THE LANGUAGE OF <Emphasis Type="Italic">YES</Emphasis> IN A WORLD OF <Emphasis Type="Italic">NO</Emphasis>: A GAY MAN REDISCOVERS HIS SILENCED SELF

Developmental issues arising from the dilemma of the protogay male child (as defined by Blum and Pfetzing in 1997) and the assaults to his sense of self are discussed in the context of the impact of the analytic attitude. Clinical material is offered as a 50-year-old gay man, troubled by his inability to form a lasting loving relationship with a man, experiences integration in the analytic relationship, stemming from what he describes as the “Yes” offered by his female analyst.     

A Beholder’s Share: Essays on Winnicott and the Psychoanalytic Imagination,by Dodi Goldman,Routledge, Abingdon and New York, 2017, 205pp.

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The Place of the Visual in Psychoanalytic Practice: Image in the Countertransference,by Faye Carey,Routledge, Abingdon and New York, 2018, 133 pp.

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Robert Waska: The Total Transference and The Complete Counter-Transference: The Kleinian Psychoanalytic Approach with More Disturbed Patients

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Elia Kazan’s <Emphasis Type="Italic">America America</Emphasis>: A Message for America

Elia Kazan’s 1963 film, America America is a tribute to the immigrant experience of his own forebears, and has relevance to the refugee crisis of today. In stark black and white cinematography, the film provides insight into the refugee-immigrant experience, personified in Stavros, a young man longing for freedom, obsessed with an idealized America. His hope and innocence cannot safeguard him. His memories of his happy childhood and loving family create idealizing transferences to a world of others who manipulate and betray him as he undertakes his quest. Eventually he too learns to manipulate and betray, unconsciously identifying with the aggressor. History will offer ethical challenges, the black and white cinematography mirroring the black and white perception of good and bad, the shades of grey evoking a maturation of understanding.