Journal "Language and Psychoanalysis" by Fernanda Carra-Salsberg PhD
In Retelling the Stories of our Lives: Everyday Narrative Therapy to Draw Inspiration and Transfo... more In Retelling the Stories of our Lives: Everyday Narrative Therapy to Draw Inspiration and Transform Experience, David Denborough presents a well written, detailed and easy to follow account of an alternative form of psychotherapy. Guided by his personal and professional experiences2, this Australian therapist informs his general audience of the significance of understanding affective occurrences and of bearing witness to stress evoking events through the act of writing and sharing.
This brief self-narrative juxtaposes philosophical and psychoanalytic theories of language and tr... more This brief self-narrative juxtaposes philosophical and psychoanalytic theories of language and trauma with descriptions of the author’s experiences as: a child and adolescent migrant, a fragmentary language learner, and a postsecondary language educator. It studies the short and long-term effects of having one’s language of identification undervalued by political tensions, and examines what it means for the ego to (re)construct its identity following a language-related emotional crisis. The author defines her libidinal attachments to her introjected tongues and discusses how her present state of being within uneven languages were carved by the memory of her experiences as a child and an adolescent migrant. Similar to Jacques Derrida’s (1996) description of “disorders of identity”, Carrá-Salsberg blends theory with her recollections of lived occurrences to conceptualize the way in which the inscription of early traumatic occurrences within languages ground subjects’ life-long responses and attitude towards their acquired tongues.
This article takes a psychoanalytic approach to the analysis of Oscar Hijuelos’ Thoughts without ... more This article takes a psychoanalytic approach to the analysis of Oscar Hijuelos’ Thoughts without Cigarettes. Hijuelos’ memoir is studied for the manner in which offers illustrations of the developmental significance of language and of the psycho-emotional and social effects that stem from its abrupt cessation. My work examines the significance of memory, as well as the transformative effects of writing: It is a look into the way in which this late writer’s narrative conceals the paradox that embraced the affective relation he held with his first and later objects of affection, as well as with his first and second tongue. This paper studies how life-long narratives are of much significance to academics and professionals interested in the area of language and psychoanalysis. Through the analysis of Oscar Hijuelos’ memoir I highlight the manner in which written testimonials often unveil writers’ known and unknown histories of object-relations, introjections, projections, transferences, repetitions and need for reparation. Equally important, this article considers the manner in which Hijuelos’ testimonials became the medium through which he articulated the perceptions of his experiences, and how such articulation created a space for him to eventually understand, transform and even attempt to heal from the dislocations and internal void that shaped and reshaped his hidden drives, life long needs and translingual subjectivity.
Robert D. Stolorow, Ph.D. & George E. Atwood, Ph.D.
The Phenomenology of Language and the Metaphy... more Robert D. Stolorow, Ph.D. & George E. Atwood, Ph.D.
The Phenomenology of Language and the Metaphysicalizing of the Real
Fernanda Carrá-Salsberg, Ph.D.
A Psychoanalytic Look into The Effects of Childhood and Adolescent
Migration in Eva Hoffman’s Lost in Translation
David Hafner, Ph.D.
An Introduction to the Transference Unconscious
Rina Stah. Freedman, Ph.D.
Cross-Cultural Treatment Issues in Psychoanalysis
Giuseppe Iurato, Ph.D.
Book Review. Reading Italian Psychoanalysis
Anonymous Author, M.A.
Book Review. Language Disorders in Children and Adolescents
With a focus on descriptions provided in Richard Rodriguez’ Hunger of Memory, Alice Pitt’s “Langu... more With a focus on descriptions provided in Richard Rodriguez’ Hunger of Memory, Alice Pitt’s “Language on Loan” and Alice Kaplan’s French Lessons, this article analysis the psycho-emotional situation of significant language learning for both: child and adolescent monolingual migrants, and host-foreign language students studying abroad. It is an examination of the unconscious meaning behind linguistic relocations. This work pays close attention to the manner in which acquiring a new language unveils subjects’ affect and history of learning. It looks into host-foreign language immersions and acquisition in relation to our human nature, universal needs and responses to host-foreign language immersions and learning. Drives and defenses behind young language migrants’ embodiment of a new language are discussed through questions of desire, identifications and need for individuation. Central to this paper is also the exploration of how significant learning, as a cognitive-emotional experience, is tied to differing forms of aggression. This work asks: What can migrants’ and foreign language students’ desire to learn host-second languages tell us about their inner realities and about the meaning they knowingly and unknowingly attach to an acquired host-foreign language? How may host-foreign language acquisition aid in learners’ psychic growth? To what extent does significant learning become a module in young subjects’ process of self-reinvention? And finally, and at the heart of this article, how is significant language acquisition tied to crises, identifications and matricide?
The journal of Language and Psychoanalysis is a fully peer reviewed online journal that publishes... more The journal of Language and Psychoanalysis is a fully peer reviewed online journal that publishes twice a year. It is the only interdisciplinary journal with a strong focus on the qualitative and quantitative analysis of language and psychoanalysis. The journal is also inclusive and not narrowly confined to the Freudian psychoanalytic theory.
Teaching Documents by Fernanda Carra-Salsberg PhD
Dear colleagues, We are sending out a Call for Papers for the 2019 publication of a collected vol... more Dear colleagues, We are sending out a Call for Papers for the 2019 publication of a collected volume of essays tentatively titled, Best Practices for Teaching and Learning in Languages, Literatures and Linguistics. Book Description: The book will focus on successful practices and methodologies and address the challenges and implications for teaching and learning languages, literatures and linguistics. This is a timely way to discuss and share practical ideas, methods and approaches used and developed in our courses and programs. Themes considered for this publication include and are not limited to: • Experiential Education • Community Engagement • Technology Enhanced Teaching, Learning and Assessing (Moodle, Google Classroom, Social Media in the Classroom, etc.) • Inter-Artistic Approaches to Teaching • Blended and Online Learning These broad categories will later be divided into chapters according to responses. By using templates and samples drawn from our courses, our collection of articles will offer practical advice and suggestions for integrating the newest approaches and methods within our teaching fields. The publication will benefit our knowledge-sharing and extend the dialogue between instructors. If you would like to contribute an article, please submit: • a 200-word abstract with five key words, and • a short 100-word Bio Article Length: 2500-5000 words
Papers by Fernanda Carra-Salsberg PhD
Language and psychoanalysis, 2017
This article takes a psychoanalytic, philosophical and socio-linguistic approach to the understan... more This article takes a psychoanalytic, philosophical and socio-linguistic approach to the understanding of the short and long term socio-emotional effects of child and adolescent migrations. Through a close analysis of Eva Hoffman's Lost in Translation, the author examines the subjective meaning of a primary tongue in relation to migrants' acquisition and internalization of his/her second language. It begins with a look into the developmental meaning of language and then studies the ways in which early migrations influence subjects' short and long-term perceptions of their internalized languages, as well as the relations new comers hold with their first and later love objects. In this article migrants' stages of culture shock and integration are discussed and contrasted with the methodical textual division presented in Eva Hoffman's memoir. This work examines the significance of retrospective constructions and highlights the way in which Hoffman's recollections exemplify the inevitable wish to restore ruptures and synthesize lifelong conflicting introjections. This article draws attention to the way in which migrants' initial unsettlement, which derives from preliminary and subsequent stages of linguistic, social and cultural immersions, gives way to a sensed trauma and resulting defenses. This paper suggests how with a good enough environment, emigrants' experiences often lead to integrations, as well as psychic and social growth. It asks: What occurs to the ego when its' primary language becomes lacerated following an early migration? How do individuals respond to the loss of its socio-instrumental and affective function? How do migrants' cultural experiences influence the reconstructed memory of their mother tongue? How do such memories or truths affect newcomers' initial and later conception of the host language? And, in which ways do such conceptions play a role in the fluid construction of migrants' language-related identities? I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just like our memory does…I cannot lament the loss of a love or a friendship without meditating that one loses only what one has never had… Jorge Luis Borges, "A New Refutation of Time"
Child and Adolescent Migration, Mental Health, and Language, focuses on migration and the socio-a... more Child and Adolescent Migration, Mental Health, and Language, focuses on migration and the socio-affective significance of language. It examines how this influences children’s and adolescents’ development, subjectivity, identifications, and identity formations. By taking a thorough approach to the intricacy of migrancy, this timely publication examines the many challenges that young economic migrants, environmental migrants, refugees, irregular migrants, and asylum seekers encounter prior to and following their geographic, sociocultural, and linguistic relocations. While not disregarding the benefits that can stem from international relocations, Carra-Salsberg also addresses contemporary concerns influencing young migrants’ socio-affective experiences. As part of the book’s discussion on the subjective significance of language, it takes a semiotic, pedagogic, and psychoanalytic approach to study the effects of foreign-language immersions and significant language learning, and how the...
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, 2014
David Denborough demonstrates his status as a leader in narrative practice and as an incredibly p... more David Denborough demonstrates his status as a leader in narrative practice and as an incredibly prolific author with as many as twelve books on narrative therapy to his name, covering such topics as genocide, trauma, and imprisonment; queer counselling, family therapy, memory and loss, and much more. He has made his name particularly as promoting the Tree of Life approach to trauma and through his community development work. This book, originally devised with his long-time mentor Michael White before his untimely death, is unique in the history of narrative publications, not simply because of the originality of the content, but more because it has been written specifically for the general public. Denborough speaks directly to the reader, encouraging the re-storying process in your own personal reading space. This book functions, if you like, as a self-help resource based on narrative ideas, taking the reader through all the basic precepts of narrative therapy, including deconstruction, externalisation, remembering , mapping, and more. This is done in simple accessible language, supported by the extensive use of moving stories, tables, diagrams, short questionnaires, and transcripts of conversations. Indeed it serves as the perfect antidote to the Dr Phil silliness of most self-help psychology, providing a mature and engaging resource that can only really be compared with Jenny Brown's Bowen-inspired 'Growing Yourself Up' or Richardson's 'Family Ties That Bind'. Equally significantly, however, is the status of this book as one of the most readable compendiums of narrative therapy for clinical readers. I'm sure I am not alone in struggling through some of the more esoteric texts in narrative therapy. This book will give you much of what you need for the therapy room, including a tremendous practical resource of client-friendly exercises to draw upon, without the notorious post-modern jargon and mind-bending questions. While this book covers many of the basics, it also presents a summary and significant extension of Denborough's own work, developed directly in communities through his many therapeutic journeys. Chapters on The Tree of Life and The Team of Life can be read by the narrative-friendly therapist and translated directly into the therapy room. The chapters on community trauma and death and dying are all moving and enriching contributions to narrative practice. If you only buy one book on narrative therapy or want an update of recent developments I recommend Retelling the Stories of Our Lives.
Language and psychoanalysis, Jun 1, 2015
This article takes a psychoanalytic approach to the analysis of Oscar Hijuelos' Thoughts without ... more This article takes a psychoanalytic approach to the analysis of Oscar Hijuelos' Thoughts without Cigarettes. Hijuelos' memoir is studied for the manner in which offers illustrations of the developmental significance of language and of the psycho-emotional and social effects that stem from its abrupt cessation. My work examines the significance of memory, as well as the transformative effects of writing: It is a look into the way in which this late writer's narrative conceals the paradox that embraced the affective relation he held with his first and later objects of affection, as well as with his first and second tongue. This paper studies how lifelong narratives are of much significance to academics and professionals interested in the area of language and psychoanalysis. Through the analysis of Oscar Hijuelos' memoir I highlight the manner in which written testimonials often unveil writers' known and unknown histories of object-relations, introjections, projections, transferences, repetitions and need for reparation. Equally important, this article considers the manner in which Hijuelos' testimonials became the medium through which he articulated the perceptions of his experiences, and how such articulation created a space for him to eventually understand, transform and even attempt to heal from the dislocations and internal void that shaped and reshaped his hidden drives, life long needs and translingual subjectivity.
Language and Psychoanalysis, 2015
With a focus on descriptions provided in Richard Rodriguez' Hunger of Memory, Alice Pitt's "Langu... more With a focus on descriptions provided in Richard Rodriguez' Hunger of Memory, Alice Pitt's "Language on Loan" and Alice Kaplan's French Lessons, this article analysis the psycho-emotional situation of significant language learning for both: child and adolescent monolingual migrants, and host-foreign language students studying abroad. It is an examination of the unconscious meaning behind linguistic relocations. This work pays close attention to the manner in which acquiring a new language unveils subjects' affect and history of learning. It looks into host-foreign language immersions and acquisition in relation to our human nature, universal needs and responses to host-foreign language immersions and learning. Drives and defenses behind young language migrants' embodiment of a new language are discussed through questions of desire, identifications and need for individuation. Central to this paper is also the exploration of how significant learning, as a cognitive-emotional experience, is tied to differing forms of aggression. This work asks: What can migrants' and foreign language students' desire to learn hostsecond languages tell us about their inner realities and about the meaning they knowingly and unknowingly attach to an acquired host-foreign language? How may host-foreign language acquisition aid in learners' psychic growth? To what extent does significant learning become a module in young subjects' process of self-reinvention? And finally, and at the heart of this article, how is significant language acquisition tied to crises, identifications and matricide?
Language and Psychoanalysis, 2017
This article takes a psychoanalytic, philosophical and socio-linguistic approach to the understan... more This article takes a psychoanalytic, philosophical and socio-linguistic approach to the understanding of the short and long term socio-emotional effects of child and adolescent migrations. Through a close analysis of Eva Hoffman's Lost in Translation, the author examines the subjective meaning of a primary tongue in relation to migrants' acquisition and internalization of his/her second language. It begins with a look into the developmental meaning of language and then studies the ways in which early migrations influence subjects' short and long-term perceptions of their internalized languages, as well as the relations new comers hold with their first and later love objects. In this article migrants' stages of culture shock and integration are discussed and contrasted with the methodical textual division presented in Eva Hoffman's memoir. This work examines the significance of retrospective constructions and highlights the way in which Hoffman's recollections exemplify the inevitable wish to restore ruptures and synthesize lifelong conflicting introjections. This article draws attention to the way in which migrants' initial unsettlement, which derives from preliminary and subsequent stages of linguistic, social and cultural immersions, gives way to a sensed trauma and resulting defenses. This paper suggests how with a good enough environment, emigrants' experiences often lead to integrations, as well as psychic and social growth. It asks: What occurs to the ego when its' primary language becomes lacerated following an early migration? How do individuals respond to the loss of its socio-instrumental and affective function? How do migrants' cultural experiences influence the reconstructed memory of their mother tongue? How do such memories or truths affect newcomers' initial and later conception of the host language? And, in which ways do such conceptions play a role in the fluid construction of migrants' language-related identities? I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just like our memory does…I cannot lament the loss of a love or a friendship without meditating that one loses only what one has never had… Jorge Luis Borges, "A New Refutation of Time"
Curriculum Design and Praxis in Language Teaching
Language and Psychoanalysis, 2016
This brief self-narrative juxtaposes philosophical and psychoanalytic theories of language and tr... more This brief self-narrative juxtaposes philosophical and psychoanalytic theories of language and trauma with descriptions of the author's experiences as: a child and adolescent migrant, a fragmentary language learner, and a postsecondary language educator. It studies the short and long-term effects of having one's language of identification undervalued by political tensions, and examines what it means for the ego to (re)construct its identity following a language-related emotional crisis. The author defines her libidinal attachments to her introjected tongues and discusses how her present state of being within uneven languages were carved by the memory of her experiences as a child and an adolescent migrant. Similar to Jacques Derrida's (1996) description of "disorders of identity", Carrá-Salsberg blends theory with her recollections of lived occurrences to conceptualize the way in which the inscription of early traumatic occurrences within languages ground subjects' lifelong responses and attitude towards their acquired tongues.
Language and Psychoanalysis, 2015
This article takes a psychoanalytic approach to the analysis of Oscar Hijuelos' Thoughts without ... more This article takes a psychoanalytic approach to the analysis of Oscar Hijuelos' Thoughts without Cigarettes. Hijuelos' memoir is studied for the manner in which offers illustrations of the developmental significance of language and of the psycho-emotional and social effects that stem from its abrupt cessation. My work examines the significance of memory, as well as the transformative effects of writing: It is a look into the way in which this late writer's narrative conceals the paradox that embraced the affective relation he held with his first and later objects of affection, as well as with his first and second tongue. This paper studies how life-long narratives are of much significance to academics and professionals interested in the area of language and psychoanalysis. Through the analysis of Oscar Hijuelos' memoir I highlight the manner in which written testimonials often unveil writers' known and unknown histories of object-relations, introjections, projections, transferences, repetitions and need for reparation. Equally important, this article considers the manner in which Hijuelos' testimonials became the medium through which he articulated the perceptions of his experiences, and how such articulation created a space for him to eventually understand, transform and even attempt to heal from the dislocations and internal void that shaped and reshaped his hidden drives, life long needs and translingual subjectivity.
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Journal "Language and Psychoanalysis" by Fernanda Carra-Salsberg PhD
The Phenomenology of Language and the Metaphysicalizing of the Real
Fernanda Carrá-Salsberg, Ph.D.
A Psychoanalytic Look into The Effects of Childhood and Adolescent
Migration in Eva Hoffman’s Lost in Translation
David Hafner, Ph.D.
An Introduction to the Transference Unconscious
Rina Stah. Freedman, Ph.D.
Cross-Cultural Treatment Issues in Psychoanalysis
Giuseppe Iurato, Ph.D.
Book Review. Reading Italian Psychoanalysis
Anonymous Author, M.A.
Book Review. Language Disorders in Children and Adolescents
Teaching Documents by Fernanda Carra-Salsberg PhD
Papers by Fernanda Carra-Salsberg PhD
The Phenomenology of Language and the Metaphysicalizing of the Real
Fernanda Carrá-Salsberg, Ph.D.
A Psychoanalytic Look into The Effects of Childhood and Adolescent
Migration in Eva Hoffman’s Lost in Translation
David Hafner, Ph.D.
An Introduction to the Transference Unconscious
Rina Stah. Freedman, Ph.D.
Cross-Cultural Treatment Issues in Psychoanalysis
Giuseppe Iurato, Ph.D.
Book Review. Reading Italian Psychoanalysis
Anonymous Author, M.A.
Book Review. Language Disorders in Children and Adolescents