American Imago articles from September 1994

American Imago archives from September 1994

"Little Hans" and the poetics of anxiety: taking analysis to task.
September 22, 1994... In the spring of 1922, "Little Hans," now at the age of nineteen, introduces himself again to Freud, fourteen years after the analysis via his father of his anxiety hysteria. The meeting is then recorded by Freud in a laconic postscript to the...

Eyolf's eyes: Ibsen and the cultural meanings of child abuse.
September 22, 1994... What are we to make of the current celebrity of child abuse? It is disconcerting to realize that child abuse provides the model topic for TV's confessional shows; it is intimate, embarrassing, disturbing, as shamefully riveting as television...

Good and naughty/boys and girls: reflections on the impact of culture on young minds.
September 22, 1994... A dynamic, highly energetic woman I know went directly from college to medical school and without skipping a beat segued into a distinguished pediatrics career in a large city hospital. Her husband, during those years, became a surgeon....

Pinocchio and Pinocchiology.
September 22, 1994... "Thousands of years ago, I was also a little boy..." (Mille anni fa, anch'io ero ragazzetto...). So begins the autobiographical story, "When I was a Boy!" (quando ero un ragazzo!) (1881) [1887?]) [1991, 409] by Carlo Lorenzini, the author of...

Casting shadows: filial enactments in 'A River Runs Through It.'
September 22, 1994... Set in western Montana in the early decades of the century, Norman Maclean's lyrical and often laconic memoir engages two mysteries. The one is the wonder of geological nature--prehistoric raindrops recorded in the rocks, glaciers that crack...

Child's play amidst chaos.
September 22, 1994... It is not uncommon for psychotherapists to feel uneasy about their clinical work with children of poverty. They comment about how they do not feel that they are "really" getting anywhere with the treatments, or that "all they are doing is...