The international journal of psycho-analysis June 2009

Συγγραφέας: Dana Birksted-Breen & Robert Michels

Εκδότης - Τοποθεσία: Wiley-Blackwell

Χρονολογία: June 2009

Τόμος: vol.90 no.3

Ταξινομικός Αριθμός: 150.195 INT

ISSN: 0020-7578

Περιεχόμενα:

Psychoanalytic controversies

On the idea that analysts should acknowledge to their patients that they have failed them: a clinical debate

An introduction – Rachel Blass
A relational psychoanalysis perspective on the necessity of acknowledging failure in order to restore the facilitating and containing features of the intersubjective relationship (the shared third) – Jessica Benjamin
Discussion – Vic Sedlak
Response – Jessica Benjamin

Psychoanalytic theory and technique

Looking back, looking forward: a reexamination of Benjamin Wolstein’s interlock and the emergence of intersubjectivity – Christopher Bonovitz
The body-container: a new perspective on the ‘body-ego’ – Tamar Pollak
A confusion of tongues between psychoanalysis and philosophy: is the controversy over drive versus relational theory a philosophical one? – Gadi Taub
Symmetric frenzy and catastrophic change: a consideration of primitive mental states in the wake of Bion and Matte Blanco – Riccardo Lombardi

History of psychoanalysis

The relevance of castration and circumcision to the origins of psychoanalysis: 1. the medical context – Carlo Bonomi

Interdisciplinary studies

The ironic detachment of Edward Gibbon – Harry Trosman
The healing power of love: the literary/analytic bond of marriage in Freud’s essay on Gradiva – Dorit Ashur

Child and adolescent psychoanalysis

On boredom: a close encounter with encapsulated parts of the psyche – Avner Bergstein

Letters to the editors

On: the mother in the text: metapsychology and fantasy in the work of interpretation – Michel Sanchez-Cardenas
On: the comments of Michel Sanchez-Cardenas – Fausto Petrella
On: leaps of faith: is forgiveness a useful concept? – Martin Bergmann, Shahrzad Siassi
On: the comment of Martin Bergmann – Henry Smith
On: the comments of Dr Siassi – Henry Smith

Film essay

Film note

Book reviews

Joseph Conrad: le premier commandement [Joseph Conrad: the first command] by André Green – Bertrand Colin
The language of Bion: a dictionary of concepts by Paulo César Sandler – Carlos Braga
Das höhlenhaus der träume: film, kino und psychoanalyse [The cavern of dreams: films, cinema and psychoanalysis] by Mechthild Zeul Brandes and Apsel Verlag – Herbert Kley
La perversion, se venger pour survivre [Perversion, vengeance as survival] by Gérard Bonnet – Denise Bouchet-Kervella
Coasting in the counter-transference: conflicts of self-interest between analyst and patient by Irwin Hirsch – Mitchell Wilson
Chaplin: a life by Stephen Weissman – Leonard Shengold
Hysteria and the field of dissociation by Filippo Ferro and Giuseppe Riefolo – Alessandro Garella