The American Journal of Psychoanalysis is an international psychoanalytic quarterly founded in 1941 by Karen Horney. The journal's purpose is to be an international forum for communicating a broad range of contemporary theoretical, clinical, professional and cultural concepts of psychoanalysis and for presenting related investigations in allied fields. It is a fully peer-reviewed journal, which welcomes psychoanalytic papers from all schools of thought that address the interests and concerns of scholars and practitioners of psychoanalysis and contribute meaningfully to the understanding of human experience. The journal publishes original papers, special issues devoted to a single topic, book reviews, film reviews, reports on the activities of the Karen Horney Psychoanalytic Center, and comments.

The American Journal of Psychoanalysis is an international psychoanalytic quarterly founded in 1941 by Karen Horney. The journal serves as a global forum for the exchange of a wide range of contemporary theoretical, clinical, professional, and cultural concepts in psychoanalysis, as well as for presenting related research in allied fields. It is a fully peer-reviewed journal that welcomes psychoanalytic papers from all schools of thought, addressing the interests and concerns of scholars and practitioners in the field, and contributing meaningfully to the understanding of human experience. The journal publishes original articles, special issues focused on a single topic, book reviews, film reviews, reports on the activities of the Karen Horney Psychoanalytic Center, and commentaries.

《美国精神分析杂志》是一本国际性精神分析季刊，成立于1941年，由凯伦·霍尼创办。该杂志旨在成为一个国际论坛，交流当代精神分析的广泛理论、临床、专业和文化概念，并呈现相关领域的研究。它是一本经过严格同行评审的期刊，欢迎来自各个思想流派的精神分析论文，这些论文应关注精神分析学者和从业者的兴趣和关切，并对理解人类经验作出有意义的贡献。该杂志发表原创论文、专门讨论单一主题的特刊、书评、影评、关于凯伦·霍尼精神分析中心活动的报告以及评论。

American Journal of Psychoanalysis

This paper revisits D. W. Winnicott's famous account of his patient Piggle to examine the profound nature of her response to the birth of her baby sister in the light of the concepts of object constancy and absence. The author speculates that recent scholarship revealing the mother's Holocaust family history enables us to hypothesise that Piggle's infancy might have been marked by her mother's psychic absence. This contributed to difficulties in the establishment of object constancy leaving her vulnerable to more extreme responses to later absences, such as at the birth of her sister. The focus of Winnicott's interpretations at an Oedipal level is critiqued as is the significance of the psychoanalysis-on-demand setting of the work.

Angela Joyce

The American Journal of Psychoanalysis

Am J Psychoanal

Object constancy and absence in Winnicott through the lens of the piggle

通过《小猪》的视角看温尼科特的对象恒常性与缺失

Brett Kahr

Michael Balint and His World: The Budapest Years, edited by Judit Szekacs-Weisz, Raluca Soreanu, and Ivan Ward, Routledge, Abingdon, Oxfordshire and New York, 2024, 183 pp.

迈克尔·巴林特与他的世界：布达佩斯岁月，由朱迪特·塞卡奇-韦斯、拉卢卡·索雷亚努和伊万·沃德编辑，劳特利奇出版社，阿宾顿、牛津郡和纽约，2024年，183页。

Jani Santamaría

Conversation: Bion and Winnicott

对话：比昂与温尼科特

In 2023, THE A-SANTAMARIA PSICOANALISIS MEXICO ASSOCIATION planned the Online Conversations of W. Bion to generate dialogues with outstanding colleagues about the divergences and convergences of Bion with the work of André Green, Jean Laplanche, Ignacio Matte Blanco and D.W. Winnicott. The need to share thoughts about these authors' works and their links with others, facilitated widespread international dialogues about these authors and placed them all in a field of exchange, debate and challenge. The Online Conversations underlined the new dimensions in which Bion and Winnicott placed psychoanalytic theory and technique. Five outstanding presentations illustrate their understanding and grasping of these dimensions, each followed by an author exchange. These authors provide an in-depth inquiry into a wide range of topics: Angela Joyce looks at object constancy and absence through the lens of Winnicott's (1977) The Piggle; Dominque Scarfone examines the concept of contact barriers among Freud, Bion and Winnicott; Howard B. Levine discusses absence, failure and the negative in the work of Bion, Winnicott and Green; Lesley Caldwell links the works of Bion and Winnicott in addressing being alone and with others, and communicating and not communicating; finally, Rudi Vermote shows how Bion's and Winnicott's views on regression and formlessness complement each other.

Jani Santamaría Linares

The author discusses the idea that psychoanalysts could benefit from a common paradigm, not necessarily a single theory, but a general frame through which to view their work. Focusing on perception as a basic modality of psychic life, in combination with the system-environment approach, could provide this common baseline. The text explores how this approach relates to the work of Freud, Bion, and Winnicott, emphasizing the interconnectedness of systems and their environments, the role of perception, and the concept of a contact barrier. The notion of tangential interlocking is proposed as a way of illustrating how the system Freud called perception-consciousness is the contact-barrier common to all the psycho-somatic functions of interest to psychoanalysis.

ISSN	0002-9548, 1573-6741
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Publication Information	Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.，Publishing cycle: 4 issues per year，Journal Type: journal，Open Access Journals: No
Basic data	Year of publication: 1942，Proportion of original research papers: 0.00%，Self Citation Rate:N.A.， Gold OA Rate: 0.00%

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Object constancy and absence in Winnicott through the lens of the piggle

Michael Balint and His World: The Budapest Years, edited by Judit Szekacs-Weisz, Raluca Soreanu, and Ivan Ward, Routledge, Abingdon, Oxfordshire and New York, 2024, 183 pp.

Conversation: Bion and Winnicott

Conversation: Bion and Winnicott

Contact barriers between Freud, Bion and Winnicott

Object constancy and absence in Winnicott through the lens of the piggle

Michael Balint and His World: The Budapest Years, edited by Judit Szekacs-Weisz, Raluca Soreanu, and Ivan Ward, Routledge, Abingdon, Oxfordshire and New York, 2024, 183 pp.

Conversation: Bion and Winnicott

Conversation: Bion and Winnicott

Contact barriers between Freud, Bion and Winnicott