@article{Csillag, author = {Csillag, Veronica}, title = {The making of a mass murderer: Notes on the novel We need to talk about Kevin}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 28 (No. 1, 2019), pp. 019-024.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 28 (No. 1, 2019), pp. 019-024.}, abstract = {The fictional protagonist of the Lionel Shriver novel, >We need to talk about Kevin<, massacred nine classmates, his father and his sister with a bow and arrow. He murdered them just before he turned 16, to avoid being prosecuted as an adult. He spared the life of his mother, a kindred spirit, cold, arrogant, who would recognize the depth of his hatred and nihilism. Kevin's maternal grandfather was born in a concentration camp during the Armenian genocide. His mother, Eva, a tough, independent woman, loathed being pregnant and the process of giving birth. Kevin was a demanding baby and then a cruel child. Eva kept telling her husband that she found Kevin's malignity troubling, but he only wanted to see the charming, vulnerable side of the boy. Was Kevin born a sociopath or did he become one due to his experiences in utero and beyond? In this paper, I elucidate how temperamental features, inadequate parenting, transgenerational trauma, and oppressive gender relations created the perfect storm from which Kevin's personality developed. Finally, I will discuss how Eva and Kevin struggled to repair their relationship after the murders, and consider whether forgiveness and reconciliation are even possible after such a heinous act.}, language = {en} } @misc{ConciBonomi, author = {Conci, Marco and Bonomi, Carlo}, title = {Editorial: S{\´a}ndor Ferenczi and contemporary psychoanalysis: A selection of papers from the 13th International S{\´a}ndor Ferenczi Conference, Florence, May 2018}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 28 (No. 4, 2019), pp. 187-188.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 28 (No. 4, 2019), pp. 187-188.}, language = {en} } @article{ConciManiadakis, author = {Conci, Marco and Maniadakis, Grigoris}, title = {Introduction - Violence, terror and terrorism today: Psychoanalytic perspectives - Part III}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 28 (No. 1, 2019), pp. 001-002.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 28 (No. 1, 2019), pp. 001-002.}, language = {en} } @article{DeMaria, author = {De Maria, Fabio}, title = {Fromm and Horkheimer. On the fundamentals of critical theory's anthropology}, series = {Bajo Palabra, II Epoca, Brasil, No. 21, pp. 59-80.}, journal = {Bajo Palabra, II Epoca, Brasil, No. 21, pp. 59-80.}, abstract = {Erich Fromm was central to the Frankfurt Institute of Social Research under the direction of Max Horkheimer, but the works of each author, while handling at times similar issues, took different paths. The article's aim is to analyze how Horkheimer's anthropology, which would be of importance in Dialectic of Enlightenment, was built as the author embodied in his essays elements of Fromm's social psychology, albeit overcoming some of its limitations, as well as suggesting new potentials of critique.}, language = {en} } @article{Conci, author = {Conci, Marco}, title = {Ferenczi and Freud - From psychoanalysis as a >professional and personal home< to the creation of a >psychoanalytic home< for the patient1}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 28 (No. 4, 2019), pp. 193-202.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 28 (No. 4, 2019), pp. 193-202.}, abstract = {The author explores the relationship between S{\´a}ndor Ferenczi and Sigmund Freud in the light of their correspondence. This allows us to see how Freud was able to offer and create for Ferenczi a >professional and personal home< that enabled the latter to find a much more meaningful and creative contact with himself. According to the author, this experience played an important role in Ferenczi's later readiness to offer to and create with his patients a similar >psychoanalytic home.< As Freud was not able to share such clinical research work with Ferenczi, a conflict developed between them whose nature has occupied psychoanalysts ever since, and whose seeds can be found in the 1246 letters that they exchanged between January 1908 and May 1933. From this point of view, Ferenczi's Clinical diary (written in 1932 and published only in 1985) can be seen as the continuation of the dialogue they had entertained for so many years, as well as Ferenczi's attempt not to give up the "professional and personal home" that they had created together.}, language = {en} } @article{Huppke, author = {Huppke, Andrea}, title = {IFPS 1960-1985: A new home for international and German psychoanalysis?}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 28 (No. 4, 2019), pp. 236-244.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 28 (No. 4, 2019), pp. 236-244.}, abstract = {The International Federation of Psychoanalytic Societies (IFPS) was established in 1962. The first 20 years of the Federation were a time when psychoanalysis was divided into so-called liberal and orthodox factions. The (then orthodox) International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA) did not admit all psychoanalytic societies, and some societies did not want to join it. In the IFPS, non-IPA-psychoanalysts from Europe, the USA, and South and Middle America came together to discuss their new approaches to psychoanalysis and to find ways to better cope with their patients' problems. At the beginning an informal organization of autonomous societies, the IFPS persisted for 12 years without a charter. The first three secretary generals came from the German Psychoanalytical Society and greatly influenced the first few years of the IFPS. The IFPS held several international conferences, and new psychoanalytic societies became members. In 1977, after the VIth Forum in Berlin, the IFPS fell into an identity crisis. The conflicts centered on the assumption of responsibility, the authority of the members, and how to understand the aim and sense of the organization. This article deals with the theoretical background of the early IFPS and the development of its self-concept.}, language = {en} } @article{McLaughlin, author = {McLaughlin, Neil}, title = {The coming triumph of the psychosocial perspective: lessons from the rise, fall and revival of Erich Fromm}, series = {Journal of Psychosocial Studies, Vol. 12( No. 1-2, 2019), pp. 9-22,}, journal = {Journal of Psychosocial Studies, Vol. 12( No. 1-2, 2019), pp. 9-22,}, language = {en} } @article{Meaders, author = {Meaders, Nobuko Y.}, title = {The Japanese psychology of resignation, akirame, and the writings of Kawabata}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 28 (No. 1, 2019), pp. 047-054.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 28 (No. 1, 2019), pp. 047-054.}, abstract = {The concept of resignation carries widely divergent meanings in the cultural contexts of Western and Eastern experiences. Whereas the Western perspective of resignation implies a negative, impoverished state of self-assertion, the Eastern perspective contains wider and more complex meanings, among which is that resignation is a virtue to be cultivated. Using the writings of the Nobel Prize winner in Literature Yasunari Kawabata, akirame, the Eastern, specifically Japanese, concept of resignation, will be examined for its multilayered psychological and cultural meanings. In addition, from Kawabata's writing and biographical information, I demonstrate how the Western psychoanalytic concept of Oedipal conflict relates to and manifests in the Eastern psychology of resignation, bridging both Eastern and Western cultures to elucidate underlying, universal human conflicts.}, language = {en} } @article{Migliorino, author = {Migliorino, Francesco}, title = {In search of the Human: The trauma of modernity and the >instrumental reason< of the persecutors}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 28 (No. 4, 2019), pp. 231-235.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 28 (No. 4, 2019), pp. 231-235.}, abstract = {This article takes the clinical notion of trauma as a historiographic criterion for understanding modernity and its mythologies. If the rewriting of the term trauma - at the intersection of psychoanalysis and neurobiology, cultural anthropology and philosophy of the mind - is the hallmark of contemporaneity, it is quite acceptable to see the Shoah as a radical historical and epistemological watershed. Never before had such a highly productive bureaucratic-industrial system been designed and implemented for the devastation of the very idea of humanity. Auschwitz was, in the most radical ways, the liminal space between Human and Inhuman. It lay right at the cutting edge of the abyss that the executioner shares with his victim - the annihilation of humanity. This essay crosses a question that has always characterized the social construction of subjectivity: the perimeter of the Human, and the interrelationships between identity, alterity, and recognition.}, language = {en} } @article{MovahediMoshtagh, author = {Movahedi, Siamak and Moshtagh, Nahaleh}, title = {Persian tales on the couch: Notes on folktales as the mirror of the contemporary cultural struggles with gender and sexuality}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 28 (No. 2, 2019), pp. 115-124.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 28 (No. 2, 2019), pp. 115-124.}, abstract = {This paper presents a report on our psychoanalytic investigation of cultural folktales, myths, and fables, in which we study, primarily, the extent to which such narratives lurk behind contemporary representations of men and women. Our aim is to identify the multiple narrative structures that form the core plots and storylines of these tales. Following Roland Barthes' work on mythologies, we want to decode the tales' ideological components by deciphering the axiomatic assumptions these tales make about the nature of perceived social reality. This represents an attempt to study a mind that is derived from the text. More specifically, we study narratives whose storylines revolve around the struggle between men and women in order to identify the culture's core concerns about and preoccupations with the relationship between the sexes. We believe that cultural myths or folktales are a royal road to a nation's collective conscience, and include gendered patterns of defenses, obsessions, fears, and paranoia.}, language = {en} }