Video Interviews

Interviews with The Psychoanalytic Quarterly’s Contributors

A Conversation with Nathan Kravis about his paper Charisma

Kravis and interviewer Terri C. Smith discuss Nathan Kravis’s paper Charisma, which was featured in our October 2021 issue. They explore themes such as how psychoanalysis informs understandings of charismatic authority, leadership/followership dynamics, and charismatic organization in the clinical practice. Read full article.

Nathan Kravis is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College, Associate Director of the DeWitt Wallace Institute of Psychiatry, and Training and Supervising Analyst at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research.

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Joyce Slochower interviewed by Steven H. Goldberg

Psychoanalytic Quarterly's Associate Editor Steven H. Goldberg, who edited our recent special issue about endings with patients in psychoanalysis, is in conversation with contributing author Joyce Slochower. They discuss her article "Ending, Not Ending, and Not Ending at All" and other topics in this long-form interview. Read full article.

Joyce Slochower Ph.D., ABPP, is Professor Emerita of Psychology at Hunter College & the Graduate Center, CUNY; and Faculty, NYU Postdoctoral Program, Steven Mitchell Center, National Training Program of NIP, Philadelphia Center for Relational Studies, and PINC in San Francisco. She is the author of Holding and Psychoanalysis: A Relational Perspective (1996; 2014) and Psychoanalytic Collisions (2006; 2014), and co-Editor, with Lew Aron and Sue Grand, of De-idealizing Relational Theory: A Critique from Within and Decentering Relational Theory: A Comparative Critique (2018). Her most recent book is Psychoanalysis and the Unspoken (2024).

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Frank Marra interviewed by Amy Levy

Our Quarterly Conversation for issue XCIV, 2025, No. 3 is an interview with Frank Marra where he discusses his article "Novel Object Survey in Spike Jonze's 'Her'" with Editorial Board member Amy Levy whose book "The New Other: Alien Intelligence and The Innovation Drive" will be published this year by Karnac Books. In this interview they discuss the film "Her" through the lens of the Novel object. In the film the protagonist Theodore Twombly finds companionship and develops a romantic relationship with an artificially intelligent operating system named Samantha.

In his article, Dr. Marra explores Samantha as a novel object. By applying the benign, terminal, transformational and transitional object, he assists spectators in gaining a multidimensional understanding of the protagonist and his psychic developments. In their conversation Levy and Marra tease apart aspects of the paper and identify clips that reflect the author's observations. The Psychoanalytic Quarterly is a nonprofit publication and film clips are included here for educational use only. The film cited is: Warner Brothers Picture presents an Annapurna Pictures production; produced by Megan Ellison, Spike Jonze, Vincent Landay; written and directed by Spike Jonze. (2013). Her. Burbank, CA.: Distributed by Warner Home Video.

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Eve Watson interviewed by Rodrigo Barahona

In this interview, The Psychoanalytic Quarterly's book review editor, Rodrigo Barahona, is in conversation with contributing writer Eve Watson about themes related to her book review of "From an Other to the Other: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XVI," by Jacques Lacan, translated by Bruce Fink and edited by Jacques-Alain Miller. New York: Other Press, 2024.

Topics include: Seminar Sixteen's major themes such as Lacan's revisions on the theme of the Subject, subjectivity, the big Other, and jouissance; the political and cultural context of France at the time of the Seminar; the institutional context of Lacan’s psychoanalytic school and the split with the International Psychoanalytic Association; the process of “the Pass” in Lacanian psychoanalytic institutions; Lacan’s use of Pascal’s Wager; the clinical implications of Lacan’s thinking in the Seminar; and the practice of psychoanalysis in Ireland. Watson's review was published in Volume XCIV, No. 3, 2025 and is available free access at Taylor & Francis online through November 30, 2025. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/...

Watson, who is co-director of a Dublin city-centre practice, has published over thirty essays on psychoanalysis, sexuality, film, culture, and literature. Her co-edited books are "Clinical Encounters in Sexuality: Psychoanalytic Practice and Queer Theory" (2017, Punctum), "Critical Essays on the Drive: Lacanian Theory and Practice" (Routledge, 2024), "Freud’s Principal Case Studies Revisited: Freudian-Lacanian Psychoanalysts Reconsider the Legacy" (Routledge, 2025), and forthcoming in 2026 "James Joyce’s Writing and Psychoanalysis" (Routledge). She is the academic director of the Freud Lacan institute (FLi) and was the Editor of Lacunae, the International Journal for Lacanian Psychoanalysis, from 2016-2024. She is a member of the Editorial Boards of Lacunae, The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, and the European Journal of Qualitative Research in Psychotherapy. She was the 2022 Erikson Scholar-in Residence at Austen Riggs, and the Fall 2025 Burns Scholar in Irish Studies at Boston College.