Dana Birksted-Breen

Bio: Dana Birksted-Breen is an academic researcher from Dana Corporation. The author has contributed to research in topics: Possession (law) & Temporality. The author has an hindex of 7, co-authored 13 publications receiving 327 citations.

Phallus, penis and mental space

Abstract: In this paper the author suggests that it is insufficient simply to make a distinction, as Laplanche & Pontalis do, between penis to denote the male organ in its bodily reality and phallus to describe the symbolic aspect. She suggests that there is an important symbolic function for which the word phallus is not appropriate and which she calls penis-as-link. She suggests that it is the introjection of the penis-as-link which has a structuring function and promotes mental space and thinking, in that it recognises the full oedipal situation including the parental relationship (and mental bisexuality). With clinical material she shows that the lack of internalisation of the penis-as-link leads to the search for the phallus as a fantasy and she illustrates the relationship between the internalisation of the penis-as-link and mental space and thinking.

Time and the après‐coup

Abstract: The author explores the different temporalities of developmental time, apres-coup and what she calls 'reverberation time'. She considers the paradoxical temporality of the 'here and now', showing that it is not pure present, and describes at the micro-level of sessional material how progressive and retrospective time go inherently together, one being a requisite for the other.

Working with anorexic patient.

Abstract: I have discussed anorexia nervosa, in this paper, from the point of view of the anorexic's wish for and fear of fusion with her mother. I have described some of the feelings which are being defended against by this state of fusion, as well as some of the consequences, in particular the lack of a 'transitional space' and what this means for mental development. I illustrated this with the description of the first four years of the ongoing analysis of an anorexic patient, concluding that anorexia is an attempt to annihilate the very nature of human existence--inequality, progression through the life cycle, death.

Taking time: the tempo of psychoanalysis.

Abstract: In this article the author argues that in order to be psychoanalysis, the ‘here and now’ technical approach needs to be firmly grounded theoretically and technically in a practice that includes the...

'Reverberation time', dreaming and the capacity to dream.

Abstract: In this paper the author suggests that understanding the roots of the subjective sense of time can throw light on the disturbances in psychic time which are found in particular in the more severe pathologies. She introduces the argument that the roots of the development of the sense of time rest on a primitive sense of time she calls ‘reverberation time’. By this notion she refers to the particular quality of the earliest ‘back and forth’ internalized exchange with the mother in which the auditory dimension plays a significant part. Referring to a wide range of literature and clinical examples, the author thus suggests that the subjective sense of time is created by the reverberation between mother and infant. Disturbances in this area will be reflected in the pathological ‘arresting’ of time which is observed in the different pathologies and, in particular, around the negotiation of the depressive position and the oedipal situation. Extending this argument, the author goes on to suggest that it is the in...

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Remembrance, trauma and collective memory: the battle for memory in psychoanalysis.

Abstract: In contemporary clinical theory in psychoanalysis, remembering life-historical events and reconstructing the past have lost the central therapeutic function that they had for Freud. The author describes this development and demonstrates the way in which trauma and its remembrance resist it. He discusses the problem of the truth status of memories. Traumatic memories are not subject to transformation by the present when they are retrieved. They constitute a kind of foreign body in the psychic-associative network, but rather than forming an exact replica of the traumatic experience they undergo specific remodellings. The author describes some of the psychic processes in this encapsulated realm. Resolving its predominant dynamics and extricating phantasy from traumatic reality require a remembrance and reconstruction of the traumatic events in the analytic treatment. The author goes on to describe the vital importance of social discourse concerning historical truth for both the individual concerned and society in connection with disasters defined as man-made. A reluctance to know often sets in here that stems from the desire to avoid confronting the crimes, the horror and the victims' suffering. With the Holocaust in particular, the further problem arises of how to avoid its subjugation in historical description to defining categories that eliminate the horror and traumatic nature of the events. Remembering crimes unfolds a special set of dynamics. The author describes both these dynamics and their transgenerational effects on post-war German society. He concludes that, in order to confront the problems posed by a multifaceted traumatic reality, it is also necessary to battle to restore memory to an appropriate place in psychoanalysis.

Time and the après‐coup

Abstract: The author explores the different temporalities of developmental time, apres-coup and what she calls 'reverberation time'. She considers the paradoxical temporality of the 'here and now', showing that it is not pure present, and describes at the micro-level of sessional material how progressive and retrospective time go inherently together, one being a requisite for the other.