Richard B Simpson
Biographic Data
| ID | 5212017 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard B Simpson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard B |
| FAMILY NAME | Simpson |
| SIGNATURE | SIMPSON R B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rogers (United States) |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1606-3527 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
In Memory of Lucy Lafarge: 1948-2025
This paper portrays Lucy LaFarge’s great skill as a psychoanalyst and especially her talent for writing clinical cases. The author touches upon the way mourning infiltrates the paper as it did her final years. A close reading of one of her case histories inspires complimentary theoretical ideas about the case and her clinical concepts of imaginer and imagined, and the phenomenon of memorial tokens are explored to reveal their richness as a stimul…
Author Response to Letter to the Editor
In response to Howard Levine’s letter critiquing his paper, Dr. Simpson suggests that those interested in this topic read both his paper and Levine’s critique of his paper. The reader will see that
Questioning the Unrepresented: The Essential and the Accidental in Psychoanalysis, Part 2
The author questions the conceptual basis of the unrepresented, a set of terms including: the unstructured unconscious, figurability, and reverie. Because this terminology proposes a profoundly different metapsychology than Freud developed, the author contextualizes the fate of Freud’s metapsychology in America and how it was confused with the authority of the classical analyst. Then excerpts of texts by Howard B. Levine, one of the main proponen…
Analytic Work: The Essential and the Accidental in Psychoanalysis
This article explores what is essential to analytic work by drawing not only on Freud, but also on two additional sources: Friedman’s (2019 Friedman, L. (2019). Freud’s Papers on Technique and Clinical Practice. New York: Routledge. [Google Scholar]) notion of the psychoanalytic phenomenon as described in Freud’s book on technique; and Weber’s (1991 Weber, S. (1991). Return to Freud: Jacques Lacan’s Dislocation of Psychoanalysis, trans. M. Levine…
Commentary on Laplanche
The drive as paradigm—Laplanche’s sexual as paradigm shift
This paper begins with the argument that Freud's concept of the drive can be viewed epistemologically as a "paradigm" using the definition developed by Agamben. A paradigm is an analogical form of knowledge where the grouping of a set of examples makes phenomena more intelligible without there being a general rule for membership in the group. Next, this view of the drive as paradigm is used to argue that Laplanche's development of his concept of …
On being consoled: Engaging with Michel Fain’s paper ‘Mentalization and passivity’
My first reading of this paper reminded me of a case presentation where a patient’s symptom was that he was often “inconsolable”, particularly toward evening and bedtime. The striking thing about t
Michel De M’uzan and Origins of Identity
Michel de M'Uzan describes a way to think about identity in which two distinct sources of our sense of identity must be considered. His innovation is the concept of the vital-identital, which he suggests is equally foundational with the sense of identity derived from the early human environment. The term endogenous identity is used to unify under one heading the ideas that de M'Uzan employs to build his concept of vital-identital. The author summ…
Crossroads: Reviews of three books by Quebec Francophone Authors
Crossroads: Reviews of three books by Quebec Francophone Authors." The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 97(2), pp. 521–522
The “Between” of Winnicott and Lacan
WinnicottLacanobjet atransitional objectanalytic theorypsychosisfalse selfjouissancefantasyseparationmothering
Aux Confins De l’identité (At the Far Reaches of Identity)
Response to Jacques André’s ‘Laura – or the sexual borders of need’
It has been a pleasure and a challenge to be invited to this encounter with Jacques Andre’s story of Laura in its clinical, theoretical and literary dimensions. Jacques Andre’s work with this patie
A Letter to Hans Loewald
The Misunderstanding (Le Malentendu)
The idea that misunderstanding is simply a problem in both the psychoanalytic situation, between analyst and patient, and in translation between one language and another, is turned on its head in this paper. Originally written in French, this paper addresses both Francophone and Anglophone psychoanalytic communities in the realization that misunderstanding is the ground from which we start in analysis. The author portrays two patients who illustr…
Introduction to Jean-Jacques Blévis’s “Remains to Be Transmitted: Primo Levi’s Traumatic Dream”
Introduction to Michel De M’uzan’s “Slaves of Quantity”
Analytic Work: The Essential and the Accidental in Psychoanalysis
This article explores what is essential to analytic work by drawing not only on Freud, but also on two additional sources: Friedman’s (2019 Friedman, L. (2019). Freud’s Papers on Technique and Clinical Practice. New York: Routledge. [Google Scholar]) notion of the psychoanalytic phenomenon as described in Freud’s book on technique; and Weber’s (1991 Weber, S. (1991). Return to Freud: Jacques Lacan’s Dislocation of Psychoanalysis, trans. M. Levine…
A Letter to Hans Loewald
The Misunderstanding (Le Malentendu)
The idea that misunderstanding is simply a problem in both the psychoanalytic situation, between analyst and patient, and in translation between one language and another, is turned on its head in this paper. Originally written in French, this paper addresses both Francophone and Anglophone psychoanalytic communities in the realization that misunderstanding is the ground from which we start in analysis. The author portrays two patients who illustr…
Introduction to Michel De M’uzan’s “Slaves of Quantity”
Questioning the Unrepresented: The Essential and the Accidental in Psychoanalysis, Part 2
The author questions the conceptual basis of the unrepresented, a set of terms including: the unstructured unconscious, figurability, and reverie. Because this terminology proposes a profoundly different metapsychology than Freud developed, the author contextualizes the fate of Freud’s metapsychology in America and how it was confused with the authority of the classical analyst. Then excerpts of texts by Howard B. Levine, one of the main proponen…
The drive as paradigm—Laplanche’s sexual as paradigm shift
This paper begins with the argument that Freud's concept of the drive can be viewed epistemologically as a "paradigm" using the definition developed by Agamben. A paradigm is an analogical form of knowledge where the grouping of a set of examples makes phenomena more intelligible without there being a general rule for membership in the group. Next, this view of the drive as paradigm is used to argue that Laplanche's development of his concept of …
Michel De M’uzan and Origins of Identity
Michel de M'Uzan describes a way to think about identity in which two distinct sources of our sense of identity must be considered. His innovation is the concept of the vital-identital, which he suggests is equally foundational with the sense of identity derived from the early human environment. The term endogenous identity is used to unify under one heading the ideas that de M'Uzan employs to build his concept of vital-identital. The author summ…
Response to Jacques André’s ‘Laura – or the sexual borders of need’
It has been a pleasure and a challenge to be invited to this encounter with Jacques Andre’s story of Laura in its clinical, theoretical and literary dimensions. Jacques Andre’s work with this patie
Introduction to Jean-Jacques Blévis’s “Remains to Be Transmitted: Primo Levi’s Traumatic Dream”
Introduction to Michel De M’uzan’s “Slaves of Quantity”
Introduction to Jean-Jacques Blévis’s “Remains to Be Transmitted: Primo Levi’s Traumatic Dream”
The Misunderstanding (Le Malentendu)
The idea that misunderstanding is simply a problem in both the psychoanalytic situation, between analyst and patient, and in translation between one language and another, is turned on its head in this paper. Originally written in French, this paper addresses both Francophone and Anglophone psychoanalytic communities in the realization that misunderstanding is the ground from which we start in analysis. The author portrays two patients who illustr…
A Letter to Hans Loewald
Response to Jacques André’s ‘Laura – or the sexual borders of need’
It has been a pleasure and a challenge to be invited to this encounter with Jacques Andre’s story of Laura in its clinical, theoretical and literary dimensions. Jacques Andre’s work with this patie
Aux Confins De l’identité (At the Far Reaches of Identity)
The “Between” of Winnicott and Lacan
WinnicottLacanobjet atransitional objectanalytic theorypsychosisfalse selfjouissancefantasyseparationmothering
Crossroads: Reviews of three books by Quebec Francophone Authors
Crossroads: Reviews of three books by Quebec Francophone Authors." The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 97(2), pp. 521–522
Michel De M’uzan and Origins of Identity
Michel de M'Uzan describes a way to think about identity in which two distinct sources of our sense of identity must be considered. His innovation is the concept of the vital-identital, which he suggests is equally foundational with the sense of identity derived from the early human environment. The term endogenous identity is used to unify under one heading the ideas that de M'Uzan employs to build his concept of vital-identital. The author summ…
On being consoled: Engaging with Michel Fain’s paper ‘Mentalization and passivity’
My first reading of this paper reminded me of a case presentation where a patient’s symptom was that he was often “inconsolable”, particularly toward evening and bedtime. The striking thing about t
Commentary on Laplanche
The drive as paradigm—Laplanche’s sexual as paradigm shift
This paper begins with the argument that Freud's concept of the drive can be viewed epistemologically as a "paradigm" using the definition developed by Agamben. A paradigm is an analogical form of knowledge where the grouping of a set of examples makes phenomena more intelligible without there being a general rule for membership in the group. Next, this view of the drive as paradigm is used to argue that Laplanche's development of his concept of …
Analytic Work: The Essential and the Accidental in Psychoanalysis
This article explores what is essential to analytic work by drawing not only on Freud, but also on two additional sources: Friedman’s (2019 Friedman, L. (2019). Freud’s Papers on Technique and Clinical Practice. New York: Routledge. [Google Scholar]) notion of the psychoanalytic phenomenon as described in Freud’s book on technique; and Weber’s (1991 Weber, S. (1991). Return to Freud: Jacques Lacan’s Dislocation of Psychoanalysis, trans. M. Levine…
Author Response to Letter to the Editor
In response to Howard Levine’s letter critiquing his paper, Dr. Simpson suggests that those interested in this topic read both his paper and Levine’s critique of his paper. The reader will see that
Questioning the Unrepresented: The Essential and the Accidental in Psychoanalysis, Part 2
The author questions the conceptual basis of the unrepresented, a set of terms including: the unstructured unconscious, figurability, and reverie. Because this terminology proposes a profoundly different metapsychology than Freud developed, the author contextualizes the fate of Freud’s metapsychology in America and how it was confused with the authority of the classical analyst. Then excerpts of texts by Howard B. Levine, one of the main proponen…
In Memory of Lucy Lafarge: 1948-2025
This paper portrays Lucy LaFarge’s great skill as a psychoanalyst and especially her talent for writing clinical cases. The author touches upon the way mourning infiltrates the paper as it did her final years. A close reading of one of her case histories inspires complimentary theoretical ideas about the case and her clinical concepts of imaginer and imagined, and the phenomenon of memorial tokens are explored to reveal their richness as a stimul…
Psychology (14 works) · Psychoanalysis (13 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Psychoanalytic theory (8 works) · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (3 works)