@article{Langan, author = {Langan, R.}, title = {The Depth of the Field}, series = {Contemporary Psychoanalysis, New York (William Alanson White Psychoanalytic Society), Vol. 29 (1993), pp. 628-644.}, journal = {Contemporary Psychoanalysis, New York (William Alanson White Psychoanalytic Society), Vol. 29 (1993), pp. 628-644.}, language = {en} } @article{Langan, author = {Langan, R.}, title = {I Thou Other: Fluid Being in Triadic Context}, series = {Contemporary Psychoanalysis, New York (William Alanson White Psychoanalytic Society), Vol. 31 (1995), pp. 327-339.}, journal = {Contemporary Psychoanalysis, New York (William Alanson White Psychoanalytic Society), Vol. 31 (1995), pp. 327-339.}, language = {en} } @article{Langan, author = {Langan, R.}, title = {Proteus reprised}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Oslo (Scandinavian University Press) Vol. 6 (No. 1, April 1997), pp. 45-50}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Oslo (Scandinavian University Press) Vol. 6 (No. 1, April 1997), pp. 45-50}, abstract = {Proteus was the mythical Greek sea-god able to change his shape at will. In the Odyssey, King Menelaos manages not to release his wrestler's hold on the mercurial trickster, and theory can, at last, return home. The myth has sundry and changing applications to the living experience of what goes on between patient and psychoanalyst. In one sense, the analyst's job is to be like Proteus, escaping the transferential grip whereby the patient tries to pin the analyst into characterological shapes of the past. In another sense, the patient is Proteus, and the analyst's job is to hold firmly to the process of future change, refusing to settle for one fixed version of selfhood. In yet another sense, both patient and analyst become Proteus, experiencing fluidly present senses of self as an inner subjective >I<, as an intimately relational >Thou< with >Thee<, and objectively, as one Other among others. Additionally, the myth insinuates within the psychoanalytic situation a potential transcendence of time.}, language = {en} } @article{Langan, author = {Langan, R.}, title = {Someplace in Mind}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Oslo (Scandinavian University Press) Vol. 9 (No. 1-2, April 2000), pp. 69-75.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Oslo (Scandinavian University Press) Vol. 9 (No. 1-2, April 2000), pp. 69-75.}, abstract = {This paper is aimed at placing the importance of Ferenczi's thinking in the wide field of psychiatry where Ferenczi has not been given any niche whatsoever. The author is in a position to approach topics that are fundamental for the work of both psychiatry and psychoanalysis. The Multifamily Psychoanalysis (MP), created by the author, not only allows professionals to counteract a current psychiatric trend aimed at eliminating the importance of subjectivity but MP also contributes to rescuing the thinking of Ferenczi, and to a better understanding of the Freud-Ferenczi controversy. It is the author's contention that Ferenczi embodies the very spirit of pioneers: no difficulties, however insurmountable, could ever stop him. He paved the way for further psychiatric research work, and his clinical contribution extended the realm of metapsychology.}, language = {en} }