The book, dedicated to the memory of Lewis Aron and Jeremy Safran, explores the subject of enactment in relation to boundaries in psychoanalysis, referring to a series of viewpoints that lead to many crucial areas. In her foreword, Galit Atlas writes that enactment has become a widely-employed term in contemporary psychoanalysis across schools, a term that speaks to the unique way in which the analyst is affectively pulled into and discovers himself/herself as a participant in the patient’s relational matrix in ways that the analyst had not predicted and might not recognize until later. Moreover, she analyzes the concept of “generative enactment”, suggesting that enactments in the analytic dyad are not only restrictive and repetitive, with therapeutic benefit resulting from their resolution, but that enactments themselves may also be generative and growth-enhancing. Giuseppe Leo, one of the editors of the book, examines the concept of enactment from the following points of view: intra-psychic, inter-psychic, intra-disciplinary, inter-disciplinary, inter-cultural, and trans- generational. Jeremy Safran’s and Jessica Kraus’s chapter deals with alliance ruptures, impasses, and transference–countertransference enactments which are inevitable in therapy. Since a growing body of evidence suggests that repairing ruptures in the alliance is related to positive outcome, the authors promote the development of training methods to enhance therapists’ abilities to detect and work constructively with alliance ruptures and negative therapeutic process. In his chapter Jay Greenberg emphasizes how, despite the relational approach opens the possibility of tailoring technique to individual analysands, so that it is easier to negotiate the best way of working within each unique analytic dyad, many clinical vignettes in the recent literature underline the analyst's risk-taking, engaging patients in a highly personal way that breaks the traditional analytic frame. The author discusses various implications of the tendency of relational analysts to emphasize this sort of intervention, and questions raised about the way this may affect how relational thinking is received. Efrat Ginot in her chapter shows how, in spite of the seeming experiential incongruity between enactments and empathy, neuroscience has started to delineate neuropsychological processes that similarly shape and underpin both enactments and therapeutic empathy, illuminating what mechanisms they have in common. Finally, Giuseppe Riefolo, the other editor of the book, suggests that the analytic dialogue develops as a continuous movement called “Dissociative Process”, and that this process is the continuous oscillation between defensive positions (repression) and creative positions. Dissociation, as a defense, is a Freudian theoretical stance, while Dissociation, as a possibility for new and creative solutions, is a theory emanating from Janet and was adopted, especially, by relational and inter-subjective psychoanalysis. The analyst has to respect the Defensive Dissociations of the patient, but, at the same time, he has to be particularly careful to support potential solutions, never made real before, that emerge as new associative aggregates deriving from the dissociation of the frustrating or traumatic experience, which he proposes calling “Creative Dissociations”. The dissociative solutions (defensive and creative) are not sequential but simultaneous.

ENACTMENT IN PSYCHOANALYSIS: Frenis Zero Press

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Safran, Jeremy D.

Atlas, Galit

Aron, Lewis

Ginot, Efrat

Greenberg, Jay R.

Leo, Giuseppe

Riefolo, Giuseppe

Kraus, Jessica

Psychology & Counseling

Frenis Zero

Cette troisième édition du livre est dédiè à la mémoire de Predrag Matvejevic, un historien et écrivain qui a consacré beaucoup de ses oeuvres à la Méditerranée, et à Salomon Resnik, le psychanalyste d'origine argentine qui a beaucoup inspiré ce livre avec sa notion de "biographie de l'inconscient". Histoire de la Méditerranée et psychanalyse sont les deux polarités de discussion des thèmes au centre du livre: l'identité et la mémoire collective. L'identité, tant dans sa dimension individuelle que collective, semble une construction et élaboration continue de mémoires qui sont accueillies dans des lieux qui, en tant que espaces où aller dans un va-et-vient, parcourent les vies des hommes pendant toute la durée. Mais, en introduisant un tiret, il faut prendre en considération le "id" (le ça), c'est à dire la dimension inconsciente de l'id-entité. Et donc, la question qui se pose est la suivante: "Peut la psychanalyse nous aider à comprendre ce dialogue entre lieux de mémoire et id-entité?". Cette question s'inspire de deux différentes sources: l'importance des 'biographies de l'inconscient', ainsi que celle du partage de la mémoire, voire celle de l'acte de se souvenir ensemble, pour qu'elle maintienne sa significativité. Ce qu'est irremplaçable dans l'acte de "se souvenir ensemble", est la configuration d'un climat émotionnel unique, on dirait empathique, parfois même ambivalent. La communauté affective provoquée par l'acte de "se souvenir ensemble" devient symbolique d'un groupe donné car il se constitue à travers des personnes qui ont developpés chacune un itinéraire de différentes histoires individuelles au cours du temps, mais qui à ce moment-là réussissent à se reconnaître et à se réunir. Parler de mémoire signifie aussi se mesurer avec le problème de l'usage que un certain groupe, détenteur d'un pouvoir politique ou économique, peut faire d'une telle mémoire. Cette vision dynamique et conflictuelle des mémoires collectives est susceptible, elle seule, d'ouvrir un débat sur les responsabilités de la mémoire, en définissant le rapport avec le passé en terme d'une élaboration collective, étroitement liée à la perception sociale des phénomènes actuels problématiques tels que ceux des identités collectives (identité de genre, ethnique, nationale ou locale) ou du préjudice vers les groupes 'autres'. Après l’introduction de Giuseppe Leo et le chapitre “Le malaise du monde moderne, les fondements de la vie psychique et le cadre métapsychique de la souffrance contemporaine”, écrit par René Kaës, la section “La transmission de la mémoire des traumatismes collectifs” comprend les écrits de Werner Bohleber (sur la remémoration en psychanalyse), de Janine Altounian (“Face au négationnisme…”), de Silvia Amati Sas (“L’interprétation dans le trans-subjectif”) et de Sverre Varvin (sur le processus de déshumanisation, en particulier concernant notre relation avec les réfugiés). Puis, la section “Les malaises des civilisations du Moyen-Orient” recueille les écrits de Yolanda Gampel et de Mayssa El Husseini, et la section “Transmission du féminin, de la culture et malaises des civilisations méditerranéennes” les textes de Julia Kristeva, Anne Loncan, Rita El Khayat et Marie-Rose Moro.

PSYCHANALYSE, LIEUX DE MÉMOIRE ET TRAUMATISMES COLLECTIFS: Frenis Zero (French Edition)

KRISTEVA, JULIA

Bohleber, Werner

RESNIK, SALOMON

Varvin, Sverre

Kaës, René

Moro, Marie Rose

Altounian, Janine

El Khayat, Rita

Amati Sas, Silvia

This third edition of the book was released after Jeremy Nahum's death and it is dedicated to the memory of three pioneers of the dialogue between psychoanalysis and infant research: Daniel Stern, Berry Brazelton and Jeremy Nahum. The book opens with Daniel S. Schechter’s Memories of Dan Stern and Karlen Lyons-Ruth’s Tribute to Jeremy Nahum. After the introduction written by the editor, Giuseppe Leo, the development of infant research methodologies is illustrated by the contribution written by Beatrice Beebe, whose ‘journey’ leads us through the ‘creating’ of a discipline with its creators, her traveling companions, such as Daniel Stern, Frank Lachmann, Joseph Jaffe and many others. Trevarthen’s chapter is a discussion of his work with T. Berry Brazelton. Tronick’s contribution focuses on mother-infant dyad as well as on analyst-patient one, conceived as open dynamic systems, capable of meaning making, in which coherence is at best imperfect, and coordination alternates with mismatching. Karlen Lyons-Ruth and Jeremy Nahum, two of the members of the Boston Change Process Study Group, focus on the representational world of the mother, particularly on the assessment of mother’s representation of role-confusion in her relation with her child.

INFANT RESEARCH AND PSYCHOANALYSIS: Frenis Zero Press

Trevarthen, Colwyn

Beebe, Beatrice

Schechter, Daniel

Tronick, Edward

Lyons-Ruth, Karlen

Nahum, Jeremy

BLOWN LIVES. A Tale for Spielrein, Gross, Tausk and the other losers of psychoanalysis: Frenis Zero Press

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

The second edition of the book “Rock Music and Psychoanalysis” was published after the beginning of Covid-19 pandemic. Pandemic, as writes Heather Ferguson, has brought the world to its knees, leaving massive unemployment, hunger, loss, and death in its wake, disproportionately affecting people of color and poor communities world-wide. The pandemic has perturbed our ways of going-on-being, forcing social inequities into the spotlight. In our consultation rooms, we wonder how our social and psychic worlds will be altered, irrevocably, creating opportunities for revitalization, reorder, or a return to the status quo. Pandemic has affected both psychoanalytic practice and rock music playing. Both psychoanalysts and musicians have to practise through telematic platforms. Some authors of this book are analysts (such as Lewis Aron, Heather Ferguson, Giuseppe Leo and John Shaw) who play rock or pop music. Not all the contributors to this book are psychoanalysts: Joseph LeDoux is an influential neuroscientist, whose investigations have become precious clues for psychoanalysis, plus he is the founder of the band “Amygdaloids”; and Rod Tweedy is an essayist and editor whose chapter deals with David Bowie. However, their interests show that music, and pop/rock music in particular, have constantly oriented their scientific output. The book is dedicated to the memory of Lewis Aron with a tribute to him written by John Shaw.

ROCK MUSIC AND PSYCHOANALYSIS: Frenis Zero Press

Arts & Photography

LeDoux, Joseph

Tweedy, Rod

Shaw, John.

Ferguson, Heather

Music

SUPERVISION AND PSYCHOANALYSIS

Meltzer, Donald

McWilliams, Nancy

Schmolke, Margit

Bass, Anthony

Hoffmann, Nataly

PERCHÈ LA GUERRA IN UCRAINA ED IN EUROPA? PSICOANALISI, TRAUMA E RESILIENZA: Frenis Zero (Italian Edition)

Volkan, Vamik

Zaitseva, Ksenia

Kuzo, Liubov

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