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Regression and the Maternal in the History of Psychoanalysis, 1900-1957
This paper examines the history of the concept of âregressionâ as it was perceived by Sandor Ferenczi and some of his followers in the first half of the twentieth century. The first part provides a short history of the notion of âregressionâ from the late nineteenth century to Ferenczi's work in the 1920s and 1930s. The second and third parts of the paper focus on two other thinkers on regression, who worked in Britain, under the influence of the Ferenczian paradigmâââthe interwar Scottish psychiatrist, Ian D. Suttie; and the British-Hungarian psychoanalyst, and Ferenczi's most important pupil, Michael Balint. Rather than a descriptive term which comes to designate a pathological mental stage, Ferenczi understood âregressionâ as a much more literal phenomenon. For him, the mental desire to go backwards in time is a universal one, and a consequence of an inevitable traumatic separation from the mother in early childhood, which has some deep personal and cultural implications. The paper aims to show some close affinities between the preoccupation of some psychoanalysts with âregressionâ, and the growing interest in social and cultural aspects of âmotherhoodâ and âthe maternal roleâ in mid-twentieth-century British society
Linking Recent Discrimination-Related Experiences and Wellbeing via Social Cohesion and Resilience
The current study examined the relationship between recent experiences of discrimination and wellbeing and the mediating effects that social cohesion and resilience had on this relationship. Using online sampling, participants (N =255) from a South London community rated the levels of discrimination related experiences in the past 6 months, alongside measures of social cohesion, resilience, and wellbeing (happiness and depressive symptoms). Results revealed a negative relationship between recent experiences of discrimination and wellbeing which was explained by a serial mediation relationship between social cohesion and resilience, and singly by resilience alone. The study highlights how recent experiences of discrimination can lead to a depletion of personal resources and social resources (which in turn also lead to reduced personal resources) and in turn, to lower levels of wellbeing
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Linking recent discrimination-related experiences and wellbeing via social cohesion and resilience
United Kingdom The current study examined the relationship between recent experiences of discrimination and wellbeing and the mediating effects that social cohesion and resilience had on this relationship. Using online sampling, participants (N= 255) from a South London community rated the levels of discrimination related experiences in the past 6 months, alongside measures of social cohesion, resilience, and wellbeing (happiness and depressive symptoms). Results revealed a negative relationship between recent experiences of discrimination and wellbeing which was explained by a serial mediation relationship between social cohesion and resilience, and singly by resilience alone. The study highlights how recent experiences of discrimination can lead to a depletion of personal resources and social resources (which in turn also lead to reduced personal resources) and in turn, to lower levels of wellbeing
Quantisations of piecewise affine maps on the torus and their quantum limits
For general quantum systems the semiclassical behaviour of eigenfunctions in
relation to the ergodic properties of the underlying classical system is quite
difficult to understand. The Wignerfunctions of eigenstates converge weakly to
invariant measures of the classical system, the so called quantum limits, and
one would like to understand which invariant measures can occur that way,
thereby classifying the semiclassical behaviour of eigenfunctions. We introduce
a class of maps on the torus for whose quantisations we can understand the set
of quantum limits in great detail. In particular we can construct examples of
ergodic maps which have singular ergodic measures as quantum limits, and
examples of non-ergodic maps where arbitrary convex combinations of absolutely
continuous ergodic measures can occur as quantum limits. The maps we quantise
are obtained by cutting and stacking
A psychoanalytic concept illustrated: Will, must, may, can â revisiting the survival function of primitive omnipotence
The author explores the linear thread connecting the theory of Freud and Klein, in terms of the central significance of the duality of the life and death instinct and the capacity of the ego to tolerate contact with internal and external reality. Theoretical questions raised by later authors, informed by clinical work with children who have suffered deprivation and trauma in infancy, are then considered. Theoretical ideas are illustrated with reference to observational material of a little boy who suffered deprivation and trauma in infancy. He was first observed in the middle of his first year of life while he was living in foster care, and then later at the age of two years and three months, when he had been living with his adoptive parents for more than a year
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