When a child grieves. Psychoanalytic understanding and technique

2022 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Julia Segal
Keyword(s):  
Psychoanalytic Understanding

Blue heaven: jazz as connector and disrupter in family and community relationships

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-86
Author(s):  
Christopher Clulow
Keyword(s):  
Attachment Theory ◽  
Attachment Security ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Cultural Factors ◽  
Developmental Experiences ◽  
Families Of Origin ◽  
Human Predicament ◽  
Psychoanalytic Understanding ◽  
Clinical Illustration ◽  
Community Relationships

Psychoanalytic understanding of the human predicament pays more attention to developmental experiences within families of origin, of whatever form, than to the communities in which they grow up. Recent critiques of attachment theory draw attention to cultural factors that question measures of attachment security based on WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialised, Rich, and Democratic) family assumptions, and emphasise instead the significance of trust for individual and community well-being. Music forms part of the communications web in all societies, and arguably precedes language in connecting and separating people. This exploratory contribution will consider the role music, and jazz in particular, can play in communication, considering both its connective and disruptive potential within families and communities. Using clinical illustration, it will consider jazz as a metaphor for couple psychoanalysis.

scholarly journals Mediating Trauma and Anxiety: Letters to Françoise Dolto, 1976-1978

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Bates
Keyword(s):  
Later Life ◽  
Child Rearing ◽  
Psychological Consequences ◽  
Psychoanalytic Understanding ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Childhood Traumas ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractFrançoise Dolto (1908-88) was a prominent French cultural figure thanks to her practice of dispensing psychoanalytically-informed child-rearing advice via the radio. From 1976 to 1978, on her show Lorsque l’enfant paraît, she responded to thousands of letters sent in by listeners requesting help with parenting problems and personal questions of a psychological nature. The article explores Dolto’s cultural position as a child psychoanalyst – understood in the 1960s and 1970s as a radical profession – but from a conservative, Catholic background. It then examines a sample of the letters sent in to her show, analysing the demographics of the correspondents and highlighting their most common concerns. Finally the article studies the relationship between psychoanalysis and trauma. It indicates the anxiety that a psychoanalytic understanding can cause, by reinforcing parents’ fears that childhood traumas are common, can be created unwittingly by parents, and lead to major psychological consequences in later life.

From negation to negationism: the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paulo Beer
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Philosophy Of Science ◽  
Health Consequences ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Historical Ontology ◽  
Psychoanalytic Understanding ◽  
Identification Processes ◽  
Shed Light

Even beyond the dramatic social and health consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, one can affirm that the manner in which the pandemic was and is being handled in Brazil involves more than mere questions of public health. This article focuses on the negationist discourse that emerged in Brazil, and proposes that its roots are to be found in a previous process of dismantling established knowledge and identifications. This process is observed in the government’s handling of the pandemic. To support this idea, we refer to two main clinical and theoretical frameworks, the first of which involves a psychoanalytic understanding of the place of truth in discursivity and in identification processes; this will be employed to shed light on a particular functioning of negationist discourses. Second, the idea of historical ontology is introduced from the philosophy of science to gain a further understanding of the effects of this process on identification.

Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience

2019 ◽  
pp. 9-23
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Rottenberg
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Body ◽  
Psychoanalytic Understanding ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Brain

This chapter addresses the question of spacial unlocatability in trauma. To what extent, this chapter asks, does the drive to reconcile psychoanalysis with neuroscience risk participating in a movement of appropriation, an attempt to reduce the event of psychoanalysis? This chapter shows how the neuro-psychoanalytic attempt to locate a psychoanalytic understanding of the mind in the brain does not end up correlating psychoanalysis with neuroscience. Rather it points to another, less conciliatory model for their relationship. In psychoanalysis, neurology encounters a Fremdkörper (foreign body), something unassimilable to its inside, something forever inside-outside any neurological theory of trauma. This Fremdkörper prevents neurology from reducing neurological traumas to mere cerebral laws; it is what makes every neurological trauma traumatic in its own way.

The Racist Enjoyments and Fantasies of International Development

2020 ◽  
pp. 236-264
Author(s):  
Ilan Kapoor
Keyword(s):  
International Development ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Psychoanalytic Understanding ◽  
The Many ◽  
Definition Of

This chapter explores racist enjoyments and fantasies of international development. The small size of the literature on racism in international development is revealing of the relative silence on the issue in this field. There is repeated exclamation in this same literature about such silence, yet with nary a reference to the unconscious. What appears to be missing is precisely a psychoanalytic understanding of this silence. Although scholars underline a general reticence in talking about racism in development, they proceed to speak about it even so, pointing out the many ways in which it manifests. Yet it seems difficult to understand how racism can be both denied and furtively confessed without recourse to the notion of the unconscious. In fact, “a silence that nonetheless speaks” is the very psychoanalytic definition of the unconscious. Moreover, what remains unexplained is why such racism cannot be publicly or “officially” uttered. Could it be because the racism that supports development is obscene? Is it because development is sustained, willy-nilly, by alluring (unconscious) fantasies of domination and white supremacy, with the result that people actually enjoy racism? Is this why racism cannot be easily admitted (or eliminated)?

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