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During the winter of 1930, Princess Alice of Battenberg was admitted to Kurhaus Schloß Tegel, where she was diagnosed with schizophrenic paranoia. When Freud was consulted about her case by Ernst Simmel, the Sanatorium's Director, he recommended that the patient's ovaries be exposed to high-intensity X-rays. Freud's suggestion was not based on any psychoanalytic treatment principles, but rooted in a rejuvenation technique to which Freud himself had subscribed. In recommending that psychotic patients should be treated with physical interventions, Freud confirmed his conviction that the clinical applicability of psychoanalysis should not be extrapolated beyond the neuroses, yet he also asserted that a proper consideration of endocrinological factors in the aetiology and treatment of the psychoses should never be excluded.

This paper explores the extent to which a manager can paradoxically develop a contestation to managerialist practices. By taking an autoethnographic approach, as a departmental head of a U.K. business school myself, I reflect upon the cultural, political, and individual tensions that emerged over a year from my attempt to develop a liminal space or place for my colleagues. This was initially framed as research development, called the "Shoreside Sessions," organized around a disconnected social and physical space. The intention was to understand whether this would lead to a respite from managerialism or any contestation to managerialist practices. Looking through a Lacanian conceptual lens, the research findings offer a tempered hope that middle management, which has been demonized by much of the critical management studies literature, could play a partial but pivotal role in providing a hysteric, questioning space for contestation to emerge. Such emergence is limited in a temporal sense, due to the growing conflicting managerialist, institutional agendas that department heads are increasingly expected to deliver. The paper's other main contribution lies in the role played by Lacanian discourses and psychic registers, which will help academic managers with the process of reflexivity around intent and impact of liminal spaces. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we describe and demonstrate the value of adopting a psychosocial methodology to explore unique sexual socialisation experiences emphasising the role of reflexivity. Psychosocial methodology emerges from Psychosocial Studies, a "transdisciplinary" area interested in phenomena from "both" a social and personal perspective and in this paper is employed to investigate how sexual socialisation is shaped by psychological processes "and" social relations, and how these can be "thought together" (Frosh & Vyrgioti, 2022). Psychosocial data analytic strategies involve applying narrative and discursive psychology alongside psychoanalytic concepts to understand the possible reasons for a participant's investment in particular discourses, understanding these investments as serving unique unconscious defensive purposes, alongside social functions. To illustrate this, we use data from a Free Association Narrative Interview with an isiXhosa-speaking "Black" socioeconomically disadvantaged woman in South Africa about her experiences of sexuality socialisation within her sister-sister relationship. We show how a psychosocial emphasis traverses traditional boundaries between discourse and affect, talk and experience, researcher and researched, moving across disciplinary spaces. Furthermore, we pay attention to what is frequently considered the background of research - the study context; the emotional quality of the interview encounter between the researcher and participant; the researchers' relationship with one another and their contribution to both the data production and analysis. This emphasis on reflexivity in psychosocial methodology is consistent with the political and philosophical position of Psychosocial Studies that is critical of the reification of disciplinary knowledge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is located as a transitional object in transitional space, that while exploring the play of paternal function, itself serves to provide paternal function in a process of becoming. It is an account concerned with intersectionality, a situated subjectivity, and the psychosocial in a South African context. It employs theoretical plurality to speak to how we construct meaning, position authority, and navigate otherness with thirdness, and to explore how a broader situated experience might be an influence on how we approach the therapeutic endeavour. Maternal and paternal orders are conceived relationally, to present thirdness as the interplay of primary and secondary process. As such, it offers a perspective on paternal function that is not only the bearer of paternal law and separating third, but also a facilitator of space and play that operates in the spaces between. To do so, the narrative traverses the author's experience of disability and trauma. The paper proceeds to focus on the father as a specific paternal functionary, and given his precarious grounding in masculinity and the patriarchy, posits an exil consciousness as an orienting perspective to navigate states of marginalisation, dislocation, incompleteness and precarity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study uses grounded theory to investigate the cognitive distortions in the self-report statements of 14 clergymen who had sexually abused children. These clergy were residents at an assessment and treatment center for child molesters. The content of the offenders'cognitive distortions was identified and categorized into thematic groups. These categories were found to relate to the various stages of the offending cycle. A tentative model was generated that illustrates the relationship between the categories and the hypothesized sequence of thought facilitating the initiation and maintenance of sexually abusive behavior In addition, a number of cognitive processes were identified as contributing to offenders' beliefs. The study also reveals that the clergymen used their religious role and relationship with God within their distorted beliefs. These beliefs were predominantly concentrated in the areas of giving themselves permission to offend, denial of likelihood of getting caught, reduction of guilt after offending, and maintaining a positive sense of self.

This article argues that Freud's concept of 'transference-love' – the phenomenon where patients fall in love with their psychoanalysts – could become the basis for a theory of collective life. Freud's radical claim that transference-love, despite its immoral appearance, is real love is situated in relation to the problems facing the sociology of romantic love: modern couples are problematised for being unable to provide a normative foundation for not only sexual desire, but social solidarity outright. This article restates the problem: transference is not a lesson in how love resists norms, but how love is resistant to logic. Transference-love arises out of a social condition Georg Simmel called life's fragmentary character, marked by asymmetries appearing symmetrical: instead of transference being a case where we fall in love with the wrong person, transference is a case where our mistaken apprehensions of others is the precondition for our bonds to them. Viewed through the phenomenon of transference, love illuminates this asymmetrical form of life. It is argued that transference could be understood, sociologically, as demonstrating a logical impossibility to collective life: that a shared life together is possible, but nevertheless relies upon something that evades each of us. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The study contributes to interpreting the depiction of Blessed Ludovica Albertoni, which has become an identifying feature of Veronika Rónaiová's work. The depiction of Ludovica has its formal and semantic antecedents in the work of the Baroque sculptor G. L. Bernini. Since 1988, she has appeared regularly in Rónaiová's paintings, drawings on paper, on the wall, and her body. This study looks at these depictions from the perspective of the concept of Nachleben and Pathosformeln developed by Aby Warburg and followed up by Georges Didi-Huberman with his theory of anachronism. The concept of Nachleben draws attention to those forms that survive and return in art as if in the eternal return, and in this way, survive, like Rónaiová's Ludovika. The formula of ecstatic pathos, which is emphasized in the text, draws attention to the emotive gestures or emotional experiences that leave an artistic trace in subsequent artistic epochs. Rónaiová's depictions of Ludovica are interpreted in terms of the formula of ecstatic pathos generated by Baroque sculpture and emerging in contemporary artistic discourse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reviews the book "Reading Lacan's Écrits," which provides in-depth analysis of Lacan's work. While not suitable for beginners, the book offers valuable insights for serious students of Lacan. The article also discusses the film "Adieu Lacan," which portrays a fictionalized version of Lacan's treatment techniques. The film explores themes of immigration, gender disappointment, and the power of the unconscious. The text delves into session length as a technique in psychoanalysis, defense analysis, and the role of the analyst in helping patients express their unconscious desires. It also highlights the importance of adapting analytic concepts to diverse identities. [Extracted from the article]

In this contribution we discuss manic language phenomena within a Lacanian framework. Although Lacan only touches upon the phenomenon of mania on a few occasions, his seemingly scattered and scarcely elaborated comments on mania allow for the development of a coherent view of mania as a phenomenon of language. First, we situate flight of ideas as a phenomenon of the signifier rather than of signifieds, of language rather than of ideas, and propose to call this flight of signifiers. Then we comment and elaborate Lacan's comments on mania. Lacan qualifies the manic subject as being delivered to the endless metonymy of the signifying chain; and describes manic excitation as a return to the real of language. In both these instances, Lacan situates mania within the realm of psychosis and considers mania as a form of language gone mad. Next we discuss Lacan's notion of llanguage as a parasitic force of dysregulation and how this affects Lacan's view on manic language. Manic language is now no longer considered an instance of language gone mad, but is rather thought to reveal something of the madness of llanguage lurking beneath the surface of language. Throughout Lacan's sparse comments on mania the element of language is always prominent as is the question what manic language reveals about language as such. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The metaverse is equivocal. It is a science-fictional concept from the past; it is the present’s rough implementations; and it is the Promised Cyberland, expected to manifest some time in the future. The metaverse first emerged as a techno-capitalist network in a 1992 science fiction novel by Neal Stephenson. Our article thus marks the metaverse’s thirtieth anniversary. We revisit Stephenson’s original concept plus three sophisticated antecedents from 1972 to 1984: Jean Baudrillard’s simulation, Sherry Turkle’s networked identities, and Jacques Lacan’s schema of suggestible consumers hooked up to a Matrix-like capitalist network. We gauge the relevance of these three antecedents following Meta’s recent promise to deliver a metaverse for the mainstream and the emergence of blockchain-oriented metaverse projects. We examine empirical data from 2021 and 2022, sourced from journalistic and social media (BuzzSumo, Google Trends, Reddit, and Twitter) as well as the United States Patent and Trademark Office. This latest chapter of the metaverse’s convoluted history reveals a focus not on virtual reality goggles but rather on techno-capitalist notions like digital wallets, crypto-assets, and targeted advertisements. The metaverse’s wallet-holders collect status symbols like limited-edition profile pictures, fashion items for avatars, tradable pets and companions, and real estate. Motivated by the metaverse’s sophisticated antecedents and our empirical findings, we propose a subtle conceptual re-orientation that respects the metaverse’s equivocal nature and rejects sanitised solutionism. Do not let the phantasmagorical goggles distract you too much: Big Meta is watching you, and it expects you to become a wallet-holder. Blockchain proponents want this as well. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The suspension of social services in Hong Kong during the COVID-19 pandemic increased the caregiver strain for families of adolescent children with intellectual disabilities, possibly aggravating their family relationships. This article reports on an online Multi-Family Group (MFG) conducted during the pandemic for Hong Kong Chinese families of adolescents affected by mild-to-moderate intellectual disabilities. A thematic analysis of the experiences of the participating service users revealed three positive effects of the intervention model: improved family relationships, mutual helpful influences occurring among families, and a new understanding of family members with intellectual disabilities. The therapeutic group process used to promote family development is illustrated by a group vignette. The challenges and the practical considerations for conducting an MFG online are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper contributes to recent historiographical debates concerning the Soviet era and its ideological impact on Soviet psychology. It brings more nuance to an argument for the presence of engagement with psychoanalysis during the years 1930–80, and focuses on Bluma Zeigarnik's work during the Soviet period. The article seeks to explore possible encounters between Zeigarnik and psychoanalysis through her collaboration with Alexander Luria and Lev Vygotsky, known to be among those Russian psychologists who were inspired by psychoanalytic studies and developed Freud's ideas, and aims to bring attention to the fact that Zeigarnik was knowledgeable about Freud's work and his successors, and that consonance with his ideas can be found throughout her work on schizophrenia and the theory of pathopsychology. The article also outlines the often overlooked ideas Zeigarnik developed in the Soviet period of her career. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

And in that everyday, class does not present itself with a capital C, but it is no less powerful as a testimony to help us understand the current politics of class. These contributions and my own work also demonstrate the specificity of affective practices of transmission relating to particular work practices in specific geographical areas. How to work on the entangled history and present of classed affects? In that sense, feminist writing on class from that period, while certainly documenting women's political struggles at work (Berwick St Collective's I Nightcleaners i , [6]), also signalled the need to explore gendered experiences of class in a different way from that generally employed on the male-dominated Left. [Extracted from the article]

This paper examines whether religion contributes to offenders taking responsibility for crimes. Specifically, we assessed whether participation in The Prisoner's Journey (TPJ), a bible study program, increased or decreased responsibility-taking. We also examined whether religious offenders that did not participate in TPJ were likely to take responsibility for their offenses. For this study, we conducted a quasi-experiment in two Colombian and five South African prisons from 2018 to 2019, collecting data from personal interviews with a total of 73 inmates-42 TPJ participants and 31 non-participants-before and after the program. Offenders frequently offered subtle accounts of responsibility that incorporated their own agency with other factors. Highly religious offenders were equally likely to take responsibility, and in some cases participation in TPJ heightened responsibility. In sum, this paper presents evidence that religious beliefs and practice are commensurate with responsibility-taking and desistance from crime. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Inspired by the work of Fonagy (2008) and Dent and Christian (2019), this study applies a form of quantitative textual analysis to 300 terms of psychoanalytic interest in the PEP archives by tracking their historical prevalence in five-year increments using the aggregate number of articles featuring each term in the field's journals. Our results confirm some of the more well-known inflection points in the history and application of psychoanalytic theory, while also revealing some intriguing surprises. Psychoanalysis remains fundamentally a depth psychology, yet it has increasingly acknowledged the external causes of distress and trauma. Changes in the prevalence of terminology around psychopathology, defense mechanisms, development, gender and sexuality, and psychoanalytic technique are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this introduction, the editors outline the aim of the Free Clinics special issue: that of articulating a new vocabulary in psychoanalysis, which can reflect its dimensions of critical and progressive discourse and practice, while tracing the little-known histories of free psychoanalytic clinics. Through this special issue, new questions become possible about what it means to socialise and collectivise the practices that inscribe the social vocation of psychoanalysis. The issue focuses on collectives of clinicians invested in a socially minded psychoanalysis and on their innovations in clinical and institutional domains. An important question that the editors ask is: what resources does psychoanalysis hold in our times for grounding alternative forms of care? The editors also reflect on the ethics of social articulation and on the format that new inscriptions can take in psychoanalysis. The acts of communicating the projects presented in this special issue are necessarily heterogeneous, inflected in a multitude of ways depending on who the speakers are and where they are situated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Discussions of treatment and recovery from child sexual abuse often focus on the therapeutic aspects of speech and witness. Using concepts from Lacanian theory and from Sandor Ferenczi's account of child sexual trauma, this article argues that speech and witness are not, in themselves, sufficient to facilitate recovery. While misogyny and violence are embedded within the available symbolic contexts within which survivors must attempt to recover, social and political change is needed to enable recovery for survivors of sexual abuse. Implications for recovery from other socially sanctioned traumas, such as racial trauma, are explored. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Bullying has been shown to generate deleterious psychological effects leading to psychosocial, psychological and psychiatric disturbances. Based on qualitative research, the aim of this study is to investigate the internalization and psychodynamics of bullying and the extent to which bullying may fundamentally influence the individual's experience of self and other. We have conducted qualitative interviews with group therapy patients at a psychiatric clinic in Denmark, all of whom had been assigned to therapy due to depression, and all with severe experiences of bullying. Originally this was not the focus of their therapy, but our investigation indicates how different aspects of the patients' pathology appear to be linked to their prior experiences of bullying. We suggest that bullying may be perceived as a specific type of traumatic experience, and we posit that it may have disruptive effects on the internal self‐other representations, which the individual may have difficulties integrating at the symbolic level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Algorithmic Desire: Toward a New Structuralist Theory of Social Media offers an account of internet culture that draws as much on the Marxist theories of Fredric Jameson, Mark Fisher, and Maurizio Lazzarato as it does on the psychoanalytic theories of Jacques Lacan, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, and Slavoj Žižek (the last of whom falls into both camps). This essay emphasizes that through line for readers of Rethinking Marxism who may be skeptical of the book's psychoanalytic insights. In this reading, the perverse subject of social media, who cynically "knows very well" that they are wasting time on their phone, is also a potential activist, as shown not only by the role that social media has played in Iran, in the Arab Spring, and in Black Lives Matter but also in how we are "subjected" by the algorithms of our desire. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Taking its impetus from a piece of clinically derived creative non-fiction, this paper offers a tentative sketch of the basic features of perversion as understood through the lens of Lacanian psychoanalysis. While this piece of creative non-fiction cannot, by its very nature, be utilised in any direct manner as a clinical tool - its imaginative dimension mitigates against such a use - it can be used in a cursory manner as an illustrative device that helps introduce a series of Lacanian concepts. The fragment of the author's creative non-fiction helps illuminate Lacan's idea that the perverse subject makes themselves the object of the Other's jouissance. A series of corollary ideas flow from this puzzling diagnostic maxim. These include the ideas that there is always a perverse couple (as opposed to an isolated perverse individual) and that perversion invariably entails the performance of a demonstrative act staged for an Other of sorts (whether this Other be understood as standing in for the public or as embodying the institution of the law). Additional ideas discussed include the scopic drive and the phallic gaze as a vehicle of exhibitionism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Drawing on a table talk by Martin Luther, this essay first presents a new taxonomy of blasphemy, in which instances of injurious speech are distributed along four fundamental axes, which are designated as 'quality', 'source', 'judgement' and 'response'. This elementary taxonomy is then refined via a re-reading of the way in which blasphemy occurs in Freud's case-study of the Rat Man, which generates an additional axis, notably that of the 'object'. It is argued that the various components on the axes of blasphemy do not stand in a one-to-one relationship to one another, but follow a subjective pathway. This idiosyncratic, subjective dialectic of blasphemy is further substantiated with reference to the logic of the obsessional fantasy. Finally, it is concluded that a psychoanalytic approach to the question of blasphemy needs to start from a critique of the relationship between the subject and language, and from the observation that words have the power to heal as much as they have the ability to injure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Numerous novel planning concepts have been developed in pursuit of better urban environments, while many are notoriously difficult to define. Lacan's master signifier is widely employed to criticise these vague, fashionable concepts but lacks a specific examination tool. To fill this gap, this article develops an analytical framework based on Lacanian discourse analysis (LDA) to decipher the complex social relations in the process of applying new concepts to planning policymaking and practice. A comprehensive review of the UK urban village movement is used to demonstrate how this framework provides a deeper analysis, arguing that urban villages are understood differently depending on individual social positions, which, to some extent, determine their actions towards planning practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this essay, we theorize the fragmented nature of the alienation experienced by management scholars working in neoliberal universities. We argue that management scholars not only suffer from the detachment of labor from product (e.g., research and teaching) as material economic relations determine, but by adding a psychoanalytic perspective, we claim that they also must enjoy this process as a necessity of a neoliberal logic that reinforces anxiety. Hence, we argue that alienation should be approached as a potential to fulfill when considering troubling production relations in business schools. In terms of the implications addressing primarily our colleagues, we suggest hystericizing our alienation from our labor with simple acts of critique in management education and research. In other words, by hystericizing, we mean not only asking questions to produce more knowledge for the market, but also always staying in a questioning mode and being dissatisfied with the answers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article borrows from the lessons of dystopic science fiction to analyze fantasies that surround gender variance and perversion in the psychoanalytic clinic. Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is used to substrate Lacan's formations of perversion and their relationship to the paradoxical nature of desire. Lacan's idiosyncratic handling of perversion formulates an essential truth about the problematic nature of human desiring, a problem that must be creatively mitigated. This article postulates that quotidian difficulties of desire manifest symptomatically in psychoanalytic and psychiatric work with transgender patients through clinical expressions of transphobia. These claims are illustrated with a close reading of a 1948 clinical case study with a transgender analysand. The case pays special attention to the patient's pencil drawing, produced while in treatment, which visually represents their gender. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article proposes a psychoanalytic reading of 'radical philistinism' in museum contexts. Radical philistinism in the museum is defined as the proposition that curatorship can continue while civilisation falls and cultivation fails. The participation of museums in a cultural game that produces contingent bodily trauma in dominated groups, is contrasted with examples in which a psychoanalysis of the museum allows for a focus on curatorial acts that bring about a worsening or deterioration of the games of culture and civilisation in which the museum is enmeshed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The existence of nature is vehemently called into question in the Anthropocene. The standard image of nature as a pristine, harmonious, and stable background no longer holds, especially as ecological changes increasingly penetrate the collective consciousness. Consequently, there has been growing interest in the psychological effects of this end of nature. A recent wave of scholarship shows how climate change and the Anthropocene more generally affect people's daily lives and present significant threats to psychic well-being. This paper follows on from these debates. In contrast, however, we ask if and how nature is still considered as providing a subjective sense of (ontological) security today. We argue that, even under postnatural conditions, nature still maintains an imaginary existence in the social reality of the subject. We address this argument empirically by focusing on everyday life perceptions of nature in the city of Vancouver, British Columbia, and theoretically by following the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. Drawing on image-based interviews (photo-elicitation), we demonstrate that a psychoanalytic approach to imaginary environments allows us to understand why people state that they love nature even though it does not exist. We show how this love works by pointing out how nature is considered as (m)other and, through this, engaged as a place to retreat and escape from the burdens of everyday life while being perceived from a certain distance. In conclusion, we emphasise the broader political consequences of the imaginary existence of nature and call for further engagement with the persistence of nature's fantasy in times when nature seems to no longer fit the purpose. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sexual abuse is a cross-cultural phenomenon related to multiple cultural contexts including religious affiliation. The Haredi, or Orthodox Jewish community (OJC), constitutes a significant minority group of the worldwide Jewish population, characterized by cultural conservatism, steadfast loyalty to the community, and strict religious behavioral codes. To date, only few empirical studies (as opposed to multiple media reports) have dealt with the issue of sexual abuse within the OJC. Using Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines, we conducted a systematic review of the literature on sexual abuse within the OJC and its subgroups that addresses experiences and reports of victims, perpetrators, the Jewish and general community, and professionals in the North America, Israel, and Australia. Articles were collected from peer-reviewed databases and bibliographies; 13 quantitative and qualitative articles were included in the final sample. Three themes emerged: disclosure of sexual abuse, perceptions and attitudes toward the abuse, and its implications. Results indicated that alongside several findings that were specifically grounded in the context of closed collective or religious societies and the OJC in particular, most essentially reflected universal aspects of sexual abuse. The results suggest promoting context-informed interventions based on community knowledge and resilience, together with appropriate training in order to better understand the needs of the OJC and of closed communities in general. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]