Contemporary Psychoanalytic Musings

Speaking of  existential anxiety [see post 7-12-14] and, with the knowledge of death,  living authentically, Philip Larkin renders it poign...

Kohut wrote that modern man had moved from the Freudian 19 th Century  ‘guilty man’ [conflicted about libidinal and aggressive strivings, ...

"Come and play with me," proposed the little prince."I am so unhappy." "I cannot play with you," the fox sa...

When we think of multiplicity and dissociation we think of Phillip Bromberg who wrote the beautifully rendered Standing in the Spaces (199...

On this day fifty years ago, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which outlawed discrimination based on race, sex, color, creed, and national ori...

What is and what is true depends on one’s perspective. One hundred years ago today, the assassinations in Sarajevo of Archduke Franz Ferdin...

Another interesting paper on countertransference is by Zachrisson who sees countertransference as “the analyst’s participation in the rel...

Can candidates in training, or even seasoned analysts, ever tire of discussing our ‘countertransference’ and the importance of our self ref...

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Aron enumerates various ways we conceive of "something beyond the dyad” called the [analytic] third :   “a context within which we eme...