Recently added articles from International Journal of Psychoanalysis:
Postponing trauma: The dangers of telling
Dec 01, 2009; ... Surviving a major historical trauma has consequences that are difficult to live with. Survivors who remain silent are often condemned to a desiccated existence, a dried-out life, a death in life. Survivors who speak out run an even greater risk. Telling their ghastly tale may trigger somatic ...
Trauma theory in Sándor Ferenczi's writings of 1931 and 1932(1)
Dec 01, 2009; ... The author states that it is Ferenczi's writings of 1931 and 1932 that exhibit the most conspicuous departures from Freud's ideas and at the same time contain Ferenczi's most original contributions. The texts concerned - Confusion of tongues between adults and the child (Ferenczi, 1932a), the ...
Melanie Klein's letters addressed to Marcelle Spira (1955-1960)1
Dec 01, 2009; ... Between 1955 and 1960, Melanie Klein wrote some 45 hitherto unpublished letters to Marcelle Spira, the Swiss psychoanalyst living at that time in Geneva. In 2006, after Spira's death, these letters were deposited with the Raymond de Saussure Psychoanalysis Centre in Geneva. They are the only ...
Between physical desire and emotional involvement: Reflections on Frédéric Fonteyne's film Une Liaison Pornographique1
Dec 01, 2009; ... From a psychoanalytic vantage point, some of the main features of films dealing with the representation of intimate relationships can be schematically subsumed under three categories. The first category concerns the exploration of the psychodynamic characteristics and unconscious ...
The relationship of the inner and the outer in psychoanalysis
Dec 01, 2009; ... What is internal and what is external according to psychoanalytic theory? This is a surprisingly complicated question. The terminology is often ambiguous and inconsistent as, for instance, in the use of terms like 'object' and 'other'. The relationship between internal and external in ...