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“Medical Harmony: Eryximachus”—Commentary on Session V
This commentary presents a close reading of the fifth session of Lacan’s eighth seminar, titled in the 2015 translation, ‘Medical Harmony:...
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Therapeutic Alliance in Psychotherapy: Clinical Significance and Skills Training
Therapeutic alliance is relevant across diverse therapies and has a long history in psychotherapy. Theoretical definitions of the alliance have three...
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Hypothesizing Love: Lacan and Plato’s Symposium—Commentary on Session VII
What constitutes Lacan’s uptake of Socrates’s praising of love? In endeavoring to traverse love in a scientific thought experiment which considers...
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Friendship of Virtue—The Place of True Friends in the Psychotherapeutic Process
This paper offers a new take on friendship, its specific qualities, how it is subjectively experienced and changes over the course of a patient’s...
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“Real Presence”: Commentary on Session XVIII
“Real Presence,” the eighteenth chapter of Lacan’s Seminar VIII Transference, focuses on the function of the symbolic phallus, or Φ, and on its role...
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The Freud–Ferenczi dialogue after the formulation of the Second Topic
The author proposes to examine the scientific dialogue established by Freud and Ferenczi between 1920 and 1933 after Freud’s formulation of the...
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Moments of Meeting in DMT: Characteristics and Implications from the Subjective Experience of Therapists
Moments of meeting (MoM) are characterized by instances of special intersubjective connection between the therapist and patient which causes a change...
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Memory, Imagination, and Meaning-Making in Learning Scientific Concepts: a Case Study About the Concept of Substance in Chemistry
To understand the relation between memory, imagination, and learning, I consider that it is necessary to adopt alternative models for these cognitive...
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The Leader’s Hypnotic Influence and the Creation of Alternate Reality
Psychoanalysis has traditionally been an insular practice by analysts in their offices sequestered from any outside intrusion. However, in recent...
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Lacan the Master Charlatan
François Roustang was a long-time follower of Lacan who, in a trio of books—Dire Mastery (1976), Psychoanalysis Never Lets Go (1981), and The...
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The Analyst’s Courage and Vulnerability in the Countertransference
Courage requires us to persist and persevere despite fear. We make choices everyday—some are courageous, and some are not courageous at all. This...
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“A Critique of Countertransference”: Commentary on Session XIII
This commentary addresses the issue of countertransference in the seminar. Countertransference was never a notion that Lacan wholeheartedly embraced...
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ON GROTSTEIN’S ‘TRUTH’ IN BION’S THEORY OF ‘O’
In this thought-provoking exploration, the author examines Grotstein’s seminal work, “The Seventh Servant: The Implications of a Truth Drive in...
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Toward an Erotics of Truth: Commentary on Session I
Playfully opposing the Biblical pronouncement ‘In the beginning was the word’, Lacan suggests rather that in the beginning of psychoanalytic practice...
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Neuropsychoanalytical Research
This chapter will highlight what evidence there is for psychoanalytic concepts from neuroscientific research and whether psychodynamic ideas can be...
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THINKING THE DREAM: DREAM AND DREAM THINKING IN SIGMUND FREUD, HANNA SEGAL, AND WILFRED BION
In the dream and its interpretation, psychoanalysis, in its founding period around 1900, identified the “royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious...