TY - JOUR A1 - Marlin, Olga A1 - Smith, N. T1 - Bridging East and West. Splitting and Integration JF - J. Offerman-Zuckerberg (Ed.): Politics and Psychology: Contemporary Psychodynamic Perspectives, New York (Plenum) 1991. With dedication from the author. Y1 - 1991 N1 - Ex libris Marco Bacciagaluppi ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Smith, N. A. T1 - Orpha Reviving: Toward an Honorable Recognition of Elisabeth Severn JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Oslo (Scandinavian University Press) Vol. 7 (No. 4, December 1998), pp. 241-246. N2 - This paper considers the fundamental change introduced by Ferenczi in 1919 by proposing the use of countertransference as an instrument. Basically it reconsiders the concept of analytic neutrality; mastery of countertransference is reached through tolerating it, overcoming resistances against it, demanding a very intense involvement of the analyst, as opposed to the image of the surgeon or the mirror. The paper analyzes the implications of this position for psychoanalysis. It places these concepts in the scientific and personal context in which it was written, then follows the later developments of these ideas in Ferenczi's own work, as well as in that of some other authors, and comments on the effects of these ideas on the psychoanalytic movement. Finally it poses some questions regarding our present use of countertransference in clinical work, with two brief vignettes highlighting these points. Y1 - 1998 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Smith, N. A. T1 - >To return, to eat, to tell the story<: Primo Levi’s lessons on living and dying in the aftermath of trauma JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Basingstoke (Routledge - Taylor and Francis) Vol. 13 (No. 1-2, 2004), pp. 66-70. N2 - This article invites Primo Levi, the internationally esteemed citizen of Turin, Italy and survivor of the Auschwitz to instruct post 9/11 psychoanalysis in five lessons on living and dying in the aftermath of severe trauma. Relying on excerpts from Levi's writings, the author invites Levi to speak to the reader words of warning concerning contemporary psychoanalysis' benign omnipotence in embracing overly simplistic theories of cure, resiliency and psychic repatriation of the human spirit in the aftermath of severe trauma. Y1 - 2004 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Smith, N. T1 - Logics of Disintegration: Poststructuralist Thought and the Claims of Critical Theory, Peter Dews, Verso, 1987, pp270 JF - Discourse. The Glasgow Journal of Philosophy, Glasgow (No. 4, 1988), pp. 29-31. Y1 - 1988 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Smith, N. A. T1 - The Strength of >Creative Impulse< in the Aftermath of Trauma JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Oslo (Scandinavian University Press) Vol. 7 (No. 3, April 1998), pp. 159-162. Y1 - 1998 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Smith, D. N. T1 - The Ambivalent Worker: Max Weber, Critical Theory, and the Rise of Empirical Social Psychology. Paper presented at the Conference of the American Sociological Association 1993. 37 pp. N2 - An analysis of the contribution of Max Weber and the early critical theorists (eg, Erich FROMM and Max Horkheimer) to the development of empirical social psychology. Unlike rationalists, for whom rational action is axiomatic, Weber and his successors realized that social actors may be deeply ambivalent in their impulses. They were led to this realization by concern about the uncertain loyalties of contemporary social classes. Indeed, Max Weber's seminal and still-neglected research on the psychology of rural east Prussian laborers gave empirical survey research its first fateful stimulus and led to a succession of later studies by Marie Bernays, Adolf Levenstein, and others. Perhaps the most notable was a survey of the working class in Weimar Germany, 1929-1931, carried out by FROMM and Horkheimer. Results of this survey led the authors to realize that even avowed democrats may be unconsciously ambivalent about democracy, with an admixture of democratic and authoritarian tendencies. This realization led to a cycle of important studies culminating in Theodor W. Adorno's, R. N. Sanford's, Else Frenkel-Brunswick's, and Daniel J. Levinson's The Authoritarian Personality (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1950), which even its detractors agree was a major intellectual and technical milestone in the history of empirical social psychology. Y1 - 1993 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Smith, D. N. T1 - The Ambivalent Worker: Max Weber, Critical Theory and the Antinomies of Authority JF - ocial Thought and Research. A Continuation of the Mid-American Review of Sociology, Lawrence (The University of Kansas) Vol. 21 (No. 1 and 2) 1998, pp. 35-84. Y1 - 1998 ER -