@article{AbdelMalek, author = {Abdel-Malek, Hana Salaam}, title = {Hezbollah: Lebanon's identified patient?}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 31 (No. 1, 2022), pp. 046-056.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 31 (No. 1, 2022), pp. 046-056.}, abstract = {In this article, I interpret Hezbollah's birth and role in Lebanon's sociopolitical life from a group and family psychoanalytic perspective. In particular, I examine whether Hezbollah, as one of Lebanon's >children,< can be seen as the >designated patient< and >symptom< of its large family, nation-state >incestual< dynamics and complicated separation and individuation process. As a designated patient, Hezbollah performs the double-sided function of gluing its fragmented nation-state together while carrying the weight of being its breaking force. In this logic, Hezbollah's paradoxical role in the Lebanese nation-state family would be similar to that of a >scapegoat/Messiah,< who carries both the family's incestual dynamics and internal tensions and its hope for a solid and cohesive nation-state identity. To build a cohesive nation-state identity, Hezbollah's ideology acts as a prosthesis for Lebanon's narcissistic fragility, which replenishes the narcissistic hemorrhage of its perforated bodily and psychic envelopes. I also reflect on whether a national mediation process informed by a group psychoanalytic approach could help Lebanon constitute a more functional ego-nation-state and thus renounce the need for a designated patient. Hezbollah would be better capable of giving up its pathological ideological position.}, language = {en} } @article{Abromeit, author = {Abromeit, John}, title = {Frankfurt School Critical Theory and the Persistence of Authoritarian Populism in the United States}, series = {Clemens, M., et al. (Eds.), Die Wiederkehr des autorit{\"a}ren Charakters. Transatlantische Perspektiven, ed. by Manuel Clemens, Thorben P{\"a}the and Marc Petersdorff, Wiesbaden (Springer SV) 2022, pp. 043-070.}, journal = {Clemens, M., et al. (Eds.), Die Wiederkehr des autorit{\"a}ren Charakters. Transatlantische Perspektiven, ed. by Manuel Clemens, Thorben P{\"a}the and Marc Petersdorff, Wiesbaden (Springer SV) 2022, pp. 043-070.}, language = {en} } @article{Amado, author = {Amado, Nuno}, title = {Psychoanalytic views of >writer's block>: Artistic creation and its discontents}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 31 (No. 2, 2022), pp. 100-107.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 31 (No. 2, 2022), pp. 100-107.}, abstract = {more universal psychological dynamics. If creative writing is interesting in itself, its failure can be fascinating. It is not unusual for some successful authors to find themselves unable to write. They suffer what is commonly known has >writer's block,< a term coined by the psychoanalyst Edmund Bergler in his seminal study of blocked writers in the 1940s and 50s. This paper illustrates how the psychoanalytic study of >writer's block< can go way beyond Bergler's theorization. A writer who cannot write is also someone experiencing inner conflict, a self not living up to its expectations, a person that has lost the ability to play. Freudian, ego psychology, and object relations theory are some of the theoretical lenses used to look at >writer's block,< and to show how this circumscribed phenomenon can shed light on more common struggles and muddles. A brief narration of the author's experience of writer's block is presented as an illustration of the parallels between psychoanalysis and writing, especially regarding the importance and use of reverie.}, language = {en} } @article{Arabatzis, author = {Arabatzis, Georgios}, title = {Pornography and Stress}, series = {Conatus - Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 7, No. 2 (2022), pp. 143-156. [Online ISSN 2459-3842] [ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/Conatus/article/view/31971/24631]}, journal = {Conatus - Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 7, No. 2 (2022), pp. 143-156. [Online ISSN 2459-3842] [ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/Conatus/article/view/31971/24631]}, abstract = {Pornography, especially in its compulsive form of viewing, is closely linked to ways of managing and reducing stress. Pornographic realism, which is the contemporary form of pornographic representation, is based on technological innovations such as photographic and digital recording of sexual reality. The description of the character of the two forms of recording demonstrates the historical development of pornographic realism. Moving away from pure psychology, we can discern in the field of human sciences the specificity of the relations between pornography and stress reduction through the distinction between the Principle of Pleasure (Lustprinzip) and the Principle of Reality (Realit{\"a}tsprinzip) at the collective level or otherwise in the space of the co-being (Mitsein). On the other hand, the distance of sexual need from hunger and the plasticity of the former makes pornography a practicable way of dealing with the contradictions of ordinary existence. In sum, the above articulation explains how pornography makes the world of sexual satisfaction go hand in hand with coping with and managing stress.}, language = {en} } @article{Binder, author = {Binder, Per-Einar}, title = {Facing the uncertainties of being a person: On the role of existential vulnerability in personal identity}, series = {Philosophical Psychology (2022), pp. 1-24. [doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2022.2129002]}, journal = {Philosophical Psychology (2022), pp. 1-24. [doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2022.2129002]}, abstract = {This paper explores the role of existential vulnerability in the experience of personal identity and how identity is found and created. Existential vulnerabilities mark a boundary between what humans can bring about willfully or manipulate to their advantage and what is resistant to such actions. These vulnerabilities have their origin, on an ontological level, in fundamental conditions of human existence. At the same time, they have implications on a psychological level when it comes to self-experience and identity formation. Narrative and value-based identity depend on how a person relates to finitude and the ambiguous side of lived experience. Relational identity depends on how a person relates to existential aloneness and the fact that the meaning and value of our actions are partly out of our control; they are always also dependent on other people's responses to us. Bodily identity makes us feel continuous and real, but at the same time vulnerable to death and the gaze and actions of others. Being >thrown< into an arbitrary life context is also a form of existential vulnerability. Authentic psychological identities can develop by giving meaning to these circumstances and balancing acceptance of existential vulnerability with the courage to make choices and act.}, language = {en} } @article{Bishop, author = {Bishop, Paul}, title = {Analytical Psychology and the Dialectic of Enlightenment}, series = {Critical Theory and Psychoanalysis. From the Frankfurt School to Contemporary Critique, London and New York (Routledge) 2022, pp. 95-114.}, journal = {Critical Theory and Psychoanalysis. From the Frankfurt School to Contemporary Critique, London and New York (Routledge) 2022, pp. 95-114.}, language = {en} } @article{Braune, author = {Braune, Joan}, title = {>Which Extreme, Whose Extremist? Limitations of Eric Hoffer's 'The True Believer' for Countering Contemporary Fascist Movements<}, series = {D. Gides (Ed.), Uncivil Disobedience: Theological Perspectives, Fortress Press 2023.}, journal = {D. Gides (Ed.), Uncivil Disobedience: Theological Perspectives, Fortress Press 2023.}, language = {en} } @article{Braune, author = {Braune, Nick}, title = {Cultural Images of, and Experiences with, Disobedience}, series = {D. Gides (Ed.), Uncivil Disobedience: Theological Perspectives, Fortress Press 2023.}, journal = {D. Gides (Ed.), Uncivil Disobedience: Theological Perspectives, Fortress Press 2023.}, language = {en} } @misc{Buchholz, author = {Buchholz, Michael B.}, title = {Review Susan Evans and Marcus Evans: Gender dysphoria - A therapeutic model for working with children, adolescents and young adults}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 31 (No. 4, 2022), pp. 191-192.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 31 (No. 4, 2022), pp. 191-192.}, language = {en} } @article{Buechler, author = {Buechler, Sandra}, title = {King Lear and the challenges of retirement}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 31 (No. 2, 2022), pp. 064-069.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 31 (No. 2, 2022), pp. 064-069.}, abstract = {Shakespeare's great play King Lear traces the downfall of a man who retired without sufficient insight into the impact of his decision. The author uses the play to frame questions about the course of her own retirement from psychoanalytic practice, on May 31, 2019. How might the decision to retire change the analyst's sense of her own identity, and her patients' perceptions of who she really is? What are some of the challenges of living in retirement, without the structure and purpose an analytic practice provides?}, language = {en} }