On Incest (Psychoanalysis and Women Series)

144 Pages·2005·0.58 MB·English

by  Giovanna Ambrosio

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Incest yesterday and today: from conflict to ambiguity 17
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Simona Argentieri
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2 Incest: a therapeutic challenge 81
3 Estela V. Welldon
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6 Incest: the damaged psychic flesh 101
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211 This book contains some of the papers presented at the European
1 Conference on the theme of incest that, as European co-chair of the
2 IPACommittee on Women and Psychoanalysis, I had the priviledge
3 to organize in Ravello, Italy, on the 28 and 29 April 2003; in partic-
4 ular, the papers of Simona Argentieri, Monique Cournut-Janin,
5 Estela Welldon and Juan Eduardo Tesone, analysts who are espe-
6 cially interested in themes such as gender identity, perversions, and
7 incest. Contributions by two other colleagues who took part in the
8 Conference have been added to these papers: the chairperson of
9 COWAP Mariam Alizade, who is the author of many works
30 on feminine identity, and the British psychoanalyst Brendan
1 MacCarthy, who has carried out much theoretical and clinical work
2 on the theme of incest. Both authors present an account of the dis-
3 cussions as they developed during the Conference.
4 The theme of the Conference was chosen because we noted that,
5 curiously, it has been taken into very little consideration by psycho-
6 analysts during recent years. We wanted to promote a confrontation
7 between past and present, and a clinical and theoretical reflection on
8 a problem that, on account of recent historical, social, and cultural
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111 From our perspective, incest is distinct from sexual abuse out-
2 side of the family nucleus; incest, of course, includes abuse, but
3 with a different and particular connotation.At the call for papers
4 presenting clinical cases of incest for the workshop discussions,
5 many colleagues with long-standing experience proposed material
6 that regarded molestation and violence outside the family nucleus.
7 This called my attention to, and strengthened my conviction about,
8 the need to gather together the threads of psychoanalytic thinking
9 in an attempt to foster a clearer conceptualization of what we really
10 mean when referring to incest, while keeping a careful watch over
1 the different psychopathological frameworks and various transfer-
2 ential configurations in which we may find ourselves in these cases.
3 We have also tried to distinguish incestuous “fantasies” from real,
4 acted out incest.
5 On the subject of this dramatic theme, you will also find in this
6 book an attentive view of the “feminine” universe, freed from the
711 Freudian vision of masochistic passivity and fully restored to the
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9 I wish to thank all those who have agreed to contribute to this
20 book, thus allowing us to reflect on incest yesterday and today with
1 the hope that these discussions may stimulate and reinforce theo-
2 retical and clinical interest in such a crucial theme.
3 A special thank you also to Jacqueline Amati Mehler, for her
4 constant help and for preventing what could have been “lost in
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211 Giovanna Ambrosio is a full member of the Italian Psycho-
1 analytical Association (AIPsi), the International Psychoanalytical
2 Association, and the Secretary of the Italian Psychoanalytical
3 Association (AIPsi). She is also the Chief Editor of the journal
4 Psicoanalisi, and European co-chair of the Committee on Women
5 and Psychoanalysis (2001–2005). Her main scientific interests
6 include the field of the intra-psychic interaction between “the truth
7 and the false”, the meanings of “lies” and issues related to the well-
8 known problem of the “confusion of tongues”.
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30 Alcira Mariam Alizade, MD, is a psychiatrist and training analyst
1 of the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association. She is current overall
2 chair of the IPA Committe on Women and Psychoanalysis (2001–
3 2005) and former COWAP Latin-American co-chair (1998–2001).
4 Her publications include: Feminine Sensuality (Karnac, 1992); Near
5 Death: Clinical Psychoanalytical Studies (Amorrortu, Buenos Aires,
6 1995); Time for Women (Letra Viva, Buenos Aires, 1996); The Lone
7 Woman (Lumen, Buenos Aires, 1999); Positivity in Psychoanalysis
8 (Lumen, Buenos Aires, 2002). She is the editor of IPA–COWAP–
911 Karnac Series (The Embodied Female, Studies on Femininity, Masculine
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