AM LEBEN SEIN. DASEINSANALYTISCHE ZUGÄNGE ZUR KINDER-UND JUGENDLICHENPSYCHOTHERAPIE

Author(s): Charlotte Spitzer / Language(s): German / Issue: 2/2016

“To be alive”. A sixteen years old client of mine used this expression to describe her wish and within the possibility of what may come after the therapeutic process. It is a beautiful and pure and at the same time a universal uttering. The epochs of childhood and youth are very special periods in the life of all of us. Never again we experience such an immense kind of development in our existential possibilities. It’s intensity, tempo and dimensions are tremendous. Therefore the risks are also very high. In this process we are highly sensitive, vulnerable and bare so that every difficulty, every disappointment, every – even short – loss of love can have a deep and devastating impact on our possibilities to be open to the world and be free in living out our own Dasein as well as living out from our own true ground. In this particular period of life, we are totally and utterly exposed and if we don’t get what we need in order to develop and grow in our unique way, if we are unable to respond appropriately to what life brings for us, we develop psychological disorders. In my article I would like to illuminate the human existence, this very specific period of life, through daseinsanalytical, phenomenological view. This includes personality development, openness towards the unique individual possibilities to come to the world and getting and staying open to the world, being truly alive. The term “development” is discussed here in its phenomenological understanding, describing the phenomenon as becoming more and more open to the world due to the unique individual possibilities. Furthermore some Existentialia and how they reveal itself in their singular mode to the world are being outlined in different phases of childhood and youth.Finally the therapeutic uniqueness of daseinsanalytical relationship is described under the aspect of psychotherapy with youth.

Apie Filosofines Dailės Terapijos Ištakas Ir Taikymo Galimybes

Author(s): Vaida Asakaviciute / Language(s): Lithuanian / Issue: 89/2016

The article reviews the philosophical and psychological origins of Art Therapy and its practical application possibilities. A special focus is given to the influence of the views based on philosophical and psychological ideas of art therapy functions, methods and practical significance. The article aims to highlight the positive benefits of the adoption of art therapy techniques and their effects on health of a human soul and body as well as a self-cognition. The focus is on a creative process, which is considered to be one of the most important elements of art therapy. The advantages of art therapy, such as a self-expression through colours, the personality in self-creation, the education of the personal creativeness and spirituality, are concisely presented in the paper.

Apie Filosofines Dailės Terapijos Ištakas Ir Taikymo Galimybes

Author(s): Vaida Asakaviciute / Language(s): Lithuanian / Issue: 88/2016

The article reviews the philosophical and psychological origins of Art Therapy and its practical application possibilities. A special focus is given to the influence of the views based on philosophical and psychological ideas of art therapy functions, methods and practical significance. The article aims to highlight the positive benefits of the adoption of art therapy techniques and their effects on health of a human soul and body as well as a self-cognition. The focus is on a creative process, which is considered to be one of the most important elements of art therapy. The advantages of art therapy, such as a self-expression through colours, the personality in self-creation, the education of the personal creativeness and spirituality, are concisely presented in the paper.

Around the Bloc: Polanski Should Face U.S. Justice for Child Sex, Poland Says

Author(s): TOL TOL / Language(s): English / Issue: 06/07/2016

Director has eluded several U.S. requests for his extradition to be sentenced for the 1977 abuse of a 13-year-old girl.

Crna limfa/zeleno srce: Alternativni leksikon duše

Author(s): Željka Matijaševic / Language(s): Croatian / Issue: 3/2015

Lakrimologija je, kao vrlo mlada znanost, posvećena suzama i plakanju. Ubrzano se razvija te razmatra i pomaže u liječenju fenomena povezanih sa suzama, plakanjem i sličnim suzećim pojavama, visoko specijalizirana doktrina sa strogo znanstvenim i metodičkim pristupom plakanju, razrađenom terminologijom i kategorizacijom, rječnikom i intervjuima u kojima se ispitanike podvrgava ispitivanju vezanom uz plakanje. Primjerice, koliko plačete, kada plačete; korespondencija između događaja i plakanja: postoji li ili ne postoji, mali plač za malu ranu, veliki plač za veliku ranu; zatim, nepodudaranje događaja i plakanja — to je onaj unutargenerativni, samoporađajući plač; onda kvantiteta i kvaliteta plača — je li onako rijedak ili obilan, više poput kapljica ili potoka; kakva mu je boja; kakvog su okusa suze, imaju li onaj pun, zaokružen vinski bouquet ili su više razvodnjene, okusa destilirane vode.

Czarny scenariusz. Strategie obrazowania potransformacyjnego Górnego Śląska w Sercu z węgla i Benku

Author(s): Alicja Kosterska / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 6/2015

Based on an analysis of pop cultural representations – the reality television show Serce z węgla [Heart of Coal, 2001] and the feature film Benek [Benek, 2007] – Kosterka examines the visualization of post-transformation Upper Silesia in 21st-century Polish film. She draws on psychoanalysis to explore why Upper Silesia has become attractive especially to those directors who aim to highlight the negative consequences of the socio-economic transformations after 1989: poverty, unemployment, frustration and a lack of perspective. The aim of this article is to draw readers’ attention to the fact that in 21st-century representations, Upper Silesia is mostly understood, visualized and spoken about as a space of ‘wilful exclusion,’ which has helped solidify the post-transformation status quo.

DAS ‚UNHEIMLICHE’ BEI SIGMUND FREUD ALS SYNTHESE AUS LITERATUR- UND PSYCHOANALYSE

Author(s): Özlem Tekin / Language(s): German / Issue: 7/2016

Sigmund Freud, a scientist, whose significance in the field of psychology and in many other scientific disciplines is undeniable to this today, merges and implements his psychoanalytical insights to the analysis of literary works in his essay The Uncanny (1919) in order to illuminate the 'uncanny' phenomenon. What exactly is the 'uncanny'? By which factors is it determined? How does Sigmund Freud apply his insights from psychoanalysis to explain the phenomenon in literature, and in turn to get closer to the understanding of the 'uncanny' as such? And what is the use of the synthesis of literary analysis and psychoanalysis for literary studies? The aim of this paper is to address these questions by following Freud's essay The Uncanny (1919). First of all, the narrowing of the definition of the 'uncanny' derived from Freud's etymological considerations needs to be carried out. In the following step, the 'uncanny' derived from his psychoanalysis needs to be differentiated into the 'uncanny of experience' and into the 'uncanny of fiction'. On this basis the 'uncanny' is then to be applied specifically to the works of literature resulting in their Freudian psychoanalytic interpretation. In conclusion, the beneficial implications of combining literary analysis and psychoanalysis to the study of the 'uncanny' phenomenon and to the literary studies are to be evaluated.

Dosjetka i njena terapeutska dimenzija u oslobađanju od društvenih okova

Author(s): Alen Avdic / Language(s): Bosnian / Issue: 25/2017

U djelu Kupalište Lucce Heinrich Heine slika nesvakidašnje živopisne scene toskanskog gradića u kojem se ne nazire kraja ljetnjim zabavama i razonodama njemačkih turista što okupiraju primorski gradić: od sunčanja i beskrajnih šetnji žalom, nudističkih izleta na obližnja kupališta do uživanja u čuvenoj banji Lucca. Usred ovakve užarene ljetnje atmosfere Heine predstavlja svoja dva komična lika – u njegovom književnom opusu svojevrstan par koji bi mogao da parira Shakespeareovu Rozencrantzu i Guildensternu ili Cervantesovu Don Quixoteu i Sanchu Pansi. Nedvojbeno opisani kao semitski skorojevići, Heineov "markiz" Gumpelino, za kojega slovi da je Jevrejin koji se se pokrstio i njegov sluga Hirsch, kasnije poznat pod imenom Hyacinth spadaju u sami vrh humorističkih parnjaka svjetske književnosti. Gumpelino, očaran Lady Juliom Maxfield, u očajnoj je potrazi za afrodizijakom, no sluga mu Hirsch-Hyacinth (ne) namjerno poturi laksativ na mjesto traženoga afrodizijaka i to upravo na noć željno iščekivanog ljubavnog susreta.

Dyskurs jako praxis. Archeologia wiedzy jako teoria materializmu performatywnego

Author(s): Bartlomiej Blesznowski / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 22/2016

The principal theme of the article is the ontological status of Michel Foucault's archaeology of knowledge, with reference to “aporetic” source of its inspiration, which was undoubtedly structuralism and lacanian psychoanalysis. If Foucault's main notion – discourse, is based on the socio-historical permanence of statements related to the same formation rules, discourse formation is the field where the statements are linked and stabilized in their division. The major issue is the materiality of these statements, and consequently the material transformation rules of discourse emergence, the constitutive principle of discontinuity. As Gilles Deleuze wrote: “The present is a roll the dice [...] in one go, bones and rules are rolling”. The discourse is not just a collection of more or less structured rules, but rather a set of practices that perform an act; subjects (individual or collective) therefore do not have a permanent, structured identity within the discourse, but rather represent a constant change and the result of empowerment practices which have their own history. Reproduction of discourse is at the core of Foucault’s method (also after the “archaeological” period), which could lead us to formulate a concept of “extradiscursive politics”.

Factor structure of the Scale of Evaluation of Body Dissatisfaction for Adolescents (EEICA) among students from Slovakia, Hungary and Lithuania

Author(s): Lucia Hricová,Olga Orosová,Beáta Gajdošová / Language(s): Slovak / Issue: 1/2016

Background: Body dissatisfaction is important to examine as it is an essential evaluative part of the self-system and can have an impact on psychological and physical health. It is a complex phenomenon and seems to include more factors. The scale of body dissatisfaction for adolescents (EEICA) is a multidimensional verbal method measuring body dissatisfaction. However, its factor structure has only been identified in a Spanish adolescent sample. Aim: The main aim of this study is to identify factors of the EEICA for university students from Slovakia, Hungary and Lithuania. Methods: 2357 first year university students completed the EEICA online as part of the SLiCE study. Principal axis factoring with Varimax rotation was performed for each country separately. Intercorrelations between factors via the Pearson correlation coefficient were tested as well. Results: The study revealed a three-factor structure of the EEICA in each country (Self-acceptance and acceptance by others based on appearance, Weight control together with efforts to improve one´s appearance and Low weight dissatisfaction) after excluding 9 items. In addition, the results revealed a significant association between body evaluation and behavior connected to body appearance. Conclusions: This factor structure helps to distinguish between (1) cognitive and emotional body evaluation and (2) behavioral aspects connected to body appearance. This structure differs from the previous factor structure in Spanish adolescents and it has revealed a new relevant factor named Low weight dissatisfaction, which has so far been rarely explored. Future research may focus on this factor as well as on the complex validation of the EEICA in different age categories.

FAIDRINA VZBURA

Author(s): Marcel Koman / Language(s): Slovak / Issue: 02/2015

This article brings an interpretation of Enquist’s drama For Phaedra from a political and social point of view. It compares it to the previous dramas based on the myth of Phaedra and Hippolytus written by Euripides, Seneca, Racine, Zola and Kane. It argues that having lost social and internal values, characters of the drama feel useless, which leads to a revolt against the system. For a better understanding of the main thesis of the article the author relies on psychoanalytical explanations which Enquist used in his comments and remarks on the drama. The author focuses on the evolution and changes in society, especially increasing material wealth that leads to the alienation of man, which allowed a critical application of the myth onto our society and its problems. The drama displays Enquist’s social democratic political attitudes. The characters are mirrored in each other with the only exception: the character of Theseus represents a man and politician in one person who has abused his power. He changes history to what he wants it to be, and he considers his wife and the rest of the family as his property, not as human beings. Phaedra tries to seduce her son-in-law Hippolytus to revenge for Theseus’s behaviour. When Hippolytus dies and she commits suicide, the character of a cleaner appears. Theramenes and Aricia follow him to change the unjust political system.

FALLDARSTELLUNG ÜBER EINE DASEINSANALYTISCHE BEHANDLUNG EINER SCHIZO-AFFEKTIV ERKRANKTEN

Author(s): Roland Strobl / Language(s): German / Issue: 2/2016

In this case study I want to show the development during Daseinsanalysis of a woman suffering from a long term schizoaffective disorder. After three attempts to start and remain in therapy,and following eleven inpatient admissions to different psychiatric hospitals, it seems, that the phenomenological approach of Daseinsanalysis has helped her continue and, over time, she has been able to find a better way of coming closer to the aim which has been most requested of her until now – of becoming lively – but without it resulting in a psychiatric hospital admission. Firstly I will attempt to give an overview of my patient’s history, including my first encounter with her:a public help desk for working assistance for psychiatric patients in 2001, and then, soon after, as she started Daseinsanalysis in my private practice. She discontinued the therapy on account of not being able to cope with difficult feelings arising from having fallen in love with me, her analyst. I could not respond in the way she expected me to. That was the first break in our therapeutic relationship and another one was to follow two years later, when she came closer for the second time. It was my mistake as her therapist, to interfere as her father had done. She told me during one of those sessions that this was her experience and this prompted the second break. And now, since 2013, our relationship seems strong enough to continue and to come closer together to her first aim. The core question in my case study as an example from the practice in Daseinsanalysis is: how is it possible for the therapist to find the right balance in his or her approach between abstinence, through which patients can find enough space to develop freely and the naturally occurring possibilities in every relationship, which make people and their relationships lively?

Fantazma i trauma u jednom slučaju tjeskobe kretanja

Author(s): Gordana Bulat-Manenti / Language(s): Croatian / Issue: 2/2015

Freud, Orzeszkowa i zimowe epifanie

Author(s): Malgorzata Czerminska / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 5/2016

Review: Melancholia i poznanie: ‘Autobiografie’ Elizy Orzeszkowej [Melancholia and Understanding: Eliza Orzeszkowa’s ‘Autobiographies’], ed. and introduction by Danuta Danek, photography by Krzysztof Hejke, Terra Nova, Warsaw 2014

Freudovi »modeli« homoseksualnosti: Tri rasprave o seksualnoj teoriji i teorija edipacije

Author(s): Dejan Duric / Language(s): Croatian / Issue: 2/2015

The paper discusses Freud's views and opinions on homosexuality in Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality and Oedipal theory. In the first work homosexuality was interpreted as an inversion of sexual drive (inversional theory). In the second phase, while postulating Oedipal theory, Freud established developmental model. As in the case of most of the author's speculation, such as those about homosexuality were also subject to processing and rejection or supplementing. The question is what caused the abandonment of inversional theory on the behalf of developmental theory. Relation between the two theories will also be examined through two basic approaches of interpretation of Freud's views on homosexuality.

Gombrowicz we współczesnej Argentynie. Lektura grupy „Literal”

Author(s): Ewa Kobylecka-Piwonska / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1/2016

This article presents the way in which Witold Gombrowicz’s works were interpreted by the Argentine writers who edited the periodical Literal in the 1970s. Drawing on the ideas that dominated comparative literature at the time, they soon began to discuss the Polish writer’s ‘Argentinization’ as well as the main traits of his work. Besides Literal, these reflections also appeared in the novel Cancha rayada by Germán García. This approach does not rely on the aesthetics of the ‘novel as testimony,’ which were popular at the time. Instead, it accentuates the text rather than the writer (departing from the key paradigm of the day) and builds on Lacanian psychoanalysis.

Gorszyciel. Schulz i zawodowi czytelnicy

Author(s): Dawid Matuszek / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 2/2015

The author offers a re-reading of the figure of a father, around which Bruno Schulz’s work oscillates. Schulz’s father is made a patron of anti-hermeneutic literary studies, whose ambition is to transcend the opposition between comprehension and incomprehension of a text. This father favours a reading which is dissolute and scandalous. Therefore, as a figure embodying bliss, he is called here a father-shocker (in a creative reference to Lacan’s concept of le père… ou pire) – a perverted “lawgiver,” who obliges one even to violate the law and transgress the rules of the canon. He is the one who allows for acting on one’s own anti-rules: the more they are, on the one hand, materialistic and subversive, and on the other, pragmatic and inclusive, the more difficult it is to distance oneself from them or to reject them – and thus create a space for the sovereignty of the subject. Yet, as the author persuades, the readers do not know other than an obscene father; thus they necessarily play on his terms – but it is only when one gives in to him completely that it is possible to outplay him, that is to liberate new reading possibilities.

Hieroglyphs of Jealousy

Author(s): Jelisaveta Blagojevic / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 2008

When we relate love to jealousy and jealousy to love, we should be aware that there is a constant wish, or even desire, to “save” love from jealousy. Moreover, that the notion of jealousy has negative connotations: that jealousy is something that can wound the other; that jealousy is something one should be ashamed of (perhaps, being aggressive); that jealousy is something one should be fearful of (perhaps, being excluded); and what I consider as the most important – that because of jealousy one might suffer from being subject/ed to a kind of affection that is considered as “craziness,” but not any kind of craziness – the “craziness” that is at the same time craziness and banality. Being common. Being a common being.

Identitás és asszimiláció

Erich Fromm, Bruno Bettelheim és Erik H. Erikson amerikai pályája

Author(s): Ferenc Eros / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 2/2016

The essay attempts to compare the careers of three famous psychoanalysts, Erich Fromm, Bruno Bettelheim, and Erik H. Erikson from the point of view of the history of science and the sociology of knowledge. All of them came from Central Europe, from Jewish families. Their life work unfolded in America, but their thinking had been determined by their European experiences and questions: the meaning of freedom, the dilemma of survival, and the nature of identity. In the 1960s and 1970s they were respected not only as psychoanalysts and social thinkers, but as public intellectuals, too. For today, however, they became “forgotten intellectuals”. The essay points out those social, scientific, political, and personal factors that played a part in their decline.

Imię jako pępek snu, czyli jak odzyskać rzeczy, których nigdy nie mieliśmy

Author(s): Adam Lipszyc / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 5/2016

This article aims to tie together two distinct models: Freud’s method of interpreting dreams and Benjamin’s theory of the constellation. By combining these two theoretical constructs we are able to avoid some of the simplifications in Freud’s initial model, while also enriching Benjamin’s model with a libidinal dimension. An additional dimension in this new concept is provided by Jean Laplanche’s interpretation of Freud’s writings on the birth of the sex drive. The article closes with an analysis, based on the concept proposed here, of a dream from The Interpretation of Dreams.