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I Berenstein

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PubMed2001

Spatial periodic forcing of Turing structures.

Spontaneously evolving Turing structures in the chlorine dioxide-iodine-malonic acid reaction-diffusion system typically exhibit many defects that break the symmetry of the pattern. Periodic spatial forcing interacts with the Turing structures and modifies the pattern symmetry and wavelength. We investigate the role of the amplitude and wavelength of spatial periodic forcing on the hexagonal pattern of Turing structures. Experimental results and numerical simulations reveal that forcing at wavelengths slightly larger than the natural wavelength of the pattern is most effective in removing defects and producing ordered symmetric hexagonal patterns.

Journal Article↗
PubMed2001

The link and the other.

The author begins by drawing attention to the current crisis in psychoanalysis, in which, following the great initial discoveries, he considers a certain solipsistic trend inimical to the role of the other and of the acceptance of innovation this entails has come to hold sway. This situation can in his view be overcome by the introduction of new applications and practices, as in the past with the acceptance of Klein's ideas in the field of child analysis. Theory is in the author's opinion always the product of clinical practice in our field, a thesis he illustrates by an account of his own work with couples and families, where the patient is deemed to be not any one individual in the group but the group itself considered as a nexus of links. The implications and theoretical repercussions of this link-based conception are discussed at length and some novel terms are introduced--for example, the link between subjects, imposition, the social subject, the subject relationship and the multiple subject. Alienness and the 'other', and presence and absence, are shown to be important concepts and are distinguished from object relations. The author concludes with a reference to a new resistance, namely to linking, and its implications in relation both to personality and to phenomena such as ethnic and religious conflict.

Humans↗
PubMed1987

Analysis terminable and interminable, fifty years on.

The author reviews 'Analysis terminable and interminable' and traces the similarities to and differences from the situation fifty years ago, discussing Freud's personal circumstances in 1937 and the circumstances of the psychoanalytical movement and concentrating on the relationship with Ferenczi; a consideration of social and political circumstances and some of the points dealt with in Freud's eight sections from the standpoint of today. He discusses the various possible connotations of the terms 'terminable' and 'interminable'. Other terms that could be used coincide only partially: finite and infinite; capable of being worked through and not capable of being worked through; expressible and inexpressible; finished and unfinished; possible and impossible. The author considers new circumstances for the practice of psychoanalysis in situations of social trauma which raise the question of analysis possible and impossible. Finally, an attempt is made to arrive at a provisional definition of the conditions under which analysis may be regarded as terminable or interminable.

Adaptation, Psychological↗