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Passivity and Gender: Psychical inertia and maternal stillness

ABSTRACT Who is afraid of passivity? Historically, women and minoritized people have had good reason to be, given that passivity has been a way to keep them out of the world of “reason.” Freud’s move from the activity/passivity binary as the principle of all instinct, to its gendering as femininity/passivity and masculinity/activity, leads him to assert the “repudiation of femininity” as the bedrock of psychic life (Freud, S. 1937. “Analysis Terminable and Interminable.” In The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, 23, 209–254. London: Hogarth Press). This has led to a generative history of feminist, queer and Black psychoanalytic scholarship that constantly re-opens the question of female subjectivity and sexuality, and what we mean by psychic femininity and masculinity. However, what does remains as “bedrock,” even in this theorizing, is the figure of the mother in the internal world of the infant – supposedly castrated yet all-powerful, and requiring that the infant defend itself against what is stirred up as a result of dependency on her. After reviewing some of the psychoanalytic debates about femininity, I turn to “stillness” rather than passivity to suggest that we can identify a maternal element that is on the side of development, a figuration of psychical inertia that holds the capacity for waiting, stopping, ceasing and withdrawing in a world in which these mental functions are sorely missing.

Theopsych: A Psychological Science Primer for Theologians

Theopsych: A Psychological Science Primer for Theologians

The Relational Revolution in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy By Steven Kuchuck. Confer Books, 2021. 198 pp.

The Relational Revolution in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy By Steven Kuchuck. Confer Books, 2021. 198 pp.Robin YoungRobin YoungRobin Young, PhD, is a senior member, training analyst, and instructor at the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis (NPAP); an assistant adjunct lecturer at New York University (NYU); and founder of an international Loewald reading group. Young has published research on the revised psychoanalytic theories of female development; studied the mother/infant dyad under Lousie Kaplan at NYU; made international and national psychoanalytic presentations; and undertaken private studies with Lew Aron and Jessica Benjamin. She is a member of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, and has had a private practice of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy since 1980.Search for more papers by this authorPublished Online:June 2023https://doi.org/10.1521/prev.2023.110.2.229PDFPDF PLUS ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations AboutReferencesAron L. (2006). Analytic impasse and the third: Clinical implications of intersubjectivity theory. International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, 87, 349–368. Crossref Medline, Google ScholarBalsam R. H. (2008). The essence of Hans Loewald. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 56, 1117–1128. Crossref Medline, Google ScholarBenjamin J. (2004). Beyond doer and done to: An intersubjective view of thirdness. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 73(1), 5–46. Crossref Medline, Google ScholarFerenczi S. (1949). Confusion of tongues between adults and the child. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 30, 225–230. Google ScholarFreud S. (1912). Recommendations to physicians practicing psycho-analysis. In Strachey J. (Ed. & Trans.), The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud (Vol. 12, pp. 109–120). London: Hogarth Press, 1957–1974. Google ScholarKuhn T. (1949). The structure of scientific revolutions. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Google ScholarLoewald H. (1951). Ego and reality. International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, 32, 10–18. Google ScholarMaroda K. J. (2005). Legitimate gratification of the analysts’ needs. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 41, 371–388. Crossref, Google ScholarRenik O. (1999). Playing one's cards face up in analysis: An approach to the problem of self-disclosure. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 68(4), 521–539. https://doi.org/10.1002/j.2167-4086.1999.tb00546.x Crossref Medline, Google Scholar Previous article Next article FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Volume 110Issue 2Jun 2023 Information© 2023 N.P.A.P.PDF download

WITH SPLINTERS (OR STARS) IN OUR EYES: ON READING THE FRANKFURT SCHOOL WITH MARTIN JAY

This mostly admiring review article focuses on Martin Jay's 2020 essay collection entitled Splinters in Your Eye: Frankfurt School Provocations. Though it highlights details and insights from nearly every essay in the collection, the review devotes significant attention to chapter 4, which focuses on the relationship of the Frankfurt School's first-generation scholars with Sigmund Freud. The departure point for my engagement with Jay's fourth chapter is the translation of the German word Trieb (drive) as “instinct” throughout The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud. Although Jay's treatment of Max Horkheimer's, Theodor W. Adorno's, and Herbert Marcuse's recourses to Freudian psychoanalysis emphasizes their abiding commitment to Freud's theory of instinctual forces (over and against objections to his biologism), the question of whether a drive differs from an instinct does not arise. This question therefore offers an occasion to speculate on how distinguishing more firmly between instinct and drive might matter for the Frankfurt School's opposition between first and second nature. Though I praise Jay's decision to include a chapter on Miriam Hansen's Benjaminian revision of the public sphere, I also criticize his practice, in this volume at least, of consigning most scholarship authored by women to the endnotes rather than engaging with it in the main text.

Ethics in Psychotherapy: Informed Consent, Digital Professionalism, and Sexual Misconduct.

Ethics in Psychotherapy: Informed Consent, Digital Professionalism, and Sexual Misconduct.

Impact of COVID-19 on loss and grief: a personal lens.

British Journal of Community NursingVol. 25, No. 6 CommentImpact of COVID-19 on loss and grief: a personal lensBrian NyatangaBrian NyatangaE-mail Address: [email protected]Senior Lecturer, Three Counties School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of WorcesterSearch for more papers by this authorBrian NyatangaPublished Online:4 Jun 2020https://doi.org/10.12968/bjcn.2020.25.6.306AboutSectionsView articleView Full TextPDF/EPUB ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InEmail View article References British Broadcasting Corporation. Coronavirus: Islamophobia concerns after India mosque outbreak. 3 April 2020. 2020a. https://tinyurl.com/yaaj7lsu (accessed 28 April 2020) Google ScholarBritish Broadcasting Corporation. Coronavirus: Boris Johnson says ‘it could have gone either way’. 12 April 2020. 2020b. https://tinyurl.com/vl4so3f (accessed 28 April 2020) Google ScholarFreud S. Mourning and melancholia. The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud, volume XIV (1914–1916): on the history of the psycho-analytic movement, papers on metapsychology and other works. London: The Hogarth Press; 1917:237–258 Google ScholarKessler D. Finding meaning: a sixth stage of grief. New York (NY): Scribner; 2019 Google ScholarMurray-Parkes C. Bereavement studies of grief in adult life. 4th edn. London: Penguin Books; 2010 Google ScholarWorden JW. Grief Counseling and grief therapy: a handbook for the mental health practitioner. 5th revised edn. New York (NY): Springer Publishing Co; 2018 Crossref, Google Scholar FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails 2 June 2020Volume 25Issue 6ISSN (print): 1462-4753ISSN (online): 2052-2215 Metrics History Published online 4 June 2020 Published in print 2 June 2020 Information© MA Healthcare LimitedPDF download

Narrative Empathy in James Bradley’s Clade: Disability, Ecosickness and Hope

In his latest novel Clade (2015), Australian author James Bradley portrays apocalyptic scenarios in the aftermath of the ubiquitous climate change that is affecting our planet, while following the human conflicts of three generations of the Leith family. And yet, this article argues that the novel privileges an optative mood instead of the traditional collective catastrophe of canonical eco-fiction. To do so, the article scrutinises some formal strategies of narrative empathy, such as character identification and multiple focalisation, which favour the reader’s emotional engagement. In the novel, vulnerable manifestations disclose a profound empathic orientation, addressing an ethics of care that implicates the reader affectively. DOI: 10.17456/SIMPLE-138 Bibliography Bradley, James. 1997. Wrack . London: Vintage. Bradley, James. 1999. The Deep Field . New York: Henry Holt & Co. Bradley, James. 2006. The Resurrectionist . Sydney: Pan Macmillan. Bradley, James. 2015a. Clade . London: Titan Books. Bradley, James. 2015b. The End of Nature and Post-Naturalism: Fiction and the Anthropo- cene, https://cityoftongues.com/2015/12/30/the-end-of-nature-and-post-naturalism-fic- tion-and-the-anthropocene/ (consulted on 21/03/2019). Buell, Frederick. 2003 . From Apocalypse to Way of Life: Environmental Crisis in the American Century . London-New York: Routledge. “Clade”. Definition of clade in English. English Oxford Living Dictionaries , https://www.lex- ico.com/en/definition/clade (consulted on 26/03/2019). Coplan, Amy. 2004. Empathic Engagement with Narrative Fictions. The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism , 62, 2: 141-152. Coplan, Amy & Peter Goldie. 2011. Introduction. Amy Coplan & Peter Goldie eds. Empathy: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives . Oxford: Oxford University Press, ix-xlvii. Defoe, Daniel. 2003 [1772]. A Journal of the Plague Year . London: Penguin. Freud, Sigmund. 1956 [1917]. Mourning and Melancholia. James Strachey ed. The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud. Vol. 14 . London: The Hogarth Press, 243-258. Ganteau, Jean-Michel. 2015. The Ethics and Aesthetics of Vulnerability in Contemporary British Fiction . New York: Routledge. Garrard, Greg. 2004. Ecocriticism . Abingdon-New York: Routledge. Goldie, Peter. 2011. Anti-Empathy. Amy Coplan & Peter Goldie eds. Empathy: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 302-317. Hirsch, Marianne. 2014. Vulnerable Times. Modern Language Association, https://apps.mla.org/pdf/pres_theme_invitation_2014.pdf (consulted on 29/03/2019). Houser, Heather. 2016. Ecosickness in Contemporary U.S. Piction: Environment and Affect . New York: Columbia University Press. Keen, Suzanne. 2007. Empathy and the Novel . Oxford: Oxford University Press. Kristeva, Julia. 1984 [1979]. Revolutions in Poetic Language . New York: Columbia University Press. Leake, Eric. 2014. Humanizing the Inhumane: The Value of Difficult Empathy. Meghan Marie Hammond & Sue J. Kim eds. Rethinking Empathy through Literature . New York: Routledge, 175-186. Nussbaum, Martha. 1995. Poetic Justice: The Literary Imagination and Public Life. Boston: Beacon. Pierce, Peter. 2015. The Catastrophe Business: Clade by James Bradley. Sydney Review of Books . 20 March, https://sydneyreviewofbooks.com/clade-james-bradley/ (consulted on 27/03/2019). Trexler, Adam. 2015. Anthropocene Fictions: The Novel in a Time of Climate Change . Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press.

Préface à la Revised Standard Edition

Une nouvelle édition autorisée des écrits de Freud traduits en anglais – la Revised Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud – va bientôt être publiée sous une forme imprimée, près de trois décennies après que la révision a été conçue. Cette pré-impression de la préface de l’Éditeur offre un aperçu aussi bien de la nature que de la portée des révisions.

Extracts from the Revised Standard Edition of Freud’s complete psychological works

ABSTRACTThe Revised Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud is about to appear in print, almost three decades after the revision was first conceived. This article provides a preview of the nature and scope of the revisions, through a series of extracts from the new edition.

The Uses of Hate: On Hate as a Political Category

The Uses of Hate: On Hate as a Political Category

Beyond the Pleasure Principle

In reasoned progression he outlined core psychoanalytic concepts, such as repression, free association and libido. Of the various English translations of Freud's major works to appear in his lifetime, only one was authorized by Freud himself: The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud under the general editorship of James Strachey. Freud approved the overall editorial plan, specific renderings of key words and phrases, and the addition of valuable notes, from bibliographical and explanatory. Many of the translations were done by Strachey himself; the rest were prepared under his supervision. The result was to place the Standard Edition in a position of unquestioned supremacy over all other existing versions.Newly designed in a uniform format, each new paperback in the Standard Edition opens with a biographical essay on Freud's life and work -along with a note on the individual volume-by Peter Gay, Sterling Professor of History at Yale.

Carmilla, Camilla: The Influence of the Gothic on David Lynch's Mulholland Drive.

Carmilla, Camilla: The Influence of the Gothic on David Lynch's Mulholland Drive.

Persons and Their Private Personas: Living with Yourself

Persons and Their Private Personas: Living with Yourself

Notes on theRevised Standard Edition

On the eve of the publication of the Revised Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (24 volumes) and The Complete Neuroscientific Works of Sigmund Freud (4 volumes), the editor of these works describes the policies he followed in succeeding James Strachey, and reflects on the experience of doing so.

The Lady in the Carriage: Trauma, Embodiment, and the Drive for Resolution

The Lady in the Carriage: Trauma, Embodiment, and the Drive for Resolution

The Melancholy of Extinction: Lars von Trier's "Melancholia" as an Environmental Film

The Melancholy of Extinction: Lars von Trier's "Melancholia" as an Environmental Film

Ladies on the Loose: Contemporary Female Travel as a "Promiscuous" Excursion

This paper maps gendered trouble spots in contemporary works of female travel. Since travel itself is a metaphor for the slippage or displacement of cultural knowledge, there is need for closer and more complex readings of the female practice. This paper locates the contemporary female traveller on ground and on page, and flags some of the cultural myths and misconceptions that affect how she moves through the world. When women travel, they inscribe themselves across landscapes that have been previously overlooked, openly discarded and largely unexamined. In doing so, they travel intricate courses due to historical connections between wandering and promiscuity and continuing confusions between issues of mobility and morality in the modern world. Taking gender then as its interpretative parameter, this paper explores the troublesome nature of women’s travel, citing various texts as examples.

A review of Heinrich Obersteiner's 1888 textbook on the central nervous system by the neurologist Sigmund Freud

In 1888, the Austrian neuroanatomist Heinrich Obersteiner, founder of Vienna's Neurological Institute, published his "Introduction to the Study of the Structure of the Central Nervous Organs in Health and Disease", a fundamental textbook in which he summarised the state-of-the-art knowledge available then on the normal and pathological anatomy of the human nervous system, incorporating many of his original research findings. The book became "the Bible for generations of budding neurologists" worldwide and was crucial for the eventual development of neurology as an independent medical discipline. In his early career as a neuroanatomist, Sigmund Freud wrote a review of Obersteiner's book for the Wiener Medizinische Wochenschrift. That review was not included in the "Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works". The present article provides an English translation of Freud's review and further discusses its historical context, especially regarding the influence of Theodor Meynert on his two illustrious students, Freud and Obersteiner.

The Return of Nostalgia: A Fetishistic Spectator in Leslie Scalapino's The Return of Painting and the Hudson River School of Art

Do you see the story? Do you see anything? (Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness) Though there is a relation to the retina. There is no way to live. (Leslie Scalapino, Orion)1 When the Metropolitan Mus...

EPISTEMOPHILIA

Feminist understandings of epistemophilia (the drive for knowledge) have typically focused on epistemophilia's destructive aspects with little consideration for the multitude of possible creative a...