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I have chosen to abstract a total of eight articles from two psychoanalytic journals published in Germany. From the Zeitschrift für Psychoanalytische Theorie und Praxis (Journal of Psychoanalytic Theory and Practice), I have selected two articles from an issue with the theme of “Regression” and four articles from one on “Perversions.” From Psyche—Zeitschrift für Psychoanalyse und Ihre Anwendungen (Psyche—Journal of Psychoanalysis and Applied Psychoanalysis), I have abstracted two additional articles from one issue. A reference list of the major works cited in all eight articles appears at the end of these abstracts.
“We Must Not Be Fixated on the Idea of Development”: An Attempt to Clarify the Spatial-Temporal Aspects of Regression. , pp. 172-195.
The author endeavors to clarify some overlappings, displacements, and shifts of meaning that have accompanied the concept of regression from its beginning. The author begins by disclosing her discomfort when she was asked to write a paper on the topic of regression because she noticed a discrepancy between what she believed in and what she actually did in her daily psychoanalytic practice: she did not think in terms of regression when thinking about her patients or the psychoanalytic process, but she agreed that “working in the regression” is central to psychoanalysis and distinguishes it from other modes of therapy.