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Division Review Divisiona Quarterly Psychoanalytic Forum No.4 Summer 2012 a Quarterly Psychoanalytic Forum No.19 Summer 2019 DIVISION REVIEW DIVISIONA QUARTERLY PSYCHOANALYTIC FORUM NO.4 SUMMER 2012 A QUARTERLY PSYCHOANALYTIC FORUM NO.19 SUMMER 2019 DENT | Christian, Gherovici, Plotkin Psychoanalysis in the Barrios INTERVIEW BOOK REVIEWS WORDS & SEEING RELATIONAL SELF PERVERSION TODAY MATHES | Fried ROTHSCHILD | Kieffer WOLFF BERNSTEIN | Knafo & Lo Bosco COMMENTARY BENVENUTO | GENGA, FLABBI, PEDICONI, TSOLAS | AUTISM & PSYCHOANALYSIS A ROUNDTABLE: HEALING AND TERMINATION ALCÉE | READING THE CHANGES: FREUD’S IMPROVISATIONAL ART 2019 SCHILLINGER PRIZE GROSE | FROSCH REMINISCENCE PHOTOGRAPHY DAVID HUMPHREY Psychoanalysis in the Barrios A coversation with Loren Dent Psychoanalysis in the Barrios: Race, for that reading is one of them. The bi-di- following conversation with Loren Dent, Class and the Unconscious (2019) is a col- rectional interplay among theories, histo- (Web Site Editor, DIVISION/Review). lection of thirteen essays explicitly on the ry, and practice is told in reference to the relationship between psychoanalysis and Latin American story but the lessons to be LD: Please share a bit about how this ‘the Latino population’. However, its latent learned are for psychoanalysis in general. collection came to be. meanings go far beyond that focus. How This past spring, two of the Editors culture and history not only are read by of the collection (Patricia Gherovici and CC: The origin really was prompted psychoanalysis but how they in turn write Christopher Christian) and one of the by a number of very successful events that the psychoanalysis that is then the frame contributors (Mariano Plotkin) had the we had at the New School, co-sponsored Official publication of Division of Psychoanalysis (39) of the American Psychological Association Psychoanalysis in the Barrios laughing and clapping—there was just an LD: The introduction of the collec- A coversation with Loren Dent from page 1 enormous amount of energy around the tion speaks to the segregation of the psy- film and the issues that we were address- chotherapies across class, ethnicity, and by the New School and Institute for ing. Following the success of the film, which race. Those who have trained and/or Psychoanalytic Training and Research since has been screened across the United worked in community health settings are EDITOR (IPTAR). One of them was a conference States in different institutions, it seemed nat- familiar with a culture of hopelessness and CONTENTS David Lichtenstein on Latin American contributions to psy- ural to think of developing an edited book a dynamic that is still ubiquitous, where- SENIOR EDITORS choanalysis. And, a year later, anoth- on the subject, and Patricia was the obvious by Latino and Hispanic patients, among Steven David Axelrod, J. Todd Dean, William Fried, er conference titled Psychoanalysis in the person to contact as co-editor. She agreed. other racial and ethnic minorities, are William MacGillivray, Marian Margulies, Bettina Barrio. The third thing that was instru- deemed “treatment resistant,” “unanalyz- INTERVIEW Mathes, Henry Seiden, Manya Steinkoler mental in making us think later about the PG: I owe my participation in this able,” “concrete,” and so on. Such patients 1 Patricia Gherovici The Interview on Psychoanalysis in the Barrios CONTRIBUTING EDITORS book was the documentary, Psychoanalysis project to Chris, who approached me. are often referred to skills groups or other Ricardo Ainslie, Christina Biedermann, Christopher Christian & A coversation with Loren Dent in El Barrio [2016], which was funded by What convinced was a surprising experi- symptom-focused treatments. Chris Bonovitz, Steven Botticelli, Mariano Plotkin Ghislaine Boulanger, Muriel Dimen, a grant from Psychoanalytic Electronic ence. I have been to many psychoanalytic Patricia Gherovici, Peter Goldberg, Publishing. When we premiered the docu- events and often find the tone serious, if not PG: There has been a de-politici- Adrienne Harris, Elliott Jurist, Jane Kupersmidt, mentary, we were struck by the enormous somber. Sometimes, we sense a fear that zation of the American development of Paola Mieli, Donald Moss, Ronald Naso, BOOK REVIEWS Donna Orange, Robert Prince, Allan Schore, amount of enthusiasm it generated, espe- psychoanalysis might not survive. When psychoanalysis, because in the United Robert Stolorow, Nina Thomas, Usha Tummala, cially from younger clinicians. I had been we had the opening night for the documen- States, it became a sub-medical specialty. 7 Bettina Mathes Critical Flicker Fusion: Psychoanalysis at the Movies Jamieson Webster, Lynne Zeavin on the program committee at IPTAR and tary, it felt like a party, which is quite un- Psychoanalysis developed as a very profit- by William Fried usual; we had such a lively response in the able profession. The goal that was that the WEB SITE EDITOR we had hosted a number of talks over the Loren Dean past couple of years, including talks by re- audience. As Chris said, there was laughing, psychoanalyst should make as much mon- 10 Louis Rothschild Mutuality, recognition, and the self: nowned speakers such as Elizabeth Dantos cheering, clapping, people were comment- ey as the plastic surgeon, which entailed Psychoanalytic reflections BOOK REVIEW EDITOR Brian Smith and George Makari. For these events, we ing out loud, and there was this very ex- a deviation, a forgetting of how psycho- by Christine C. Kieffer were used to getting rooms that typically cited atmosphere, it felt like psychoanaly- analysis was conceived by Freud himself. PHOTOGRAPHY BY sat about 100 to 160 people. sis had something new to offer. This made In his famous speech in Hungary between 12 Jeanne Wolff Bernstein The Age of Perversion: David Humphrey Well, within a week of announcing the me think that perhaps it was the reverse. It the two wars, he proposed psychoanaly- Desire and Technology in Psychoanalysis and Culture IMAGES EDITOR screening of Psychoanalysis and El Barrio, we was not so much that psychoanalysis had sis for the people that should be as avail- by Danielle Knafo and Rocco Lo Bosco Tim Maul had over-filled the capacity of 100 seats, and something new to say. Rather, that there able as the treatment for tuberculosis. So, DESIGN BY needed to move the premiere to the Alvin was something that the barrios could bring this particular development in the United Hannah Alderfer, HHA design, NYC Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall, a beautiful, his- back to psychoanalysis. Here was the inspi- States goes along with a certain prejudiced 2019 SCHILLINGER PRIZE WINNING ESSAY DIVISION|REVIEW toric theatre that could accommodate 300 ration for the collection. Rather than taking position, which often means that one as- a quarterly psychoanalytic forum published by the guests. And we still had a waitlist! All of psychoanalysis and applying it to the bar- sumes that the other, the Hispanic other, 16 Michael Alcée Reading the Changes: Freud’s Improvisational Art Division of Psychoanalysis (39) of the us who participated in the screening were rio, our idea was to bring back some of the is inferior, that minorities are not equal American Psychological Association, moved by the energy and the enthusiasm liveliness that we experienced in that room others, and this ends up generating a pro- 2615 Amesbury Road, to the field of psychoanalysis. cess of infantilization and adaptation. This REMINISCENCE Winston-Salem, NC 27103. that night. There was cheering, there was Subscription rates: 20 Richard B. Grose Allan Frosch: Portrait of a Clinician $25.00 per year (four issues). Individual Copies: $7.50. Email requests: divisionreview@optonline. com or mail requests: Editor, Division/Review Banner Day—On the Photography of David Humphrey COMMENTARY 80 University Place #5, New York, NY 10003 Letters to the Editor and all I put the finishing touches on the last that occasion, and so I emailed a snapshot into it or to conjure things and beings from 26 Sergio Benvenuto Autism: A Battle Lost by Psychoanalysis Submission Inquiries email the Editor: painting for my 2017 exhibition at Fredericks from my phone to be printed five by seven it. Each painting here emerged from a series [email protected] or send to Editor, & Freiser the day before the election and feet on vinyl with grommets. I picked it up of improvisations or gestures. Sometimes Division/Review had my opening the night of the inaugu- the next day on the way to my studio and squeezing a tube of paint onto the print and 80 University Place #5, New York, NY 10003 ROUND TABLE ON HEALING AND TERMINATION ration. The first day of the show was de- thus began a yearlong adventure collab- pushing it around was enough to establish Advertising: clared “a day without art” in solidarity with orating with, vandalizing, augmenting, or contact with the photograph’s weird other- 33 Maria Gabriella Pediconi, What Healing Has to Do with Termination: Please direct all inquiries regarding advertising, the Women’s March happening around the haunting photographs taken mostly during ness. The oscillating process of damage and Luca Flabbi, Endings and Interruption: Introduction professional notices, and announcements to [email protected] country, which I attended in its New York that routine Long Island City commute. repair gives my relationship to the image a 35 Maria Gabriella Pediconi Beyond Termination version. Most days are a day without my art, Protagonists could be conjured from banal charge that I hope anticipates the way pass- © Division Of Psychoanalysis (39) of the American but I was as appalled and traumatized as the locations. Garbage, dirty snow, or construc- ing viewers will regard these artworks on the Freud and Lacan on Healing: Principles and Practice Psychological Association. All rights reserved. Nothing in this publication may be reproduced people around me and happy to focus on tion sites could be recycled as the unexpect- black and white pages of DIVISION/Review. 38 Glauco Maria Genga Healing as a Problem, a Challenge, or a Solution: without the permission of the publisher. the collective gesture of protest.
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