Lucy Lafarge
Biographic Data
| ID | 4055300 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lucy Lafarge |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lucy |
| FAMILY NAME | Lafarge |
| SIGNATURE | LAFARGE L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Weill Cornell Medical College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 82 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The Imaginer and the Imagined
What We Do, What We Say, What We Don’t Say: Confidentiality In The Publication Of Clinical Writing
Questions concerning analysts’ publication of material from the analyses of their patients have troubled the field of psychoanalysis since its inception. Disguise inevitably distorts the clinical material and is often insufficient to protect the patient from recognition. Asking the patient’s consent for publication intrudes upon and alters the analytic process. While analysts have largely reached a consensus about the need for anonymity in publis…
Remembering Dana Birksted-Breen
Loss and memorialization
Drawing upon Dana Birksted-Breen's work on temporality, and the contrast which she draws between linear, developmental time, seen as a series of unchanging moments, and bidirectional, process time, which is retranscribed again and again (Birksted-Breen [2003] 2016. "Time and the Apres-Coup." In The Work of Psychoanalysis , edited by D. Birksted-Breen, 139-157. London: Routledge.), the author considers the role of unchanging elements in mental lif…
Four Papers on the Concept of the Unrepresented: Editor’s Introduction
Editor’s Introduction to Three Papers On The Concept of “Identity”
We bring together in this issue of The Psychoanalytic Quarterly three papers on the concept of identity and its status in psychoanalysis: Robert Paul takes a fresh look at Erikson’s use of identity
Comings and Goings
2022 was a year in which The Psychoanalytic Quarterly lost several important members of our community.Three editorial board members passed away this year; I will give a few words about each of them
Editor’s Response to Letters from Susan and Marcus Evans, David Bell, and Roberto D’Angelo, Concerning Avgi Saketopoulou’s Book Essay: “On Trying to Pass off Transphobia as Psychoanalysis and Cruelty …
"Editor’s Response to Letters from Susan and Marcus Evans, David Bell, and Roberto D’Angelo, Concerning Avgi Saketopoulou’s Book Essay: “On Trying to Pass off Transphobia as Psychoanalysis and Cruelty as ‘Clinical Logic’”." The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 91(3), p. 599
Three Papers on the Concept of Neutrality: Editor’s Introduction 1
Lessons from the Pandemic: Part 2. Editor’s Introduction
Creativity and the Frame
Creativity and the Frame Lucy Lafarge (bio) The Creative Analyst In my presentation today, I will look at a theme that runs through both creative writing and the analytic process: the need for a steady frame of some kind in order for creative work to come forth. What does this frame consist of? How do we understand it? How can we establish it, or restore it if it is weak or lost? How do frame and process relate to one another? I will look first a…
Termination and repetition: The dissolution of the frame
Beginning with Freud, analysts have observed that the pull to repeat is particularly strong as analysis approaches termination and that transferences that have come to light earlier in the analysis are revived and reworked at this time. It is also well known that primitive transferences, may make an appearance at the termination phase for what has been believed to be the first time. Drawing upon the work of Bleger, the author explores these primi…
From “Either/or” to “and”: The Analyst’s Use of Multiple Models in Clinical Work
In our “post-pluralistic era” (Cooper 2015), analysts, perhaps particularly in North America, are exposed to a multiplicity of formal theories in their training and their reading; their clinical work often reflects ideas drawn from more than one of them. An aspect of this development is the analyst’s mental process as she draws on heterogeneous models when with the patient and when processing the events of the session afterward. A number of quest…
The Fog of Disappointment, the Cliffs of Disillusionment, the Abyss of Despair
LaFarge's rejoinder to Michael Feldman and Donnel B. Stern
The two discussions of my paper raise important questions, both for the Psychoanalytic Controversies Section and for the field, about the possibility of dialogue between psychoanalysts with dispara
Eric Nuetzel 1950–2014
It is our sad duty to inform the IJP community of the death of Eric Nuetzel, M.D. on May 12, 2014. Eric was a member of the IJP Executive as well as the Editorial Board, and his wise counsel was hi
How and why unconscious phantasy and transference are the defining features of psychoanalytic practice
In my view, phantasy 1 and transference are the defining features of psychoanalytic practice. This view is linked to the belief that every aspect of human experience – one's thoughts and memories
The screen memory and the act of remembering
Screen memories, seen by Freud, Greenacre and other analysts of a past generation as a key source of data for the reconstruction of psychic and historical reality, have been relatively neglected in contemporary analysis. A fresh look shows that these durable, constant memories have a dual relation to childhood experience: they memorialize both a specific organization of trauma, wish and defense, and a private childhood act of remembering. Close a…
Partners in Thought: Working With Unformulated Experience, Dissociation, and Enactment
Lives of Khan
Lost and Found in Translation: Introduction To Fonagy and Target
The Wish for Revenge
The wish for revenge is a ubiquitous response to narcissistic injury, and particularly to the narcissistic injury that accompanies oedipal defeat. Vengeful fantasy serves to represent and manage rage and to restore the disrupted sense of self and internalized imagining audience that have resulted from injury. Clinical and literary examples demonstrate the split within the representation of the self and the imagining other that underlies the wish …
Changing nature of family structure
(2002). Changing nature of family structure. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis: Vol. 83, No. 1, pp. 249-252
Interpretation and Containment
The author explores two aspects of the analyst's effort to imagine the inner world of his patient and the way that they are manifest in the clinical moment. The first of these is the analyst's recognition and interpretation of his patient's elaborated fantasies. This current of the analyst's imagination is most often evoked by the patient's communication of whole-object transferences, which occurs largely in his verbal associations. The second is…
Cogitations
Interpretation and Containment
The author explores two aspects of the analyst's effort to imagine the inner world of his patient and the way that they are manifest in the clinical moment. The first of these is the analyst's recognition and interpretation of his patient's elaborated fantasies. This current of the analyst's imagination is most often evoked by the patient's communication of whole-object transferences, which occurs largely in his verbal associations. The second is…
The Wish for Revenge
The wish for revenge is a ubiquitous response to narcissistic injury, and particularly to the narcissistic injury that accompanies oedipal defeat. Vengeful fantasy serves to represent and manage rage and to restore the disrupted sense of self and internalized imagining audience that have resulted from injury. Clinical and literary examples demonstrate the split within the representation of the self and the imagining other that underlies the wish …
From “Either/or” to “and”: The Analyst’s Use of Multiple Models in Clinical Work
In our “post-pluralistic era” (Cooper 2015), analysts, perhaps particularly in North America, are exposed to a multiplicity of formal theories in their training and their reading; their clinical work often reflects ideas drawn from more than one of them. An aspect of this development is the analyst’s mental process as she draws on heterogeneous models when with the patient and when processing the events of the session afterward. A number of quest…
Termination and repetition: The dissolution of the frame
Beginning with Freud, analysts have observed that the pull to repeat is particularly strong as analysis approaches termination and that transferences that have come to light earlier in the analysis are revived and reworked at this time. It is also well known that primitive transferences, may make an appearance at the termination phase for what has been believed to be the first time. Drawing upon the work of Bleger, the author explores these primi…
How and why unconscious phantasy and transference are the defining features of psychoanalytic practice
In my view, phantasy 1 and transference are the defining features of psychoanalytic practice. This view is linked to the belief that every aspect of human experience – one's thoughts and memories
The screen memory and the act of remembering
Screen memories, seen by Freud, Greenacre and other analysts of a past generation as a key source of data for the reconstruction of psychic and historical reality, have been relatively neglected in contemporary analysis. A fresh look shows that these durable, constant memories have a dual relation to childhood experience: they memorialize both a specific organization of trauma, wish and defense, and a private childhood act of remembering. Close a…
Emptiness as Defense in Severe Regressive States
This paper examines the empty states experienced by severely ill borderline patients. At times of stressful regression, these patients use complaints of emptiness to describe profound disturbances of affect, cognition, object relations, and bodily experience. Empty states may be seen as complex defensive configurations which protect a borderline level of psychic structure from the impact of aggressively charged object relations, and ward off furt…
LaFarge's rejoinder to Michael Feldman and Donnel B. Stern
The two discussions of my paper raise important questions, both for the Psychoanalytic Controversies Section and for the field, about the possibility of dialogue between psychoanalysts with dispara
Four Papers on the Concept of the Unrepresented: Editor’s Introduction
Partners in Thought: Working With Unformulated Experience, Dissociation, and Enactment
What We Do, What We Say, What We Don’t Say: Confidentiality In The Publication Of Clinical Writing
Questions concerning analysts’ publication of material from the analyses of their patients have troubled the field of psychoanalysis since its inception. Disguise inevitably distorts the clinical material and is often insufficient to protect the patient from recognition. Asking the patient’s consent for publication intrudes upon and alters the analytic process. While analysts have largely reached a consensus about the need for anonymity in publis…
Loss and memorialization
Drawing upon Dana Birksted-Breen's work on temporality, and the contrast which she draws between linear, developmental time, seen as a series of unchanging moments, and bidirectional, process time, which is retranscribed again and again (Birksted-Breen [2003] 2016. "Time and the Apres-Coup." In The Work of Psychoanalysis , edited by D. Birksted-Breen, 139-157. London: Routledge.), the author considers the role of unchanging elements in mental lif…
Creativity and the Frame
Creativity and the Frame Lucy Lafarge (bio) The Creative Analyst In my presentation today, I will look at a theme that runs through both creative writing and the analytic process: the need for a steady frame of some kind in order for creative work to come forth. What does this frame consist of? How do we understand it? How can we establish it, or restore it if it is weak or lost? How do frame and process relate to one another? I will look first a…
Lives of Khan
Emptiness as Defense in Severe Regressive States
This paper examines the empty states experienced by severely ill borderline patients. At times of stressful regression, these patients use complaints of emptiness to describe profound disturbances of affect, cognition, object relations, and bodily experience. Empty states may be seen as complex defensive configurations which protect a borderline level of psychic structure from the impact of aggressively charged object relations, and ward off furt…
Cogitations
Melanie Klein: Volumes I & II
Interpretation and Containment
The author explores two aspects of the analyst's effort to imagine the inner world of his patient and the way that they are manifest in the clinical moment. The first of these is the analyst's recognition and interpretation of his patient's elaborated fantasies. This current of the analyst's imagination is most often evoked by the patient's communication of whole-object transferences, which occurs largely in his verbal associations. The second is…
Changing nature of family structure
(2002). Changing nature of family structure. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis: Vol. 83, No. 1, pp. 249-252
The Wish for Revenge
The wish for revenge is a ubiquitous response to narcissistic injury, and particularly to the narcissistic injury that accompanies oedipal defeat. Vengeful fantasy serves to represent and manage rage and to restore the disrupted sense of self and internalized imagining audience that have resulted from injury. Clinical and literary examples demonstrate the split within the representation of the self and the imagining other that underlies the wish …
Lost and Found in Translation: Introduction To Fonagy and Target
Lives of Khan
Partners in Thought: Working With Unformulated Experience, Dissociation, and Enactment
The screen memory and the act of remembering
Screen memories, seen by Freud, Greenacre and other analysts of a past generation as a key source of data for the reconstruction of psychic and historical reality, have been relatively neglected in contemporary analysis. A fresh look shows that these durable, constant memories have a dual relation to childhood experience: they memorialize both a specific organization of trauma, wish and defense, and a private childhood act of remembering. Close a…
LaFarge's rejoinder to Michael Feldman and Donnel B. Stern
The two discussions of my paper raise important questions, both for the Psychoanalytic Controversies Section and for the field, about the possibility of dialogue between psychoanalysts with dispara
Eric Nuetzel 1950–2014
It is our sad duty to inform the IJP community of the death of Eric Nuetzel, M.D. on May 12, 2014. Eric was a member of the IJP Executive as well as the Editorial Board, and his wise counsel was hi
How and why unconscious phantasy and transference are the defining features of psychoanalytic practice
In my view, phantasy 1 and transference are the defining features of psychoanalytic practice. This view is linked to the belief that every aspect of human experience – one's thoughts and memories
The Fog of Disappointment, the Cliffs of Disillusionment, the Abyss of Despair
From “Either/or” to “and”: The Analyst’s Use of Multiple Models in Clinical Work
In our “post-pluralistic era” (Cooper 2015), analysts, perhaps particularly in North America, are exposed to a multiplicity of formal theories in their training and their reading; their clinical work often reflects ideas drawn from more than one of them. An aspect of this development is the analyst’s mental process as she draws on heterogeneous models when with the patient and when processing the events of the session afterward. A number of quest…
Termination and repetition: The dissolution of the frame
Beginning with Freud, analysts have observed that the pull to repeat is particularly strong as analysis approaches termination and that transferences that have come to light earlier in the analysis are revived and reworked at this time. It is also well known that primitive transferences, may make an appearance at the termination phase for what has been believed to be the first time. Drawing upon the work of Bleger, the author explores these primi…
Creativity and the Frame
Creativity and the Frame Lucy Lafarge (bio) The Creative Analyst In my presentation today, I will look at a theme that runs through both creative writing and the analytic process: the need for a steady frame of some kind in order for creative work to come forth. What does this frame consist of? How do we understand it? How can we establish it, or restore it if it is weak or lost? How do frame and process relate to one another? I will look first a…
Editor’s Response to Letters from Susan and Marcus Evans, David Bell, and Roberto D’Angelo, Concerning Avgi Saketopoulou’s Book Essay: “On Trying to Pass off Transphobia as Psychoanalysis and Cruelty …
"Editor’s Response to Letters from Susan and Marcus Evans, David Bell, and Roberto D’Angelo, Concerning Avgi Saketopoulou’s Book Essay: “On Trying to Pass off Transphobia as Psychoanalysis and Cruelty as ‘Clinical Logic’”." The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 91(3), p. 599
Three Papers on the Concept of Neutrality: Editor’s Introduction 1
Lessons from the Pandemic: Part 2. Editor’s Introduction
Four Papers on the Concept of the Unrepresented: Editor’s Introduction
Editor’s Introduction to Three Papers On The Concept of “Identity”
We bring together in this issue of The Psychoanalytic Quarterly three papers on the concept of identity and its status in psychoanalysis: Robert Paul takes a fresh look at Erikson’s use of identity
Comings and Goings
2022 was a year in which The Psychoanalytic Quarterly lost several important members of our community.Three editorial board members passed away this year; I will give a few words about each of them
What We Do, What We Say, What We Don’t Say: Confidentiality In The Publication Of Clinical Writing
Questions concerning analysts’ publication of material from the analyses of their patients have troubled the field of psychoanalysis since its inception. Disguise inevitably distorts the clinical material and is often insufficient to protect the patient from recognition. Asking the patient’s consent for publication intrudes upon and alters the analytic process. While analysts have largely reached a consensus about the need for anonymity in publis…
Remembering Dana Birksted-Breen
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