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“It Never Entered My Mind”

The dissociative mind in psychoanalysis

July 10, 2018 • by Philip M. Bromberg

The Dissociative Mind in Psychoanalysis: Understanding and Working with Trauma elucidates the latest theory, practice, and research on trauma and dissociation within psychoanalysis. The volume contains meditations on the linkage of complex trauma and dissociative problems in living, different modalities for the treatment of trauma and their theoretical underpinnings, as well as ...

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Psychoanalysis and Cyberspace

Shifting Frames and Floating Bodies

July 2, 2018 • by Luca Caldironi

Reconsidering the Moveable Frame in Psychoanalysis: Its Function and Structure in Contemporary Psychoanalytic theory, edited by Isaac Tylim and Adrienne Harris, explores, and troubles, the idea of "the frame" at a time when the concept is undergoing both a systematic recrudescence and widespread transformation within psychoanalytic theory. It has always ...

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Choose Your Pill

Operations of Capital, Psychiatry, and the Construction of Gender

June 27, 2018 • by Franco Palazzi

I In his book Testo Junkie , Paul B. Preciado provides us with a provocative, original reading of contemporary capitalism, conceived as a pharmacopornographic regime. This term refers to “the processes of biomolecular (pharmaco) and semiotic-technical (pornographic) government of sexual subjectivity” that, although possibly rooted in the nineteenth century, became visible as a new ...

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On Relational Psychoanalysis

An Interview with Emmanuel Ghent

June 26, 2018 • by Lewis Aron

We dedicate this interview to the late Jeremy Safran, a distinguished professor in the New School of Social Research's Psychology Department and a senior editor of Public Seminar, in the week of his memorial service to honor his legacy. Emmanuel Ghent was one of the founders of relational psychoanalysis, and his ideas ...

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There’s Blood on Your Binary

The social and corporeal costs of gender dualism

June 13, 2018 • by Ceilidh Webster

“We are only ever better when we are many and varied.” Anna Julia Cooper A Voice from the South, 1898. More than a hundred years after they were written, Anna Julia Cooper’s words are both timeless and timely -- and yet the message has still not been received. Our world is one where we ...

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Authoritarianism and the Cultic Dynamic

Traumatic Narcissism in American Politics Today

June 8, 2018 • by Daniel Shaw

I spent thirteen years of my life, including all of my thirties, as a fervent devotee of an Indian guru. I lived communally and worked full-time in the guru’s organization, until one day, after a long process I now know was me slowly coming out of dissociation, it dawned on ...

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The Spy who Psychoanalyzed Me

Psychology’s long and shameful history with torture

May 28, 2018 • by Tristan Chirico

After a highly controversial confirmation process, Gina Haspel is now director of the CIA. At the heart of the controversy surrounding her nomination were Haspel's alleged ties to the systematic torture of terrorism suspects conducted at so-called “black sites” during the Bush Era -- one of which Haspel oversaw in ...

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On Recovering Memories and Truths

A psychoanalyst reflects on Jennifer Fox’s new film

May 27, 2018 • by Velleda C. Ceccoli

Those of us in the mental health field, and in particular those of us who work in the area of trauma are too familiar with the sequalae of sexual trauma as well as the grooming behaviors that go into it. We have heard many narratives and personal stories of painful ...

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The Modernity of Sandor Ferenczi

A Life inscribed within the crucible of the history of the psychoanalytic movement

May 9, 2018 • by Thierry Bokanowski

This is an excerpt from chapter 2 of The Modernity of Sándor Ferenczi: his historical and contemporary importance in psychoanalysis, by Thierry Bokanowski. By providing a concise yet thorough overview of the life and work of Sandor Ferenczi, The Modernity of Sandor Ferenczi seeks to help make his thought and work better known. ...

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Freud’s Jaw and Other Lost Objects

Fractured Subjectivity in the Face of Cancer

May 1, 2018 • by Lana Lin

Public Seminar spoke to Lana Lin, author of Freud’s Jaw and Other Lost Objects, about the genesis of the book, psychoanalysis, and art-making. Q&A with Lana Lin Public Seminar (PS): Why did you write Freud’s Jaw and Other Lost Objects: Fractured Subjectivity in the Face of Cancer ? Lana Lin (LL): I had been training to become ...

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In Between Her Legs

Theorizing feminine space

April 25, 2018 • by Ceilidh Webster

“There is no getting round the fact that each man and woman came out of a woman.” -- D.W. Winnicott, 1964 In her recent book Feminine Law: Freud, Speech and the Voice of Desire, psychoanalyst and clinical psychologist Jill Gentile puts forth a call to name the vagina. Through rigorous analysis ...

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The Demonization of Ethel Rosenberg

An excerpt from Trans-generational Trauma and the Other

April 24, 2018 • by Adrienne Harris

The Demonization of Ethel Rosenberg, by Adrienne Harris, appears in Trans-generational Trauma and the Other, a volume of essays published in 2017 psychoanalytically meditating on the question of the transgenerational transmission of trauma, metastasizing and alienated historical ghosts, and the inter-subjectivity of Big History. Public Seminar spoke with Dr Harris – who is, among many ...