Volume 4: Fall 2010

Editors’ Intro

“The secret of the psychoanalytic method is the very engagement of a discourse wherein the fixity and certainty of any proferred epistemic configuration are dislodged… what psychoanalysis offers, the subject is thus its discourse as Otherwise.”

Barratt, B. (1993) Psychoanalysis and the Postmodern Impulse: Knowing and Being Since Freud’s Psychology. Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore (p. 42).

Welcome to the fourth issue of Other/Wise. We warmly welcome Susan Flynn to the Other/Wise Working Group.

Our two new sections, introduced last issue, continue, with engaging and original contributions. We expect “Entering the Consulting Room,” featuring articles that focus on clinical material, and “Autobiographical Discoveries: Our Psyches, Our Selves,” featuring articles that focus on the personal journey, to be an integral ongoing part of Other/Wise.

Other/Wise continues to feature artwork, poetry, and short stories that illuminate internal unconscious process or any aspect of the human condition that engages us from a depth perspective.

We believe that learning can be a pleasure. Learn, enjoy, and please participate in our ongoing dialogue by using the feature that allows you to respond to everything published in each issue of Other/Wise.

Articles, art work, poetry, and short stories should be submitted electronically to Richard Raubolt, r.raubolt@gmail.com.

Richard Raubolt, Co-Editor
Merle Molofsky, Co-Editor

Download/Print Entire Volume in PDF Format

The Last Taboo: Encounters with God
By Laura D’Angelo
Embodied by Word-Music
By Merle Molofsky, with input from Gene Alexander, Paul Cooper, Karen Morris, and Les Von Losberg (the IFPE Poetry Posse)
Developing Competencies in the Destruction of Psychoanalysis:
Political, Pedagogical, and Practice Philosophies
By Patrick B. Kavanaugh

Poetry

Experiment 1882, Discovery of the Unconscious
By Karen Morris

Art

By Les Von Losberg
(Click photos for more info.)

: The Color of Money

: Form creates boundaries/Content blows them apart

Short Story

Night of the Radishes
By Brenda Webster

Brief Book Note

Understanding our Ancestry: A brief book note on a brilliant, concise book
By Stuart D. Perlman

Contributors

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Encountering ideas in ways other than expected allows us to see things we might otherwise overlook and adds to wisdom. To expand beyond our conferences, IFPE created Other/Wise, an unconventional online journal, in our continual quest to understand the human condition––including reflections on our own condition. Our journal pursues broadening the scope of psychoanalysis with passion, creativity and desire, bringing us into fearless interface with territories otherwise unexplored or unspoken.

Each issue of Other/Wise is comprised of a sampling of papers that began as presentations in the safe space of IFPE’s most recent conference. Such presentations often include personal, intimate, creative and autobiographical material. At Other/Wise, we strive to have editorial dialogue with authors that reflects the IFPE ethos throughout the publication process, to convey the meaningful essence while respectfully helping to prepare each paper, to the highest standard, for a broader readership.

Other/Wise invites all IFPE conference presenters to contribute work that is reflective of their presentations, and by the nature of an IFPE conference, that fosters a continuation of the dialogue that began at our conference.

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