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OTHER/WISE VOLUME 9 WINTER 2012 Welcome to the online journal of the International Forum for Psychoanalytics Education. Other/Wise is a journal that reflects the commitment of IFPE to originality, creativity, and diversity of thought. We welcome contributions of scholarly papers, clinical papers, personal narratives, and psychoanalytically oriented short stories, poetry, art work, and music. Check out the web version of the journal at http://ifpe.wordpress.com to leave comments. What’s in a name? Encountering ideas in ways other than expected allows us to see things we might otherwise overlook. The word otherwise suggests that experiencing that which is different can make us wise. With this in mind we created OTHER/WISE, an unconventional online journal that makes room for the familiar and the unfamiliar in understanding psychoanalysis. Through observation, art, reading, thinking, day dreaming and ideas not yet thought our journal pursues psychoanalysis with a language of passion and desire. This Issue’s ContriButors: • Jon Mills • Louis Breger • Merle Molofsky • Claudia Ruivo Carreira • Karen Morris • Maria do Rosário Dias • Ronald C. Naso • Hailey Doran • Joseph Scarpati • Oren Gozlan • Stefanie Teitelbaum • Warren Holt • Robert Waska • Les Von Losberg This Issue’s Contributors TABLE OF CONTENTS Other/Wise Volume 9 Winter 2012 .............................................................................................................................................. 1 Editors’ Introduction ............................................................................................................................................................. 3 Autobiographical Discoveries ........................................................................................................................................................ 5 Our Daily Bread: The Body and Blood in the Sexual Exploitation of Children by Karen Morris, LP, NCPsyA ........................ 5 Bloom Town Quartet: For Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York City by Karen Morris ................................................ 14 Just Eat My Fingers: Feasting on the Primary Process By Stefanie Teitelbaum, LCSW ....................................................... 17 Entering the Consulting Room ..................................................................................................................................................... 26 Seven Sessions In: Modern Kleinian Therapy and one patient’s Somatic Retreat from Unbearable Loss by Robert Waska ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 26 What Works in Analytic Psychotherapy? By Louis Breger, Ph.D. ....................................................................................... 42 Articles ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 47 Humbert, Nabokov and the Ego Ideal by Warren Holt ....................................................................................................... 47 No Masters Fall from the Sky: THerapeutic Alliance and Attachment in Speech Therapy Settings by Claudia Ruivo Carreira and Maria do Rosário Dias ..................................................................................................................................... 54 Life By Jon Mills .................................................................................................................................................................. 71 Not Your Daddy’s Murder Ballad by Les Von Losberg ........................................................................................................ 74 Femininity: the influence of things unseen. by Oren Gozlan .............................................................................................. 82 Ordinary Response to Enigma: Reflection on Merle Molofsky’s “Vin Ordinaire” by Oren Gozlan, Psy.D, ABPP ................ 84 The Tenderness of Gender Meets the Harshness of the Psychoanalytic Clinic by Oren Gozlan, Psy.D. ............................. 88 Parental Alienation: The Relevance of Psychoanalytic Thinking by Ronald C. Naso, Ph.D., ABPP ...................................... 92 Creative Work ............................................................................................................................................................................ 100 Cemetary Contemplations by Joseph Scarpati ................................................................................................................. 100 Seeing the Flow of People by Hailey Dora ........................................................................................................................ 106 Book Review .............................................................................................................................................................................. 111 Stories from the Bog: On Madness, Philosophy, and Psychoanalysis Review by Merle Molofsky .................................. 111 Braided Selves: Collected Essays on Multiplicity, God, and Persons Review by Merle Molofsky .................................... 119 IFPE Other/Wise Page 2 of 122 Volume 9, Winter 2012 Editors’ Introduction EDITORS’ INTRODUCTION Welcome from the Editor: “The secret of the psychoanalytic method is the very engagement of a discourse wherein the fixity and certainty of any proferred epistemic configuration are dislodged… what psychoanalysis offers, the subject is thus its discourse as Otherwise.” Barrett, B. (1993). Psychoanalysis and the Postmodern Impulse: Knowing and Being Since Freud’s Psychology. Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore (p. 42). Welcome to the ninth issue of Other/Wise. We invite you on a journey of the imagination, an intellectual adventure, a discovery of a journal dedicated to psychoanalysis and the creative arts. Our psychoanalytic articles may be scholarly, theoretical, clinical, research-oriented, self- revelatory, and more, from all psychoanalytic outlooks -- including psychoanalytic outlooks that are discovering their own existence as they take their place in each issue of the journal. Most issues include two special categories, “Entering the Consulting Room,” featuring clinical work, and “Autobiographical Discoveries: Our Psyches, Our Selves,” featuring the personal journey. We have published creative works such as short stories, poems, plays, visual art, and music, works that illuminate internal unconscious process or any aspect of the human condition that engages us from the depth perspective. A new pronoun – switching from the editorial “We,” an actual we signifying the Editorial Board, to an “I,” the voice of the current Editor, Merle Molofsky. I have served Other/Wise for two and a half years, as Co-Editor with Richard Raubolt starting in Spring 2010, and then as Editor from Fall 2010 to Winter 2012. It has been a joy to experience the creative energy of all our contributors, and to discover their insights, vision, and knowledge. This is my last issue as Editor, and I look forward to the richness of future issues. Other/Wise will be “guest edited” each issue by the chairs of the IFPE Annual Conference, and will publish once a year. As ever, Other/Wise will represent the values of the International Forum for Psychoanalytic Education, welcoming creativity, originality, depth of thought, and open dialogue. We look forward to publishing articles that were first offered as presentations at the IFPE conferences, and welcome submissions from anyone with an interest in psychoanalysis and who is presenting at an IFPE conference. IFPE Other/Wise Page 3 of 122 Volume 9, Winter 2012 Editors’ Introduction This issue is somewhat unusual because we are changing to a new format in 2013. I want to honor the commitments I made to contributors as editor, and therefore we are publishing three works by a single author, Oren Gozlan, as all three works were accepted for publication, and were going to be spaced out in three different issues. I also am publishing two book reviews I wrote, that I had planned to publish in two different issues. One of the articles Oren Gozlan wrote is a psychoanalytic commentary about a short story I wrote, "Vin Ordinaire", published in August 2012 in the online journal Moondance, so there is a bit more of "me" in this one issue than ordinarily I would have planned. I hope you enjoy our "somewhat unusual" issue, and the issues in our new format coming up in 2013 and beyond! I warmly welcome the 2013 Editors, Laurence Greene, Tina Griffin, and Rachel Newcombe. Submissions for the year 2013 should be sent electronically to Rachel Newcombe, [email protected]. Merle Molofsky, Editor IFPE Other/Wise Page 4 of 122 Volume 9, Winter 2012 Our Daily Bread: The Body and Blood in the Sexual Exploitation of Children By Karen Morris AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL DISCOVERIES OUR DAILY BREAD: THE BODY AND BLOOD IN THE SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN BY KAREN MORRIS, LP, NCPSYA The present paper was originally comprised of two individual and related presentations[1] that began with a dream, was shared as dream work and continued as a dialogue between siblings, one a psychoanalyst, the other a Roman Catholic priest. As a set-pair, each paper is reliant upon the other as they develop out of the relationship and life experiences of