Division Review No. 22 Summer 2020
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DIVISION A QUARTERLY PSYCHOANALYTIC FORUM NO.22 SUMMER 2020 THE ANALYTIC FIELDS A People’s History | GAZTAMBIDE Deconstructing Normativity | DEAN | Van Haute & Westerink REMINISCENCE KALEY | GEDIMAN GENDRAULT | ZEAVIN | KRISTEVA | NADLER | GREENBERG DISEASE CECCOLI | POZNANSKY | BATISTA-THOMAS | STAFFORD | NOVIE DIS-EASE PADRÓN | SAKETOPOULOU | MOSS | CHAN MAC ADAMS | BARBARA BLOOM | JENNIFER BOLANDE | ELINOR CARUCCI VALERIE CONNOR | GINA DE NAIA | HANNA EL ALFI | ALLEN FRAME | RACHEL JACKSON PHOTOGRAPHY MONA KOWALSKA | MIKAEL LEVIN | SUSAN MACWILLIAM | TIM MAUL | LAUREL NAKADATE TIANA PETERSON | J. JOHN PRIOLA | JAMES SIENA | MICHAEL SMITH | STEEL STILLMAN BEAT STREULI | BROOKE TOMIELLO | GUS VAN SANT | JAMES WELLING Editor’s Note Loren DENT The present issue was borne of a desire to (helplessness) experienced by clinicians un- with resonances in Freud’s logic of after- capture the sentiments of particular moments der the lapping waves of the coronavirus. wardness and deferral (nachträglichkeit). It over the past five months. The process of pro- Contributors submitted responses from a echoes with the clinical question of how the curing, editing, and producing a collection of particular time and place, in the singular mo- urgency of a particular moment or event is responses made manifest the aporias familiar ment in which they drafted their reflections. sustained or not, given the frame of a treat- to psychoanalytic practice. Thus, writing, ed- And yet, to edit and publish necessarily in- ment with its presumed consistency, pre- iting, and publishing can echo the encounters volve an introduction of duration — often dictability, and duration across time. with unconscious processes in clinical work. several months – and suspension of what Then, on May 25th George Floyd was Initially, the issue aimed to seize felt incredibly urgent. This particular im- murdered, memorialized in an amateur vid- something of the unrelenting hilflosigkeit passe has a long history in psychoanalysis, eo depicting violence that was stunning in its Official publication of Division of Psychoanalysis (39) of the American Psychological Association EDITOR Loren Dent CONTENTS SENIOR EDITORS Steven David Axelrod, J. Todd Dean, William Fried, William MacGillivray, Marian Margulies, Bettina Mathes, Manya Steinkoler THE ANALYTIC FIELD CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Gemma Marangoni Ainslie, Ricardo Ainslie, 4 Daniel José Gaztambide A People’s History of Psychoanalysis: Christina Biedermann, In Conversation with Daniel José Gaztambide Chris Bonovitz, Steven Botticelli, Ghislaine Boulanger, Patricia Gherovici, 9 Todd Dean Deconstructing Normativity?: Peter Goldberg, Adrienne Harris, Elliott Jurist, Jane Kupersmidt, Re-reading Freud’s 1905 Three Essays, Paola Mieli, Donald Moss, Ronald Naso, edited by Philippe Van Haute and Herman Westerink Donna Orange, Robert Prince, Allan Schore, Robert Stolorow, Nina Thomas, Usha Tummala, Jamieson Webster, Lynne Zeavin BOOK REVIEW EDITOR REMINISCENCE Anna Fishzon FOUNDING EDITOR 11 Harriette Kaley Helen Gediman David Lichtenstein PHOTOGRAPHY BY Mac Adams, Barbara Bloom, Jennifer Bolande, Elinor Carucci, Valerie Connor, Gina De Naia, DISEASE Hanna El Alfi, Allen Frame, Rachel Jackson, Mona Kowalska, Mikael Levin, Susan Macwilliam, 15 Philippe Gendrault The Analyst, the Citizen Tim Maul, Laurel Nakadate, Tiana Peterson, J. John Priola, James Siena, Michael Smith, Steel Stillman, Beat Streuli, Brooke Tomiello, 17 Lynne Zeavin What Will it Be? Gus Van Sant, James Welling 18 Julia Kristeva Humanity is rediscovering existential solitude, IMAGES EDITOR Tim Maul the meaning of limits, and mortality – An Interview with Julia Kristeva DESIGN BY Hannah Alderfer, HHA design, NYC 20 Christina Nadler COVID in the Age of Psychoanalysis DIVISION|REVIEW a quarterly psychoanalytic forum published by the 21 Tamara McClintock Love and Being Left Out: The Primal Scene and Division of Psychoanalysis (39) of the American Psychological Association, Greenberg Erotic Transference in Remote Work During the Pandemic 2615 Amesbury Road, Winston-Salem, NC 27103. 23 Velleda C. Ceccoli CORONA LEXICA: Words as Metaphor and Fleshed Reality Subscription rates: $25.00 per year (four issues). Individual Copies: 25 Olga Poznansky Child Work in the Time of Pandemic $7.50. 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They should be submitted by email 36 Yuen Chan To be or not to be: white adjacent to the editor: [email protected], prepared according to the APA publication manual, and no longer than 2500 words DIVISION|REVIEW can be read online at divisionreview.com ISSN 2166-3653 2 DIVISION| REVIEW SUMMER 2020 Editor’s Note (from page 1) the social death of Black Americans as “gene- may be organized around a collective ex- alogical isolates,” removed from inheritance, clusion? Whatever its truth, can the psycho- gratuitousness. An infectious biological virus lineage, ancestry, and kinship (Wilderson, analytic community even think of such an suddenly transformed into a cruel metaphor 2015; Patterson, 2018). If such an interpreta- analysis? It is with these questions in mind for the foreign body of whiteness lodged un- tion were correct, if – as argued by Wilderson that this issue presents reflections on two der the skin of the American collective. In an and others – anti-Blackness is not an errancy dis-eases of civilization, to which analysts instant, the present issue became an attempt of civil society but its very constitutive outside and other members of the psy professions to consider these viruses contiguously. against which humanity is defined, what be- must allow to challenge their assuredness However, while psychoanalysis is as- comes of our familiar theoretical foundations in the possibility of theory and practice. z sumed to possess the theoretical infrastruc- that assume a kinship and inheritance that ture for thinking the discontents of civiliza- Works Cited has been barred for Black Americans (e.g., Patterson, O. (2018). Slavery and Social Death: A com- tion, is the field willing to submit its conceptu- Oedipus, intergenerational transmission, ge- parative study with a new preface. Harvard University Press. al foundations to an analysis that may upend netic fantasy, ghosts, etc.)? Wilderson III, F. B. (2015). Social death and narrative aporia in 12 Years a Slave. Black itself? Frank B. Wilderson III, for example, has What of psychoanalytic societies, Camera: An International Film Journal (The New Series), extended Orlando Patterson’s description of groups, and institutes whose very structures 7(1), 134-149. Intro and Coda by Tim Maul One month ago now feels like a year, a maelstrom of forensic voyeurism with June 19, 2020 when Loren Dent proposed to Hannah entertainers holding forth in front of “cred- A sense of apprehension can be dis- Alderfer and I that an online (and later print) ibility bookcases” or too-juvenile, tone-deaf cerned from my earlier introduction to issue of D/R be assembled in response to stunts and the front-page reportage of C-list what I think of as the COVID-19 edition the gathering COVID-19 pandemic, which personalities “grappling with revealing too of DIVISION/Review. It was justified in the soon swelled to historic proportions. That much” (The New York Times) among other death of my brother Michael on June 7 at same week, I had contributed a related im- urgent concerns. The camera since its incep- Yale/New Haven Hospital soon following age to a site affiliated with the institution tion has borne witness to the ironies of “nor- emergency brain surgery. He received ex- where I currently teach (my, or anyone’s, malcy” performed in landscapes of disaster, emplary care in his brief hospitalization, but future there is unknown at this time). Soon which partially explains how surrealism I was unable to visit him, and he was de- after, I scrolled down this site, fully expecting gained traction after World War I. prived of the final Norman Rockwell-esque supine Pre-Raphaelite/hipster reenactments Binging media may be a necessary “surrounded by family” moment, as were of mourning with obscured faces and many coping mechanism that offers a distant thousands, layering another complication hands touching windowpanes, etc. Instead I version of shared community—I watched upon grief. He was also diagnosed with was caught off guard by an archive that, while a lot of TV in the 1970s (downtown NYC non-symptomatic COVID-19, which com- including some of what is described above, was tricky at night), and I recall a sitcom pounded his isolation. Michael (born 1953) was also comprised of photographs that character noting