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(Jane Xu), X. J. (2020) Rereading Klein's “Some Reflections on ‘The Oresteia’”—the Evolution of the Mother-Daughter Relationship in Four Generations of Chinese Women. Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China 3:50-59
- Freud's Oedipus complex theory presumes that the boy feels envy for the power of the father, hoping to be better than father, which symbolically means killing his father, so as to obtain the status of the father and win his mother's exclusive attention and love.
- The Effects of Culture on Four Generations of Mothers and Daughters The Foot-Binding Generation Zhou's elaborate cultural design led to a cultural practice of foot-binding girl children (see Figure 1).
- suffering, relying on the belief, “It's good for the girl; for small feet enable her to have a good marriage in the future.”
- At the same time, the image of a woman that a mother projected into her little girl, could only be that of a weak and redundant self as she herself had had to suffer the pain of foot-binding in childhood with no one to help her.
- One day, her mother sends the little girl to carry food to her grandmother who lives in the forest, warning her not to go too far away from the road.
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A., G., C., M. & H., R. F. (1971) Obituary Notices. Journal of Analytical Psychology 16:204-207
- 206 In Memoriam I knew a child left a girl bereft who grew I know striving, straining, contriving and ‘Training’ (with a cynical twist) into a psycho therapist.
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Aalen, M. (2014) Tears, remorse and reparation in Henrik Ibsen’s Peer Gynt. A reading inspired by Melanie Klein. Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review 37:113-124
- While he is preparing to have sex with them, one of the girls notices a distinct emotional quality beneath his omnipotent desire: ANDEN JENTE kysser ham SECOND GIRL. [Kissing him.] Han gnistrer og sprutter som glohede Jernet.
- TREDJE JENTE ligesaa THIRD GIRL [Doing likewise.] Som Barneøjne fra svarteste Tjernet.
- (p. 62) Here we notice how the third girl identifies Peer’s desire with baby’s eyes from the blackest tarn at the precise moment when she kisses him.
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Aalen, M. (2017) Stray Thoughts - Seeking Home: Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt Read in Light of Wilfred Bion's Ideas. International Journal of Psychoanalysis 98:415-434
- 415 As a counterpart to Peer, Ibsen introduces Solveig, an innocent girl who throughout life develops into what we may call a container.
- Finally, Peer finds himself close to Solveig's hut, where the mother-like Solveig receives him as a little boy who has “been resting at his mother's breast All the life-day long/ hvilet ved sin Moders Bryst hele Livsdagen lang”.
- 746) SOLVEIG [sings louder in the full daylight] I will cradle thee, I will watch thee; Sleep and dream thou, dear my boy! (p. 271) With these lines, the work is ending.
- In a working manuscript from the same year as the publication (1867b), Ibsen first wrote; “sleep and sleep thou, dear my boy! / Sov du, sov du Gutten min!”
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Aaltonen, J. & Räkköläinen, V. (1987) The Paradox and the Dissolution of the Oedipus Complex. Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review 10:117-132
- This field of tensions is described by Freud: Sooner or later, the child, who is so proud of his posession of a penis, has a view of the genital region of a little girl, and cannot help being convinced of the absence of a penis in a creature who is so like himself.
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Aaron, R. (1974) The Analyst's Emotional Life During Work. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 22:160-169
- By focusing on her own inner discomfort aroused by the patients' transference, Van Leeuwen was able to evoke a more meaningful emotional response from a controlling woman patient and could bring herself into closer contact with an adolescent girl who was very evasive in the transference, resulting in a closer more trusting patient-analyst relationship.
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Aarons, Z. A. (1953) Effect of the Birth of a Sister on a Boy in his Fourth Year. Psychoanalytic Quarterly 22:372-380
- NEW YORK I A three-and-a-half-year-old boy developed acute anxiety directly following the birth of his sister.
- Several times Johnnie asserted that Stephen, a neighbor's eight-month-old boy, did not have a penis because he was too small.
- He had, in fact, gradually changed from a cheerful, active little boy to an unhappy and sometimes sulky child who cried easily.
- He said she was a nice little girl, played with her in my presence, and showed me around the bedroom. During the last period of treatment there was no evidence of anxiety in the playroom, and Johnnie's mother reported that he was a happy, lively boy. 380
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Aarons, Z. A. (1958) Notes on a Case of Maladie Des Tics. Psychoanalytic Quarterly 27:194-204
- The patient was a boy, fifteen years of age, who was analyzed from the age of ten to twelve years and returned to treatment two years later.
- After all, he had never seen or heard of any other boy with his trouble. At a later time, as a means of counteracting his despair, he tried to justify his symptoms, to believe that he would not be such a good comedian if it were not for his 'twitching disposition'.
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Aarons, Z. A. (1959) A Study of a Perversion and an Attendant Character Disorder. Psychoanalytic Quarterly 28:481-492
- He need not have testified against the girl. He could have corroborated her story that he 481 was a friend and that there had been no monetary transaction between them; but he was much too frightened.
- He had seen a police patrol car near by and sensed that the girl was being watched. After the court hearing, he felt guilty about betraying the girl and he gave the defense lawyer twenty dollars for her.
- When he could not evade fights he would resort to such 'tricks'—when his assailant ran at him—as falling down to cause the boy to stumble over him, or running around the boy to dodge the blow.
- He recalled episodes during adolescence of masturbating with his penis hidden between his thighs, pretending to be a girl. Freud (5) maintained that among males who have the fantasy of being beaten, the person who administers the beating is always a woman.
- The boy's beating fantasy is therefore passive from the very beginning, and is derived from a feminine attitude toward his father… The boy evades his homosexuality 487 by repressing and remodeling his unconscious fantasy; and the remarkable thing about his later conscious fantasy is that it has for its content a feminine attitude without a homosexual object choice.'
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Aarons, Z. A. (1975) The Analyst's Relocation: Its Effect on the Transference—Parameter or Catalyst. International Journal of Psychoanalysis 56:303-319
- From several dreams in which his wife appeared more masculine than feminine, he expressed his fear that he would remain forever 309 impotent with his wife (and maybe with any woman), because she was too much 'like a boy', which turned him off. I said that his pessimism was deceptive, and that it was a threat of blackmail against me for leaving him 'unfinished'; that he not only needed me in the hope of being able to function, but he was adopting towards me his wife's sexually refractory attitude towards him.
- It is true, I said, that as a little boy he was not strong enough to resist seduction like a man.
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Aarons, Z. A. (1975) Fetish, Fact and Fantasy: A Clinical Study of the Problems of Fetishism. International Review of Psychoanalysis 2:199-230
- But neither this threat, nor the discovery of the absence of a penis on the girl need necessarily be taken too seriously by the boy.
- He was not sorry for the girl because she was not affected by her handicap.
- He imagined himself 'penetrating a girl in a knifing way'. He revealed a latent fascination for rape, maiming, and murder stories, and confessed to a vague wish to inflict pain on a girl.
- He thought that the other girl resembled his mother (secondary elaboration).
- The hairy-chested girl in the dream was identified as the girl friend of a classmate.
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Aarons, Z. A. (1990) Depressive Affect and its Ideational Content: A Case Study of Dissatisfaction. International Journal of Psychoanalysis 71:285-296
- Dr Saa finally appeared holding his baby girl whose mouth was 'all bloody'.
- His friend had an infant child but it was a boy, not a girl. This dream was confirmatory of how he unconsciously perceived himself ('all bloody'—castrated) and of what he wanted of me, i.e. to be restored—no longer castrated, and I, he wanted to believe, could do this for him.
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Abadi, M. (1961) DANTE Y LA DIVINA COMEDIA: INTRODUCCIÓN A SU ESTUDIO PSICOANALÍTICO. Revista de Psicoanálisis (REVAPA) 18:97-117
- I point out from Dante's early life-history: the death of the mother which occurred when he was 5 or 6 years of age, his status till that time as only child, the mediocrity and weakness of the father, the remarriage of the widower-father and the appearance within the family circle of a stepmother and three step-siblings, the death of the father when the boy was between 10 and 12, the meeting at 9 years of age with Beatrice, the association with a homosexual schoolmaster, the dissipated life, Beatrice's anger and her marriage to another man out of spite, and finally her death when she was scarcely 24 years old.
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Abarbanel, A. (1995) Consultation When the Patient Terminates an Impaired Treatment. American Journal of Psychoanalysis 55:347-363
- Pregnant at age 16, Claudia delivered a premature baby with lungs too immature for survival. The baby boy lived only a few hours. During her pregnancy, which she successfully concealed from parents and friends, she was suicidal, planning to jump off the Golden Gate Bridge or to shoot herself.
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Abarbanel, J. (1983) The Revival of the Sibling Experience During the Mother's Second Pregnancy. Psychoanalytic Study of the Child 38:353-379
- s seventh month, she reported a dream about Marcie: Marcie delivered a baby boy. She was 2 months early, so she delivered before me.
- C. spoke about her desire to have a son: "I feel like I'm carrying a boy; I seem to be a different shape this time, more pointed, not so full around. I'd be surprised if I had a girl, although a girl would be easier since I'm used to girls.
- I've been preparing my husband that this is the last pregnancy, even if it is a girl. Marcie is sure she will have a son, but she looks just like I did last time."
- My mother replied, "It's a girl, isn't that ridiculous?" Everyone around laughed.
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Abbasi, A. (2000) The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother. By James McBride. New York: Riverhead Books, 1996, xvii + 291 pp., $12.95.. Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies 2:317-319
- I believed my true self was a boy who lived in the mirror …” (McBride, p. 90). Again, “… The boy in the mirror, he didn't seem to have an ache.
- We learn then of McBride's mother's life: of her parents’ immigration from Europe to America when she was a young girl, of her family's frequent moves within America, of her mother's disability from polio, her father's mistreatment of her mother, her sexual molestation at the hands of her father, the prejudice she experienced in society as a Jewish child, her teenage relationship with a black boy, leading to a pregnancy followed by an abortion and, finally, her leaving her home to marry her first husband, with whom she founded a church, giving up Judaism forever.
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Abbasi, A. (2011) The Experience of Time: Psychoanalytic Perspectives. Edited by Leticia Glocer Fiorini and Jorge Canestri. London: Karnac, 2009. 200 pp.. Psychoanalytic Quarterly 80:1078-1085
- One is of a six-year-old boy, Peter, who had serious narcissistic problems and was not able to initially consider his analyst as another human being.
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Abbasi, A. (2011) “Where Do the Ova Go?” An Analytic Exploration of Fantasies Regarding Infertility. Psychoanalytic Inquiry 31:366-379
- It makes me feel I must not have been good enough, not acceptable, just a girl, so he rejected me.” I said, “And maybe I've canceled two appointments because I don't find you acceptable either—you're just a girl, with your female genitals that don't feel acceptable to you.”
- The myth of Arachne and Athena centers around a contest in which Arachne, a mortal girl, competes with Athena, the goddess.
- It was also her intense rage about this defectiveness (which she felt was a result of having a mother who did not love her enough, and who herself could not be a strong woman, and a father who abandoned her because she was just another girl). She was terrified that the expression of this rage would cause her to inflict serious damage on others (including me) or would result in someone else hurting her, disfiguring her, taking away her adult female functioning, and changing her into a prepubescent, asexual girl.
- I thought this was a reference to her sexual conflicts also, as she debated whether she could be a competent, successful woman, or should she be a man and her mother's lover, or could she be both—or should she stay a little girl forever? Her sad comment about having to give something up to get something denotes an awareness of the losses involved in moving forward.
- Y tried on the cloaks of being a man (as in her slip), of being angrily out of control, of being a meek, needy little girl, of being both man and woman, of feeling like a “barren” woman, and, ultimately, of being made of steel—but all at the painful cost of holding herself back from her real feelings, her true voice, and the full expression of her creative potential at all levels.
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Abbasi, A. (2015) A Rebel and Her Cause: The Life and Work of Rashid Jahan By Rakhshanda Jalil India: Women Unlimited, 2012, 248 pp.. International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies 12:367-371
- In this book of 248 pages the first 109 pages titled “Life & Times” are devoted to a description of Rashid Jahan's life; the details of her family background; the way she was raised; the different facets of her education both as a young girl and then as a physician; her marriage; her early work as a writer; her devoted work as a physician, and her work as a writer and dramatist.
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Abbasi, A. (2016) Comments on Judith Fingert Chused's “An Analyst's Uncertainty and Fear”. Psychoanalytic Quarterly 85:851-855
- He needed the analyst's reassurance that he was functioning as a strong and competent man (unlike the young boy who had to fasten his mother's bra straps and wash her back, feeling, as Chused writes, overstimulated, but not being able to acknowledge or show that he was stimulated).
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