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Volume 30 Number 3Spring 2024
ISSN 1080-2622
Editorial Board
C. Fred Alford, PhD University of Maryland • James William Anderson, PhD Northwestern University • David R. Beisel, PhD RCC-SUNY • Marilyn Charles, PhD Austen Riggs Center • Lawrence J. Friedman, PhD Harvard University • Ken Fuchsman, EdD University of Connecticut • Juhani Ihanus, PhD University of Helsinki • Peter Loewenberg, PhD UCLA • Denis O’Keefe, PhD New York University • Peter W. Petschauer, PhD Appalachian State University • William McKinley Runyan, PhD University of California-Berkeley • Vamık Volkan, MD University of Virginia
THE PSYCHOANALYSIS OF ANTISEMITISM
- Rozentsvit, I. (2024). Antisemitism: A psychohistorical enigma. Clio’s Psyche, 30(3), 269-278. https://doi.org/10.70763/29daf9442f3c0b60642b14c081b4a556
- Hinshelwood, R. D. (2024). Victory to the victims! Clio’s Psyche, 30(3), 278-281. https://doi.org/10.70763/d14fe370bdf1664c34b258d65f8d3507
- Rozentsvit, I. (2024). Jews’ peculiar position: Responding to Hinshelwood. Clio’s Psyche, 30(3), 281-285. https://doi.org/10.70763/009a5510ad149a8e0c750cb62e255175
- Chanes, J. A. (2024). Defining antisemitism: Not for the faint of heart! Clio’s Psyche, 30(3), 285-291. https://doi.org/10.70763/b49d4455d64520060ac01fb5a3c757e4
- Sacks, A. J. (2024). Antisemitism is Oedipal. Clio’s Psyche, 30(3), 291-296. https://doi.org/10.70763/0da474fc8e382f9c6d6d774bb433339a
- Schwartz, C. (2024). Aggression and the purpose of antisemitism. Clio’s Psyche, 30(3), 296-302. https://doi.org/10.70763/435d6ab1ba16ba7e05e09d9728bc36ca
- Geifman, A. (2024). Dostoevsky’s post-traumatic antisemitism. Clio’s Psyche, 30(3), 302-308. https://doi.org/10.70763/edc27f139c3b4e4bb29d1cdbc45663f9
- Ihanus, J. (2024). Putin and the Jews: Between philosemitism and antisemitism. Clio’s Psyche, 30(3), 309-316. https://doi.org/10.70763/c90070e1f03e982448983975a0f52d57
- Seperson, S. B. (2024). Antisemitism and identity: Theoretical perspectives. Clio’s Psyche, 30(3), 316-321. https://doi.org/10.70763/81bc798a42a7ce40810bf523f24deee1
- Beit-Hallahmi, B. (2024). Biology, psychology, and politics: Proceed with caution. Clio’s Psyche, 30(3), 321-327. https://doi.org/10.70763/6dff2291fe2e822de2e8068a182c4759
- Cook, T. (2024). Antisemitism and boys’ play in Palestine. Clio’s Psyche, 30(3), 327-333. https://doi.org/10.70763/48653af2e798bc96b6ef0b76d8a02139
- Levi, S. (2024). Antisemitism in Islamist culture: Prejudice and my identity. Clio’s Psyche, 30(3), 333-338. https://doi.org/10.70763/6fe43269967adbb64ec6149852b5cc3e
- Elovitz, P. H. (2024). Free associations on Hamas’ war and the psychology of victimization. Clio’s Psyche, 30(3), 338-345. https://doi.org/10.70763/5553cfaf751a4b14960b7581a20bc142
PSYCHOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS OF ELECTION 2024 SPECIAL FEATURE
- Rubin, J. B. (2024). How Donald Trump’s childhood warped his personality and threatens American democracy. Clio’s Psyche, 30(3), 345-353. https://doi.org/10.70763/d811406316b669ad3d370d78b51b1d2e
- Leicher, D. (2024). Drawing the full object-relational implication of Rubin’s Trump. Clio’s Psyche, 30(3), 353-355. https://doi.org/10.70763/5d0d5594d24f0f955548f0fc0ff83d10
- Rubin, J. B. (2024). Jeffrey Rubin’s response to Leicher’s object relations approach. Clio’s Psyche, 30(3), 355-356. https://doi.org/10.70763/95e62984b87e90645a5cf77037395959
- Petschauer, P. W. (2024). I will be your loyal leader-vote for me [Poem]! Clio’s Psyche, 30(3), 356-357. https://doi.org/10.70763/8819159f9246232ed1299a7414448ab4
- Lotto, D. (2024). What’s at stake in the 2024 election. Clio’s Psyche, 30(3), 358-364. https://doi.org/10.70763/3dde889723e33ace6af907cd5cc8e187
- Rubin, J. B. (2024). The political is personal: Authoritarianism and sadism are learned at home. Clio’s Psyche, 30(3), 364-370. https://doi.org/10.70763/36fa3ecc0b2d2bfe0bec0f2b369f24db
- Jacobsen, K. (2024). Psychohistory and the advent of British psychosocial studies. Clio’s Psyche, 30(3), 371-378. https://doi.org/10.70763/f968fdc88852a4a3a27a81fe3f57bfc5
- Manson, W. C. (2024). Our corporatized culture: Chronic stress and depression. Clio’s Psyche, 30(3), 378-382. https://doi.org/10.70763/6018df1842f7130f1b85a6f8e911b96b
- Newton, M. A. (2024). AI and breaking cycles of student anxiety through psychoanalytic insights. Clio’s Psyche, 30(3), 382-387. https://doi.org/10.70763/c6943e764b46c1c95fa6dd19904a055d
- Steiner, P. (2024). Taking responsibility for a genocide and raising questions. Clio’s Psyche, 30(3), 387-395. https://doi.org/10.70763/04da4aea8e38ac933ab23cb2389dddef
BOOK AND MOVIE REVIEWS
- Fogelman, E. (2024). Antisemitism influences Freud’s Jewish identity. Review of the book Jew-Hating: The Black Milk of Civilization, by Merle Molofsky (Ed.) (2022). Clio’s Psyche, 30(3), 395-398. https://doi.org/10.70763/cc638784cf213986ec75983a4aa08cdb
- Blackman, J. S. (2024). The overwhelming accomplishments of Theodore Roosevelt. [Review of the book Theodore Roosevelt on Books and Reading by Mark I. West (Ed.) (2023).] Clio’s Psyche, 30(3), 398-399. https://doi.org/10.70763/6332a8f62e3a9d5831724f2ffe55cae0
- McEvoy-Halston, P. (2024). For what stage is Barbie cast? [Review of the movie Barbie, written by Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach, starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling (2023).] Clio’s Psyche, 30(3), 399-401. https://doi.org/10.70763/f127a3f714240273e254d740ed23f001
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
- Messina, K. E. (2024). Praising Peter Petschauer [Letter to the Editor]. In A. C. Hudnall, P. H. Elovitz, & N. D’Andria (Eds.), Peter Webb Petschauer festschrift. Clio’s Psyche, 30(3), 402. https://doi.org/10.70763/59b85c256f758c22eae6fa45913205db
BULLETIN BOARD
2024 CONFERENCES: The next Psychohistory Forum Work-in-Progress seminar will be on April 6th, when Inna Rozentsvit (Object Relations Institute) will present on the Psychohistory of Antisemitism. On April 27th, we will have a joint presentation related to sports. Tom Ferraro will discuss the Defense Mechanisms of Athletes, and Ken Gross will discuss the Psychoneurology of sports. On November 2nd, as is our custom, we will have a political psychobiographical wrap-up of the 2024 U.S. Election. Details will be announced. At the moment, a committee is making a judgment on two proposed seminars. Additional meetings will be virtual or possibly hybrid and announced to the membership at a later date. In-person meetings will be at the Lincoln Center of Fordham University thanks to Professor Harold Takooshian, who hosts them, and each will have a virtual component. Other presentations are currently being planned for 2024.
A Psychohistory Forum Lifetime Achievement Awards in Psychohistory is planned for later this year at a yet-to-be-determined date. Vamık Volkan will be included in the recipients. Prior 2023 awards were granted to Nancy Chodorow, Carol Gilligan, Eva Fogelman, Nancy McWilliams, Peter J. Loewenberg, Robert Jay Lifton, Alan C. Elms, David R. Beisel, Lawrence J. Friedman, Howard F. Stein, Jacques Szaluta, Daniel Dervin, Herbert Barry III, C. Fred Alford, David J. Fisher, Daniel Rancour-Laferriere, and William M. Runyan.
The Psychobiography Reading Group of the Research and Publication Group of the Psychohistory Forum continues to have its interesting meetings on alternate months with March 30th and May 18th being confirmed dates. The German Society for Psychohistory and Political Psychology (Gesellschaft für Psychohistorie und Politische Psychologie—GPPP) conference will be held May 10-12, 2024, in Cologne, Germany; the IPhA’s 47th Annual conference will be held virtually on May 30-June 2, 2024; the Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society (APCS) will be on June 17-18, 2024, and meet at St. Mary’s University, Twickenham, London TW1 4SX; the International Society for Political Psychology’s (ISPP) meeting will be on July 4-6, 2024, in Santiago, Chile; and the Interdisciplinary Conference of the Forum for Psychoanalytic Education (IFPE) will meet on October 17-19, 2024, in Seattle.
PSYCHOHISTORICAL SCHOLARSHIP: Charles B. Strozier is working with Robert Jay Lifton on a volume on the history of the Wellfleet psychohistory meetings. In Iran, Mehdi Nourian is writing his doctoral dissertation on “An Analysis of the Identitarian Shia Discourse in Post-Revolutionary Iran with an Emphasis on a Psychohistorical Approach.” Jun Lu successfully defended her dissertation proposal and published a chapter delving into the use of a psychoanalytic lens to understand a Chinese film, exploring the memory of the Cultural Revolution.
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CONGRATULATIONS ON BOOKS: To Karyne E. Messina on the publication of Barbie and the Great American Identity Crisis: The Unfortunate Reality of a Nation Plagued by Racism, Patriarchy, and Stark Hypocrisy by PI Press; and to Joseph Ponterotto, whose delayed The Psychobiographer’s Handbook: A Practical Guide to Research and Ethics is now scheduled to be published in August by the American Psychological Association. DEATHS: It just came to our attention that outstanding Harvard (1976-98) psychoanalytic anthropologist Robert Alan LeVine (born March 27, 1932, and author of 15 books) died on August 22, 2023. To honor him, Dinesh Sharma, editor, published The Cultural Psyche: The Selected Papers of Robert A. LeVine on Social Science (2021).
WELCOME NEW MEMBERS: Nina Cerfolio, Daphne Chang, Jefferson Singer, and Lynne Tenbusch. To our International Electronic Members, we have added Ludwig Janus, Gabriel Pascua, and Kathryn A. Taylor. THANKS: To Lifetime Member Candace Orcutt; Platinum Members David James Fisher and Mary Peace Sullivan; Benefactors Herb Barry III, Peter Barglow, Tom Ferraro, Eva Fogelman, Peter Loewenberg, David Lotto, Jamshid Marvasti, Inna Rozentsvit, and William McKinley (Mac) Runyan; Patrons Theresa Aiello, James William Anderson, Donna Crawley, Desy Safán-Gerard, Paul H. Elovitz, John J. Fitzpatrick, Susan Kavaler-Adler, Ruth Lijtmaer, Judith Logue, Alice Lombardo Maher, Peter W. Petschauer, Joyce Rosenberg, Dean Simonton, Jacques Szaluta, and Duke Wagner; and Members C. Fred Alford, James R. Booth, Connie Benson, Nina Cerfolio, Kenneth Gross, Peggy McLaughlin, Karyne Messina, Merle Molofsky, Marcie Newton, Richard (Rick) Reibstein, Arnold Richards, Bob Samuels, Jack Schwartz, Christine Silverstein, Jefferson A. Singer, and Brenda Solomon. Our special thanks for thought-provoking materials to Benny Beit-hallahmi, Jerome Blackman, Jerome A. Chanes, Tom Cook, Paul H. Elovitz, Eva Fogelman, Anna Geifman, R. D. Hinshelwood, Juhani Ihanus, Kurt Jacobsen, Dorothea Leicher, Sheila Levi, David Lotto, William C. Manson, Patrick McEvoy-Halston, Karyne Messina, Marcie Newton, Peter Petschauer, Inna Rozentsvit, Jeffrey Rubin, Adam J. Sacks, Charlotte Schwartz, Susanne B. Seperson, and Pamela Steiner. To Nicole D’Andria for editing, proofing, and Publisher 2016 software application and Professor Paul Salstrom, and Kevin McGinnis for proofing. Our special thanks to our authors, editors, and numerous overworked referees who must remain anonymous.
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Call for Papers
Call for 500-2,500 words on
Women’s Voices in Psychohistory and Psychoanalysis: Different, Distinct, Marginalized, or Forgotten
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Clio’s Psyche Call for Papers on
Psychohistorical/Psychoanalytic Explorations of the Threats to U.S. and World Democracies
Deadline: 06/15/2024
Some possible psychological/psychoanalytic approaches include:
- Psychobiographical explorations of DeSantis, Trump, Orban, et al.
- The remaking of the responsible Republican Party as the nihilistic party of Trump
- Psychobiographical/psychopolitical explorations of dictators & would-be dictators
- The joys of supporting MAGA and its equivalents elsewhere
- Why my (PHE) frustrated postal clerk said he would jump off the George Washington Bridge if Trump was not elected in 2016
- Comparisons of Trump and would-be dictators with Franco, Hitler, & Mussolini
- Comparison of threats to democracy in the U.S. with 1920s Weimar Germany
- How the worldwide environmental crisis is creating mass movements of people and dangers that make democratic countries more vulnerable to fearmongering
- How the democratization of communication has strengthened alarmist fears
- Why U.S. voters have favored less qualified newcomers over the experienced
- What happened to the traditional values of millions of Christian voters who are far more concerned with the policy result than with the immoral Trump as the messenger?
- Examples of the projection of success and strength being more important than its reality
- Why U.S. Republican voters care so little or not at all about foreign policy
- The flaws in U.S. democracy and how specifically they can be healed politically
- Psychobiographical insights from the autobiographies, books, and speeches of dictators and would-be dictators
- Psychohistorical reviews of major works on threats to democracy
We seek articles from 1,000-2,500 words—including a 25 to 50-word abstract, 7-10 keywords, and your brief biography ending in your e-mail address—by 06/15/2024. Case studies are encouraged. Send articles as attached Microsoft Word documents (*.docx) files to .
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