@article{Vida, author = {Vida, J.}, title = {Considering Androgyny: Another Dimension of Ferenczi's Disagreement with Freud}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Oslo (Scandinavian University Press) Vol. 8 (No. 3, December 1999), pp. 257-262.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Oslo (Scandinavian University Press) Vol. 8 (No. 3, December 1999), pp. 257-262.}, abstract = {This paper is a meditation on the interpenetration of mental and physical, particularly architectural, place. Its premise is that the relationship between person and place is transitional, ever in flux, person continually defining place into a continuous reality, and reality perpetually placing person. Further, this interchange occurs against the backdrop of an inconceivable void whereby the very terms of the interchange can be nullified. Such a void is unconscious and outside in the sense that it is outside what can be known. The matter of opening the inside to the outside becomes an endeavor shared by psychoanalysis and by architecture, notably sacred architecture. The exchange between inside and outside is considered using as examples the body, Freud's office, Disneyland, and the cathedral. Implications are extrapolated as to the provisional nature of the self.}, language = {en} } @article{Vida, author = {Vida, J.}, title = {Ferenczi's 'Teratoma': A Result, not a Process}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Oslo (Scandinavian University Press) Vol. 10 (No. 3-4, October 2001), pp. 235-241.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Oslo (Scandinavian University Press) Vol. 10 (No. 3-4, October 2001), pp. 235-241.}, abstract = {In Martin Stanton's 1990 monograph Sandor Ferenczi: Reconsidering Active Intervention , one of six exegetical chapters was titled >Teratoma<, using Ferenczi's own word for malformations of (psychic) development. Since then, there has been a tendency in the larger Ferenczi literature to use >teratoma< as a metaphor, leading to the creation of many odd readings and contexts for this very specific, medical, anatomic term. When Stanton becomes expansive in viewing the teratoma as a >transitional object< which >negotiates a relationship between the growth of ideal-ego ideas in oneself and the outside 'influence' of inner systems of thought< (p. 176), he is entering the play-space that opened between Ferenczi and Groddeck during the 20s as Ferenczi's relationship with Freud became increasingly constricted. What this misses is that Ferenczi was a physician, as was Groddeck. For all their fanciful explorations of mind and body relatedness, for both Ferenczi and Groddeck there would be a shared background of certain basic terminology. In that medical terminology, >teratoma< refers to variable numbers of primordial germ cells in the embryo, which in the course of development become displaced, sequestered and grotesquely overgrown; they can never become the tissues they were meant to be. Their potential is forever squandered. >Monsters< they may be; >doubles< they may seem; but they are utterly non-viable. In his metaphorical application of the term >teratoma< to the natural history of (psychic) trauma, Ferenczi proposes a biological and psychological isomorphism that is both clinically illuminating and intuitively prophetic of the course of treatment of trauma, which he was discovering. Clinical and literary material are used to explore the gap between the anatomic teratoma and the psychic teratoma.}, language = {en} } @article{Vida, author = {Vida, J.}, title = {A Comment on Pekka Kiviranta Disbelief and Trust in Psychoanalysis - A Case Study}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Basingstoke (Routledge - Taylor and Francis) Vol. 12 (No. 4, December 2003), pp. 61-64.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Basingstoke (Routledge - Taylor and Francis) Vol. 12 (No. 4, December 2003), pp. 61-64.}, language = {en} }