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International Journal of Psycho-Analysis 77, 1, 1996
This paper is based on the Presidential Address given at the end of the San Francisco Congress in August 1995. The author concentrates on discussing the three main Panel presentations on psychic reality from the technical, clinical and theoretical perspectives and in the context of the life cycle. Referring to Grinberg's introduction to the Congress, he reiterates that psychic reality forms the central point from which psychoanalysis can be contemplated. A special mention is given to the Panel on multidisciplinary perspectives of psychic reality, which includes contributions from two well-known philosophers, in connection with the current epistemological status of psychoanalysis in the context of the Congress's main theme. The author concludes by quoting a sonnet, which he feels illustrates the complex dialectic between reality and fantasy, between truth and lies.
International Journal of Psycho-Analysis 77, 15, 1996
This essay reports the findings and conclusions of a psychoanalytic study of antisemitism based upon case reports and classical, historical and literary documents. With respect to antisemitic sentiments, individual dynamics are overridden by stereotypical myths. After the definitive secession of early Jewish and Gentile Christian followers from the Jewish community at the end of the first century Common Era, the Jews were stigmatized and demonized by them and by the early Church fathers and labelled as a principle of evil, along with Satan, that was to blame for all Christian misfortune. The many antisemitic myths that evolved throughout the history of the Christian West all concurred in this theme. Apocalyptic thinking required such a principle as the source of the death phase, so that the elimination of Jews became the condition for the rebirth phase. In the presence of a