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Int J Psychoanal
December 2024
Société Psychanalytique de Recherche et de Formation, Paris, France.
This text explores Dana Birksted-Breen's notions of penis-as-link and negative and positive femininity, rooted in primitive mental and bodily states, in a dialogue between the manifestations of the biological body and their interpretation by the psyche in the construction of a sexed bodily mind. When the capacities for introjection have been impaired from an early stage, there is a great difficulty in representing and relating to a receptive internal space, hence to one's femininity, be it for a girl or a boy. This capacity for introjection in its relation to femininity plays a great part in the analytic capacity to display one's bodily receiver instrument as a sounding board for the analysand's unconscious.
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December 2024
Brazilian Psychoanalytic Society of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil.
The objective of this paper is to discuss the ways in which primitive aspects of the mind, in particular, the archaic elements of character, become manifest within the analytic field. After a review of the concept, it is proposed that a "normal" character manifests through memories in behaviours/feelings, which seek the object to satisfy their needs. The characterological structure keeps primitive traumatic inscriptions under control.
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December 2024
SBPSP (Brazilian Society of Psychoanalysis, São Paulo), São Paulo, Brazil.
In order to honour the work of Dana Birksted-Breen I will attempt to show how the reading of her work has impacted on my own thinking and changed it or modified it. I would like to begin by highlighting one of Dana's claims in . I will focus on two areas: (1) the development of symbolic capacity and its connection with temporality, and (2) the concept of reverie as a .
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December 2024
Department of Surgery, Vardhman Mahavir Medical College (VMMC) & Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi, IND.
Ectopic breast tissue (EBT) represents a congenital anomaly caused by incomplete regression of mammary ridges at the time of embryonic development. Typically, EBT presents along the mammary line, although usually in the axillary region, it has been located occasionally in unusual sites such as the vulva. Though relatively rare, it is generally subject to a wide range of pathologies that afflict normal breast tissue, encompassing both benign and malignant transformations.
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January 2025
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, AIIMS, Bilaspur, Himachal Pradesh, India.
Autosomal hypophosphatemic rickets though a rare genetic disorder can lead to significant discomfort to the patient resulting in clinical deterioration and a poor quality of life. We describe a case of a 33-year-old woman G2P1001 at 6 weeks of gestation with complaints of myalgia and bony pains. Keeping her history of bony pains and fractures in mind, she was further evaluated.
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