Spring 2015 | The Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis

First Published in 2015 by:
The SITE for Contemporary Psychoanalysis
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Julie Walsh’s ‘Freud’s Wissbegierde and the Research Projects of Childhood: Revisiting Little Hans’ was first published in Sitegeist, No. 5, Winter 2010

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ISBN: 978-1-326-14336-7

Edited, designed and produced by:
Nic Bayley, Dorothée Bonnigal-Katz, Val Parks, Barry Watt and Robert Weiss.
This issue edited by Dorothée Bonnigal-Katz and Robert Weiss.

Editorial Advisory Panel
Julia Borossa, Bernard Burgoyne, Olga Cox Cameron, John Fletcher, Stephen Frosh, Kirsty Hall, Chris Hauke, Anastasios Gaitanidis, Dany Nobus, Chris Oakley, Haya Oakley, Joanna Ryan, Naomi Segal, Ross Skelton, Paul Verhaege, Rob Weatherill, Peter Wood, Amy Wygant.

Notes for Future Contributors
Sitegeist uses a peer-review system based around electronic submission. Authors are invited to send abstracts of not more than 200 words to the editors. Calls for Papers are made, on occasion, and are publicised on our website: the-site-org.uk and Twitter feed: @SITE_GEIST.

Editorial

In preparation for this special issue of Sitegeist featuring outstanding theory papers from the Site’s training group, I found myself reading French psychoanalyst Laurence Kahn’s latest book, Le psychanalyste apathique et le patient postmoderne (2014) – hopefully one of my forthcoming translation projects. In her book, Kahn discusses the consequences of a psychoanalytic model that...

Knowledge and Desire in the Consulting Room – Are Neutrality and Abstinence Empty Concepts?

I cannot advise my colleagues too urgently to model themselves during psycho-analytic treatment on the surgeon, who puts aside all his feelings, even his human sympathy, and concentrates his mental forces on the single aim of performing the operation as skilfully as possible (Freud 1912(b): 115). It is certainly possible to forfeit this first success...

Variations on a Theme: Handling Transference from Freud to Laplanche

Introduction The notion of transference is a peculiarly psychoanalytic one; a notion that is quintessential to psychoanalytic theory, and one that demands, one way or another, an ‘accounting for’. Yet, at the same time, the notion of transference—particularly as it is exemplified by the transference neurosis that is manufactured in and by analysis—itself transfers an...

It’s Out There Somewhere

Rosebud? Maybe it’s something he couldn’t get or something he lost Orson Welles (Citizen Kane, 1941). The absence of the satisfaction hoped for, the continued denial of the desired baby, must in the end lead the small lover to turn away from his hopeless longing Sigmund Freud (The Dissolution Of the Oedipus Complex, 1924). Oedipus...

Towards a Laingian Theory

We do not need theories so much as the experience that is the source of the theory (Laing 1990: 15). This was the starting point for the paper I wrote in 2009 as part of my training at The Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis. I had recently encountered Laing for the first time and had been...

Freud’s Wissbegierde and the Research Projects of Childhood: Revisiting ‘Little Hans’

I overheard an exchange between two women on a coach recently, both of whom were grandmothers. One was telling the other of her grandchild’s musings on the imminent arrival of a baby sibling. The young child grew particularly concerned if her mother went to the toilet lest the baby arrive without warning. The second grandmother...

On the Relation Between the Universal and the Singular in the Theory and Practice of Psychoanalysis.

Begin with an individual, and before you know it you find that you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find that you have created – nothing. That is because we are all queer fish, queerer behind our faces and voices than we want anyone to know or than we know ourselves...

Notes on Contributors

Dorothée Bonnigal-Katz is a psychoanalyst based in London and Leamington Spa. She is a member of the Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis and a translator in the fields of psychoanalytic theory and philosophy. She has translated Laurence Kahn, Jean Laplanche, Dominique Scarfone, Guy Rosolato, Pierre Legendre, Christopher Bollas and Miguel de Beistegui, among others. Christian Murphy...

Call for Writing

Sitegeist was founded with the intention of promoting varied, lively and creative approaches in writing to the questions of psychoanalysis today. Our next issue, number 11, will be devoted to papers from the SITE’s 2015 Spring Conference on Conflict. Issue 12 will be on the subject of Anxiety. A future issue is planned on Translation....