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Concepții și Prezențe Arhetipale în Pictură

Author(s): Stela Cojocaru / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1-2/2020

In this article there are described some aspects of the presence of cultural archetypes in painting. The archetypes in art and painting manifest themselves in symbolic form and give to the artistic work a certain philosophical meaning and deep meanings. The source of symbolic archetypes are ancient myths, fairy tales, legends, stories, folklore. The content of these cultural archetypes is typical for a certain culture or the whole of humanity, in this sense they are universal, objective and transpersonal. Cultural archetypes reveal their content through iconic concepts in graphic form, through visual images determined by the cultural environment and the metaphorical way of representation (ethno-cultural archetypes). These cultural forms in art and painting, are gradually transformed into symbols, metaphors, associations, with multiple meanings and senses, and represent simplified models, schemes, images and representations, which derive from the human subconscious and the universal collective unconscious. Every archetypal image, imported into the creative human psyche, takes the simplest form of sign or symbol. The archetypal symbols are a well-defined language and are a presence and possibility for finding the true meaning. Related to the artistic dimension, they appear in the painting, in the form of different symbolic and significant images, based on specific associations, described by the language of metaphors, allegories, sometimes materialized in unconscious images, often spontaneous and intuitive, deeply embedded in the subconscious - content that successfully it is exploited by art and especially by painting.

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Conference Report of the 9th International Conference „InPACT 2021“

Author(s): Miroslava Bozogáňová / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2021

Conference report of the 9th International Conference „InPACT 2021“, April 24 – 26, 2021, online

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CONTEMPORARY PSYCHOANALYSIS – PERSPECTIVES AND THE SCIENTIFIC STATUS

Author(s): Jana Milić / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2020

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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Contre la Bible, contre le père ou à la découverte de l’univers des références intertextuelles extra bibliques dans Franz et François de François Weyergans

Author(s): Adam Jarosz / Language(s): French Issue: 2/2019

The aim of the analysis is to present selected non-biblical intertextual references appearing in the novel Franz et François by the Belgian writer François Weyergans. They create a polylogue of voices coming from various areas of culture, e.g. literature (Gide), philosophy (Sartre, Camus) or psychoanalysis (Freud, Karl Abraham), and often taking issue with the world of traditional biblical values. As such these references illustrate well the process of individuation of the hero of the novel who, full of guilt, moves away from the Bible and from his father.

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Conversations with Judith Butler: Proceedings from the Seminar “Crisis of the Subject,” held in Ohrid 11-14th May 2000

Author(s): Judith Butler,Katerina Kolozova,Žarko Trajanoski / Language(s): English

The book contains the discussions and three of the papers (by Judith Butler, Katerina Kolozova, and Zarko Trajanoski) that were presented at the Seminar “Crisis of the Subject.” The transcripts are not authorized by Judith Butler.

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Correspondence between two titans of Psychoanalysis Freud-Jung

Author(s): Olesea Gîrlea / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2018

From the very beginning, the correspondence between S. Freud and C.G. Jung was based on trust and mutual sympathy and led to creativity. During the seven years (beginning with 1906) there were written 360 letters: 164 by Freud and 196 by Jung, including news and scientific results. Both psychoanalysts visited each other, exchanged photos and personal research studies (books), they had common friends and enemies and founded a journal of psychoanalysis. Jung set up the Freudian Society of Doctors, organized the first Congress of Freudian Psychology, but, unfortunately, what was meant to be a school of Freudianism under the leadership of Jung came to a sudden end as a result of reproaches, difference of opinions and disagreements between the two.

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Crna limfa/zeleno srce: alternativni leksikon duše

Author(s): Željka Matijašević / Language(s): Croatian

Black Lymph/Green Heart: The Alternative Lexicon of Soul is a glossary of terms which the author deemed significant for today's collective and individual psychic condition. The selected entries have their definitions as in ordinary lexicons. However, the alternative lexicon selects the terms differently, and uses a different methodology of their treatment. In this lexicon, you will find apparently arbitrarily selected entries with inconsistently written definitions. But it is precisely with that subjective and ironic approach that the author reveals the characteristics of the listed concepts, which are important in some not-so-rare situations. The ones that concern our psychological welfare. This unscientific book, that parodies the scientific structure of a lexicon as such, reveals the functioning of narcissists, egomaniacs, psychopaths and sociopaths who have become a norm, instead of an exception. If you want to know what melancholy and femmes fatales have in common, or what is the nature of a relationship between pathocracy and a tram, The Alternative Lexicon of Soul will give you the answers and make you laugh at the same time. Željka Matijašević was born in 1968, in Zagreb. She graduated in Comparative Literature, and French Language and Literature at the Zagreb Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. She obtained her doctor's degree at the Trinity College of the Cambridge University. She is a full-professor at the Department of the Comparative Literature at the Zagreb Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Her main interests are psychoanalytic theory and applied psychoanalysis. She is an author of six scientific books: Lacan: ustrajnost dijalektike (2005), Strukturiranje nesvjesnog: Freud i Lacan (2006), Uvod u psihoanalizu: Edip, Hamlet, Jekyll/Hyde (2011), Stoljeće krhkog sebstva: psihoanaliza, društvo, kultura (2016), Drama, drama (2020), and The Borderline Culture (2021). She also authored one novel, Defences with the Taste of Death (2019), and a lexicon Black Lymph/Green Heart: The Alternative Lexicon of Soul (2017). She is a member of La Fondation Européenne pour la Psychanalyse and the Croatian Writers Society.

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CULTURAL CODES OF FEAR: GENRE, GENDER, (MALE) MADNESS

Author(s): Nataša Polgar / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2020

This paper focuses on a specific type of archival material from the first psychiatric institution in Croatia, the Stenjevec Royal National Institute for the Insane in Zagreb, today the Vrapče University Psychiatric Hospital, dating from the period from its foundation in 1879 until 1900. More specifically, it focuses on patient narratives featuring fantastical beings, i.e., narrations about their life relying on the genre of belief legends. Based on this material, which is considered to be an important albeit atypical folkloristic corpus, the paper analyzes and interprets the status and functions of the genre of belief legends (more specifically, the memorate) in daily life narratives, personal stories and in coding affects (primarily fear). The role of belief legends is examined not only from the perspective of oral tradition and literature, but also in terms of their social and psychological position, and through the lens of psychiatric discourse of the time, which recognizes such narratives merely as symptoms of madness, translating and coding them as the language of abnormality and psychopathology.

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Czapajew w krainie archetypów (psychologia Junga we wczesnych powieściach Wiktora Pielewina)

Author(s): Łukasz Bachora / Language(s): Polish Issue: 173/2021

In the article author makes an attempt to look at the early novels of Victor Pelevin through the prism of Carl Gustav Jung’s analytical psychology. Such approach is justified by the intra-textual signals included by the writer in his work, as is shown in the article on the example of the novel Chapayev and Pustota (1996, published in the US under the title Buddha’s Little Finger and in the UK as Clay Machine Gun). Subsequently, other early works by Pelevin — from his debut novel Omon Ra (1992) up to and including Empire V (2006), with particular emphasis on Generation P (1999) — were subjected to analysis, from which a conclusion was drawn, that when analysed from the analytical psychology’s perspective, the process of individuation — one of the most important points in Jung’s theory — appears to be the main theme of Pelevin’s early work.

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Dark Matter. An Ecopsychological Approach to the Ontology of Plant Expression in Charlie Kaufman’s Adaptation and Richard Linklater’s a Scanner Darkly

Author(s): David M. J. Carruthers / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2021

Taking up Michael Marder’s “object of psychoanalysis, wherein we might detect a vegetal approach to the psyche,” and Timothy Morton’s dark ecology, which traces the twisted loops of agrilogistics, this article proposes an ecopsychological approach to the expression of plant soul as the very constitution of human subjectivity. Examining Richard Linklater’s adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s A Scanner Darkly, which demonstrates the pretty blue Mors ontologica’s insidious plant agency to cleave the somatic human spirit, and Charlie Kaufman’s Adaptation, wherein cinematic plant-thinking demands temporal distortions that render the human uncanny, this article positions the plant as the primary mover, the animating force and manifestation of human desire and its expression.

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Darwinismul şi freudismul - două ,,ideologii ştiinţifice" revoluţionare

Author(s): Maria-Elena Osiceanu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 2/2009

This paper proposes to provide a point of view on the impact of two major scientific theories – evolution theory and psychoanalytic theory – in the history of human thought, and, implicitly, to show the strong connections between science and philosophy. The discovery of the natural selection, by Charles Darwin, and of the unconscious, by Sigmund Freud, were the real revolutions in the field of science. Through their degree of universality these theories have irreversibly transformed the perception of “truths” about human being. The relation between the two theories is no less important, the most solid argument is the direct and indirect influence of Darwin’s work on Freud’s, so that the theory of evolution was considered a kind of “prehistory” of psychoanalytic theory. A crucial point of evolutionism and psychoanalysis is the concept of instinct, which crosses as a “red thread” the researches of these two scientists.

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DAS MÜTTERLICHE DING ALSTRANSZENDENTALES ARGUMENT. EIN KURZER KOMMENTAR ZUR DINGTHEORIE J. KRISTEVAS

Author(s): Darius Persu / Language(s): German Issue: 30/2012

In the present paper I will try to give a short comment regarding the concept of thing by the french psychoanalyst J. Kristeva in relation to the transcendental philosophy of I. Kant. It is argued that Kristeva's theorizing with respect to the notion of (maternal) „thing‚ can be understood as a kind of transcendental argument, i.e. as a kind of regressive argument having the form: „To explain why this and that (the observed) is or has to be so, this and that (the unobserved) must be presupposed. This kind of argument is enjoying a successful tradition in the Humanities, where the Kantian transcendental philosophy represents one of the well known examples. The analysis developed here concerns the study of Kristeva's grief and melancholy of her book, „Schwarze Sonne: Depression und Melancholie‚(literarrly translated „Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia‚). My work takes as a starting point a paper written by T. Meier who pictures in its frame Kristeva's concept of the thing in connection with the concept of the thing by Heidegger and by Kant.

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Death and the Ploughman, or On the Discomfort of the Great Questions

Author(s): Călin Ciobotari / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2022

Review of Death and the Ploughman, by Johannes von Tepl. Directed and adapted by: Silviu Purcărete.

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Der Genuss und seine Mehrdeutigkeit

Author(s): Virgil Ciomoş / Language(s): German Issue: 2/2020

An original authenticity of the human being is to be found even in the inauthenticity of everyday life. Freud was the first to determine the purely pleasurable essence of every symptom, including the psychotic one. This fact represents a real challenge for the analytical clinic, since it is often the case for the subjects to even love their symptom more than themselves. Consequently, it is not the pleasure representing the place of the subject’s own inscription, but its complementary symptom. From this point of view, there can be no real desire without a painful symptom. “Pain-lust” (Schmerzlust) is the expression we find appropriate for this proviso. For more clarity, it is important to emphasize: not pleasure in itself causes pain, but that what it is carried on its behalf, namely the symptom along with its peculiar pain. The conclusion drawn by Lacan from all these genuinely Freudian developments is one potentially “scandalous” for some Freudians: the symptom - be it a painful one - is the only place where some kind of “revelation” takes place. The symptom is nothing else than a form of “remnant radiation”, like in quantum mechanics. According to Freud, the whole idea of psychoanalysis is an attempt to prove that “the transcendental” (i.e. the primary psychic energy which is asexual and sublimated, as far as Freud understands it) cannot “show” itself under any form, not even as “failure” or symptom. This raises the important question with regard to the possibility of finding the original enjoyment (jouissance) as a self-chosen and adopted experience of astonishment not only as a necessary transition caused by the “fall” in the native language. Our answer to such question is affirmative, provided that both phenomenology and psychoanalysis insist on the fact that the subject is guided by sublimation towards the experience of the sublime itself. This means also the restoration of one’s own unique Self. From a psychoanalytic (Lacanian) perspective, such implication is linked to the therapeutic function of art.

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Deri-Ben’likten Psişik Sarmala: Tiksinti’de (1965) Mekan ve Abject İlişkisi

Author(s): Evrim Nacar / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 10/2020

The apartments, a symbol of urban life in the Apartment Trilogy by Roman Polanski, have been elaborated as uncanny structures that allow the abusive and the infringing structuring of the outside to infiltrate and shape the psychic apparatus. In The Apartment Trilogy, National Socialist regime that had caused the murder of millions of Poles and the totalitarian Soviet regime that had used the country as a satellite state for 44 years after the war are associated through the distinction of “inside” and “outside”. The first movie of the trilogy, Repulsion (1965) differs from the other two by putting emphasize on the psychical mechanism of disgust. The protagonist Carol feels an uncontrollable sense of disgust towards men and objects associated with masculinity. In this context, Carol’s endeavor of isolating herself from the outside by associating men and masculinity codes with the “outside” is addressed with concepts that scrutinize the effect of the body’s perception of inside and outside. The movie is evaluated through the perspectives of Sigmund Freud’s “uncanny” concept that he uses within the context of a sense that is both strange and familiar, Julia Kristeva’s “abject” concept that gives prominence to the identity and order of what is disgusting and the threat it poses to the system, and Didier Anzieu’s “skin-ego” concept which stipulates that the limit between the inside and outside of the skin is determined by the relations the subject has with the object and with the others.

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Des instances de la répétition

Author(s): Mihaela Țurcanu Lazarov / Language(s): French Issue: 1/2022

The theme of this symposium is precise and yet it opens onto a dizzying multitude of hypostases of repetition in cinematographic and theatrical works, not without psychoanalysis, over time. Since it is precisely a matter of the subject's time and modalities of dealing with the drive. While each subject is, de facto, subject to time, the time he has, an unpredictable datum with accuracy, par excellence.

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Desire And Decadence In The Film Bildnis Einer Trinkerin (1979) As An Aesthetic Modernist Reaction

Author(s): Onur Keşaplı / Language(s): English Issue: Sp. Iss./2021

Aesthetic modernism parts from modernization which is characterised by westernization and progress. Aesthetic modernism, which prefers stability over improvement, primitivity over contemporary, imagination over mind, play over work and subconscious over consciousness is, with the enforcement of modern process, the other modern choice alongside the dominant version of modernization. It is difficult to say that the aesthetic modernism, which is interpreted as the stakeholder theme of 19th century romanticism and 20th century avant-garde, is treated sufficiently cinema. In spite of this, the filmography of Ulrike Ottinger as a feminist and surrealist director, provides a spectrum through which viewing of aesthetic modernism in cinema is possible). Bildnis Einer Trinkerin, which the director shot in 1979 while in pursuit of visual pleasure in the company of satire and fantasy, conveys the arrival of a woman in Berlin with one-way ticket and no other motivation than to get drunk and how she realizes her desire. The obscurity of the past and future of the main character provides an absolute focus to the actions and appearances that takes place in films timeline. The character who does not speak throughout the film becomes a feminine dandy with her costume repertoire and a flâneuse with her movements that knows no limit. Through the behaviours of the main character who, together with the side characters almost becomes part of a travelling circus, the film assumes an identification as an aesthetic modernist reaction. In regards to how the film achieves this, within the scope of conceptual frame, desire and decadence comes to the fore. Desire, which is determinant with regards to triggering of the absurdity in the film, is in harmony with productivity and sociability that Deleuze and Guattari incorporated while conceptualizing the term. Whereas the outcomes of the act of drinking of the main character point to decadence. Decadence, which includes the denotations of addiction and downfall is in harmony with Paglia’s conceptualization of the term within the axis of art and sexuality. Aesthetic modernism’s opposition to bourgeois and capitalism, which are the common ground of desire and decadence, bestows the film with an exceptional importance.

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Despre ură și tipologia inadaptatului la Dostoievski și Salinger

Author(s): Călin-Horia Bârleanu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 13/2021

As part of the death drive, hate, so prevalent in world literature as the natural state of so many characters, has led the creative spirits, preoccupied invariably with metamorphosis and ascension, to produce genuine masterpieces. Whether malignant or benign (socially justified), hate, along with its many shapes and forms, generates attitudes which characterize a fundamental concept in Dostoevsky’s fiction, namely the antihero. Displaying typical features that are traceable throughout literature from the great Russian author on, the character dominated by hate withdraws from the world, thus fueling his alienation.

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Destruktivni uticaj posthumanističke semiotičke ideologije na akademiju kao arhetipni entitet

Author(s): Igor Ševo / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 36/2021

Aspects of human behavior usually ascribed to the modern age remained fundamentally inviolate during the past several hundred thousand years, but the globally accessible technology of the modern age creates a platform for the emergence of novel selection pressures on the human species, thereby allowing for modification of not only the genetic makeup of a human being, but its phenomenal experience. The globally accessible technology enables semiotic amplification and propagation of an implicit posthumanist ideology, threatening to alter the human being and its consciousness on a phenomenal level. In this paper, I derive an analytical argument that indicates an endangerment of the shared human phenomenal experience, exemplified by analyzing the endangerment of the academic ideal, under the premise of ethical and ontological relevance of phenomenal experiences.

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Dialektyka podmiotu. Tożsamość narracyjna w teorii Paula Ricoeura a psychoanalityczne koncepcje narcyzmu

Author(s): Agata Bielińska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 28/2019

The aim of this paper is to bear out the similarity between the model of subjectivity that emerges from Paul Ricoeur’s theory of narrative identity and the one implied in some of the psychoanalytic conceptions of narcissism. Presented are Ricoeur’s views on a dialectic relation between the narrative forming an individual’s identity and lived reality. In Ricoeur’s theory stories are entangled in pre-narrative life yet at the same time they do transform it by imbuing it with a meaning. The narrative so perceived turns into a defence mechanism protecting singularity against overwhelming reality, which development draws it to the psychoanalytical notion of narcissism. Selected conceptions of narcissism (Freud, Klein, Winnicott) are reviewed to indicate that narcissism, similarly as the narrative, is based on a dialectical relation between reflection and transformation, dependence and autonomy, incoherence and coherence. Presented are also Julia Kristeva’s views attributing an inherently narrative character to narcissism.

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