TY - GEN A1 - Conci, Marco A1 - Bonomi, Carlo T1 - Editorial: Sándor Ferenczi and contemporary psychoanalysis: A selection of papers from the 13th International Sándor Ferenczi Conference, Florence, May 2018 T2 - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 28 (No. 4, 2019), pp. 187-188. Y1 - 2019 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bonomi, Carlo T1 - Review Conci, M., Freud, Sullivan, Mitchell, Bion, and the multiple voices of international psychoanalysis JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 29 (No. 4, 2020), pp. 255-257. Y1 - 2020 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bonomi, Carlo T1 - Review Jonathan Sklar: Dark times. Psychoanalytic perspectives on politics, history and mourning JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 28 (No. 4, 2019), pp. 245-246. Y1 - 2019 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bonomi, Carlo T1 - Self Communion in the Intersubjective Field: Commentary on Case Study by Beatrice Beebe JF - Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 12 (2002), pp. 153-158. N2 - In Ferenczi's idea of identification with an aggressor we can distinguish two sides. One is what we might call an interactive tactic or a social strategy, which is used in upsetting or unbalanced relations of power in order to forestall lack of control, fear, and the like. This is the side that is explored in great detail by Jay Frankel. The other side consists in a intrapsychic change, which flows from severe trauma. The specific effects of the latter are described by Ferenczi as dissociation/fragmentation of the personality, sequestering of the trauma, emotional abandonment, and isolation. Elsewhere, Ferenczi refers to this as a form of psychic self-mutilation. Y1 - 2002 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bonomi, Carlo T1 - The Freud–Ferenczi controversy in light of Emma Eckstein's circumcisio JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 25 (No. 4, 2016), pp. 202-210. N2 - Emma Eckstein's circumcision trauma has been powerfully suppressed, denied, and dissociated from the history of the origins of psychoanalysis. Even though Freud did not categorize it as a trauma, he was deeply impacted by it in the period when he provided psychoanalysis with his foundation. Despite Freud's intellectual erasure of the trauma that Emma experienced, her >cut< never ceased to unconsciously break through Freud's fantasies and discourse, haunting the psychoanalytic building as a veritable ghost. Sándor Ferenczi became the recipient of what Freud could not consider in his own mind, and his revision of the >Bausteine< (building blocks) of psychoanalysis featured an attempt to heal the split embedded in the foundation of psychoanalysis. Y1 - 2016 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bonomi, Carlo T1 - Review J. Dupont >Au fil du temps … Un itinéraire analytique< JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 26 (No. 2, 2017), pp. 129-131. Y1 - 2017 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bonomi, Carlo T1 - Review E. Falzeder >Psychoanalytic filiations: Mapping the psychoanalytic movement< JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 26 (No. 2, 2017), pp. 131-133. Y1 - 2017 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 - 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 - Bonomi, Carlo T1 - Freud, Ferenczi, and the >disbelief< on the Acropolis JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 21 (No. 3-4, 2012), pp. 239-248. N2 - Ferenczi's 1929 claim that >no analysis can be regarded … as complete unless we have succeed in penetrating the traumatic material< resonated deeply in Freud, influencing his last works. According to the author, it reactivated in Freud the same traumatic memories that were at the heart of his self-analysis, letting them resurface in the 1936 essay >A disturbance of memory on the Acropolis,< in the striking simile of the Loch Ness monster. The image of >the sea-serpent we've never believed in< is then analyzed and used as a sounding lead for Freud's self-analysis. The transformation of the love-object into an attractive monster, which is found as a recurrent pattern in Freud's life and work, hints at the centrality of the combined figure of woman and serpent in mythology, in psychoanalysis, and in Freud's self-analysis. Finally, the background of the >memory disturbance< on the Acropolis is traced back to the woman patient who had dreams of gigantic snakes. It is suggested that the patient might be Emma Eckstein and that a still unexplored thread exists, which runs through the foundation of psychoanalysis, connecting the surgical operation of Emma, the Irma dream, and the Acropolis incident. Y1 - 2012 ER -