How do the contemporary psychoanalytic authors view the concept of death instinct, which was introduced by Freud (1920) in “Civilisation and its Discontents” and has been one of the most controversial issues in the psychoanalytic literature (Laplanche and Pontalis, 1967)? Do we still need this concept clinically today? Can “death drive” help to explain the individual and collective tendencies towards aggression and destruction?
The Turkish Annual 2016 includes articles that allow us to reconsider the questions raised by the wave of destructivity that has been gradually spreading both in our country and in the world in recent years, from within the psychoanalytic theory. The Annual covers also clinical papers which include conceptualisations of contemporary psychoanalysis and which are open for multi-disciplinary readings.
✪Introduction NİLÜFER ERDEM ✪ The death drive: Phenomenological perspectives in contemporary Kleinian theory DAVID L. BELL ✪ Is the concept of the death drive still useful in the clinical field? FRANCO DE MASI✪ Erotic passion as a desperate cry aimed at the other: Nagisa Oshima’s In the realm of senses BELLA HABİP ✪ Shame, hatred, and pornography: Variations on an aspect of current times CLAUDE JANIN ✪ Seeing and being seen: Shame in the clinical situation JOHN STEINER ✪ An introduction to the work on primary symbolization RENE ROUSSILLON ✪ Finding unconscious phantasy in the session: Recognizing form CATALINA BRONSTEIN ✪ Amnemonic traces: Traumatic after-effects ANNA POTAMIANOU ✪ “Void existence” as against “annihilation existence”: Differentiating two qualities in primitive mental states IRIT HAMEIRI VALDARSKY ✪ The case of Alix: A psychoanalytic transformation when a baby makes three LILA HOÏJMAN ✪ Discussion of the case of Alix ROBERT OELSNER ✪ Discussion of the case of Alix IGNES SODRE ✪ Letter to the Editor On: Hijab and homosexuality – a case report and review of the literature NICOLA LUIGI BRAGAZZI – GIOVANNI DEL PUENTE
The Turkish Annual of IJP 2016 is compiled by an Editorial Board and translators who are psychoanalysts and candidates affiliated with Psike Istanbul. It is being published by the Istanbul Bilgi University Publications within the series: Psike Istanbul Psychoanalytic Library.
EDITORIAL BOARD: Nilüfer Erdem (Editor), Aslı Day (Assistant Editor), Melis Tanık Sivri (Assistant Editor), Şeyda Postacı (Coordinator), Bella Habip, Nilgün Taşkıntuna.
