of otherness and difference between ourselves and our patients in such a way that our patients feel met, understood and fully welcome in the analytic space.

Creative Becoming: Response to Palmer’s “The Aesthetic Matrix”

ABSTRACT In this response to Palmer, I focus on the potential of creative spaces. In resonance with Palmer’s evocative descriptions of his engagement with painting and its relation to clinical insight, I offer my parallel experience with dance. Immersive experiences in creative endeavors offer to a clinician a mode of intuitive entry into the analytic field of a given treatment. I discuss the need to facilitate, and to hold open, a space for creativity for our patients and for ourselves. Creating connects us – to our self, to others, to internal objects, to our mother-child origins and to the aesthetic pleasures of our first communications. The aesthetic capacity to keep this embodied vitality alive in the analytic relationship is the quality I conceptualize as analytic eroticism. Bringing a creative sensibility into our clinical work significantly informs how we inhabit the analytic field.

So Much Depends Upon a Red Stripe

ABSTRACT The paper explores the impact of Palmer’s spontaneous gesture of a red stripe that completed his abstract painting—emotionally and aesthetically—in response to a difficult analytic relationship. The red stripe arises from his search for greater openness, emotional freedom, and creative responses to the flow of communication with his patient. The analyst’s ethical intentions are inward to be open and available to the influx of the patient’s emotional world, and outward, found in actions and gestures with the patient striving for honesty, transparency, a willingness to take risks and accept accidents in a search for emotion truth and authentically being present. The analyst inhabits, gathers, and concentrates feeling that provides a medium for feelings to live, take shape, and be recognized by an analytic function called “the aesthetic” that then fosters “aesthetic experiences”—intense passages of shared living that are transformative.

Multi-Beam Line Measurement Model Based on Analytic Geometry

The multi-beam sounding system has a wider coverage area and efficiency than the single-beam sounding system, and has been used in a variety of offshore operations. However, the design of flat sea area survey method can not meet the real seabed relief, so it is of great significance to study a multi-beam sounding system line planning model for different seabed topography to improve the measurement efficiency and accuracy in sea area exploration and other applications. In this paper, under the condition of real terrain, the linear model of the Angle of the fixed multi-beam transducer is studied with appropriate simplification. Based on the analytic geometric relationship, the functional expressions between the coverage area and overlap rate and the parameters of the transducer's open Angle, slope Angle and sea water depth are given, and the parameter model of the submarine landform linear model with a certain slope is established.

Urine Pretreat Concentration Sensor Based on Optical Absorption

Urine is processed on the International Space Station using pretreat, a highly acidic compound. The dilution ratio of this compound in water is important; too little will inhibit the recovery of water from the urine, and too much is both corrosive and wasteful. Recently, a feasibility study concluded that a sensor based on optical absorption should meet the system requirements to monitor the concentration of pretreat in water before mixing with urine. This paper presents a design for that sensor, based on looking through the walls of a semitransparent perfluoroalkoxy tube carrying the diluted pretreat. The result is an accurate, completely nonintrusive, rapid-response pretreat concentration sensor. A theoretical model of the sensor is developed, yielding an analytic relationship between optical measurements and concentration that can be used to compensate for the nonlinear output of the optical sensor. Experiments demonstrate that the assembled device has adequate sensitivity and response time to monitor flowing diluted pretreat such that the total dose administered per use can be monitored.

A Focusing Method of Buildings for Airborne Circular SAR

Airborne circular synthetic aperture radar (CSAR) can realize high-resolution imaging of the scene over 360 degrees azimuth angle variation. Aiming at the problem of focusing of buildings for the airborne CSAR, this paper first analyzes the phase errors of CSAR buildings focusing in detail, and the analytic relationship between the scatterer height and azimuth focusing quality is deduced. Then, a focusing method of CSAR buildings based on the back projection algorithm is proposed. This method adopts the processing strategy of multi-layers imaging, and it is able to improve azimuth focusing quality of the buildings which have large height dimension. The proposed method is especially suitable for the high-resolution imaging and monitoring of the urban site with high-rise buildings in the airborne CSAR scenario. The correctness of the theoretical analysis and the validity of the proposed method are verified by using both simulation results and Ku-band airborne CSAR real data processing results.

Intimate Contact in the Landscape of Mortality: Commentary on Papers by Rachel Kozlowski and Kirsten Lentz

ABSTRACT The following is a discussion of papers by Kozlowski and Lentz that explore the presence of mortality in the analytic relationship. The author reflects on challenges to the dyad, the vulnerability of the analyst, and how the individual and analytic pair may confront their existential reality separately or together. The author includes the idea of “death origin stories” to emphasize that mortality has a presence throughout the life of the individual; she suggests how psychoanalytic theory and technique may be enhanced by including an explanation of the earliest penetration of death into consciousness and whether this lens may enhance our sensitivity to mortality and our ability to manage loss and endings.

Flexible nanomechanical bit based on few-layer graphene.

Mechanical computers have gained intense research interest at size scales ranging from nano to macro as they may complement electronic computers operating in extreme environments. While nanoscale mechanical computers may be easier to integrate with traditional electronic components, most current nanomechanical computers are based on volatile resonator systems that require continuous energy input. In this study, we propose a non-volatile nanomechanical bit based on the quasi-stable configurations of few-layer graphene with void defects, and demonstrate its multiple quasi-stable states by deriving an analytic relationship for the void configuration based on a competition between the bending energy and the cohesive energy. Using this nanomechanical bit, typical logic gates are constructed to perform Boolean calculations, including NOT, AND, OR, NAND and NOR gates, and demonstrate reprogrammability between these logic gates. We also study the accuracy and the stability of the nanomechanical bits based on the few-layer graphene. These findings provide a novel approach to realize the nanomechanical computing process.

Investigating the analytical relationship between pore geometry and other pore space properties in carbonate rocks

Although pore geometry plays an important role in carbonate rock physics modelling, few studies have been carried out on its analytic relationship with other pore space properties such as pore space stiffness. We propose an analytical workflow based on the differential effective medium (DEM) to estimate the elastic properties of carbonate rocks. The validity of our results is then cross-checked with the Xu and Payne model on a real carbonate dataset. This workflow establishes a direct and quantitative link between the pore geometry of carbonate rock and its other pore space properties such as the Biot coefficient and pore space stiffness. This relationship can, furthermore, be utilized in defining rock physics templates (RPTs) to investigate the role of pore geometry on the rock elastic properties. Furthermore, we extended the Biot–Gassmann–Krief (BGK) model through our proposed workflow by establishing a theoretical framework to relate the main components of the BGK model to the pore geometry usually estimated in the laboratory or empirically. This can help to investigate the impact of fluid substitution on each of these main components. Our investigation suggests that the higher the Biot and Gassmann coefficients, the more sensitive the rock is to fluid substitution. Moreover, this analytical workflow has been employed to examine the role of selecting different rotational spheroids (i.e. oblate and prolate) on the modelled velocities. Our results show that the modelled velocities depend on this selection in such a way that prolate pores are less sensitive to the variations in their pore aspect ratio compared with oblate pores.

Duchamp, Sadomasochism, and the Psychoanalytic Field

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 that caused the perversion itself. On the other hand, it may be seen as an aspect of the unconscious emotional function that binds the couple together in the analysis. Monotony, then, is no longer intrinsic to "the patient's" perversion, but becomes the search for "mono-tony" or "at-one-ment" in the here and now of the session. At the root of this may be the fear of the tensions that arise from confrontation and difference, which may cause the pair to stay rigidly on the same wave. Then, analyst and patient maintain an adhesive identification with each other to prevent separation, and they pay the price of boredom and immobility. The field theory point of view is distinguished by two important aspects. As the analyst listens from the perspective of a "narrative We," this protects the pair from a judgmental attitude and, consequently, from a form of perversion of the analytic relationship. Second, it detects precise and distinct signs of how the process of mutual recognition unfolds on the level of the third, intersubjective or "common," unconscious. The fundamental postulate is that psychic suffering, including that which is expressed in sadomasochism, stems from important deficits in this same process in the primal relationship to the object. Consequently, it is important to privilege the level of being-with rather than that of knowing-about.

“The Ego and the Id”: How and why Freud transformed his model of the mind*

ABSTRACT This paper argues that, despite its title, “The Ego and the Id” can be seen as the book of the superego, and although it is a metapsychological work, Freud’s introduction of the new conceptual tools provided by the structural model was a response to the clinical problems he faced. The implications of Freud’s introduction of the superego for the analytic relationship are discussed, with an attempt to deepen our understanding of what he had in mind by reading “Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego” alongside “The Ego and the Id”. Finally, the paper draws on Bion to consider the implications of this remodelling of the analytic scene for listening and interpretation.

Implications of fitting a two-compartment model in single-shell diffusion MRI

It is becoming increasingly common for studies to fit single-shell diffusion MRI data to a two-compartment model, which comprises a hindered cellular compartment and a freely diffusing isotropic compartment. These studies consistently find that the fraction of the isotropic compartment (f) is sensitive to white matter (WM) conditions and pathologies, although the actual biological source of changes in f has not been validated. In this work we put aside the biological interpretation of f and study the sensitivity implications of fitting single-shell data to a two-compartment model. We identify a nonlinear transformation between the one-compartment model (diffusion tensor imaging, DTI) and a two-compartment model in which the mean diffusivities of both compartments are effectively fixed. While the analytic relationship implies that fitting this two-compartment model does not offer any more information than DTI, it explains why metrics derived from a two-compartment model can exhibit enhanced sensitivity over DTI to certain types of WM processes, such as age-related WM differences. The sensitivity enhancement should not be viewed as a substitute for acquiring multi-shell data. Rather, the results of this study provide insight into the consequences of choosing a two-compartment model when only single-shell data is available.

Adolescence as a phenomenon of the field and affection as a vector of at-one-ment in the analytic relationship

I believe that clinical work with adolescents provides extremely valuable contributions in the Field Theory area. The observation and care of adolescents has always made me think how growth is a painful process of separation from and rediscovery of the lost object in après-coup, how important it is for us analysts not to lose touch with our human gaze, and above all with the meaning of the affection that guides our clinical listening, especially when we are dealing with minors who are “hard to reach” (Joseph 1975). Therefore, I consider affection a genuine theoretical and technical prerequisite – I could say, a “parameter” – for emotionally contacting the adolescent in the symbolic and affective place where they happen to be: in other words, for fostering a unison. So, in this paper, I would like to try and set up a dialectic between the concepts of affection, unison (Bion 1962) and subjectivation in adolescence, understood as a field and group phenomenon.