Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis back issues from October 1999:
The Struggle for Dominance in the Oedipus Situation
Oct 01, 1999; ... Abstract In this paper the role of a struggle for dominance in the resolution of the Oedipus Complex is discussed. It is suggested that the classical resolution described by Freud gives rise to a psychic retreat dominated by resentment and a wish for revenge. Alongside this, a depressive ...
A Discussion of John Steiner's Paper, "The Struggle for Dominance in the Oedipus Situation"
Oct 01, 1999; ... John Steiner is one of the key figures in the London Kleinian group. Roy Schafer (1997), in a recent tribute, referred to them as the Kleinian Freudians. He praised them for their rigour, their respect for the fundamental importance of psychic reality, and the unconscious operation of ...
Christianity: A Kleinian Perspective
Oct 01, 1999; ... Abstract Psychoanalytic theory has taken a guarded approach to religion ever since Freud advanced his view of religion as a collective obsessional neurosis and an illusory fulfilment of infantile wishes. But post-Freudian theory has offered more positive ways of conceptualizing religious ...
"I Always Hurt the One I Love-and Like It": Sadism and a Revised Theory of Aggression*
Oct 01, 1999; ... Abstract Psychoanalytic theory considers sadism a manifestation of the aggressive drive. Buie, Meissner, Sashin, and Rizzuto have suggested that aggression is not a drive but a motivated psychic capacity to overcome external or internal obstacles that interfere with attainment of the ...
Quid pro Quo: The Inverse of Talion
Oct 01, 1999; ... Abstract It is proposed that in the paranoid-schizoid position, the unconscious is governed both by "tit for tat," the Talion Law, as well as "quid pro quo," its inverse. The "quid pro quo" attitude, also related to enlightened self interest, has to do with a measured and equal repayment ...
La perversion : de part et d'autre du sexe
Oct 01, 1999; ... Le travail de Louise Kaplan (Female Perversions, 19911) soulève à nouveau la question de la perversion chez la femme. « Women are just as perverse as men » (p. 8), soutient l'auteur. Les explications avancées pour rendre compte de la disparité clinique dans le tableau manifeste des perversions ...
Further Comments on Bucci's Paper and Response
Oct 01, 1999; ... We have recently offered a few comments on Wilma Bucci's paper in this journal on the transformations of meaning in the analytic discourse (Bucci 1998). In a nutshell, we have suggested that the process she describes as referential activity is a component of a more general activity of psychic ...
Psychoanalytic Time: A Developmental Perspective
Oct 01, 1999; ... Abstract This paper reviews the development of the sense of time up to early adulthood, from a psychoanalytic perspective. Data indicate that the sense of time as duration-time as it is felt-develops by early infancy, while time as perspective-time as a concept-develops by late infancy ...
Healing the Healer: The Addicted Physician
Oct 01, 1999; ... Healing the Healer: The Addicted Physician, by Daniel Angres, Doug Talbot. Madison, CT: Psychosocial Press, 251 pages, US$32.50. Physicians, like everybody else, can become sick, divorced, or chemically dependent. Some of the very virtues that make them good caregivers-emotional control, ...
Freud, la philosophie et les philosophes
Oct 01, 1999; ... Freud, la philosophie et les philosophes, par Paul-Laurent Assoun. Paris, Quadrige/P.U.F., 1995, 394 pages, 25,35$. Ce remarquable ouvrage de Paul-Laurent Assoun est un commentaire magistral du texte freudien, commentaire fin, vivant dans les raccordements qu'il a su instaurer entre ...
The Vulnerable Child, Vol. 3
Oct 01, 1999; ... The Vulnerable Child, Vol. 3, by T. B. Cohen, M. H. Etezady, and B. L. Pacella. Madison, CT: International Universities Press, 1999. Psychoanalysis has often been criticized for having a too narrow focus on issues and theory related either to the consulting room or to applications such ...
Countertransference and Related Subjects
Oct 01, 1999; ... Countertransference and Related Subjects, by Harold Searles. Madison, CT: International Universities Press, 1999. 625 pages. This book is written with an urgency to reach and persuade the reader. Harold Searles writes with honesty about violent and disturbing feelings. For this reason ...
Post-Traumatic Culture: Injury and Interpretation in the Nineties
Oct 01, 1999; ... Post-Traumatic Culture: Injury and Interpretation in the Nineties, by Kirby Farrell. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. 420 pages. US$17.95 paperback, US$49.00 hardcover This is an uneven book. A number of uncharitable thoughts came to mind as I read it: it is ...
Basic Ideas Reconsidered: Progress in Self Psychology, Vol. 12
Oct 01, 1999; ... Basic Ideas Reconsidered: Progress in Self Psychology, Vol. 12, edited by Arnold Goldberg. Hillsdale, NJ: The Analytic Press, 1996. 336 pages. This is the twelfth volume in a series designed to promote and develop the theory of self psychology originated by Heinz Kohut. It contains ...
Seduction, Surrender, and Transformation: Emotional Engagement in the Analytic Process
Oct 01, 1999; ... Seduction, Surrender, and Transformation: Emotional Engagement in the Analytic Process, by Karen J. Maroda. Hillsdale, NJ: The Analytic Press, 207 pages. Maroda's message is that for transformation to occur, both analyst and analysand need to surrender-not to each other, but to their ...
Review of Unformulated Experience: From Dissociation to Imagination in Psychoanalysis
Oct 01, 1999; ... Review of Unformulated Experience: From Dissociation to Imagination in Psychoanalysis, by Donnei B. Stern. Hillsdale, NJ: The Analytic Press, 1997. 293 pages. The author proposes a new theory for psychoanalysis. According to him, unconscious experience exists, but it does not exist in ...