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WINTER/SPRING 2021 Volume 55, No. 1 Magazine of The American Psychoanalytic Association All That Is Solid Melts into Air: INSIDE THIS Zooming in Unprecedented Times ISSUE Jeffrey Prager “All that is solid melts into air, all that sanctity and solidity of the consulting is holy is profaned.” In his 1848 The room has been upended, dramatically Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx replaced by the technological limitations anticipates how capitalism depends on proscribed by the internet. Long before Covid-19, George Floyd, constant technological innovation with the coronavirus, psychoanalysis Racism, Psychoanalysis, increasingly efficient machinery in his struggled with how enthusiastically to and Music time and, now, with the globalization of embrace this new technological capacity Julie Jaffee Nagel the marketplace, an ever-improving that enables the therapist to practice his internet. For Marx, this process always or her trade absent in-the-room CrossCurrents Part II results in worsening and thinning interaction. Today, we are faced with no relationships between human beings. A alternative: We exist in a post-viral age. Lisa Roth, Tareq Yaqub, person’s value increasingly becomes What had suddenly occurred, I imagined, Matthew von Unwerth defined as transaction; vestiges of was the degradation of my working day. humane, more ethical bonds between What had been holy between me and my Holmes Commission one another disappear. Connections patient was profaned. Dorothy E. Holmes, between people that had once been solid Months into our lockdown, I do not Dionne Powell, Anton Hart, and stable dissolve over time becoming speak so confidently. The virtual always more ephemeral and instrumental. experience, as a rule, is not as bad as I Beverly J. Stoute As that process within capitalism reaches imagined. Without a doubt, it is a its denouement, Marx insists, “Man is at different way to engage with another. Film: Id(e)a last compelled to face with sober senses, No longer can I ensure a physical space Giuseppe Civitarese his real conditions of life, and his for my patients to explore their inner relations with his kind.” worlds or the privacy of their own Finding Order in Meaning, For now, because of the pandemic, thoughts. Instead, they confront the real Being and Becoming through only “virtual” psychoanalytic constraints imposed by their living relationships are possible. For us, the arrangements. Some of my patients have Memoir: An Interview adapted more successfully than others. with Joan Wheelis The few patients who decided to take a Fred L. Griffin Jeffrey Prager, Ph.D., is research hiatus from treatment, while expressing professor of sociology, interim chair of the various reasons including “not having APsaA’s Fellows 2020-2021 Department of Information Studies at anything to talk about,” nonetheless UCLA, and training and supervising seem less able to pursue their own self- analyst at the New Center for Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles. Continued on page 5 THE AMERICAN PSYCHOANALYST • Volume 55, No. 1 • Winter/Spring 2021 1 CONTENTS: Winter/Spring 2021 THE AMERICAN PSYCHOANALYTIC ASSOCIATION President: Bill Glover Reimagining APsaA - Continued Bill Glover and Kerry Sulkowicz President-Elect: Kerry Sulkowicz 3 Secretary: Bonnie Buchele Treasurer: Julio G. Calderon Executive Director: Thomas H. Newman 7 Covid-19, George Floyd, Racism, Psychoanalysis, and Music Julie Jaffee Nagel THE AMERICAN PSYCHOANALYST Magazine of the 8 CrossCurrents Michael Slevin, Special Section Editor American Psychoanalytic Association Coronavirus Has Infected the Internet! Lisa Roth Editor Time Travel, Teleportation, and Telepsychiatry Tareq Yaqub Lyn Yonack The Frame and the Lens Matthew von Unwerth Special Section Editor Michael Slevin Education Editor 11 Diversities Justin Shubert, Diversity Editor Alan Sugarman Analyzing Psychoanalytic Racism Mark J. Blechner Diversity Editor Notes from the Inaugural Meeting of the Justin Shubert Holmes Commission on Racial Equality in APsaA Candidate Editor Sheryl Silverstein Dorothy E. Holmes, Dionne R. Powell, Anton Hart, and Beverly J. Stoute Book Review Editors Arlene Kramer Richards and Arnold Richards Film: Id(e)a Giuseppe Civitarese 16 Science Editor Robert Galatzer-Levy Psychotherapy Editor Finding Order in Meaning, Being and Becoming through Memoir: 18 Ann H. Dart An Interview with Joan Wheelis Fred L. Griffin Child and Adolescent Editor Leon Hoffman Editorial Board Psychoanalysis in a Broken World: 21 Phillip Freeman, Peter Loewenberg, Who We Are and What We Might Become Judith Logue, Julie Jaffee Nagel, Thomas H. Newman, ex officio Manuscript and Production Editors 24 APsaA’s Excellent New Fellows for 2020-2021 Michael and Helene Wolff, Technology Management Communications The Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis in the The American Psychoanalyst is published three times a year. 27 Subscriptions are provided automatically to members of The Time of Covid Deborah Fried and Bonnie Becker American Psychoanalytic Association. For non-members, domestic and Canadian subscription rates are $36 for individuals and $80 for institutions. Outside the U.S. and Canada, rates are $56 for individuals and $100 for institutions. Committee on Psychoanalytic Study (COPS) Gail Glenn, Chair 28 To subscribe to The American Psychoanalyst, visit https:// Study Group on Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience Charles P. Fisher www.apsa.org/product/american-psychoanalyst-domestic- and-canadian-individuals, or write TAP Subscriptions, The American Psychoanalytic Association, 309 East 49th Street, New York, New York 10017; call 212-752-0450 x18 or 29 A Psychoanalytic Approach to Combating Racism Margarita Cereijido e-mail [email protected]. Copyright © 2020 The American Psychoanalytic Association. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any Psychoanalytic Education in the Age of the Pandemic 30 form or by any means without the written permission of The Alan Sugarman, Education Editor American Psychoanalytic Association, 309 East 49th Street, New York, New York 10017. ISSN 1052-7958 32 Psychoanalysis Underwater Luke Hadge The American Psychoanalytic Association does not hold itself responsible for statements made in The American Psychoanalyst by contributors or advertisers. Unless otherwise stated, material in The American Psychoanalyst does not reflect the endorsement, official attitude, or position of The American Psychoanalytic Correspondence and letters to the editor should be sent to TAP editor, Association or The American Psychoanalyst. Lyn Yonack, at [email protected]. 2 THE AMERICAN PSYCHOANALYST • Volume 55, No. 1 • Winter/Spring 2021 FROM THE PRESIDENTS trauma and suffering. We urgently need Reimagining APsaA – Continued a strong national voice to impact Bill Glover and Kerry Sulkowicz interdisciplinary and public conver- sations and promote our values and thinking, support research, influence Reimagining APsaA Membership public policy, and advocate for psycho- A Home for Psychoanalytic Thought analytically based treatment while and Practices listening to and learning from others. How will we define the family that APsaA can provide this voice and reaffirm lives in the APsaA home? The its leading role in mental health by philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein actively including members from the suggested replacing the essence of a broader psychoanalytic community. category or a concept (to determine Bill Glover Kerry Sulkowicz The potential for broadening the what belongs and what does not) with scope of APsaA membership has been family resemblance, that is, there are demonstrated by the enthusiastic Our first column, in the fall issue of similarities and differences, but not response to the spontaneous opening TAP, on “Reimagining APsaA” gave a one characteristic common to all. of our institutional borders during the broad vision for the Association’s future. Adapting what he says to the concept Covid-19 pandemic. We are providing This vision builds on multiple efforts-– of psychoanalytic: Our family includes resources to the public, free training the Strategic Planning Task Force, calls all psychoanalytic thought and and peer consultation to mental for racial justice, taking positions and practices, their features overlapping health professionals who are adapting organizing programs on social issues, and crisscrossing. We extend our their practice during the pandemic correcting injustices within APsaA, all concept of psychoanalytic as in and opening our Covid Town Halls to the work that led to the 6-Point Plan spinning a thread we twist fiber on the entire psychoanalytic community. with the restructuring of governance fiber. And the strength of the thread We are perceived as more welcoming and the creation of the Department of does not reside in the fact that one and hospitable, and it is a breath of fresh Psychoanalytic Education (DPE), and fiber runs through its whole length many more. air to see so many new faces joining but in the overlapping of many fibers. familiar ones. The features of Reimagining stem from — Britt-Marie Schiller, Head, Department The scope of Reimagining APsaA our evolution in governance, educational of Psychoanalytic Education standards, social engagement, self- membership follows over 20 years of examination on race and gender, while One decade into its second century, considering membership for psycho maintaining excellence in psychoanalytic APsaA is poised to become a richer and analytic psychotherapists. Many education. more