Charles Levin
Biographic Data
| ID | 3939244 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charles Levin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charles |
| FAMILY NAME | Levin |
| SIGNATURE | LEVIN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Canadian Institute of Psychoanalysis |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Poetics of Boundary Violation
In 1965, Frederick Duhl began a sexual relationship with his patient, poet Anne Sexton, whose previous psychiatrist, Martin Orne, had moved from Boston to Philadelphia. Little is known about this relationship, perhaps because Sexton was persuaded by health professionals, including her previous psychiatrist, not to expose Dr. Duhl. These professionals closed ranks behind Duhl, covering up the ethical misconduct, which may have contributed to Anne …
Bringing It All Back Home
In our response to Andrea Celenza (this issue), we take this opportunity to develop some of the implications of her original work and the Fred Duhl-Anne Sexton tragedy. We concur with Celenza that the ethics revolution in North American psychoanalysis, which dates only from the mid 1980s, has not entirely transformed the landscape. After reflecting briefly on Sexton’s cultural legacy, and on the concept of analytic love, we suggest that psychoana…
Happy Memories of Muriel Dimen and Her Ethos of Meta-Practice
In Muriel Dimen’s way of living, the realms of love, friendship, thought, politics, work, and play were all interrelated in her personal ethos. Drawing on every aspect of her experience, she developed a kind of meta-practice that could well serve as a model for the psychoanalytic profession
Danger Talk in Psychoanalysis
Danger talk is a symbolic elaboration of our sense of otherness as we perceive it in ourselves or others (to the extent that these can be distinguished). It can be wonderfully creative and sexy; but it can also serve the aim of mass stultification, as in the recent shutting down of American psychic life in order to accommodate 1 ridiculous man and the criminal sycophants who invented him. Unfortunately, the destructive form of danger talk is inhe…
Fear of Breakdown in the Psychoanalytic Group
The processes of defense
The Processes of Defense: Trauma, Drives, and Reality – A New Synthesis by Joseph Fernando Aronson , New York , 2009 ; 370 pp Winner of the 2010 Gradiva Prize in the category of psychoanalytic theo
The Mind as a Complex Internal Object
The psyche is not a passive container (of emotions, memories, representations, objects, structures, drives, defenses, etc.), and not just an object-seeking organism; it acts on itself as the object of its own scrutiny, which can take many forms. Emphasis on the role of interpersonal object relations has sometimes tended to reduce our working model of the psyche to its internalizations and how these shape personality. This essay uses illustrative …
Entre la chair et l'esprit
La thiiorie classique de la socialisation suppose que l'individu social se développe après la naissance à partir d'un état primaire d'indifférenciation sans frontières entre le soi et l'objet (Freud, Piaget, Skinner). Selon une telle perspective, la sociabilité n'est qu'un fait externe au corps, une caractéristique secondaire ou acquise. Mais le " chaos ", 1' " égoïsme " et le " narcissisme " habituellement attribués à l'enfant ne constituent pas…
Ideology and Power in the Age of Lenin in Ruins
Ideology and Power in the Age of Lenin in Ruins is a special triple issue celebrating the 15th year of publication of the Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory. This text is also Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory, Volume 15, Numbers 1-2 &3 (1991)
Carnal Knowledge of Aesthetic States
For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign
The Mind as a Complex Internal Object
The psyche is not a passive container (of emotions, memories, representations, objects, structures, drives, defenses, etc.), and not just an object-seeking organism; it acts on itself as the object of its own scrutiny, which can take many forms. Emphasis on the role of interpersonal object relations has sometimes tended to reduce our working model of the psyche to its internalizations and how these shape personality. This essay uses illustrative …
For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign
Carnal Knowledge of Aesthetic States
Ideology and Power in the Age of Lenin in Ruins
Ideology and Power in the Age of Lenin in Ruins is a special triple issue celebrating the 15th year of publication of the Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory. This text is also Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory, Volume 15, Numbers 1-2 &3 (1991)
Entre la chair et l'esprit
La thiiorie classique de la socialisation suppose que l'individu social se développe après la naissance à partir d'un état primaire d'indifférenciation sans frontières entre le soi et l'objet (Freud, Piaget, Skinner). Selon une telle perspective, la sociabilité n'est qu'un fait externe au corps, une caractéristique secondaire ou acquise. Mais le " chaos ", 1' " égoïsme " et le " narcissisme " habituellement attribués à l'enfant ne constituent pas…
The Mind as a Complex Internal Object
The psyche is not a passive container (of emotions, memories, representations, objects, structures, drives, defenses, etc.), and not just an object-seeking organism; it acts on itself as the object of its own scrutiny, which can take many forms. Emphasis on the role of interpersonal object relations has sometimes tended to reduce our working model of the psyche to its internalizations and how these shape personality. This essay uses illustrative …
The processes of defense
The Processes of Defense: Trauma, Drives, and Reality – A New Synthesis by Joseph Fernando Aronson , New York , 2009 ; 370 pp Winner of the 2010 Gradiva Prize in the category of psychoanalytic theo
Fear of Breakdown in the Psychoanalytic Group
Happy Memories of Muriel Dimen and Her Ethos of Meta-Practice
In Muriel Dimen’s way of living, the realms of love, friendship, thought, politics, work, and play were all interrelated in her personal ethos. Drawing on every aspect of her experience, she developed a kind of meta-practice that could well serve as a model for the psychoanalytic profession
Danger Talk in Psychoanalysis
Danger talk is a symbolic elaboration of our sense of otherness as we perceive it in ourselves or others (to the extent that these can be distinguished). It can be wonderfully creative and sexy; but it can also serve the aim of mass stultification, as in the recent shutting down of American psychic life in order to accommodate 1 ridiculous man and the criminal sycophants who invented him. Unfortunately, the destructive form of danger talk is inhe…
The Poetics of Boundary Violation
In 1965, Frederick Duhl began a sexual relationship with his patient, poet Anne Sexton, whose previous psychiatrist, Martin Orne, had moved from Boston to Philadelphia. Little is known about this relationship, perhaps because Sexton was persuaded by health professionals, including her previous psychiatrist, not to expose Dr. Duhl. These professionals closed ranks behind Duhl, covering up the ethical misconduct, which may have contributed to Anne …
Bringing It All Back Home
In our response to Andrea Celenza (this issue), we take this opportunity to develop some of the implications of her original work and the Fred Duhl-Anne Sexton tragedy. We concur with Celenza that the ethics revolution in North American psychoanalysis, which dates only from the mid 1980s, has not entirely transformed the landscape. After reflecting briefly on Sexton’s cultural legacy, and on the concept of analytic love, we suggest that psychoana…
Psychology (8 works) · Psychoanalysis (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Psychoanalytic theory (5 works) · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (5 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works)