HeyJaredThe Psychoanalytic Quarterly
We are the oldest, free-standing psychoanalytic journal in North America, publishing original, rigorous papers that often have a strong clinical focus.
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- Sep 11, 2026
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The Varieties of Transitional Experience: Nirav Soni with Vanessa Sinclair (opens the original)
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Much has been made of the shift to virtual psychotherapy during the pandemic. We’ve seen a vast amount of hand-wringing about what is lost when the psychoanalytic encounter is no longer embodied, how little we’ve thought through the implications of the frame in virtual work, how guilty we should feel about how nice it is to work from home, and more. However, much less has been said about the corresponding shift in psychoanalytic education. Candidates can now take classes virtually at institutes
The Wizard’s Well: How Story Creates Deep Apperception (opens the original)
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“Drink of this and take thy fill for the water falls by the Wizhard’s [sic] will.” These words and an old man’s face are carved into a rock outcropping above a natural spring that drips into a stone trough at Alderley Edge, a ridge that rears up near Manchester, England. Now almost weathered away, the carving is thought to have been made in the nineteenth century by a man named Robert Garner.With this weathered carving we have a literal and ancient insertion of fantasy into landscape, so that ea
Real Life. Brandon Taylor. Riverhead Books, 2021 (opens the original)
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Brandon Taylor, in Real Life, immerses the reader in the psychic and material life of a young man struggling to develop his personal and professional real life. Wallace, the biochemistry graduate student at the heart of the novel, tries to seal off his childhood history of poverty, neglect, and sexual abuse by his father, a history that shapes his internal experience and constricts his relationships. The novel describes a weekend in Wallace’s life in an unnamed midwestern college town as he work
The Plaza of Mourning: Psychoanalysis, AI, and the Collective Work of Care (opens the original)
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“Once we were all noble knights passing through the world caught in a dream…”(Freud, as cited in Lopez-Munoz et al., 2017, p. 285)“What can the free associator do now that she couldn’t do before?”(Phillips, 2001, p. 21)If, as Freud mused, our lives are shaped by the dreams through which we pass, then psychoanalysis is less about waking from illusion and more about learning to move within the dream, making meaning together amid uncertainty. Adam Phillips sharpens this: What becomes possibl
The Bodies With Air In Between (opens the original)
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“The sudden feeling of…something inexplicable, a sense of wonder … a feeling of being calmed down and thrown into turmoil at one and the same time.”—Solvej Balle, from On the Calculation of Volume 1, p. 19.It takes a certain kind of curiosity and resolve to voluntarily step into a disorienting universe for long stretches of time, aware that it may or may not yield clear epiphanies in the end. One must trust that a disruptive experience is intrinsically worthwhile.I could be describing a number o
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