Clinical Evolutions on the Superego, Body, and Gender in Psychoanalysis PDF
Preview Clinical Evolutions on the Superego, Body, and Gender in Psychoanalysis
··•a Clinical Evolutions on the Superego, Body, and Gender in Psychoanalysis Patients in psychoanalytic treatment present with a variety of problems that reflect contemporary cultural issues and values. Clinical Evolutions on the Superego, Body, and Gender in Psychoanalysis explores the effects of such soci- etal changes on psychoanalytic theory and clinical practice, covering topics such as greed, envy and deception, body narcissism, gender roles, and relationships. Janice S. Lieberman includes numerous clinical vignettes and insights into working clinically with changing norms. Lieberman explores how changes in values and norms of behavior in the world beyond the consulting room have influenced what is now heard by ana- lysts within it, using clinical data to demonstrate the psychological underpin- nings of the values promulgated by current trends in politics and in society more widely. She explores what she observes to be “a new superego”; where decep- tion abounds and often goes unpunished, where greed and envy have arguably increased and there is an enhanced emphasis on the body and its appearance. Traditional gender roles have been challenged in fortuitous ways, but a certain amount of chaos and confusion has ensued. Relationships are found and main- tained using technology, yet many feel lonely and empty. She writes about the clinical dilemmas she has faced and offers suggestions for resolving them in working with today’s patients. Lieberman also sees parallels for these develop- ments in several artists’ lives and in their work. Clinical Evolutions on the Superego, Body, and Gender in Psychoanalysis will be of great interest to psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists. Janice S. Lieberman, PhD, is a Training and Supervising Analyst and Faculty member at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research in New York City. She is the author of Body Talk: Looking and Being Looked at in Psycho- therapy and served on the Editorial Board of the Journal of the Amer ican Psy- choanalytic Association. She is a Member of the International Psychoanalytical Association Committee on Sexual and Gender Diversity Studies. Clinical Evolutions on the Superego, Body, and Gender in Psychoanalysis Janice S. Lieberman First published 2019 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2019 Janice S. Lieberman The right of Janice S. Lieberman to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing- in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging- in-Publication Data Names: Lieberman, Janice S., author. Title: Clinical evolutions on the superego, body, and gender in psychoanalysis / Janice S. Lieberman. Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2018018234 (print) | LCCN 2018021784 (ebook) | ISBN 9780429490699 (Master) | ISBN 9780429955679 (Web PDF) | ISBN 9780429955662 (ePub) | ISBN 9780429955655 (Mobipocket/Kindle) | ISBN 9781138590854 (hardback : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781138590878 (pbk. : alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: Psychoanalysis. | Superego. | Body image. | Sex role–Psychological aspects. Classification: LCC RC506 (ebook) | LCC RC506 .L534 2019 (print) | DDC 616.89/17–dc23LC record available at https://lccn. loc.gov/2018018234 ISBN: 978-1-138-59085-4 (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-138-59087-8 (pbk) ISBN: 978-0-429-49069-9 (ebk) Typeset in Times New Roman by Wearset Ltd, Boldon, Tyne and Wear For Gideon, Jonah, Jackson, and Griffin Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: loss of integrity in contemporary culture and contemporary psyche 1 Part I Superego/character issues: deception, greed, and envy 11 1 Analyzing a “new superego”?: greed and envy in the recent age of affluence 13 2 Lies and omissions in psychoanalytic treatment 29 3 The availability (and responsibility) of the analyst: “above all, do no harm” 53 4 Construction outside, reconstruction inside: the analyst’s office under siege 57 Part II Body, skin, and gender 61 5 The female body: a discussion of Malkah Notman’s 2003 paper 63 6 The analyst as reluctant spectator: working with women obsessed with thinness 66 viii Contents 7 The analyst’s rush to metaphor 79 8 Body narcissism and linguistic attunement 102 9 Outrageous women: the “Cleopatra complex” 110 10 The male psyche: an even darker continent 120 Part III relationships 127 11 Issues in the psychoanalytic treatment of single females over 30 129 12 Sex and the City on the couch 146 13 The search for love in a digital age 153 14 The mediated gaze 158 Part IV Superego, gender, and body in art 163 15 Violence against women in the work of women artists 165 16 The imposturous artist Arshile Gorky 171 17 Pedophilic themes in Balthus’ works 189 18 Is appropriation creative?: the case of Richard Prince 202 19 Afterword 214 Index 216 Acknowledgments I would like to acknowledge the following: I am extremely grateful for the confidence and encouragement given me by my family, colleagues, students, and friends during the writing of this book. I know that I was less available to them on many occasions and I hope to remedy that with this book’s publication. I want to thank those with whom I worked developing some of the previously published chapters. Helen Gediman, my coauthor of The Many Faces of Deceit taught me how to think more deeply, to find the “red threads” of connection, and how to construct a book. I want to thank Brenda Berger and Stephanie Newman, Editors of Money Talks, who encouraged me to write about “the new superego.” Deep appreciation goes to Paula Ellman and Nancy Goodman for including me in their conference and book on The Courage to Fight Violence Against Women. I also want to give tribute to the late Alan Frosch, who included my work in his book, Absolute Truth and Unbearable Psychic Pain. I am extremely grateful to Rosemary Balsam, Arlene Richards, and Danielle Knafo, who have served as role models and mentors for my work on the female body and art and for my writing efforts over the years. To my cousins and close friends Judy and Steve Levitan, you are the source of my strength! I want to thank Kate Hawes, the Chief Editor of Routledge, for her encour- agement, and the superb Charles Bath, Assistant Editor of Routledge, for his patience answering the countless questions I had in the preparation of the manu- script. I want to thank Katie Finn, the Production Editor and Matt Deacon, Senior Project Manager of Wearset, for shepherding this project through. Abbey Frawley in New York was a wonderful help to me as I was preparing the manu- script. I was blessed with the assignment of a brilliant copy- editor Anastasia Said, who was a pleasure to work with. I am grateful for all the opportunities I have had over the years to present papers based on most of the chapters of this book. I want to thank the Program Committees of IPTAR (the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research), CFS (Contemporary Freudian Society), The Metropolitan Center, PANY (Psy- choanalytic Association of New York), the IPA (International Psychoanalytic Association), Psychoanalysis Division 39, and the Amer ican Psychoanalytic
The list of books you might like
