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As Freud remarked in his letter to Einstein, "so long as there exist countries and nations that are prepared for the ruthless destruction of others, those others must be armed for war" (Freud [7], p.213). Referring to Freud's essay "Thoughts for the times on war and death" (Freud, [5]), Bell describes the translation of "Enttäuschung" as "disillusionment." I greatly appreciate David Bell's recent article; it is full of good points and typically deeply insightful. [Extracted from the article]

This brief introduction summarizes and gives the biographical context of Roger Money-Kyrle's 1934 paper "A psychological analysis of the causes of war". It also contextualizes his interest in the interplay between the psychological mechanisms operating within the individual, the society and groups and his personal experience with Germany in between and after two catastrophic wars. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper gives a survey of the origin of the concept of the super-ego in Freud's work and its further elaboration within the different psychoanalytic traditions. It introduces three papers on the perverse and psychotic super-ego, the development of the concept in Bion's work and its significance for psychoanalytic social psychology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This contribution is a personal reflection on the papers presented at the New York and London anniversary conferences, in which the author takes stock to consider what they might tell us about where the discipline is now, where it has come from and where it might go. Taking the clinical contributions as evidence of the way many leading analysts in the field now proceed, it is suggested that there is an increasing and more and more subtle use of the analyst's behaviour, thoughts, fantasies, feelings and experiences, inside and outside the session, as core sources for constructing the patient's unconscious. Placing this observation in the context of issues of evidence raised in the 50th and 75th anniversary volumes, the author argues that a possible future agenda for the field may be to think more plainly about the basis of an analyst's knowledge claims, whether made implicitly or explicitly to patients in sessions. The author wonders if more disciplined understanding of transference consistent with neuroscientific findings of the last few years may be one factor that could prove useful. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, the author focuses on the German psychoanalyst Wolfgang Loch's paper "Drives and objects – observations on the origins of the emotional object world." It mentions that the paper offers information about the theory of the establishment of the psychical reality of internal objects and the psychical space. It also mentions that emotional theory was also appeared in the book "Beyond the Pleasure Principle."

Editor's note: Albert Mason discovered an unpublished paper by Donald Meltzer dating from around 1968 and has made the text available to the IJP. He writes 'my best guess is that Meltzer gave me the paper to read/approve about the time I was preparing to move to Los Angeles (1968-69) and that I hastily packed it away with other papers. It got buried, and only came to light recently, kind of like a lost score that turns up in someone's attic!' The patient Meltzer discusses in his paper is a patient who Dr Mason treated for approximately 11 years, and about whom Dr Mason consulted with Dr Meltzer early in the treatment. Dr Mason has also provided the original report he wrote about the patient in the 1960s. Following an introduction by Dr Abbot Bronstein, we have published extracts from Dr Mason's report, including the following: details about the case, the two dreams which Dr Mason believes were 'turning point dreams', and a third dream called the 'hula hula dream', as well as the clinical material leading up to it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this commentary on Paul Denis's paper 'The drive revisited: mastery and satisfaction', the author defends the idea of a plurality of metapsychologies that must be contrasted with and distinguished from each other while avoiding incompatible translations between models. In this connection he presents various theoretical approaches to aggression and the death drive, and demonstrates the differences between the drive model and the model underlying the theory of internalized object relations. The author holds that the concept of the internal object differs from Freud's notion of the representation (Vorstellung). He also considers that the imago as defined by Paul Denis in fact corresponds to the concept of the internal object. Lastly, he addresses the complex issue of listening to archaic forms of psychic functioning and their non-discursive presentation within the analytic process, which affects the transference-countertransference link. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses three papers on splitting behaviror in human beings. Splitting meant the dissociation of different states of mind, which are kept apart by unknown motives. Psychoanalyst Rachel Blass has notion of the splitting of the mind to examine the relationship between the processes in individual, society and economy.

The article present an introduction to the report "Language, life praxis and scenic understanding in psychoanalytic therapy' by Alfred Lorenzer. Topics include Lorenzer's contribution to traumatic neurosis, trauma in concentration camp survivors, and war traumatization; relation among natural science and a hermeneutics, and psycholoanalysis; and psychological aspects of the acquisition of language, which is supposed to be a child's sensorimotor experience.

A letter to the editor is presented in response to the article "Unconscious Phantasy: An Attempt at Conceptual Integration," by W. Bohleber and colleagues, published in a 2015 issue.

The article offers the author's insights on the translated 1970 paper of doctor Hermann Argelander regarding American ego psychology. The author believes that Argelander's paper has depicted the development of postwar German psychoanalysis. The author also mentions that the paper has opened inquiries on two related subjects such as the formation of symptom and character, which were both rejected in psychoanalysis.

An introduction is presented to the paper "The Analytic Situation as a Dynamic Field," by Madeleine and Willy Baranger.

A critique is offered of the paper on non-interpretive mechanisms in psychoanalytic therapy by the Process of Change Study Group (Stern et al., 1998a). The attention paid to procedural learning and to the need to attend to implicit relational knowledge is welcomed but a number of the group's assumptions are questioned. In particular, it is argued that the differences between motherinfant and therapistpatient relationships are inadequately considered, that the polarisation of non-symbolic and verbal memory is unhelpful and that the separation of the therapy relationship into three strands is problematic. The assumption that pursuing the goal of intersubjective understanding is in itself therapeutic is questioned. It is suggested that the recognition of the importance of implicit relational knowledge calls for a wider reappraisal of important aspects of theory and practice and that direct means of making such knowledge explicit should be considered. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the version of doctor Hermann Argelander on the hermeneutic foundation of psychoanalysis. It says that the communication processes between psychoanalyst and its patient take place in the preconscious level which can be apprehended by situational and subjective perception. It also mentions that scenic understanding as the essential tool of perception.

In this article the author commenting on the Psychiatre Maurizio Balsamo's description of Sabina's analysis. He states about his expreience of analytical session with Balsmo for accompanying him in the work of transforming his countertransference feelings. He discuses about the interesting thoughts shared by Balsamo on encapsulated nucleus of a failed primary relationship.

In this article the author commenting on the Psychiatre Maurizio Balsamo's report on his depressed patient Sabina. He discussed about the analytical task performed by Balsamo with his patient who have evoked feelings of deadness. He discuses about the nature of Sabina which includes consistent, emptiness and lack of thinking.

An introduction to the article "The narcissistic difficulties presented to the observer by the psychosomatic problem," is presented which was published in the French journal, "La Revue Française de Psychanalyse," in the year 1952 issue.

In this article the author discusses his views on the article " Stumbling Towards Termination," by Mayer Subrin. He is critical of the example of an adolescent girl who is a psychoanalytic patient, as mentioned by Subrin. Also investigated is the nature of termination between a patient and an analyst. He is of the view that the feelings of the patient empowers her to gain some tolerance which she need in her maturation and growth.

A letter to the editor is presented related to the article "How and why unconscious phantasy and transference are the defining features of psychoanalytic practice" by Lucy LaFarge is presented.

The article presents notes to remember for contributors in submitting their original contributions which are welcomed whether hard or soft copy that covers any psychoanalytic topic, particularly with papers previously published in a language other than English. These include the sole responsibility of the author to gain and fund all necessary permissions to re-use any other works within their accepted manuscript, provide an abstract of English language and copyright responsibilities.

Demonstrating how psychoanalysts can be useful in community settings outside the conventional consulting room, this paper describes consultation and group interventions conducted at a San Francisco mental health agency serving a largely Asian community. In the traumatic context of the COVID-19 pandemic, agency staff became fragmented, due to remote working conditions and differential work assignments, including mandated deployments to emergency sites. Two psychoanalysts worked with agency leadership to devise a weekly process group held by video conferencing over 6 months, in an attempt to heal resentments and splits in the fabric of the agency. Examples of the group process, interventions, and major themes that emerged are described, as well as recommendations made, including the formation of an ongoing clinical consultation group. The paper situates these interventions in the greater context of the pandemic which exposed not only a universal threat to life and health, but also structural vulnerabilities organized along lines of (racial) difference and inequity. The dynamics at the agency are thus described as rooted within greater nested histories: of the clinic, its leadership, and their relationship with a strained public health system, and more broadly, of the tangled intersection of these histories with anti-Asian racism. These are understood as manifestations of the Social Unconscious, and the intervention as an example of Community Psychoanalysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the editorial policies of the periodical for contributors, while mentioning that contributors cover psychoanalytic topic that were published in language other than English and also mentions that English will be considered if submitted for publication.

This article highlights elements of Peirce's philosophy used by four well-known psychoanalytic authors, Ricardo Steiner, André Green, Bjorn Salomonsson and Dominique Scarfone, showing how contributions from Peirce's ideas could clarify psychoanalytic matters. The subject of Steiner's paper is how Peirce's semiotic could help to fulfill a conceptual gap mainly in Kleinian tradition in relation to phenomena that occur between what are called "symbolic equations" (representations lived as facts, by psychotic patients) and symbolization. Green's writings question Lacan's conception that the unconscious is structured like a language, suggesting that Peirce's signs, particularly the icons and indices, would be more appropriate to think about the unconscious than the linguistics used by Lacan. One of the Salomonsson's papers gives a good example of how Peirce's philosophic notions can be enlightening in the clinical area, as they are used to answer the criticism that words could not be understood by a baby in a "mother-infant" treatment; the other uses Peirce's conceptions to give interesting suggestions about Bion's beta-elements. The last paper, from Scarfone, broadly address the constitution of significations in psychoanalysis, but we will limit ourselves to consider how Peirce's concepts are used in the model proposed by Scarfone. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author discusses IJP Open, an online publication which will feature papers in the "International Journal of Psychoanalysis" (IJP). The author mentions the opportunity provided by IJP Open to readers in viewing the papers submitted to the journal before peer review and participate in the peer discussion. She also states that IJP Open offers free access, free assessment, and open discussion.

Although the capacity to mourn is ubiquitously acknowledged as critical for individual psychic functioning, the impact of this capacity on a collective social level has been examined to a very limited extent in the psychoanalytic literature to date. The two papers that take up this this topic thus bring various critical and complex issues to our attention. After reviewing and commenting on these papers, I discuss how these issues are particularly relevant today to society in general and psychoanalysis in particular. I believe that the ability to mourn is under siege in the Western world at present, with respect to both "macro" mourning that is, mourning for significant losses such as a beloved person, ideal, or country, and "micro" mourning or mourning for losses inherently and unavoidably implicated in choices we make in everyday life. These mourning processes are undermined by the impact of complex socioeconomic parameters on psychic functioning, as evidenced by various internal problems and symptomatology characteristic of our times. In turn, difficulties in mourning contribute to social problems including social injustice, wars and the climate crisis. As psychoanalysts we are called upon to address these issues in our clinical work as well as in our global community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]