Bruce Reis
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3940959 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Bruce Reis |
| NOMBRES | Bruce |
| APELLIDO | Reis |
| FIRMA | REIS B |
| AFILIACIONES | New York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1572-5229 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 36 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2003 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Marion Milner’s foundational influence on Bion’s conception of reverie and Winnicott’s conception of play
This paper argues that Marion Milner occupies a foundational position in the development of two central concepts in contemporary psychoanalysis: Wilfred Bion's conception of reverie and Donald Winnicott's understanding of play. Milner was the originating theorist whose innovations established the conceptual ground upon which both Bion and Winnicott built their most celebrated contributions. Milner introduced "reverie" into psychoanalytic discours…
Pay No Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain
This paper will raise critical concerns regarding the utilization of artificial intelligence (AI) in psychoanalysis—in and around clinical settings and in its literature. The author will explore fantasies about AI on the part of patients and analysts alike. While AI may be intended for particular purposes, the author will explore how we will regularly misuse machine learning and in addition how the very large companies behind these programs will …
Freud’s animality
The animal nature of human beings has all but disappeared from psychoanalytic discourse. This reflects Freud's struggle with the issue of animality, which he at once repudiates, and simultaneously conceals at the core of human mental life. Freud's use of the terms "animal" and "man" constantly shifts as he attempts to employ them in key areas of analytic theory building, while also shifting his perspective along the way to consider the opposition…
What is Meant by the Term Interpretation, and What is it For
Analysts seem spellbound by language when it comes to the word interpretation, a word so idealized and grand, so laden with fantasy, that the term itself continues to hold a magical sense that defies us to think about it. Called upon to do far too much explanatory work in psychoanalysis, it is accorded a variety of meanings. It is employed for varied uses, often simultaneously, making it hard to know what analysts mean when referring to “interpre…
The analyst’s listening
Analytic approaches to listening have favored something that is more akin to vision, consequently shaping the technique, aims and understandings of psychoanalysis in terms of the production of understandings and meanings. The aural aspects of listening have mostly been subsumed under this emphasis on the visual. Two models of analytic listening based in the visual are initially presented, listening-for, and listening-to. Illustrations show how li…
Creative repetition
Freud understood repetition, on the one hand, as something 'daemonic' and conservative that could compulsively drive us back, as in the cases of traumatic neurosis or what we would today call post-traumatic stress disorder. Yet, on the other hand, he also grasped the pleasure of repetition such as that found in children's jokes, rhymes, and stories or in his grandson's invented game of Fort/Da through which the child achieves mastery of his exper…
Mingling and Stretching
Monsters, dreams and madness
Considering Freudian and Post-Freudian approaches to the intersubjective Beatrice Ithier puts the work of Michel de M'Uzan and Thomas Ogden in comparison. To this comparison I add a consideration of the work of Christopher Bollas. The highly creative clinical approaches these three theorists take is shown to be informed by their elaborations of the Freudian notion of unconscious communication and by new approaches to the issue of identity. Attent…
The Psychic Home
Some Questions Regarding Reality, Subjectivity, and Psychoanalytic Theory Construction
Realitysubjectivityanalytic theoryCharles HanlyFreudcritical realismanxiety theoryKantperceptionscienceunconsciousreasonreality
Attachment and Psychoanalysis
This impressive volume begins with a history of the development of attachment theory in the work of John Bowlby and illustrates how that theory took shape in part as an intended corrective to predo
Zombie States
Where the dialectical relation of life and death instincts has become dissociated, zombie states result-in which individuals inhabit deadness as if it were a full experience of aliveness. Bypassing reservations about the speculative nature of these instincts, this paper reconsiders their relation in order to highlight certain types of clinical phenomenology that could otherwise be lost to current ways of conceptualizing aliveness and deadness. A …
Names of the Father
Not long ago, a few analyst friends and I were talking. We were talking about another analyst of whom we all are very fond, when one of the analysts said that she liked this colleague because of the feeling she got when she was with her. I didn’t think of our discussion until sometime a erward, when I wondered about my friend’s statement that some people are more gender-y than other people. When I thought about it more, I was not sure exactly wha…
Heterosexual Masculinities
Performative and enactive features of psychoanalytic witnessing
This paper will attempt to broaden the conception of witnessing in analytic work with traumatized patients by extending the idea to incorporate the patient's developing and varied capacity for witnessing, as well as a witnessing that occurs within the analytic relationship itself. Actions occuring as part of traumatic repetition are understood to represent memory phenomena and are distinguised from dissociated self-state experience. These experie…
Fetish
The Self is Alive and Well and Living in Relational Psychoanalysis
The Subject of History/The Object of Transference
Rather than consider the patient's history as limited to the first years of life, this paper extends the idea of the patient's history to encompass multiple histories–national, colonial, racial, gendered, sexual, developmental, familial, and immigrant–as interweaving threads of personal identity. From this perspective history refers not only to an individual's developmental course but also to the shaping force of events in creating culture or the…
Relational Perspectives in Psychoanalysis
Performative and enactive features of psychoanalytic witnessing
This paper will attempt to broaden the conception of witnessing in analytic work with traumatized patients by extending the idea to incorporate the patient's developing and varied capacity for witnessing, as well as a witnessing that occurs within the analytic relationship itself. Actions occuring as part of traumatic repetition are understood to represent memory phenomena and are distinguised from dissociated self-state experience. These experie…
Creative repetition
Freud understood repetition, on the one hand, as something 'daemonic' and conservative that could compulsively drive us back, as in the cases of traumatic neurosis or what we would today call post-traumatic stress disorder. Yet, on the other hand, he also grasped the pleasure of repetition such as that found in children's jokes, rhymes, and stories or in his grandson's invented game of Fort/Da through which the child achieves mastery of his exper…
Relational Perspectives in Psychoanalysis
The analyst’s listening
Analytic approaches to listening have favored something that is more akin to vision, consequently shaping the technique, aims and understandings of psychoanalysis in terms of the production of understandings and meanings. The aural aspects of listening have mostly been subsumed under this emphasis on the visual. Two models of analytic listening based in the visual are initially presented, listening-for, and listening-to. Illustrations show how li…
Zombie States
Where the dialectical relation of life and death instincts has become dissociated, zombie states result-in which individuals inhabit deadness as if it were a full experience of aliveness. Bypassing reservations about the speculative nature of these instincts, this paper reconsiders their relation in order to highlight certain types of clinical phenomenology that could otherwise be lost to current ways of conceptualizing aliveness and deadness. A …
Freud’s animality
The animal nature of human beings has all but disappeared from psychoanalytic discourse. This reflects Freud's struggle with the issue of animality, which he at once repudiates, and simultaneously conceals at the core of human mental life. Freud's use of the terms "animal" and "man" constantly shifts as he attempts to employ them in key areas of analytic theory building, while also shifting his perspective along the way to consider the opposition…
Some Questions Regarding Reality, Subjectivity, and Psychoanalytic Theory Construction
Realitysubjectivityanalytic theoryCharles HanlyFreudcritical realismanxiety theoryKantperceptionscienceunconsciousreasonreality
Attachment and Psychoanalysis
This impressive volume begins with a history of the development of attachment theory in the work of John Bowlby and illustrates how that theory took shape in part as an intended corrective to predo
Relational Perspectives in Psychoanalysis
The Self is Alive and Well and Living in Relational Psychoanalysis
The Subject of History/The Object of Transference
Rather than consider the patient's history as limited to the first years of life, this paper extends the idea of the patient's history to encompass multiple histories–national, colonial, racial, gendered, sexual, developmental, familial, and immigrant–as interweaving threads of personal identity. From this perspective history refers not only to an individual's developmental course but also to the shaping force of events in creating culture or the…
Fetish
Names of the Father
Not long ago, a few analyst friends and I were talking. We were talking about another analyst of whom we all are very fond, when one of the analysts said that she liked this colleague because of the feeling she got when she was with her. I didn’t think of our discussion until sometime a erward, when I wondered about my friend’s statement that some people are more gender-y than other people. When I thought about it more, I was not sure exactly wha…
Heterosexual Masculinities
Performative and enactive features of psychoanalytic witnessing
This paper will attempt to broaden the conception of witnessing in analytic work with traumatized patients by extending the idea to incorporate the patient's developing and varied capacity for witnessing, as well as a witnessing that occurs within the analytic relationship itself. Actions occuring as part of traumatic repetition are understood to represent memory phenomena and are distinguised from dissociated self-state experience. These experie…
Zombie States
Where the dialectical relation of life and death instincts has become dissociated, zombie states result-in which individuals inhabit deadness as if it were a full experience of aliveness. Bypassing reservations about the speculative nature of these instincts, this paper reconsiders their relation in order to highlight certain types of clinical phenomenology that could otherwise be lost to current ways of conceptualizing aliveness and deadness. A …
The Psychic Home
Some Questions Regarding Reality, Subjectivity, and Psychoanalytic Theory Construction
Realitysubjectivityanalytic theoryCharles HanlyFreudcritical realismanxiety theoryKantperceptionscienceunconsciousreasonreality
Attachment and Psychoanalysis
This impressive volume begins with a history of the development of attachment theory in the work of John Bowlby and illustrates how that theory took shape in part as an intended corrective to predo
Monsters, dreams and madness
Considering Freudian and Post-Freudian approaches to the intersubjective Beatrice Ithier puts the work of Michel de M'Uzan and Thomas Ogden in comparison. To this comparison I add a consideration of the work of Christopher Bollas. The highly creative clinical approaches these three theorists take is shown to be informed by their elaborations of the Freudian notion of unconscious communication and by new approaches to the issue of identity. Attent…
Mingling and Stretching
Creative repetition
Freud understood repetition, on the one hand, as something 'daemonic' and conservative that could compulsively drive us back, as in the cases of traumatic neurosis or what we would today call post-traumatic stress disorder. Yet, on the other hand, he also grasped the pleasure of repetition such as that found in children's jokes, rhymes, and stories or in his grandson's invented game of Fort/Da through which the child achieves mastery of his exper…
The analyst’s listening
Analytic approaches to listening have favored something that is more akin to vision, consequently shaping the technique, aims and understandings of psychoanalysis in terms of the production of understandings and meanings. The aural aspects of listening have mostly been subsumed under this emphasis on the visual. Two models of analytic listening based in the visual are initially presented, listening-for, and listening-to. Illustrations show how li…
What is Meant by the Term Interpretation, and What is it For
Analysts seem spellbound by language when it comes to the word interpretation, a word so idealized and grand, so laden with fantasy, that the term itself continues to hold a magical sense that defies us to think about it. Called upon to do far too much explanatory work in psychoanalysis, it is accorded a variety of meanings. It is employed for varied uses, often simultaneously, making it hard to know what analysts mean when referring to “interpre…
Freud’s animality
The animal nature of human beings has all but disappeared from psychoanalytic discourse. This reflects Freud's struggle with the issue of animality, which he at once repudiates, and simultaneously conceals at the core of human mental life. Freud's use of the terms "animal" and "man" constantly shifts as he attempts to employ them in key areas of analytic theory building, while also shifting his perspective along the way to consider the opposition…
Marion Milner’s foundational influence on Bion’s conception of reverie and Winnicott’s conception of play
This paper argues that Marion Milner occupies a foundational position in the development of two central concepts in contemporary psychoanalysis: Wilfred Bion's conception of reverie and Donald Winnicott's understanding of play. Milner was the originating theorist whose innovations established the conceptual ground upon which both Bion and Winnicott built their most celebrated contributions. Milner introduced "reverie" into psychoanalytic discours…
Pay No Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain
This paper will raise critical concerns regarding the utilization of artificial intelligence (AI) in psychoanalysis—in and around clinical settings and in its literature. The author will explore fantasies about AI on the part of patients and analysts alike. While AI may be intended for particular purposes, the author will explore how we will regularly misuse machine learning and in addition how the very large companies behind these programs will …
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