Rom J Psychoanal 2021, 14(2):7-12
DOI: 10.2478/rjp-2021-0014
The main direction of the Romanian Journal of Psychoanalysis’ current issue could have as its goal thinking as a whole, the ineffability that is created before the emotional bond of the therapeutic alliance and has its roots in the very concept of resonance, from unconscious to unconscious, analytical function and auxiliary mind. To build as a whole with your patient, for your patient, in his place, to fill in gaps of emotion or artistic gaps, an artist of “mud” or of hope, of good or evil.
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Rom J Psychoanal 2021, 14(2):17-30
DOI: 10.2478/rjp-2021-0015
This article considers the relationships between brothers and sisters from the angle of a more primitive problematic which encompasses them. The archaic bond to the mother, with its moments of subject/object confusion and envious aggressiveness, pervades the ordinary rivalry proper to the fraternal bond – which is a corollary of the specular structure of the self, between narcissistic triumph and annihilation.
An adult clinical case shows the traumatic depressant impact, in the transferential aftermath, of the birth of a younger brother – and how analysis was able to unravel this neurotic complex.
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Keywords: archaic, envy, identification, mother, fraternal relationship, specular
Rom J Psychoanal 2021, 14(2):31-42
DOI: 10.2478/rjp-2021-0016
The appearance of a younger child, brother or sister, may represent a decisive moment in the existence of the first born. The possibly violent exit from the Eden-like universe of primary narcissism, of limitless self-love, via the birth of a second child represents a structuring experience, which forces the repositioning of the Ego in a manner similar to the hierarchic positioning within the primitive horde. In this context, the discovery and exploration of the other seems to become the main form of access to the construction of the Ego in the presence of an alterity that carries the mark of a narcissistic wound.
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Keywords: primary narcissistic investment, uncanny, double, doppelganger, alterity, fraternal complex, psychic labour
Rom J Psychoanal 2021, 14(2):45-50
DOI: 10.2478/rjp-2021-0017
I shall begin with several vignettes which I’ve associated to the patient « Adrien » from François Richard’s presentation, and then I will move on to refer more closely to this remarkably rich and sophisticated paper that opens our reflection to many registers of psychic functioning with respect to the issue of the fraternal.
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Rom J Psychoanal 2021, 14(2):53-62
DOI: 10.2478/rjp-2021-0018
With respect to same-sex parenting, we are obliged to take a renewed look at the relevance of the theory of the Oedipus complex in its « simple » form, just as Freud himself found it necessary to do (Freud 1923b). We could argue that the psychical flexibility that is typical of human beings helps same-sex parents to implement in their children a fantasy scenario that supports the structuring of their psychical organization.
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Keywords: Oedipal complex, same sex parents, enigmatic messages, translation
Rom J Psychoanal 2021, 14(2):63-80
DOI: 10.2478/rjp-2021-0019
The principle of a clinical setting, created in a centre for autistic children in Greece (The Perivolaki 3), was based on the combination of different mediations within a given group workshop: reproducing sounds, movements, drawings and then reformulating the patterns in a different register. In this article I propose the theoretical-clinical support of this setting on psychoanalytic and neurocognitive data and hypotheses related to the processes of intrasubjective linking and intersubjective links, which I consider to be co-emerging, during normal development and in early pathologies (autisms). Transmodality, affective tuning, primary symbolizations and metaphorization processes are also questioned by this double point of view.
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Keywords: autisms, early development, primary symbolization, shared aesthetic pleasure, therapeutic mediation, transmodal metaphor
Rom J Psychoanal 2021, 14(2):83-96
DOI: 10.2478/rjp-2021-0020
Psychoanalytic thinking was born in the psychoanalytic relationship and its biography begins in the first persson plural, us. Maybe this plural, me and my patient, is at first only in the mind of the therapist clearly stated. My patient and I are concerned from the beginning to find together those mental, emotional connections that will open the way for the therapeutic process. We are, as Donnel Stern says, partners in thought, a paradoxical thought, which feeds and creates from the intimate substance of our encounter, in the cabinet, but also in the mind of each of us, in which we receive the Other, in all the metamorphosis of transference.
Probably the most difficult thing in this adventure is to succeed in creating a relational field, often implicit, in which it is possible to meet deeply the two lives and histories of ours, from which then is born the narrow edge of therapeutic intimacy that Ehrenberg so beautifully and honestly uncovered in her book.
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Keywords: psychoanalytical thinking, relational matrix, transference-countertransference, the analyst’s subjectivity, relational field
Rom J Psychoanal 2021, 14(2):97-112
DOI: 10.2478/rjp-2021-0021
This paper summarizes and extends the author’s view of the need for a two-track theory of psychoanalysis, transformational as well as archeological, and its application to patients and mind states that are ‘beyond neurosis’ at the limits of analyzability. Considerations of the unstructured unconscious, the transformational movement from unrepresented to represented states, the role of intuition and construction in the completion of perceptions, memories, phantasies, desires and other drive derivatives are presented and explored.
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Keywords: unrepresented states, transformations, unstructured unconscious, Fundamental Epistemological Position, analytic situation, fear of breakdown, construction
Rom J Psychoanal 2021, 14(2):113-124
DOI: 10.2478/rjp-2021-0022
Using the notes of Ferenczi throughout the Clinical Diary, I recomposed his work with patient B., through which, together with patient R.N., Ferenczi came to encounter the psychogenesis of trauma and mental shock, urging him to develop a theory and a technique of working with trauma, constantly seeking healing and treatment. Based on this clinical excerpt, I discuss about trauma, approached theoretically and technically, emphasizing both the importance of knowing the mechanisms of trauma and the importance of healing, through communication from affect to affect, which allows a chance for rearrangement.
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Keywords: trauma, traumatic factors, repetitive trauma, post-traumatic
Rom J Psychoanal 2021, 14(2):127-132
DOI: 10.2478/rjp-2021-0023
There are books that make the reader feeling so delightful and passionate, when he or she is discovering the beauty of the author`s thinking and the multiple dimensions of his/her discourse. As Roland Barthes mentioned in his book The pleasure of the text: “The pleasure of the sentence is to a high degree cultural.
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Rom J Psychoanal 2021, 14(2):133-140
DOI: 10.2478/rjp-2021-0024
Taking Winnicott’s concept of transitional space as a starting point, I extend it to the idea of a transitional time (the temporal interval between two events) and to that of a bridge space/time – a bridge being a structure spanning an obstacle for the purpose of providing passage over it. In the process, I make reference to a variety of psychological and cultural phenomena that we experience in our daily lives, and more specifically in our analytic work. These include the transference, rites of passage, various kinds of silences, sexuality, borderline personality disorders, and the arts (in particular, music and cinema).
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Keywords: transitional time, bridge space/time, transference, virginity, silence, music
