Nathan Kravis
Biographic Data
| ID | 3460529 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nathan Kravis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nathan |
| FAMILY NAME | Kravis |
| SIGNATURE | KRAVIS N |
| AFFILIATIONS | 141 East 55th Street, Suite 2F New York, NY 10022 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Lucy LaFarge (1948–2025)
In Memoriam
Greenberg and the Analyst’s Heresy/Orthodoxy Matrix
Orthodoxy and heresy in psychoanalysis continuously interact with and inform each other according to a principle of mutual influence. Greenberg’s seminal contributions to psychoanalysis reflect his commitment to a ceaseless dialectical tension between orthodoxy and heresy. The analyst’s heresy/orthodoxy matrix is suggested as a way of conceptualizing this tension, one that is applicable to the personal and intellectual journey of every analyst. R…
Charisma
Charisma is best understood as an intersubjective phenomenon irreducible to individual psychology, though to some extent the phenomena of charisma and narcissism overlap. From its earliest stipulation by St. Paul as a gift of grace to Weber’s (1922 Weber, M. (1922). Economy and Society [Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft]: A New Translation, ed. & trans. K. Tribe. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 2019. [Google Scholar], 1946 Weber, M. (1946). From Ma…
The Googled and Googling Analyst
Kierkegaard’s concept of leveling is applied to the dynamics of envy, particularly as they come into play among psychoanalysts doing clinical analytic work. This is illustrated in two clinical vignettes. The technocultural surround of the digital age impinges on analytic identity in ways that can evoke fantasied retreats into sameness and erasure of distinction. The “digital reality principle” is introduced as a way of conceptualizing an aspect o…
Nathan Kravis on Shulman’s “The Analyst’s Pleasure”
Lady Analysis” in Full Splendor
(2013). “Lady Analysis” in Full Splendor: Response to Commentaries. The Psychoanalytic Quarterly: Vol. 82, No. 1, pp. 141-144
Fuck Redux
Leo Stone’s “On the Principal Obscene Word of the English Language” (1954) embodies a particular moment in the history of psychoanalysis, one that stands in contrast to our current zeitgeist. In a review that is both admiring and critical, Stone’s paper is compared with a recent book by an OED editor on the same topic (Sheidlower 2009). The latter totally neglects Stone, and psychoanalysis in general, and speculations are made regarding this negl…
The Analyst's Hatred of Analysis
Analytic work is loved and hated. Both attitudes deserve scrutiny, but the analyst's hatred of analysis, which transcends countertransference responses to individual patients, represents an impediment to gratifying analytic work whose recognition and conceptualization has been resisted. The author suggests that antipathy among analysts toward analysis and the analytic situation is normative and expectable, yet commonly experienced as shameful. He…
I Write to Know What I Think”
The four-year writing curriculum of the Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research has as its main objective to teach candidates to learn about analysis through writing. Learning to write about analyses ultimately entails learning to clarify and then express how one thinks and functions as an analyst. Since its inception ten years ago, the program has evolved into its current structure, a stepwise approach through the years of candi…
Friedman's corpus Since His Anatomy
Lawrence Friedman is a preeminent theorist, critic, and commentator in American psychoanalysis today. The major themes of his work, beginning with his magnum opus, The Anatomy of Psychotherapy (1988), are examined in an effort to identify conceptual shifts and problems in contemporary psychoanalysis. In the years since publication of that work, Friedman's texts have increasingly focused on the epistemological controversies faced by contemporary p…
Teaching Freud to Undergraduates
The authors describe their experience teaching 'The Writings of Sigmund Freud' to undergraduates at Columbia College over a three-year period. The course focused on Freud's developing theory of the mind, his application of psychoanalytic theory to the study of culture, and the autobiographical and historical context in which the texts were written. The students entered the course intrigued by the controversy surrounding Freud. They immersed thems…
Freud, Jung, and Hall the King-Maker
The Analyst's Hatred of Analysis
Analytic work is loved and hated. Both attitudes deserve scrutiny, but the analyst's hatred of analysis, which transcends countertransference responses to individual patients, represents an impediment to gratifying analytic work whose recognition and conceptualization has been resisted. The author suggests that antipathy among analysts toward analysis and the analytic situation is normative and expectable, yet commonly experienced as shameful. He…
Friedman's corpus Since His Anatomy
Lawrence Friedman is a preeminent theorist, critic, and commentator in American psychoanalysis today. The major themes of his work, beginning with his magnum opus, The Anatomy of Psychotherapy (1988), are examined in an effort to identify conceptual shifts and problems in contemporary psychoanalysis. In the years since publication of that work, Friedman's texts have increasingly focused on the epistemological controversies faced by contemporary p…
The Googled and Googling Analyst
Kierkegaard’s concept of leveling is applied to the dynamics of envy, particularly as they come into play among psychoanalysts doing clinical analytic work. This is illustrated in two clinical vignettes. The technocultural surround of the digital age impinges on analytic identity in ways that can evoke fantasied retreats into sameness and erasure of distinction. The “digital reality principle” is introduced as a way of conceptualizing an aspect o…
Charisma
Charisma is best understood as an intersubjective phenomenon irreducible to individual psychology, though to some extent the phenomena of charisma and narcissism overlap. From its earliest stipulation by St. Paul as a gift of grace to Weber’s (1922 Weber, M. (1922). Economy and Society [Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft]: A New Translation, ed. & trans. K. Tribe. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 2019. [Google Scholar], 1946 Weber, M. (1946). From Ma…
Lady Analysis” in Full Splendor
(2013). “Lady Analysis” in Full Splendor: Response to Commentaries. The Psychoanalytic Quarterly: Vol. 82, No. 1, pp. 141-144
Fuck Redux
Leo Stone’s “On the Principal Obscene Word of the English Language” (1954) embodies a particular moment in the history of psychoanalysis, one that stands in contrast to our current zeitgeist. In a review that is both admiring and critical, Stone’s paper is compared with a recent book by an OED editor on the same topic (Sheidlower 2009). The latter totally neglects Stone, and psychoanalysis in general, and speculations are made regarding this negl…
I Write to Know What I Think”
The four-year writing curriculum of the Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research has as its main objective to teach candidates to learn about analysis through writing. Learning to write about analyses ultimately entails learning to clarify and then express how one thinks and functions as an analyst. Since its inception ten years ago, the program has evolved into its current structure, a stepwise approach through the years of candi…
Teaching Freud to Undergraduates
The authors describe their experience teaching 'The Writings of Sigmund Freud' to undergraduates at Columbia College over a three-year period. The course focused on Freud's developing theory of the mind, his application of psychoanalytic theory to the study of culture, and the autobiographical and historical context in which the texts were written. The students entered the course intrigued by the controversy surrounding Freud. They immersed thems…
Freud, Jung, and Hall the King-Maker
Teaching Freud to Undergraduates
The authors describe their experience teaching 'The Writings of Sigmund Freud' to undergraduates at Columbia College over a three-year period. The course focused on Freud's developing theory of the mind, his application of psychoanalytic theory to the study of culture, and the autobiographical and historical context in which the texts were written. The students entered the course intrigued by the controversy surrounding Freud. They immersed thems…
Friedman's corpus Since His Anatomy
Lawrence Friedman is a preeminent theorist, critic, and commentator in American psychoanalysis today. The major themes of his work, beginning with his magnum opus, The Anatomy of Psychotherapy (1988), are examined in an effort to identify conceptual shifts and problems in contemporary psychoanalysis. In the years since publication of that work, Friedman's texts have increasingly focused on the epistemological controversies faced by contemporary p…
I Write to Know What I Think”
The four-year writing curriculum of the Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research has as its main objective to teach candidates to learn about analysis through writing. Learning to write about analyses ultimately entails learning to clarify and then express how one thinks and functions as an analyst. Since its inception ten years ago, the program has evolved into its current structure, a stepwise approach through the years of candi…
Lady Analysis” in Full Splendor
(2013). “Lady Analysis” in Full Splendor: Response to Commentaries. The Psychoanalytic Quarterly: Vol. 82, No. 1, pp. 141-144
Fuck Redux
Leo Stone’s “On the Principal Obscene Word of the English Language” (1954) embodies a particular moment in the history of psychoanalysis, one that stands in contrast to our current zeitgeist. In a review that is both admiring and critical, Stone’s paper is compared with a recent book by an OED editor on the same topic (Sheidlower 2009). The latter totally neglects Stone, and psychoanalysis in general, and speculations are made regarding this negl…
The Analyst's Hatred of Analysis
Analytic work is loved and hated. Both attitudes deserve scrutiny, but the analyst's hatred of analysis, which transcends countertransference responses to individual patients, represents an impediment to gratifying analytic work whose recognition and conceptualization has been resisted. The author suggests that antipathy among analysts toward analysis and the analytic situation is normative and expectable, yet commonly experienced as shameful. He…
The Googled and Googling Analyst
Kierkegaard’s concept of leveling is applied to the dynamics of envy, particularly as they come into play among psychoanalysts doing clinical analytic work. This is illustrated in two clinical vignettes. The technocultural surround of the digital age impinges on analytic identity in ways that can evoke fantasied retreats into sameness and erasure of distinction. The “digital reality principle” is introduced as a way of conceptualizing an aspect o…
Nathan Kravis on Shulman’s “The Analyst’s Pleasure”
Charisma
Charisma is best understood as an intersubjective phenomenon irreducible to individual psychology, though to some extent the phenomena of charisma and narcissism overlap. From its earliest stipulation by St. Paul as a gift of grace to Weber’s (1922 Weber, M. (1922). Economy and Society [Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft]: A New Translation, ed. & trans. K. Tribe. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 2019. [Google Scholar], 1946 Weber, M. (1946). From Ma…
In Memoriam
Greenberg and the Analyst’s Heresy/Orthodoxy Matrix
Orthodoxy and heresy in psychoanalysis continuously interact with and inform each other according to a principle of mutual influence. Greenberg’s seminal contributions to psychoanalysis reflect his commitment to a ceaseless dialectical tension between orthodoxy and heresy. The analyst’s heresy/orthodoxy matrix is suggested as a way of conceptualizing this tension, one that is applicable to the personal and intellectual journey of every analyst. R…
Lucy LaFarge (1948–2025)
Psychoanalysis (11 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Psychoanalytic theory (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics (3 works)