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The article scrutinizes how autobiographism, fiction and autoanalysis crisscross in the psychoanalytical study Elmebetegségek psychikus mechanizmusa (On the psychic mechanisms of mental illnesses) by the Hungarian writer and psychiatrist Géza Csáth (1887–1919) in the light of his diary and Carl Gustav Jung’s doctoral thesis.
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This paper is actually a review of the status of psychoanalysis versus science. The lack of articles in contemporary discussions, and the absence of the topic of psychoanalysis suggests that there is less interest in the given topic. The impression is that the therapist who has the function of a patient does not have the time for other means of research and work. This supports the contemporary views that a therapist is, figuratively speaking, married to therapy and, therefore, cannot do anything for its sake. Strong criticism persisting even today is that addressed to Freud (in reference to relational psychoanalysis), arguing that he could not even bear to be seen as a warm and gentle figure by his patients. He is even known to have sat in a chair behind the headrest of the sofa used by the patient, in order to avoid looking the patients in the eyes, claiming it to be bothersome. The third century of the existence of psychoanalysis seems to be the time of questioning of whether the interest in this topic is disappearing. The corpus of psychoanalysis has been implemented throughout the 20th century. The general attitudes are that the analytical method has to change. Contemporary society wants quick results because the contemporary individual has little time. Psychoanalysis has always preferred the quiet, which now is a bad strategy, because very little has been done about its visibility and promotion.
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Statistics published in many different countries seem to point to the fact that women are much more likely than men ask for psychiatric/psychotherapeutic care. Although there is not a clearcut case for saying that more women suffer from psychiatric/ mental illnesses, it seems to be unquestionable that women dominate in particular disease categories: depression, eating disorders, anxiety and phobias . syndromes which were formerly covered by the label .hysteria. (Ussher, 1991).
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The article explores the auto/biographical narratives devoted to Freud written by his disciples. The author argues that both biography and autobiography were important life-writing genres used by psychoanalysts in the first half of the twentieth century to express their subjective views on the history of the psychoanalytic movement. The chosen biographies of Freud shed light on the close relationship between “subjective” autobiographical discourse (based on self-observation and auto-analysis) and the “objective” role of a biographer. The author argues that the early auto/ biographies of Freud’s disciples presented a different history of psychoanalytic knowledge, where the collective thinking and affective relationships are shown to be crucial in the development of the psychoanalytic movement.
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One of the key characteristics identifying Generation Y is the tension between cultural homogeneity and cultural heterogeneity. Direct access to the information from all over the world becomes the cause of the occurrence of complex processes of interpretation, translation, mutation and adaptation of the global content to the local one. Generation Y are shaping their ideas on professional career in this very context. This article aims to answer the question to what extent the picture of a career of the representatives of Gen Y is unified and global, and in particular how they assess their chances of achieving career success. The theoretical basis of the research is the concept of C.R. Snyder where hope is understood as belief in the possession of competences enabling success achievement. It is a cognitive approach, treating hope as a cognitive motivational process units related to the belief of an individual that he or she will succeed and that success will be the consequence of their own competence. The article presents the results of own research conducted among students of Management Department from Poland, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, Austria and Russia in 2012-2014.
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While past and current scientific research upon the interrogation of suspects accused of criminal wrongdoing has mainly focused upon the assessment of the diagnostic value of the interviewing and interrogation tactics ordinarily used and upon diverse methodologies of credibility assessment, actual public interest has increased in the present in relation to interrogation practices related to military interrogations.
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The text will investigate the melancholia starting from the psychoanalytical discourses and their fundamental texts: Freud’s Melancholia and Mourning, Melanie Klein’s reconsideration of the psychogenesis of manic-depressive positions and Julia Kristeva’s Black Sun, to its potentials for political imagination and transformation. For the basis of rethinking melancholia into the political context I use the critical writings by Sara Ahmed on the cultural politics of emotions and the manner in which they reflect the power relations and the potentials for political transformation. Furthermore, the book The Melancholy of Race: Psychoanalysis, Assimilation, and Hidden Grief (Race and American Culture) by Anne Cheng starts from the Freudian analysis of mourning and traces the dynamics of rejection and internalization which can help in explaining the American racist culture. The idea is to investigate if the model of melancholia can help understand the mourning and loss not as symptoms but as dynamic processes with forceful, but also with transformative potentials for political imagination. By investigating the melancholia of the marginalized the idea is to explore the possibility to transform the mourning into a stance against the wound. The text will look into the dynamics of the student movement in Macedonia from 2014/15 as an example of creative transformation of the marginalized position into the new political discourse that initiates the democratic processes in the society.
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Nearly all the work of Kara Walker produced thus far including Gone: An Historical Romance Of A Civil War As It Occurred Between the Dusky Thighs of One Young Negress And Her Heart (1994); The End of Uncle Tom and the Grand Allegorical Tableau of Eva in Heaven (1995); The Battle of Atlanta: Being the Narrative of a Negress in the Flames of Desire . A Reconstruction (1995); Presenting Negro Scenes Drawn Upon My Passage Through the South and Reconfigured for the Benefit of Enlightened Audiences Wherever Such May Be Found, By Myself, K.E. B. Walker, Colored (1997) . I cite a few of the titles to give you some flavor of the work . nearly all the work employs the same technique: the adhesion of black paper cut-outs to white gallery walls.
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This article discusses the early theoretical works of the Hungarian psychoanalyst and a close disciple of Sigmund Freud, Sándor Ferenczi. This study offers an interpretation of his short case study Homosexualitas Feminina, published in 1902, concentrating on the analyst’s narrative and stylistic strategies before he met the founder of psychoanalysis. The article is devoted to the analysis of a popular medical genre – the case study – which is seen in the light of its relation to life-writing literature. Rather than follow Michel Foucault’s deconstructive scheme of interpretation, I offer a more affirmative reading of the case study of Rosa K. and thus seek to understand Ferenczi’s early work through the impact of life-writing genres, such as biography and autobiography, on psychiatric discourse at the turn of the twentieth century.
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In this paper, the author is questioning the very concept of “indifference of thinking”. The author also asks: in what sense thinking leads to “overall indifference”? What, indeed, is indifference? Carefully reading the philosophical texts on affects, mainly Spinoza, Freud, Bergson and Deleuze, the author argues, that indifference is not a kind of non-affection, beside-affection, post-affection, but rather, it is a trace of affect – just as cinders are remnants of fire. Indifference is not abnegation either, which is a kind of statement that we could not care less. On the contrary, it is in indifference where we find a profound commitment to bringing back the things of this world to their natural position.
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The purpose of the book is to approach J.M. Coetzee’s novelistic output from a different perspective than the one that was usually embraced by the majority of critics. The common practice, which is in any case elicited by this output, is orientation from the “humanist” position, criticising the excesses of colonialism and confronting violence with existential problems of Man on the path to the Truth and self-realisation. Even though in today’s world the authority of universalia such as Man and Truth was severely undermined, for it may be perceived as something which always serves somebody’s interests, it seems that Coetzee created for his own purpose a writer’s method in which the basic features of a humanist novel may be retained and which at the same time attempts to defend itself against accusations of involvement in the interplay of violence and interests. In order to demonstrate the political, narration-related and existential consequences of the attitudes embraced by the protagonists of such a modernised humanist novel, the book analyses seven novels by Coetzee, and the premises of humanist discourse which are contained in these novels were confronted with the selected concepts of the psychoanalytic theory, especially the concepts of Jacques Lacan and their political application conducted by Slavoj Žižek. The second edition of the book was enhanced by a chapter which discusses three pseudo-autobiographical novels by Coetzee and a chapter which analyses “The Lives of Animals” by this author – a sort of metafiction devoted to animal rights.
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The main aim of the study is to present the Polish adaptation scale of impulsivity (UPPS) by Whiteside and Lynam. Iimpulsivity is treated as a feature that specifies a constant tendency to take risks, undertake unplanned activities, making decisions quickly and implementing actions without evaluating the situation and consequences first. The scale is used to measurefour aspects of impulsivity. These are: urgency, (lackof) premeditation: (lackof) perseverance: sensation seeking. The results of the polish adaptation are satisfactory. The article also describes two studies; one concerns the relationship between impulsivity and workaholism (measured with the use of Work-BAT) and the second between impulsivity and satisfaction connected with social relationship.
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This study aims to reveal the way in which is interpretted the science of Freud, presenting some contradictory oppinions. Sigmund Freud named it science, but psychoanalysis was considered a humanistic science or pseudoscience. Although Sigmund Freud does not admits anything else but a scientific foundation, based on research and clinical observation of patients or relatives, the sources of psychoanalysis also comes from culture, philosophy and literature. Psychoanalysis is regarded today as „a kaleidoscope of mirrors” that can be deceitful because of the multiple perspectives displayed, sometimes false ones,some other times reflecting the cruel reality, but nevertheless, harmful.
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Sigmunda Freuda fascinirala je književnost i umjetnost u kojima je pronalazio primjere za svoja teorijska razmatranja proizašla iz kliničke prakse.
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The article presents the three main types of relations between psychoanalysis and autobiography. Psychoanalysis is defined as an autobiographical practice that has become a science. Autobiography also provides its most important therapeutic technique. Moreover, in the light of Freud’s theory, any given autobiography can be understood in terms of screen memories.
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In this paper, the author is questioning the very concept of “indifference of thinking”. The author also asks: in what sense thinking leads to “overall indifference”? What, indeed, is indifference? Carefully reading the philosophical texts on affects, mainly Spinoza, Freud, Bergson and Deleuze, the author argues, that indifference is not a kind of non-affection, beside-affection, post-affection, but rather, it is a trace of affect – just as cinders are remnants of fire. Indifference is not abnegation either, which is a kind of statement that we could not care less. On the contrary, it is in indifference where we find a profound commitment to bringing back the things of this world to their natural position.
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Dve kontrastne interpretacije problema sporta i rada. U vezi s pitanjem odnosa između sporta i društvenog rada, u literaturi dominiraju dve suprotne hipoteze.
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When speaking of Zeno's famous paradox (Achilles and the tortoise), Lacan remarks: A number has a limit and it is to that extent that it is infinite. It is quite clear that Achilles can only pass the tortoise - he cannot catch up with it. He only catches up with it at infinity (infinitude).
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