
Joseph S ReynosoMetropolitan institute for training in psychoanalytic psychology
Joseph S Reynoso
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Theorizes unconscious aspects of sports fandom in the context of identity and empire.
The underlying contention guiding this collection is that psychoanalysis can provide a novel approach to theorising our investments in sport. When exploring, examining, discussing, and debating the fascination and frustrations that characterizes sport, what this collection will consider are the very ways in which we become “stuck” in sport. For us,...
Sport and Psychoanalysis: What Sport Reveals about Our Unconscious Desires, Fantasies, and Fears explores the intersection of sport and psychoanalysis, emphasizing the often-overlooked psycho-social dimensions underpinning the experience of sport. By challenging the idea that sport offers an “escape” from reality—a realm separate to the politics of...
Sport poses a number of important and no less significant questions, which, on the face of it, may not necessarily seem very important or significant to begin with – a peculiarity that we believe to be integral to sport itself. This article introduces, explores and outlines the psychoanalytic significance of this peculiarity. It explores how the em...
With its unquestionable massive global monetary and cultural appeal, contemporary sport provides an unlimited but underutilized resource for the theoretical exploration of how our subjective sense of incompleteness, which fuels our desires, is grounded within a social matrix that is undoubtedly contingent. Fulfilment and loss are inextricably phras...
The author describes some obstacles encountered teaching undergraduates psychoanalytic theory. In academic environments that reflect a broader cultural skepticism, disinterest and animosity to analytic ideas, the author argues that it is imperative to develop and utilize teaching methods that have an experience‐near quality. Without clinical experi...
This article theorizes psychoanalytically about sports, contending that its unconscious appeal is driven by tendencies for repetition, loss and self-subversion. Serving as a form of conscious entertainment and escape, sports fandom offers a valuable glimpse into the structure of subjectivity and the dynamics of enjoyment. Using Lacanian theorizing,...
This article demonstrates the author’s psychoanalytic method of pursuing racism’s various forms, functions, and locations, including within himself, a person of color. It argues that to disrupt racism on any level, we must realize the unconscious motivations every individual has to actively engage in racist ideology. This is due to racism’s malevol...
Psychoanalytic conference paper (presented at APCS 2014) on unconscious intersections of sports fandom, culture and family history.
Consciously and unconsciously, the reader/patient transforms the writer/analyst into someone familiar, though a distance always structures the intimate bond. At the same time, a bidirectional quality distinguishes the analytic from the fictive dyad, which is primarily a narcissistic one. The analytic dyad, while itself narcissistic in many ways and...
From its roots in classical mythology, narcissism was originally conceptualized in the early 20th century as excessive self-love, but it soon began to be considered its own personality disorder or style. In the 1970s, increased interest in narcissism in psychoanalysis, social theory, and social/personality psychology led to conceptual confusion, wh...
P>Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) is characterized by a pervasive pattern of grandiosity, a sense of privilege or entitlement, an expectation of preferential treatment, an exaggerated sense of self-importance, and arrogant, haughty behaviors or attitudes. Although the concept of narcissism is often used in clinical and social settings, the...
This study assesses the capacity for emotional self-regulation and internal resources in a sample of urban children with ADHD symptomatology using the Rorschach Inkblot Method (RIM). Because these children have profound difficulty with modulating their affect, it is hypothesized that this difficulty would be reflected on RIM variables that have tra...
The Rorschach protocol and psychotherapy of a 7 year-old boy with severe ADHD symptomatology were studied in conjunction with one another. Both arenas place a premium on affect tolerance and expression. On the Rorschach, he displayed a constricted record on achromatic cards and a chaotic record on chromatic cards. This pattern was replicated many t...
Clinical theorists across various orientations describe individuals diagnosed with narcissistic personality disorder as those characterized by a pervasive pattern of grandiosity, a sense of privilege or entitlement, an expectation of preferential treatment, an exaggerated sense of self-importance, and arrogant or haughty behaviors or attitudes (Wes...
Changes in attachment organization and reflective function (RF) were assessed as putative mechanisms of change in 1 of 3 year-long psychotherapy treatments for patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD). Ninety patients reliably diagnosed with BPD were randomized to transference-focused psychotherapy (TFP), dialectical behavior therapy, or...
Psychopathology researchers and theorists have begun to understand fundamental aspects of borderline personality disorder (BPD) such as unstable and intense interpersonal relationships, feelings of emptiness, bursts of rage, chronic fears of abandonment, intolerance for aloneness, and lack of a stable sense of self as stemming from impairments in t...
Fonagy and colleagues coined the term reflective function to describe the developmental achievement whereby chilren acquire the capacity to mentalize the thoughts, feelings, intentions and desires of self and others. Drawing from developmental theory and research, they argue that the capacity for RF is dependent on the quality of interpersonality i...