@article{Peltz, author = {Peltz, Rachael}, title = {Making genders. Commentary on paper by Irene Fast}, series = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 08 (1998), pp. 385-409.}, journal = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 08 (1998), pp. 385-409.}, abstract = {Every analysis involves oscillations in the ability to generate new meaning, depending on the nature of the anxieties present and containable by the patient, the analyst, or both. Breakdown in this creative process can result in treatment impasses when primitive anxieties are uncontained and projective identifications abound. In this article, I situate clinical impasses within the dialectic of presence and absence. That dialectic requires that the tension be sustained between both terms in such a way that neither is fully negated and a space can exist between the terms, a space in which meaning can flourish and the recognition of freedom can be embraced. I view impasses as psychic and philosophical breakdowns in which presence and absence are polarized and the ability to constitute presence out of absence is lost. I examine this collapsed space as one in which goodness has become perverted in the mind of the patient. I then offer clinical examples in which the analyst discovers how attention to her own subjective experiences helps to decipher the meaning of unconscious communications. These subjective experiences include the emergence of an internal supervisor, subliminal thought and images, and dreams about the patient. These communications can then serve as tools to release the analytic couple from the bonds of presymbolic treatment impasses.}, language = {en} } @article{Peltz, author = {Peltz, Rachael}, title = {Transcending interactional tension. Commentary on Steven Stern's >needed relationships<}, series = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Vol. 15 (2005), pp. 347-366.}, journal = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Vol. 15 (2005), pp. 347-366.}, abstract = {In this article I maintain that, as a society, we are lacking a basic commitment to the social equivalent of Winnicott's >environmental provisions.< Though we live in a democracy with certain inalienable rights, we have not instituted a system of governing authority to protect those rights. Instead, the needs of the market have taken precedence, overriding the needs of the populace. I believe that psychoanalysis can be used to inform political and social policies by underscoring the importance of the environment (familial and societal) and of the responsible agents (parents and governmental institutions) to provide an environment that fosters growth and creativity. I suggest that one internal, psychic response to the lack of a system of governance that guarantees the provision of basic environmental needs is the proliferation of manic defenses. Compulsive consumption, a behavior our market heavily relies upon, rates as one of the many socially sactioned manic attempts to ward off the pain and anxiety associated with both the absence of a containing governing authority and the loss of basic provisions including health care schools safe water, air, and food energy and other needed resources. A composite clinical picture will be presented to illustrate the manifestation of manic defenses. These defenses will also be discussed in relation to the changing role of work in this society.}, language = {en} } @article{Peltz, author = {Peltz, Rachael}, title = {Two ways of being}, series = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Vol. 15 (2005), pp. 409-414.}, journal = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Vol. 15 (2005), pp. 409-414.}, language = {en} }