The writer Georges Perec was in psychoanalysis with Jean-Bertrand Pontalis for four years in the early 1970s. In this essay, the author presents the exceptional interest this analyst took in this ...patient and the ways in which that interest manifested itself in his work, psychoanalytic and otherwise. Many correlative factors suggest that identificatory processes persisted beyond the treatment and were maintained into Pontalis's later life. While this paper is primarily intended to provide evidence to support this view of a specific case, the author closes by reflecting that this may be a more general phenomenon and the reasons for this.
Georges Perec's book La Boutique Obscure (1973; translated into English in 2012) serves as the basis for this paper. The book is a collection of dreams that its author dreamed from May 1968 to August ...1972. The present author treats these dreams as chapters in a bizarre autobiography, elaborating Perec's life through a discussion of those dreams and using them as a starting point with which to discuss his views of dream interpretation and the role of dreams in psychoanalysis.
Built infrastructures are increasingly disrupted by climate-related extreme events. Being able to monitor what climate change implies for US infrastructures is of considerable importance to all ...levels of decision-makers. A capacity to develop cross-cutting, widely applicable indicators for more than a dozen different kinds of infrastructure, however, is severely limited at present. The development of such indicators must be considered an ongoing activity that will require expansion and refinement. A number of recent consensus reports suggest four priorities for indicators that portray the impacts of climate change, climate-related extreme events, and other driving forces on infrastructure. These are changes in the reliability of infrastructure services and the implications for costs; changes in the resilience of infrastructures to climate and other stresses; impacts due to the interdependencies of infrastructures; and ongoing adaptation in infrastructures.
Intersubjectivity and dialecticism Schwartz, Henry P.
International journal of psychoanalysis,
April 2012, Volume:
93, Issue:
2
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
In the second half of the 1970s the word began appearing in a sense approximating to its current usage in the work of infancy researchers, especially Colwyn Trevarthen, and the psychoanalyst Robert ...Stolorow and his colleagues. ... the term has come to be used to describe the work of many others, including Jessica Benjamin, Thomas Ogden, Irwin Hoffman, Christopher Bollas and Charles Spezzano.
Analysts have interpreted the concept of neutrality in a variety of ways, beginning with Strachey's use of that word to translate Freud's (1915) term, Indifferenz. In this paper, neutrality is linked ...to Freud's notions of free association and evenly suspended attention. A history of psychoanalytic attempts to clarify the concept are presented, with special attention to issues of ambiguity and the patient's role in the determination of neutrality. Neutrality is further elaborated in relation to the bipersonal field as described by the Barangers and contemporary field theorists. Understood in terms of the field, neutrality becomes a transpersonal concept, here conceived in terms of alpha-function and a dreaming dyad. Two clinical examples cast in the light of a Bionian perspective are discussed to suggest an alternative understanding of analytic impasses and their relation to alpha-function and neutrality.
The shipping sector generates significant amounts of carbon dioxide emissions on annual basis. The excess amount of carbon dioxide is harmful for both the environment and the society, and partly for ...that reason, there is willingness and pressure to decrease the volume of anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions in shipping. Shipping is a highly competitive market, and the decisions to invest in environmentally sustainable solutions are often linked to questions related to money.
In this article, we investigate operational and technological measures by which shipping companies can not only reduce carbon dioxide emissions but also obtain an economical payoff for doing so. We do this by modeling year-to-year emission reduction potentials and cost structures for a sample of cargo ships operating in the sector of short sea shipping. Our model responds to the natural life-cycle of operating vessels, meaning that these ships are docking every five years and getting to end-of-their-life at the age of 30 years. Based on these principles, the ships are equipped with chosen emission reduction measures in different emission abatement scenarios. Both the emission abatement potentials as well as the investment costs and possible cost savings due to the improved operating efficiency are calculated.
We conjecture that with many possible emission-reduction methods available and the investments of time and money these all require, we find methods and solution combinations that would be economically reasonable and net-present-value positive for the shipping companies to execute. Our findings are in line with the prior literature arguing that a significant amount of carbon dioxide emissions can be reduced from the shipping sector profitably. This is partly because of the improved operational performance and partly because of the enhanced energy efficiency.
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•This study focuses on carbon dioxide emission reduction in shipping.•Emission reductions can be achieved with a profitable way in shipping.•Over 50% of the emissions can be reduced with profitable investments.•Emission abatement is analyzed on the system level in relation to time dimension.•Combining scenario thinking, emission abatement analysis and investment calculation.
Roy Schafer: a Beginning Schwartz, Henry P.
The Psychoanalytic quarterly,
20/1/1/, Volume:
82, Issue:
1
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
The author provides a biographical overview of Schafer's life, culled from his published work and focused primarily on his professional development. This biography is used to demonstrate some of ...Schafer's central theoretical insights on narrativity and language, and reveals the consistency of his thinking over his long career. A brief discussion of his writing on King Lear provides a bridge between theoretical and biographical material.
In order to explore the psychoanalytic concept of neutrality, the essay considers the late work of Roland Barthes. Neutrality has had an unstable career in the history of psychoanalysis: a shibboleth ...to some practitioners, a charade to others, and never consistently defined within the field. After sketching out one central conflict in how analysts have understood this concept, the author engages in an associative process with Barthes' course on what he called "the Neutral." Barthes' approach to reading a text, in which reader and writer become inextricably mixed, becomes a generative source for understanding the psychoanalytic relationship and the process that follows. Pleasure emerges in the ambiguity of free association as the arrogance of certainty and self fade away.
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