Updating Midlife: Psychoanalytic Perspectives

199 Pages·2013·0.542 MB·English

by  Guillermo Julio Montero, Alicia Mirta Ciancio de Montero, Liliana Singman de Vogelfanger

UPDATING MIDLIFE

UPDATING MIDLIFE
Psychoanalytic Perspectives
Edited by
Guillermo Julio Montero,
Alicia Mirta Ciancio de Montero,
and
Liliana Singman de Vogelfanger
First published in 2013 by
Karnac Books Ltd
118 Finchley Road
London NW3 5HT
Copyright © 2013 to Guillermo Julio Montero, Alicia Mirta Ciancio de Montero,
and Liliana Singman de Vogelfanger for the edited collection, and to the
individual authors for their contributions.
The rights of the contributors to be identified as the authors of this work have
been asserted in accordance with §§ 77 and 78 of the Copyright Design and
Patents Act 1988.
Cover image copyright © 2013 to Julián Montero Ciancio
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in
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CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS vii
ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS ix
FOREWORD xv
INTRODUCTION xvii
CHAPTER ONE
Midlife and finitude 1
Alcira Mariam Alizade (Argentina)
CHAPTER TWO
Interview with Christopher Bollas (England) 9
CHAPTER THREE
Interview with Stefano Bolognini (Italy) 25
CHAPTER FOUR
Interview with Calvin Anthony Colarusso (USA) 37
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CHAPTER FIVE
Interview with Franco de Masi (Italy) 47
CHAPTER SIX
Interview with Cláudio Laks Eizirik (Brazil) 65
CHAPTER SEVEN
The inevitable ordinary human suffering 75
Haydée Faimberg (France)
CHAPTER EIGHT
Interview with Glen O. Gabbard (USA) 93
CHAPTER NINE
Interview with Charles M. T. Hanly (Canada) 103
CHAPTER TEN
Interview with Luis Kancyper (Argentina) 113
CHAPTER ELEVEN
Interview with Norberto Carlos Marucco (Argentina) 119
CHAPTER TWELVE
Elements for a metapsychology about midlife 129
Guillermo Julio Montero (Argentina)
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
Interview with Leo Rangell (USA) 149
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
Answers to the questionnaire 157
David Rosenfeld (Argentina)
INDEX 163
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
We would like to thank our colleagues for staying with us throughout
this journey and making themselves available for interviews and
approachable for any questions or comment. Also, we would like to
thank our colleagues from Travesía Foundation (Psychoanalysis for
Midlife Transition and Crisis) and to all the members of our research
group (Metapsychology of Midlife at the Argentine Psychoanalytic
Association) who have been a never-ending source of motivation and
questioning, something essential for this sort of work. We would like
to mention the support, enthusiasm, and encouragement we received
from Dr Abel Mario Fainstein (Buenos Aires) who believed in our idea
since the very beginning.
Unfortunately, only two months after he had corrected the transcrip-
tion of his Skype interview with us, Leo Rangell died. We regret this,
and miss him. We think that his chapter in this book may be considered
as his last gift for all the psychoanalytic community.
Finally, we would like to thank our translator, Mrs Cecilia
Marlborough (London-Buenos Aires). This book would not be here
today without her enthusiasm and collaboration. Throughout the way,
we shared a fruitful exchange trying to convey each author’s ideas. She
worked with those authors who are Spanish speaking such as Marucco,
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Kancyper, Eizirik, Montero, and with those who have English as a
second language: Rosenfeld, de Masi, and Bolognini (with the excep-
tion of Dr Haydée Faimberg who sent her work in English).
Note: The reader will find several initial capital letters at the begin-
ning of each paragraph of the chapters with interviews; in all cases they
stand for the names of both the interviewee and the interviewer(s).
Guillermo Julio Montero
Alicia Mirta Ciancio de Montero
Liliana Singman de Vogelfanger
ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS
Editors
Guillermo Julio Montero, PsyD is a clinical, training, and supervising
psychoanalyst as well as a magister in psychoanalysis. He is a full
member of the International Psychoanalytical Association, and of the
Argentine Psychoanalytic Association. He also teaches at the Institute
of Psychoanalysis and co-coordinates the study group: Metapsychol-
ogy of Midlife. He is the president of Fundación Travesía (Psychoanaly-
sis for Midlife Transition and Crisis). He is the author of La travesía por
la mitad de la vida: exégesis psicnalítica, as well as the co-author of the
books Para comprender la mediana edad: historias de vida and Mediana edad:
estudios psicoanalíticos, and the author of numerous papers delivered at
different national and international psychoanalytic congresses, several
of which have been published in psychoanalytic magazines in Brazil,
USA, Spain, and Korea.
Alicia Mirta Ciancio de Montero, PsyD is a clinical, training, and
supervising psychoanalyst, and full member of the International
Psychoanalytical Association, and of the Argentine Psychoanalytic
Association. She also teaches at the Institute of Psychoanalysis and
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