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Ahead of the Vancouver 2021 IPA Congress (this year held virtually), Endre Koritar provides a brief history of the development of psychoanalysis in Canada and the formation of the Canadian Society.
The words uttered by the analytic couple can be thought of as the text in which the mind attempts to describe what is already occurring musically at the level of the drives and unconscious phantasy, writes Francis Grier in his examination of the musical countertransference.
Transgender is rooted in the infant’s early discovery of gender difference and how the primary identification is processed or “translated” in the après-coup, writes Susann Heenen-Wolff. She identifies the formation of the “body ego” as the result of primary identifications and the “sexual ego,” which stems from secondary identifications.
Reflecting on the ethical status of psychoanalysis, Jérôme Glas argues that the ethical specificity of psychoanalysis is determined in particular by the transference. He asks: what happens when the analyst is deprived of his ethical status as recipient of the transference and becomes an ordinary object in the field of everyday objectality?
A large and significant portion of contemporary psychoanalytic theory has given up on the drives. Although there are legitimate criticisms, the drives require careful examination, argues Jordan Conrad. Providing an account of the drives informed by German and English thought, Conrad distinguishes between “drive” and its conceptual neighbour “instinct.”
Tamara Guenon looks at adolescent subjectivation processes in relation to object cathexes and links to others. In order to aid therapeutic groups for adolescents Guenon attempts to establish a metapsychology of links. She goes on to discuss theatre-mediated therapeutic groups.
Rosely Lerner looks at the precocious origin of perverse behaviour. Situations of humiliation and exposure to adult sexuality, creating p