Lacanian Psychoanalysis with Babies, Children, and Adolescents: Further Notes on the Child

307 Pages·2017·1.36 MB·English

by  Carol Owens (Editor)

LACANIAN PSYCHOANALYSIS WITH
BABIES, CHILDREN, AND ADOLESCENTS

LACANIAN
PSYCHOANALYSIS WITH
BABIES, CHILDREN,
AND ADOLESCENTS
Further Notes on
the Child
Edited by
Carol Owens and
Stephanie Farrelly Quinn
First published in 2017 by
Karnac Books Ltd
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To my sons,
Carol Owens
To all the other sons (and daughters),
Stephanie Farrelly Quinn

CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xi
ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS xiii
INTRODUCTION xxi
Further notes on the child …
Carol Owens and Stephanie Farrelly Quinn
PART I
DIRECTING THE TREATMENT
CHAPTER ONE
Lacanian psychoanalysis with children: framing challenges
and inventions 3
Stephanie Swales
CHAPTER TWO
Transference in analytic work with children and
adolescents: the space and time of demand 17
Hilda Fernández Alvarez
vii
viii CONTENTS
CHAPTER THREE
Seminars on child psychoanalysis 33
Françoise Dolto
with translation and introduction by Olga Cox Cameron
CHAPTER FOUR
Dolto, Klein, and Lacan in a polylogue or the Agora
effect in the Maison Verte-UK 49
Bice Benvenuto
PART II
CLINICAL STRUCTURES (EDGES, LIMITS, BOUNDARIES)
CHAPTER FIVE
Psychoanalysis with children, the work with the parent,
and the clinical structures 65
Leonardo S. Rodríguez
CHAPTER SIX
From childhood psychosis to neurosis 81
Cristina R. Laurita
CHAPTER SEVEN
Rapunzel: a necessary unravelling 93
Elizabeth Monahan
CHAPTER EIGHT
Pushing the envelope: a skinful of trauma 105
Marie Walshe
PART III
SYMPTOMS AND SYSTEMS
CHAPTER NINE
The watershed of the symptom: from Rhine to Rhône
with Piaget and Spielrein 123
Michael Gerard Plastow
CHAPTER TEN
Transference today and the necessity of invention—notes on
working with adolescence 139
Kate Briggs
CONTENTS ix
CHAPTER ELEVEN
The symptom and the system: notes on the foster child 155
Kristen Hennessy
CHAPTER TWELVE
Sex and terror: psychoanalysis with adolescents in an
Irish sexual health service 169
Donna Redmond
PART IV
“FATHER”: INVENTIONS AND REINVENTIONS
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
To invent a father … 185
Megan Williams
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
The Father of the Name: a child’s analysis through the last
teachings of Lacan 199
Annie G. Rogers
PART V
NEW KIDS: (POST-) MODERN SUBJECTS OF TECHNOLOGIES,
GLOBAL CAPITALISM, NEO-LIBERALISM, AND BIO-MEDICINE
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
Psychoanalysis and neonatology 215
Catherine Vanier
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
The “iMirror Stage”: not-so-smartphones and the
pre-schooler—some clinical observations 225
Joanna Fortune
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
Making a difference: on the non-rapport of psychoanalysis and
the discourse of “trans” 235
Ona Nierenberg and Eve Watson