TY - BOOK A1 - Bager-Charleson, S. T1 - Why Therapists Choose to Become Therapists. A Practice-Based Enquiry. London (Karnac) 2010. Y1 - 2010 N1 - Ex libris Marco Bacciagaluppi ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Greenberg, M. T1 - What Babies Know and We Don’t. Review of A. Gopnik: The Philosophical Baby: What Children’s Minds Tell Us About Truth, Love, and the Meaning of Life JF - The New York Review of Books, Vol. 57 (No. 4, March 11, 2010). Y1 - 2010 N1 - Ex libris Marco Bacciagaluppi ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hardeck, Juergen T1 - Welcome address JF - Fromm Forum (English Edition – ISSN 1437-1189), 14 / 2010, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 8-10. T3 - Fromm Forum (English edition / englische Ausgabe) - e14/2010a Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Leon, Irving G. T1 - Understanding and Treating Infertility: Psychoanalytic Considerations JF - The Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 38 (2010), pp. 047-076. Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Muller, R. T. T1 - Trauma and the Avoidant Client. Attachment-Based Strategies for Healing. New York (Norton) 2010. Y1 - 2010 N1 - Ex libris Marco Bacciagaluppi ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Tadajewski,, Mark T1 - Towards a history of critical marketing studies JF - Journal of Marketing Management, Vol. 26, pp. 773-824. N2 - In this paper, I outline a history of critical marketing studies. The argument put forward that marketing lacks any substantive critical edge is questioned. In surveying our history and finding extensive engagement with a variety of critical perspectives, I connect these with appropriate literature from non-marketing sources to flesh out an account of our critical marketing heritage. I devote considerable attention to the period 1940 to 1990, as this is the historical range of critical marketing literature that most scholars will be unfamiliar with, linking this through citation and discussion to more recently published work. In this way, this paper provides a guide to sources of literature that may have passed marketing scholars by because they violate our disciplinary demands for >recency< (Baker, 2001). As I document, critical marketing studies examines a variety of areas that represent consumer culture theory’s (CCT) >next frontier< if we accept Arnould and Thompson’s (2005) diagnosis. In opposition to Arnould and Thompson’s assertion, CCT’s new frontier, this paper contends, is a frontier that has long been of interest to critical marketing scholars whose work might usefully be re-examined. Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Van Hiel, Alain A1 - et al., T1 - To Have or To Be? A Comparison of Materialism-Based Theories and Self-Determination Theory as Explanatory Frameworks of Prejudice JF - Journal of Personality, Vol. 78, No. 3 (2010), pp. 1037-1070. [Online ISSN 1467-6494] [doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6494.2010.00642.x] N2 - The present study aimed to delineate the psychological structure of materialism and intrinsic and extrinsic value pursuit. Moreover, we compared models based on self-determination theory (SDT), Fromm's marketing character, and Inglehart's theory of social change to account for racial prejudice. In a sample of undergraduate students (n=131) and adults (n=176) it was revealed that the extrinsic value pursuit Financial Success/Materialism could be distinguished from the extrinsic value scales Physical Appeal and Social Recognition, and Community Concern could be distinguished from the intrinsic value pursuit scales Self-acceptance and Affiliation. Moreover, Financial Success/Materialism and Community Concern were consistently and significantly related to prejudice, whereas the other SDT facet scales yielded weaker relationships with prejudice. Structural models based on SDT and Inglehart were not corroborated, but instead the present data supported a mediation model based on Fromm's work in which the effect of Community Concern was mediated by Financial Success/Materialism. Broader implications for SDT are critically assessed. Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Amir, Dana T1 - The split between voice and meaning: The dual function of psychotic syntax JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 19 (No. 1, 2010), pp. 034-042. N2 - Following both Bion's and Aulagnier's thought, this paper seeks to examine two functions of psychotic syntax within the nonpsychotic personality. The first function is the creation of a split between voice and meaning in the mother–infant relationship, a split whose aim is to disengage contact with contents that cannot be metabolized and that are associated with the mother's denied death wish toward her infant. The second function pertains to the use of psychotic syntax as a way of denying separateness and annihilating the >speaking I.< Both functions will be exemplified by clinical case studies. In conclusion, psychotic language will be discussed as a >hybrid language< generated by an incestuous relationship between the mother's and the infant's language. Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Levine, Howard B. T1 - The sins of the fathers: Freud, narcissistic boundary violations, and their effects on the politics of psychoanalysis JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 19 (No. 1, 2010), pp. 043-050. N2 - In contrast to the management of erotic boundaries, the institutional and clinical management of transactions across narcissistic boundaries can have far-reaching implications for how and in what ways power is wielded within our organizations. This is especially true in regard to analysts who are, or are perceived to be, in leadership positions within their psychoanalytic groups, organizations, and institutes. This paper illustrates some of the difficulties in the management of narcissistic boundaries by exploring Freud's narcissistic investment in defining the field of psychoanalysis and determining the directions of its development, his attitudes towards dissent – for example, Jung, Adler, Ferenczi, etc. – and his clinical behavior with certain analysands. The institutional consequences of Freud's failure to successfully negotiate narcissistic boundaries – and our reluctance to recognize this aspect of his leadership – have become intertwined with defenses against the epistemic anxiety that follows from the inevitably subjective nature of the analytic enterprise. Together, they have tended toward the creation of a culture of rigidity and control within organized psychoanalysis. This is a legacy – the sins of our fathers – with which our field continues to struggle. Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Chessick, Richard D. T1 - The Rise and Fall of the Autochthonous Self: From Italian Renaissance Art and Shakespeare to Heidegger, Lacan, and Intersubjectivism JF - The Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 38 (2010), pp. 625-654. Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bennett, Philip W. T1 - The persecution of Dr. Wilhelm Reich by the government of the United States JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 19 (No. 1, 2010), pp. 051-065. N2 - Most people who recognize his name are aware that Wilhelm Reich (1897–1957) was considered to be one of Freud's most brilliant students and an important contributor to psychoanalytic theory. But it is also widely known that this innovative thinker, who is still read with interest over 50 years after his death, died in a federal penitentiary in the USA. The case against Wilhelm Reich, brought by the Food and Drug Administration, has been admirably detailed in Wilhelm Reich vs. the U.S.A. by Jerome Greenfield. Less well known are two other intertwined investigations of Reich, the first by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which led to his imprisonment for nearly a month after the USA declared war on Germany in 1941; and the second by the Immigration and Naturalization Service, in an attempt to remove his naturalized citizenship and deport him. This paper examines in detail these two assaults on Reich, placing them within the historical context of a lifetime of marginalization and denunciation by authorities, from the Communist Party in Germany to the International Psychoanalytic Association to academic biologists in Norway to right-wing Christian moralists in the USA and finally to agencies of the US government. Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Silva García, Jorge T1 - The ominous, but ignored, overpopulation threat JF - Fromm Forum (English Edition – ISSN 1437-1189), 14 / 2010, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 41-42. T3 - Fromm Forum (English edition / englische Ausgabe) - e14/2010g Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Siegel, D. J. T1 - The Mindful Therapist. New York (Norton) 2010. Y1 - 2010 N1 - Ex libris Marco Bacciagaluppi ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kolod, Susan T1 - The Menstrual Cycle as a Subject of Psychoanalytic Inquiry JF - The Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 38 (2010), pp. 077-098. Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Koltun-Fromm, Ken T1 - The Material Past: Edward Bernays, Joshua Liebman, and Erich Fromm JF - K. Koltun-Fromm: Material Culture and Jewish Thought in America, Indiana University Press 2010, pp. 53-107. Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bacciagaluppi, Marco T1 - The History of the Study of Psychic Trauma. Paper to be presented at the twelth AAPDP/Opifer Joint Meeting on Trauma and Identity. In the Footsteps of Silvano Arieti Genoa, October 16-17, 2010, Palazzo Ducale. Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Josephs, Lawrence T1 - The Co-Evolution of Sexual Desire, Narcissistic Vulnerability, and Adaptations for Reproductive Advantage JF - The Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 38 (2010), pp. 003-026. Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Oddner, Frans T1 - The character of sport and the sport of character JF - Sport in Society: Cultures, Commerce, Media, Politics, Vol. 13, No. 2 (2010), pp. 171-185. [Online ISSN 1743-0445] [doi.org/10.1080/17430430903522905) N2 - The idea of sport's character-forming qualities is a globally spread notion, which has begun to be questioned in recent years. In problematizing this notion, the relation of sport to its practitioners has been the primary study. The way the problems reflect the relation of sport to society has been less in focus. This essay sets such a focus with the help of character concepts in social psychology (Riesman, Fromm and Sennett), developing a reconstruction of such concepts of sport in a Swedish context. From being a sphere by the side of society, sport in Sweden from the twentieth century onwards has been increasingly linked in complex ways to the various spheres and actors of society. This understanding of how characters are fostered into and within sport sheds light on the conditions for character formation at different stages of history until the present time. The problems receive further relevance when considering how New Economy culture and its conditions for character formation may affect Swedish sport in the near future. Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Pally, Regina T1 - The Brain's Shared Circuits of Interpersonal Understanding: Implications for Psychoanalysis and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy JF - The Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 38 (2010), pp. 381-412. Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lothane, Zvi T1 - The analysand and analyst team practicing reciprocal free association: Defenders and deniers JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 19 (No. 3, 2010), pp. 155-164. N2 - By 1900, Freud had formulated an original and operational method of psychoanalytic treatment and research: the technique of free association. In 1912–1915 and later writings, he recommended it as a fundamental procedure and process, called the fundamental rule, in psychoanalytic therapy. In recent years, free association as a method has been variously misrepresented, misunderstood, and denied by some schools of psychoanalysis. This paper reviews the history of free associations and argues for upholding the continuity and relevance of Freud's fundamental methodology and for a renewal of interest in reciprocal, i.e., interactive and interpersonal, free association. Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - GEN ED - Bryfonski, Dedria T1 - The Abuse of Power in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-four (Social Issues in Literature), Detroit (Greenhaven Press) 2010, 215 pp. Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Fava, Emilio A1 - et al., T1 - The >real< interpersonal relationship, introjection and outcome: A study using the Structural Analysis of Social Behaviour Model, SASB. Università degli Studi di Milano, DSM Niguarda, 2010. Y1 - 2010 N1 - Ex libris Marco Bacciagaluppi ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Maltsberger, John T. A1 - et al., T1 - Suicide Fantasy as a Life-Sustaining Recourse JF - The Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 38 (2010), pp. 611-624. Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Deutsch, Patrizia Giampieri T1 - Some remarks on psychoanalytic research and universities JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 19 (No. 4, 2010), pp. 210-217. N2 - In 1995 a seminal paper by Howard Shevrin classified four conceptions of psychoanalysis: first as a human enterprise such as governing and teaching second as a science sui generis that does not require any additional empirical research third as a clinical science that focuses on psychotherapy research and fourth as a science tout court that is of course expected to validate its basic assumptions on the mind. Fifteen years later, Shevrin's classification has remained illuminating. All kinds of research are welcomed in psychoanalysis, but it is also true that, in the current debate on research in psychoanalysis, the interest in testing its assumptions on the mind is no longer a topic. But it is precisely this which is crucial in a time when the sciences of the cognitive field, such as neurobiology and the cognitive sciences, seem to be tentatively cooperating with psychoanalysis in a few studies, but overwhelmingly absorbing many psychoanalytic assumptions without mentioning psychoanalysis. In order to exist and survive as a science in the long run within universities, academies of sciences, and other scientific research institutions, the psychoanalytic community has to face the challenge and prepare itself not only for prospective dialogue, but also for confrontation. Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Roussillon, René T1 - Some comments on psychoanalysis in the French university system JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 19 (No. 4, 2010), pp. 201-203. N2 - Psychoanalysis is in a somewhat better position in French universities than elsewhere in Europe. Although the situation can at times be difficult, psychoanalysis remains the major reference for students in clinical psychology, both in the adult sector and in that of children and adolescents. This is to some extent related to the setting up of a European interuniversity study group on teaching and research in psychoanalysis and psychopathology (SIUEERPP), which brings together psychoanalyst lecturers (belonging to various schools of thought) in order to defend the ongoing presence of psychoanalysis in training clinical psychologists. Conditions are not quite as good as regards the training of psychiatrists, where it is much more difficult for teaching based on psychoanalysis to survive, even in the few >strongholds< that it still manages to occupy. Things are slightly better in child psychiatry, where the illusion that medication alone is sufficient for treatment is somewhat weaker. Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Khodarahimi, Siamak T1 - Snake mother imagery in generalised anxiety disorder JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 19 (No. 3, 2010), pp. 165-171. N2 - Symbols psychoanalysis, depth psychology, mythology and religion from a multiplicity of perspectives – there are many guidelines for their interpretation and integration in clinical practice. The present study, based on a Jungian analytic model, incorporated the snake mother as an imaginary symbol in a patient with generalised anxiety disorder and her treatment within a clinical case study. From an integrative symbolism approach, snakes are considered mysterious, with the ability to express the primary instinctual powers and psychic energy that take root beyond the ego strength and archetypal images. Here, with respect to the patient's main complaint and her underlying core conflict according to Jungian therapy and Persian mythology, it was indicated that the snake mother symbolism, an imagery object from childhood to adolescence, originated from both the personal and the collective unconsciousness. The way in which the symbolism of the snake mother came to work in the therapeutic process was similar to a that of dream and symbolism approach. The snake mother operated as an alternative animus in the shape of a caregiving mother, and supported the patient against her father's misbehavior during her early childhood. It could represent the shadow, the reconsolidation of the anima/animus for patient, and a projection of negative thoughts and actions from animal instincts. Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Stone, Michael H. T1 - Sexual Sadism: A Portrait of Evil JF - The Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 38 (2010), pp. 133-158. Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kavaler-Adler, Susan T1 - Seduction, date rape, and aborted surrender JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 19 (No. 1, 2010), pp. 015-026. N2 - This paper clarifies the dual-layered nature of the >demon lover complex,< with its background of both pre-Oedipal trauma and Oedipal-level desire. It draws on an object relations understanding of the unconscious and dissociated addiction to an internal demon object that has derivations in the personalities of the actual parents, and in the internalization of these parents. The dramatic case of early trauma compounded by adult date rape trauma serves to illustrate how a >developmental mourning process< in treatment can resolve such trauma. It also illustrates how reparation with the mother that partially heals pre-Oedipal trauma cannot immunize anyone against Oedipal-level attractions to a >demon lover< father, as represented in a displacement, resulting in victimized behavior, and in an aborted surrender to heterosexual desire. However, this victimization can be resolved, as seen in the clinical illustration, when the psychoanalyst has an understanding of the mourning process in developmental terms, working with a natural interaction between mourning and transference evolutions in treatment. The case also demonstrates the transitional object role of the psychoanalyst who is involved with the healing of pre-Oedipal trauma through mourning. Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Davidson, Leah T1 - Review Steve Lopez: The Soloist JF - The Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 38 (2010), pp. 548-550. Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bronheim, Harold T1 - Review Salman Akhtar and Mary Kay O'Neil (Eds.): On Freud's >The Future of an Illusion< JF - The Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 38 (2010), pp. 553-558. Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Eckardt Horney, Marianne T1 - Review Salman Akhtar (Ed.): Good Feelings: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Positive Emotions and Attitudes JF - The Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 38 (2010), pp. 749-752. Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Alfonso, Cesar A. T1 - Review Salman Akhtar (Ed.): Freud and the Far East – Psychoanalytic Perspectives on the People and Culture of China, Japan and Korea JF - The Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 38 (2010), pp. 729-733. Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Drescher, Jack T1 - Review Paul E. Stepansky: Psychoanalysis at the Margins JF - The Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 38 (2010), pp. 740-744. Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Blumenfield, Michael T1 - Review Mary Ann Cohen, Harold W. Goforth, Joseph Z. Lux, Sharon M. Batista, Sami Khalife, Kelly L. Cozza, and Jocelyn Softer (Eds.): Handbook of AIDS Psychiatry JF - The Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 38 (2010), pp. 745-748. Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Katz-Bearnot, Sherry T1 - Review Lucy Holmes: The Internal Triangle: New Theories of Female Development JF - The Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 38 (2010), pp. 739. Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lefer, Jay T1 - Review Isabel Alvarez Borland and Lunette M. F. Bosch (Eds.): Cuban-American Literature and Art: Negotiating Identities JF - The Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 38 (2010), pp.545. 543 Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Perman, Gerald P. T1 - Review Irvin D. Yalom: Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death JF - The Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 38 (2010), pp. 546-547. Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mackler, Daniel T1 - Review Gail Hornstein: Agnes's Jacket: A Psychologist's Search for the Meanings of Madness JF - The Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 38 (2010), pp. 551-552. Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Colotla, V. A. T1 - Review Funk, R.: The Clinical Erich Fromm JF - Psyc-Critiques, Vol 55, No. 2, N2 - For most readers Erich Fromm does not require an introduction. His writings have been translated into several languages, and his thoughts have been popularized in various types of media. This review provides a brief biographical notation for those readers not thoroughly familiar with him. This book is edited by Rainer Funk, a psychoanalyst in private practice in the city of Tübingen, Germany. He is Fromm’s sole literary executor and owner of his library, has edited posthumously several books based on Fromm’s writings, and has written and edited books about Fromm’s life and work. The present volume includes two previously unpublished articles by Fromm on therapeutic practice, and the rest is a collection of writings solicited from Fromm’s former students, supervisees, colleagues, and friends, who provide anecdotal and personal information as well as comments on Frommian therapeutic style and technique. Although Funk’s book provides only glimpses of Fromm’s main criticisms of classical psychoanalysis and his social ideas, it will be of interest to clinicians and laypeople alike who are willing to become acquainted with one of the most important thinkers of the second half of the 20th century. Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bonomi, Carlo T1 - Review Desire, self, mind, and the psychotherapies. Unifying psychological science and psychoanalysis JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 19 (No. 4, 2010), pp. 246-249. Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Katz-Bearnot, Sherry T1 - Review Benjamin James Sadock, Virginia Alcott Sadock, and Pedro Ruiz (Eds.): Kaplan and Sadock's Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry: 9th Edition JF - The Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 38 (2010), pp. 736-738. Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Holquist, Michael T1 - Review Alberto Manguel: A Reader On Reading JF - The Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 38 (2010), pp. 734-735. Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Chessick, Richard D. T1 - Returning to Freud JF - The Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 38 (2010), pp. 413-440. Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Chessick, Richard D. T1 - Response to Commentary JF - The Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 38 (2010), pp. 451-458. Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Conci, Marco T1 - Report from the XVth IFPS Forum, Santiago de Chile, October 2008 JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 19 (No. 2, 2010), pp. 130-134. Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hoffman, Thomas T1 - Reparation, forgiveness, and redemption in a Sukkoth parable: Movie review of Ushpizin JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 19 (No. 3, 2010), pp. 185-190. N2 - The Israeli film, Ushpizin (2004), has met with local and international critical acclaim. Despite its ultra-Judaic content, it remains popular with a wide audience. The story of an impoverished Hasidic couple who achieve their dreams as a result of Divine intervention (or a random directorial plot twist) captures the emotions of its viewers, irrespective of their religious leanings. The tale revolves around Jewish, Hassidic, and Kabbalistic symbols of Sukkoth (the Feast of Tabernacles), the Biblically inspired fall harvest festival. The unique rituals of the holiday, especially the custom of hosting ushpizin (honored guests), are used to subtly, yet powerfully, convey feelings accompanying personal and historical generativity and development. Kabbalistic and psychoanalytic ideas, remarkably similar despite the longstanding tensions between the two doctrines, coincide to explicate a central theme of forgiveness and reparation. These approaches together yield a more cogent understanding of the film's characters, plot, message, and, ultimately, universal appeal. Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lijtmaer, Ruth T1 - Reflections: Can the Analyst Share a Traumatizing Experience with a Traumatized Patient? JF - The Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 38 (2010), pp. 685-692. Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Miri, Seyed Javad T1 - Reflections on Erich Fromm. Probing into Issues of Psychoanalysis, Sociology, Philosophy and Religion, London (London Academy of Iranian Studies Press) 2010, 92 pp. Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Simut, Corneliu C. T1 - Radical Christian Thought in Early Post Modernity: Erich Fromm and Psychoanalitical Christology in the First Half of the Twentieth Century JF - Traditionalism and Radicalism in the History of Christian Thought, New York (Palgrave MacMillan 2010, pp. 67-86. Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Gadd, David T1 - Racial Hatred and Unmourned Loss JF - Sociological Research Online, Vol. 15, No. 3 (2010), pp. 133-143. [Online ISSN 1360-7804] [doi.org/10.5153/sro.2208] N2 - This paper explores the way in which Freud's theory of melancholia is being used within sociological theory to explain racial hatred in Britain. The paper critically interrogates the work of Paul Gilroy before engaging with the works of Erich Fromm, Richard Sennett, as well as Freud and Klein's classic psychoanalytic formulations. Using two biographical case studies drawn from original empirical research on racial harassment perpetrators the paper argues that while racial hatred is often melancholic in nature, the losses at the heart of the racist's malaise tend to be only tangentially connected to empire and its crimes. More commonly, the losses that underpin hatred are irreducibly personal and class based, and hence multilayered, losses of love and security, for example, aggravating the pain of losses of respect and community, and vice versa. The paper concludes by drawing attention to the dangerously racialized kinds of imagined community losses of this kind tend to furnish, and the difficulties of providing recognition to those most afflicted by them. Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Abramson, Ronald T1 - Psychotherapy of Psychoses: Some Principles for Practice in the Real World JF - The Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 38 (2010), pp. 483-502. Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Friedman, Richard C. A1 - Downey, Jennifer I. T1 - Psychotherapy of Bisexual Men JF - The Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 38 (2010), pp. 181 ff. Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Adelson, Stewart T1 - Psychodynamics of Hypersexuality in Children and Adolescents with Bipolar Disorder JF - The Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 38 (2010), pp. 027-046. Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Friedman, Richard C. T1 - Psychodynamic Psychiatry: Present and Future JF - The Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 38 (2010), pp. 561-574. Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wing Li, Thomas Cheuk T1 - Psychodynamic Aspects of Psychopharmacology JF - The Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 38 (2010), pp. 655-674. Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Sjödin, Christer T1 - Psychoanalytic reflections on global warming and its relation to human omnipotence and ethical responsibility JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 19 (No. 2, 2010), pp. 078-083. N2 - Global warming – reality or fantasy? Certainly, global warming is a dystopia linked to other catastrophes in human history, such as the Flood and Noah's Ark. Noah's belief in God saved his life and the life of his family. In our time, we need to sustain our belief in the human capacity to cooperate and survive. This is a necessary background when thinking of the future and analysing the border between fantasy and reality, between fear and paranoia, and in the process in which a new worldview takes form. Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Zepf, Siegfried T1 - Psychoanalysis – On Its Way Down a Dead-End Street? A Concerned Commentary JF - The Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 38 (2010), pp. 459-482. Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Pujol, Ramon Solves A1 - Umemuro, Hiroyuki T1 - Productive Love Promotion via Affective Technology: An Approach Based on Social Psychology and Philosophy JF - Human Technology, Vol. 6, No. 2 (2010), pp. 191-211. [Online ISSN 1795-6889] [ht.csr-pub.eu/index.php/ht/article/view/107/93] N2 - This paper proposes the use of social psychological and philosophical foundations for designing affective technology that promotes the experience of love. The adopted theoretical basis is the concept of productive love, which is heavily based on Enrich Fromm but also includes theories and scientific findings of numerous psychoanalysts, social psychologists, and philosophers. We conducted a review of the theory about the nature of love and found that social psychological and philosophical approaches differ regarding peoples' understandings. The findings were used to elaborate eight principles of productive love. Based on these principles, we derived criteria for designing affective technology when the objective is to promote productive love. We reviewed the existent studies on affective technologies and implemented the criteria into a system design, the Pictures' Call. A prototype of the system was pretested to illustrate how productive love technology could be based on established criteria. Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Funk, Rainer T1 - Prize awarding JF - Fromm Forum (English Edition – ISSN 1437-1189), 14 / 2010, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 23-24 T3 - Fromm Forum (English edition / englische Ausgabe) - e14/2010d Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Maurizio, Zani T1 - Prefacione, 10 pp. JF - L. Longhin: Il benessere mentale, Firenze (Florence Art) 2010. Y1 - 2010 N1 - Ex libris Marco Bacciagaluppi ER - TY - GEN A1 - Pekkola, Mika T1 - Phrophet of Radicalism. Erich Fromm and the Figurative Constitution of the Crisi of Modernity, Jyvälsklä (University of Jyvälsklä) 2010, 271 p. Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bleichmar, Hugo T1 - Pathological mourning: Subtypes and the need for specific therapeutic interventions JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 19 (No. 4, 2010), pp. 204-209. N2 - The paper presents a clinical model of different subtypes of pathological mourning and the intrapsychic and intersubjective conditions that initiate and maintain them. Specific psychotherapeutic interventions for each subtype are proposed, taking into account that an intervention that would produce change for a certain subtype will reinforce pathology for another one. Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Stern, D. B. T1 - Partners in Thought. Working with Unformulated Experience, Dissociation, and Enactment. New York (Routledge) 2010. Y1 - 2010 N1 - Ex libris Marco Bacciagaluppi ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Buechler, Sandra T1 - Overcoming our own pride in the treatment of narcissistic patients JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 19 (No. 2, 2010), pp. 120-124. N2 - The philosopher Seneca once said that we spend our whole lives preparing to die. Far from a morbid statement, I see this as expressing the truth that all human beings spend their whole lives overcoming their narcissism. We have to make a significant enough investment in the lives of others, and in ongoing life, so that the loss of our own, personal lives is bearable to us. How can we help our patients overcome their excessive narcissism? The analyst must be a person who has, to some degree, overcome some part of his or her own narcissistic issues. This means that he or she values human life more than pride. Our ability to make the meaning of the patient's life a priority is a key part of the treatment. In how he or she behaves, the analyst must embody the principle that the quality of a life is more important than the appearance of success or failure. Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lindgren, Ola A1 - Folkesson, Per A1 - Almqvist, Kjerstin T1 - On the importance of the therapist in psychotherapy: A summary of current research JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 19 (No. 4, 2010), pp. 224-229. N2 - The American Psychological Association's Presidential Task Force on Evidence-Based Practice articulates a decision-making process based on the integration of the best available research, clinical expertise, and patient characteristics. The treatment method, the individual psychotherapist, the treatment relationship, and the patient are all vital contributors to successful psychotherapy. Several studies have shown that the variation in treatment effect among psychotherapists using the same method is greater than the variation in treatment effect among different methods. This outcome pleads for a comprehensive psychotherapist-related >g-factor< of psychotherapy. In terms of decision-making for health-care institutions and clinical practices, it would seem wise not to separate the psychotherapist, the patient, or the relationship from the method as there seem to be extensive effects relative to the interaction among these parameters. Parallel to a growing knowledge of evidence-based methods, there is still a decisive lack of scientific knowledge about these interactions. Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Fromm, Erich T1 - On Disobedience. Why Freedom Means Saying >No< to Power, New York (HarperCollins, Harper-Perennial) 2010. [= in parts reprint of 1981a] Y1 - 2010 UR - http://www.harpercollins.com/books/On-Disobedience-Erich-Fromm?isbn=9780061990458&HCHP=TB_On+Disobedience ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Battaglia, Giuseppe T1 - On Adam's Side: relationships, epiphoneia of the intropsychic and the intersubjective. Paper presented in Athens on Saturday October 23, 2010, in the context of the XVI Forum of the IFPS. N2 - From the moment man first learned how to say >no<, human history and the relational celebration between the intrapsychic and the intersubjective was set in motion. Liberation does not permit any type of regression. When an adult individual goes in search of symbiosis with nature, he reveals his pathology. Intrapsychicity, and with it, intersubjectivity, is broken. Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - De Vleminck, Jens T1 - Oedipus and Cain: Brothers in arms JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 19 (No. 3, 2010), pp. 172-184. N2 - It is widely known that Freud gives Oedipus a central place in both his psychoanalytic theory and praxis. Freud introduces the Oedipus myth as the crucial key for understanding the tragedy of human life. One of the most problematic issues innate to the human condition is aggression. This paper argues: (1) that Freud's insights into human aggression can at the very least be viewed as one-sided and problematic; and (2) that the heuristic potential of the Oedipus myth is, correspondingly, limited. It considers how the Hungarian psychiatrist and analyst, Lipót Szondi, tries to bridge this gap using the myth of Cain and Abel. The aim of this paper is to explore how Szondi's interpretation of this myth offers a much more subtle approach to human aggression. Szondi's alternative and distinctive look at aggressive phenomena offers an exciting and fruitful addition to Freud's interpretation as exclusively referring to sadism and/or the death instinct. This contribution wants to highlight Szondi's amendment to Freud's Oedipus and aims to show that psychoanalysis can benefit from taking into account the mythical figures of Cain and Abel. Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Maniadakis, Grigoris T1 - Notes on a case of alienating identification JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 19 (No. 2, 2010), pp. 125-129. N2 - While exploring the transgenerational transmission of intrapsychic contents and processes, Faimberg coined the term alienating identification to convey the impact of the parents' intrusion into the child's psyche, and of the expulsion into it of rejected parts of themselves. In addition, Torok and Abraham use the term phantom to describe aspects of the presence of a split-off, traumatized part of the self of a person, usually related with unresolved mourning, in another person's mind. The existence of such processes constitutes a major problem for the subject's narcissism, that is, the way he invests himself, and for his relation to experience and reality. It also may be used as an omnipotent means of avoiding psychic pain, by identifying with his object's omnipotent way of rejecting painful reality. This paper will explore, with the use of clinical material, the defensive use of such phenomena on the part of the subject, as well as their impact on the analyst's mind, that is, on his countertransference, when he is working with carriers of alienating identifications and phantoms. Stress is put on the importance for the analyst of containing the uncanny experiences of being cut off from the patient's mind and of being controlled by something he ignores. Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Buechler, Sandra T1 - No Pain No Gain? Suffering and the Analysis of Defense JF - Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Vol. 46-3, 2010, pp. 334-354. N2 - This article describes three attitudes toward psychic pain and suffering, and their clinical implications are explored and illustrated. When analyst and patient differ fundamentally in their understanding of the place of suffering in psychic life, treatment destructive clashes may result. The attitude that pain should be reduced as quickly as possible has a significant impact on the analyst's focus in treatment, most especially on the timing of interpretations of defense. A different orientation is that pain is an inevitable part of human experience and is best accepted rather than avoided. A third possibility embraces suffering as not only unavoidable, but as a primary source of wisdom and personal identity. Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Cheliotis, Leonidas K. T1 - Narcissism, Humanism, and the Revolutionary Character in Erich Fromm’s Work JF - L. K. Cheliotis (Ed.) Roots, Rites and Sites of Resistance: The Banality of Good, Basingstoke (Palgrave Macmillan) 2010. Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bonomi, Carlo T1 - Narcissism as mastered visibility: The evil eye and the attack of the disembodied gaze JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 19 (No. 2, 2010), pp. 110-119. N2 - The gaze is originally experienced as a disembodied force. This experience is discussed here from a psychopathological prospective and from a developmental perspective. In certain states of regression, when the boundaries between the self and the others are fading away, the gaze is again experienced as a disembodied force that radiates from the eyes and can dangerously penetrate into the mind. The body and its extensions are usually used as a shelter. The body performs this sheltering function in a natural and silent way, and only when this function is lacking do we become aware of it. Shame then signals the failure of the ordinary sheltering function performed by the body. If the external body is not sufficiently cathected, its sheltering function is also decreased, to the point that the body is experienced as transparent, and the most intimate feelings and thoughts become dangerously available to others. In primitive societies, this situation is reflected in the universal belief in the >evil eye,< the most common defense against the evil eye having been a representation of an erect penis. In ancient Rome, the phallus-shaped amulet used to ward off the evil eye was called the >fascinum<: this magic phallus was supposed to neutralize the attack by fascinating the disembodied gaze, that is, by binding it (from the latin verb fascio, fasciare, to bind). The construction of mastered visibility is an organizer of the ego structure. The fascination of the mythical Narcissus for his own mirror image illustrates a central moment of the dialectical construction of the self: the effort to bind the disembodied gaze that is threatening the self, by giving a body to it and by fixing it to an image. Narcissism is thus the effort to bind an almighty free-floating gaze. Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Katz-Bearnot, Sherry T1 - Menopause, Depression, and Loss of Sexual Desire: A Psychodynamic Contribution JF - The Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 38 (2010), pp. 099-116. Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Azzone, Paolo T1 - Looking Through a Distorted Mirror: Toward a Psychodynamic Understanding of Descriptive Psychopathology of Depression JF - The Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 38 (2010), pp. 575-606. Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Funk, Rainer T1 - Living by the Manual. Ego-oriented Social Character – pathogenic Effects of Globalization JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Oslo (Scandinavian University Press) Vol. 19 (No. 2, 2010), pp. 84-91. [Cf. a similar German version: Funk, R., 2009t] N2 - According to Erich Fromm and a relational psychoanalytic approach, changing economic and social requirements always impact human beings and their psychic structure. Because globalization leads particularly to a blurring of boundaries and limitations, the formation of a new character orientation that is driven to construct reality anew without limitations can be observed as a reaction in progress. The pathogenic effects of globalization can be studied through the analysis of this new character formation and the uncovering of repressed, unconscious feelings that characterize the new personality type, especially in regard to their sense of identity, their way of relating to others, and their defacto loss of ego strength – in contrast to the enacted >ego unlimited<. Finally, some aspects of transference and countertransference, as well as some particular defense reactions with which we psychoanalysts are confronted in the treatment of patients suffering from the pathogenic effects of globalization, will be discussed. Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Zepf, Siegfried T1 - Libido and psychic energy – Freud's concepts reconsidered JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 19 (No. 1, 2010), pp. 003-014. N2 - The author examines different definitions and applications of the terms >psychic energy< and >libido.< With regard to the >psychic energy< terminology, he shows that its application and usage relate in particular to the perspective of Brenner and not to Freud's definition. He argues that Freud uses the term >psychic energy< as a synonym for >libido,< and not >libido< as a synonym for >psychic energy.< It is demonstrated that in Freud's view, up until 1914, >libido< relates to manifestations of bodily sexual tensions, and subsequently this term applies to the manifestations of sexual energy in the psychic field. The author rejects this change in terminology and also challenges Freud's attempt to use dynamic-economic considerations as an explanatory device for epistemological reasons. Freud's concept of energy is inconsistent with the meaning of energy as defined in the physical sciences, and whereas the metapsychological topographical, dynamic, and structural viewpoints have a solid foundation in the representational world to which the psychoanalytic process affords unique access, this is not true of the economic viewpoint. It is claimed that bodily tensions only exist in the representational world in the form of affects, so that, in the author's opinion, the economic viewpoint should be abandoned in favour of an affective one. In the context of the endeavour to obtain pleasure and avoid unpleasure adduced by Freud, this viewpoint focuses on the relationships between affects and the different elements of the representational world, thereby serving as the subject of metapsychological investigation. Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Friedman, Lawrence J. T1 - Laudation for Noam Chomsky JF - Fromm Forum (English Edition – ISSN 1437-1189), 14 / 2010, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 11-16. T3 - Fromm Forum (English edition / englische Ausgabe) - e14/2010b Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Zudeick, Peter T1 - Laudation for Noam Chomsky JF - Fromm Forum (English Edition – ISSN 1437-1189), 14 / 2010, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 17-22 T3 - Fromm Forum (English edition / englische Ausgabe) - e14/2010c Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Glucksman, Myron L. T1 - Is Love Curative? JF - The Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 38 (2010), pp. 169-180. Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Fromm, Erich T1 - Individual and Social Narcissism JF - T. Dansdill and S. Duffy (Eds.): The Individual in the Community, New York (Pearson Learning Soultions) 2010, pp. 41-51. [= E. Fromm, 1964a, pp. 62-94 passim] Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wharton, Ralph N. T1 - In Memoriam: Paul Dince, M.D. JF - The Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 38 (2010), pp. 721-722. Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Merlino, Joseph P. T1 - In Memoriam: Bertram H. Schaffner JF - The Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 38 (2010), pp. 723-727. Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Panfilova, Tatjana T1 - Identity as a problem of today JF - Fromm Forum (English Edition – ISSN 1437-1189), 14 / 2010, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 43-51. T3 - Fromm Forum (English edition / englische Ausgabe) - e14/2010h Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - BOOK ED - Salberg, J. T1 - Good Enough Endings. Breaks, Interruptions and Terminations from Contemporary Relational Perspectives. New York (Routledge) 2010. Y1 - 2010 N1 - Ex libris Marco Bacciagaluppi ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Sánchez, María Eugenia T1 - Globalisation and loss of identity JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 19 (No. 2, 2010), pp. 071-077. N2 - The process of a de-territorialized or multilocal world productive system, which is more informational than industrial and more speculative than productive, has led to a crisis in social structures and the breakdown of identity referents that formerly had provided a sense of meaning to individual and social life. We are facing both a breakdown and a disarticulation of institutional and symbolic mediations from the past, and also a process of reorganization of differences and inequalities that are having a strong impact on identities. The individual and collective construction of subjectivity is acquiring multiple forms, some of them unexpected, others unprecedented. In what way does reality question psychoanalysis? Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Braune, Nick T1 - Fromm’s revolutionary civics: Cultivating the virtue of disobedience JF - Fromm Forum (English Edition – ISSN 1437-1189), 14 / 2010, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 35-40. T3 - Fromm Forum (English edition / englische Ausgabe) - e14/2010f Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - GEN ED - Worthman, C. M. ED - et al., T1 - Formative Experiences. The Interaction of Caregiving, Culture, and Developmental Psychobiology. Cambridge (Cambridge University Press) 2010. Y1 - 2010 N1 - Ex libris Marco Bacciagaluppi ER - TY - GEN A1 - Funk, Rainer T1 - Foreword T2 - E. Fromm: Beyond Freud: From Individual to Social Psychology, ed. and with a foreword by Rainer Funk, New York (American Mental Health Foundation) 2010. [English by Anke Schreiber]. Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Funk, Rainer T1 - Foreword T2 - E. Fromm: The Pathology of Normalcy, ed. and with a foreword by Rainer Funk, New York (American Mental Health Foundation) 2010, pp. 9-13. [English by Anke Schreiber]. Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Brennan, B. William T1 - Ferenczi’s Forgotten Messenger: The Life and Work of Izette de Forest JF - American Imago, Vol. 66 (No. 4, 2010), pp. 427–455. Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Merkur, D. T1 - Explorations of the Psychoanalytic Mystics, Amsterdam and New York (Rodopi) 2010, 395 p. Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Araullo, Alan T1 - Erich Fromm’s psycho-spiritual discourse JF - Fromm Forum (English Edition – ISSN 1437-1189), 14 / 2010, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 52-56. T3 - Fromm Forum (English edition / englische Ausgabe) - e14/2010i Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Merkur, D. T1 - Erich Fromm’s Humnastic Psychoanalysis JF - D. Merkur, Explorations of the Psychoanalytic Mystics, Amsterdam and New York (Rodopi) 2010, pp. 71-123. [= Chapter 3 of Merkur, D., 2010] Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Stephens, Randall A1 - Friedman, Lawrence J. T1 - Erich Fromm and the Public Intellectual in Recent American History: An Interview with Larry Friedman T2 - Historically Speaking, Volume 11 (No. 4, September 2010), pp. 39-41. Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - McAleer, Paul Robert T1 - El Proceso, Kafka, and the comic novel: Ana María Shua's >Soy Pciente< and the fear of individual freedom [application of Fromm's theories to art] JF - The Modern Language Review, Vol. 105, No. 1 (2010), pp. 131-148 [Online ISSN 2222-4319] [jstor.org/stable/25655138] N2 - This article examines the role of comedy and the influence of Kafka in Ana María Shua's comic novel >Soy paciente< (1980). Using Northrop Frye's rubric of comedy as a point of departure, it traces the way in which Shua's text, like Kafka's work, simultaneously inscribes and distorts the traditional utopian themes of comedy: identity acquisition and social resolution. The aim is to relate the distortions to the novel's socio-historical context of El proceso by referring to Erich Fromm's observations on the effect Fascist regimes have on concepts such as social and individual identity. The article also exposes the correlation between Shua's cultural dependency (on Kafkaesque/European creative paradigms) and the novel's oppressive cultural/political context. Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Sjödin, Christer T1 - Editorial: The fusion of the two Swedish psychoanalytical societies: identity and myth JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 19 (No. 3, 2010), pp. 135-137. Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Conci, Marco T1 - Editorial: Global connections and international contacts – Papers from the XVth Forum of the International Federation of Psychoanalytic Societies T2 - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 19 (No. 2, 2010), pp. 067-070. Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Sjödin, Christer T1 - Editorial: Energy in dissociated memories T2 - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 19 (No. 1, 2010), pp. 001-002. Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Borgogno, Franco T1 - Editorial JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 19 (No. 4, 2010), pp. 191-193. Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Jaenicke, Uta T1 - Does globalization affect our dreams? An inquiry into the subject matter of dreaming JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 19 (No. 2, 2010), pp. 092-097. N2 - Does globalization affect our dreaming? This would be the case if dreams, in an increasingly globalized world, showed a decrease in characteristic cultural traits. I maintain however that the specific culture of the dreamer is not relevant in dreams in the first place. Any effect globalization may have on us is therefore not essential to the subject matter of dreaming. Following Martin Heidegger's philosophical analysis of human existence, dreams are found to deal with emotionally relevant issues of our existence with which we have difficulties to come to terms. Matters of normality which are felt to be matters of course are not a topic in dreams. Consequently, normal cultural features only become a topic for dreaming in some form of negation of their normal function. An impressive dream-report, centering on a denied handshake, serves as an illustration. In conclusion, it is stated that dreams are concerned with those very individual responses to general human issues which do not comply with the collectively accepted so-called >normal< responses of the specific culture. Our cultural identity is only of very marginal interest in dreams. Dreams spring from and point to the psychoanalytic identity of the dreamer. Y1 - 2010 ER -