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Geheimnisse des Wassers
(1996)
Im Lande der Kibbuzim
(1996)
Sinn-Erfahrungen
(1996)
Zu den Beiträgen
(1996)
This paper offers an overview of the complex and rich history of Argentinean psychoanalysis, highlighting the significance of its contribution to the psychoanalytic world at large. The sociopolitical context in Argentina that threatened the neutrality of the analyst is explored. The development of psychology as a discipline seems to have served as a bridge between psychoanalysis and social sciences, fostering incursions into the study of group psychodynamics and its clinical applications. The centrality of the Oedipus complex's yielding to the main thesis of Totem and Taboo is understood in the context of the prevailing psychoanalytic discourse. The impact of ideology on established psychoanalytic institutions is both a promoter of internal splitting, and an energizing force. The question of why Argentinean psychoanalysis maintains a high degree of creativity and originality is also addressed.
Hiding Behind Motherhood
(1996)
A reflective appraisal.
(1996)
Olympia: a study in perversion – a psychoanalytic pictorial analysis of Edouard Manet's painting
(1996)
Gender as contradiction
(1996)
Patients’ dreams and analysts’ dreams about patients are assumed to reflect each analytic participant's attitude and psychic conduct toward the other, and an unconscious overlapping of psychic issues and struggles between them as well. This makes it possible to deal with dreams from one-person and two-person models of psychological functioning, as well as from an additional psychic dimension that is assumed to be a creation of the analysis itself. As a source of freely moving experience within both participants, one that is assumed to have a life and direction of its own, this latter dimension of analysis permits patient and analyst to undergo more freely the actual experience of the treatment as a modality that is separate from and prior to positivistically grounded determinations that can be made about either the patient or analyst individually, or about the two of them jointly. This dimension of analysis is said also to reflect a holism that characterizes conscious and unconscious psychoanalytic experience. Dreams and unconsciously generated dreamlike clinical phenomena are presented to try to illustrate this holistic character of analytic work, and to show how either participant's psychic productions maybe used to evoke significant experiences and further clinical knowledge.
Each of us holds unconscious representations of man and woman. Traditional psychoanalytic theories have viewed gender as formed primarily through unconscious representations of either man or woman. These theories have linked gender identifications to the resolution of either oedipal or preoedipal developmental issues. With this resolution, gender identifications have been conceptualized as acquiring a cohesiveness and a fixed nature over the rest of the life span. Contemporary feminist theories have challenged these ideas of fixed, unitary identifications and have offered instead the notion of a fluid gender that moves between multiple identifications. What is problematic is that either the understanding of gender has been restricted to the idea of singular, fixed identifications because of the linear frame of traditional theories or, in the feminist psychoanalytic quest for multiplicity and fluidity, no place has been left for the more fixed quality of gender experience. The tension between gender rigidity and fluidity has been collapsed. The author argues that the complex and dialectical nature of gender as an aspect of experience that at times feels sure and fixed and at other times feels more open to fluidity and change must be accounted for in gender theory. She traces the major developments in the psychoanalytic gender literature and, through case vignettes, uses Klein's and Ogden's formulations of the psychological positions to illustrate how the dialectical movement between the paranoid-schizoid and the depressive positions continuously recontextualizes gender such that the tension between fixed and fluid experience is maintained.
Money and fetishism
(1996)
This paper assesses the implications of Grünbaum's critique of Freud's >science< for a discussion of the relation between theory and practice in psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy. Guided by the work of the French sociologist, Bourdieu, it places Grünbaum's argument within a logic of intellectualism – a framework that tends to instrumentalize reason and romanticize practice, delineating the well-known territories of objectivism and subjectivism. Grünbaum's arguments within this logic are taken to be rhetorical maneuvers – such as valorizing the tally argument and then debunking it – aimed at rejuvenating an objectivistic approach to theory and practice. Grünbaum is successful insofar as much of the debate generated by his views accepts the terms of his intellectualist bias. It is suggested, however, that these are terms that have long been suspect that, indeed, it was Freud who helped bring them into question and that there is a broader framework of discourse that relativizes intellectualism within a dialectical opposition to >participationism.< A form of rationality founded in a nonconceptual knowledge of practice has begun to emerge within this more inclusive discourse under such rubrics as >social constructivist< and >relational< approaches to psychotherapy. It is argued that within the therapy situation a kind of >practical reason< can mitigate the controlling, instrumental authority of intellectualism as well as the collusive, sentimental servility of participationism. [T]he theoretician's claim to an absolute viewpoint, the >perspec-tiveless view of all perspectives< as Leibnitz would have put it, contains the claim to a power, founded in reason, over particular individuals, who are condemned to error by the partisan partiality of their individual viewpoints [Bourdieu, 1990, pp. 28–29]1.
False dialogues, real conflicts a response to the symposium on the >false memory< controversy
(1996)
The current reemergence of clinicians’ attention to the sequelae of childhood sexual abuse has been met by a powerful critical opposition. The criticisms often extend to many forms of psychotherapy and to psychoanalytic treatments of trauma. This article situates the debate in its historical context. It examines the use of eyewitness testimony and the work of Elizabeth Loftus in this controversy and makes a case for a more wide-ranging, careful, and critical reading of cognitive neuroscience and empirical studies of memory processes. The distinctions between clinical data, legal evidence, and research findings are considered. The essay also examines some of the challenges and problems in treating trauma and in considering the impact of real events in a relational and social constructionist psychoanalysis.
Review John Fletcher and Martin Stanton (Eds.): Jean Laplanche: Seduction, Translation, Drives
(1996)
The work of Grünbaum is situated within an evolving epistemic schema as reflected in the history of psychoanalysis. His views are representative of an outmoded model of psychoanalytic practice, but also serve as a cogent critique of the underlying assumptions of this classical model, which can be called the causal-essentialist view. Subsequent anti-essen-tialist developments in post-Freudian thought have been instrumental in transforming the methodology and goals of psychoanalysis into hermeneutically oriented modern-humanistic and postmodern-histori-cist outlooks. These newer construals of analysis treat rationality as having a wider purview than causal explanatory science. It b suggested that the unique epistemic tension that characterizes psychoanalysis is the result of the elusive interrelationship of its explanatory, descriptive, and prescriptive features.