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With the republication of Adrienne Harris' classic essay, "You must remember this" (Harris, 2009), Psychoanalytic Dialogues continues our new feature, Après Coup. By putting a paper from the early years of the journal in conversation with contemporary readers and writers, we hope to dive into the ways in which psychoanalysts forge relationality in spaces of complexity and contradiction over time, as our experiences- collective, dyadic, or solitary – are always nonlinear and multiply configured. This Apres Coup includes commentaries by Cleonie White, Ph.D. Ken Corbett, Ph.D. Shubha Herlekar, Psy.D. MFT, Victor Donas, M.D. Donnel Stern, Ph.D. and Giuseppe Civitarese, M.D. Ph.D. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This discussion explores the far-reaching consequences of betrayal of patients, both at the individual and at the social level. Considering the variety of betrayal’s Elise describes, there are many deep effects on patients, on the field, on institutions, on a sense of the ethics of the profession and public trust. Particularly interesting and important in Elise’s paper is the long-ranging effect on many treatments beyond the original dyad. I would argue that betrayal is among the most profoundly important and damaging situation psychoanalysts and psychoanalysis faces. This discussion notices Bleger’s theory of the setting to consider how deeply events outside a treatment but connected to institutions and communities can impact psychoanalytic work. Crises and betrayals in the field (large and small) deserve our most careful attention. In this discussion the role of shame in the context of betrayals and damage to patients is discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this discussion, the biology of loss and separation, the enmeshment and intersubjective interdependence of dyads are explored as aspects of the particular dimensions of mourning in the analysand upon the death of her analyst. Considerations from linguistics, from attachment research, and from the relational theory of intersubjectivity are used to explore the particular demands of mourning and reparation in analytic dyads. The work of dreams in recovery is discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this introduction I propose the value of reading Homi Bhabha's Location of Culture (1994) for its clinical and theoretical insights and utility for psychoanalysts. I look at how Bhabha's work influences my own thinking about development, about nostalgia and loss, about hybridity, and about cultural alienation and resistance. I introduce 6 essays which examine questions of migration; trauma; intergenerational transmission of loss and exile; and matters of gender inside and outside the canonical, cultural context drawing for their inspiration and influence from Homi Bhabha's work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this commentary, I discuss two papers, one by Sandra Silverman and one by Maureen Murphy, each in different ways charting the challenges and possibilities in work where the analyst's subjectivity and the patient's cross or merge in demanding, sometimes tragic, sometimes brutally difficult ways. I consider the role of shame and mourning in the analyst's work to contain material with patients in profound distress and in important identificatory links to the analyst. I explore the demands on the analyst in these extreme situations and the dilemmas around analytic self care, a process I argue that is insufficiently theorized. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We introduce our duet of articles placing relational psychoanalysis in the political-historical contexts that preceded and accompanied its inception. These include the shift toward the ego psychological adaptationist orientation in the wake of the emigration of leading psychoanalysts from Central Europe and Cold War domestic anticommunism, and the subsequent emergence of an insurgent generation in social movements for civil rights, against the Vietnam war, women's and gay rights, and other causes. The transactions between personal, professional, and socio-historical identities and identifications are considered throughout. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]