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Ogden, Thomas H. What Alive Means: Psychoanalytic Explorations . Routledge. 2025 . Pp. 122 . Pbk.
Data Availability Statement Data sharing not applicable to this article as no datasets were generated or analysed during the current study. References (1954). The psychology of the transference. CW 16. Princeton University Press. (1963). The personification of the opposites. In Mysterium conuinctionis. CW 14, 89-259. Princeton University Press. (1949). Mind and its relation to the psyche-soma. In Through paediatrics to psycho-analysis, 243-254. Basic Books. (1958). The capacity to be alone.
Playing as a basic form of living: on Winnicott’s “Playing: A Theoretical Statement”
ABSTRACT The author offers a creative reading of Winnicott’s “Playing: A theoretical statement,” a paper in which Winnicott makes his most fully developed statement of his understanding of the phenomenon of playing. Winnicott is less interested in the symbolic content of play than in the experience of playing. Interpretation may at times supplement the psychic work the child and analyst achieve in playing together, but the principal agent of psychic change is the experience of playing.
How I Write - Parapraxis
In the past, I have been asked how I go about writing fiction and have not been able to offer a response that has satisfied me. The mythic idea of the Muses has never rung true, because neither my ideas nor my style of writing feel as if they come from a source that visits me, that is external to me. The people I have known and the life I have lived are the sources I draw upon and that draw upon me as I write.
Response to Marie Lenormand
Advanced search The International Journal of Psychoanalysis Volume 106, 2025 - Issue 5 Submit an article Journal homepage Full Article Figures & data Citations Metrics Reprints & Permissions Read this article /doi/full/10.1080/00207578.2025.2558446?needAccess=true "Response to Marie Lenormand." The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 106(5), p. 1057 Disclosure statement No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).
Cure Without Insight — Parapraxis
I was seventeen, in the last month of my freshman year at college when I heard my father died. I headed home for the week of formal mourning, returned to campus to take my final exams, and still shocked and confused then returned home for the summer to help in the corner “Mom and Pop” grocery store that had suddenly become just a “Mom” store. Back at college in the fall I found myself having a new custom, one strange for someone who always loved school.
A Letter to a Young Writer — Parapraxis
Dear Fellow Writer, In response to your letter, I can offer some thoughts about writing with which you might create something of your own. I do so with some trepidation because I worry that you will take what I say as instruction concerning how you should write instead of reflections on my own experience of writing. What has been most important to me in my efforts to write is the knowledge that I cannot write like anybody else and no one else can write the way I do.
An Examination of Constructivism, Active Learning, and Reflexive Journaling and Their Independent and Combined Effects on Student Acceptance of Biological Evolution
Abraham, J. K., Perez, K. E., Downey, N., Herron, J. C., & Meir, E. (2012). Short lesson plan associated with increased acceptance of evolutionary theory and potential change in three alternate conceptions of macroevolution in undergraduate students. CBE—Life Sciences Education, 11(2), 152–164. Airasian, P. W., & Walsh, M. E. (1997). Constructivist cautions. Phi Delta Kappan, 78, 444–449. Akkaraju, S., & Wolf, A. (2016). Teaching evolution: The blog as a liminal space.
What alive means: On Winnicott’s “transitional objects and transitional phenomena”
ABSTRACT In his reading of Winnicott's “Transitional objects and transitional phenomena,” the author views Winnicott as engaged in offering a way of conceiving of the fundamentally human task of creating states of being in which the individual's ideas, feelings, and bodily sensations come to feel alive and real to him or her. The author proposes that the concept of paradox captures something of both the idea and the experience of transitional objects and phenomena.
'Drag Race's Mariah Paris Balenciaga on Finding Her Confidence
She could turn a look like no other and has a poise and confidence that's practically unmatched. Still, that sadly wasn't enough to take her all the way in RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars season 5. Yes, we're talking about Mariah Paris Balenciaga. After pulling out all the high-fashion stops on the runway, Balenciaga's time on the race was cut short last week after she was voted — by committee — to go home. It was a decision that absolutely came too early but this is the hand we were dealt.
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