Zvuk samo jedne ruke

Author(s): Ante Jerić / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 2/2015

In the series of books, Catherine Malabou severely critiqued the psychoanalytic concept of causality. The aim of this paper is to present her critique, and subsequently to critique the critique itself. It seems there are two ways to do that: to put her critique under the strong critique that aspires to show how Malabou misses something crucial regarding the very foundations of psychoanalytic theory at the cost of rendering her virulent attack on psychoanalysis ineffective; or to put Malabou's critique under the weak critique that includes the revision of clinical cases which she uses as evidence in the carefully constructed case against psychoanalysis. The claim defended in this paper is that the weak critique of the critique, which refrains from examining the foundations of psychoanalytic edifice, can present a more serious challenge to Malabou's project than the strong critique. It can also point directly to the contemporary relevance of psychoanalysis. The paper takes two ideas from Malabou: the distortion of the psychic apparatus reveals the mechanisms of its functioning; the difference between the psychic wounds lies only in degree, and not in kind. It also follows Malabou steps by taking anosognosia as the paradigm of the psychic wound - the most exemplary of all cases of the psychic dysfunctioning and, at the same time, just one case among the others. After reassessing clinical studies which dealt with the diagnosis of anosognosia, paper ends with a conclusion that anosognosia does not display features which would contradict the presupposed foundations of psychoanalysis: the psychoanalytic model of causality should not be abandoned, but retained, expanded and upgraded.

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

Author(s): Rašid Durić / 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.

Odredište pisma: Derrida i Lacan

Author(s): Mario Kopić / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 2/2015

Odnos Jacquesa Derride prema Jacquesu Lacanu, kojega tumači prije svega na podlozi punog govora (parole pleine) iz njegova znamenitog rimskog referata održanog rujna 1953. godine pod nazivom Uloga i polje govora i jezika u psihoanalizi (Fonction et champ de la parole et du langage en psychanalyse), nadasve je u znamenju kritike.

Psychoanalyse und Literatur

Author(s): Lionel Trilling / Language(s): German Issue: 035/1951

The Distribution of Useful Frequencies in Polygraph Sensor Channels

Author(s): Bruce White / Language(s): English Issue: 4 (42)/2017

Purpose: to help other polygraph researchers better understand the distribution of energy across diff erent frequencies in the standard six polygraph channels in common use.Th e channels shown will be pneumo, electrodermal (Axciton), cardio cuff pressure, movement sensor, and infrared plethesmo (Axciton). In all cases we use a zero phase high pass filter with a fourth order roll off . Unless otherwise noted, all frequency traces are kept with a constant gain to show their relative energy or strength content.

SIGMUND FREUD’S AUTOBIOGRAPHY BETWEEN SELF-ANALYSIS AND FICTIONALIZATION

Author(s): Raluca Ghenţulescu / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2018

The aim of this article is to offer a new perspective on a highly debated, but insufficiently known subject: the relationship between the real person of the author and the persona reflected in their work. Even more than in the case of a work of fiction, this relationship is interesting to be analyzed in an autobiography, whose readers are not willing to sign the fictional pact, as they expect to find out the truth about the protagonist’s identity. Nevertheless, Sigmund Freud’s Autobiography, published in 1925 and reviewed and completed in 1935, hardly refers to the real person behind the name on its cover. Instead of providing information on the life of the ”father” of psychoanalysis, it focuses on the evolution of this discipline, which its founder identifies with. Therefore, it is not a proper autobiography, but the ”biography” of a science, whose author only creates for himself a fictionalized image, an Other onto which he projects his own ideals.

THE IRREPRESSIBLE OEDIPUS COMPLEX IN THE SEAGULL

Author(s): Özlem Sayar / Language(s): English Issue: 04/2018

“Freud’s theory on Oedipus Complex is a widely known and applied approach in literature. He analyzes the development of human psychology in stages and claims that at the early ages every child has sexual urges to the opposite sex parent. This is called Oedipus Complex and Freud supports and names his theory by applying Sophocles’ “Oedipus The King”. In Chekhov’s “The Seagull”, the density of Oedipus Complex is highly felt throughout the play because of the problematic relationship between Konstantin and Arkadina, his mother. Konstantin behaves as if he was still a child who needs his mother’s affection though he is in his twenties. In this context, the role of Arkadina cannot be underestimated as she has not helped her son to overcome this complex. This paper aims to analyze the development in Konstantin’s individuality and psychology according to Freud’s theory, Oedipus Complex, and it tries to find out if Konstantin overcomes this process or not.”

Comunicarea publică între informare și fake news în perioada pandemiei COVID-19

Author(s): Teodora TOMPEA / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2022

In the study presented, I continued to express views, opinions, analyses through which scientists, public institutions involved in the fight against COVID-19 make huge efforts to stop this scourge, to protect people in wave 4 and in the perspective of wave 5 of the pandemic. In my experience as a journalist at Digi 24 TV, I was confronted with the phenomenon of misinformation and anti-vaccination tendencies, conspiracy theories that flooded communication networks and platforms, and even the media. All of them constitute deontological challenges for any journalist.

За монографията на Стоил Мавродиев „Психоанализата в България до 40-те години на ХХ век“

Author(s): Velislava Chavdarova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2023

The review of the book "Psychoanalysis in Bulgaria until the 1940s" presents the historical-psychological research carried out by Assoc. Ph.D. Stoil Mavrodiev, dedicated to the genesis and development of the psychoanalytic movement in Bulgaria in the period of the 1920s –1940s, when it was its apogee. The author offers an analytical-interpretive, critical reading of the works of Bulgarian psychoanalytically oriented authors and reveals their contribution to pedagogy, sociology, philosophy, religion, literary studies, etc. The monograph is the first complete and detailed study of the Bulgarian psychoanalytic heritage.

Szophoklész, Freud és Robert Wilson

Author(s): Antal Bókay / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 3/2023

Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex is a classical, traditional work that received several important ‘post-dramatic’ reinterpretations. I will interpret two radical re-enactments which depart from traditional dramatic tradition. One was in Sigmund Freud’s oeuvre about the Oedipus complex. Freud sees psychoanalytic therapy as a kind of mise en scène, where therapy creates a theatrical situation and psychoanalysis is born out of the theatre. My connected example is Robert Wilson’s Oedipus Rex. I assume that Wilson is not primarily staging Sophocles’ Oedipus, but rather the Oedipus read (created) by Freud. Wilson’s performance of Oedipus is an unconscious narrative based on associative images, formless music, and a fragmented, disjointed text of the original drama, with a strong semiotic discursivity (in Kristeva’s sense), and a fading symbolic background.

L’interartialité, une forme de l’écriture diasporique dans L’éloge de la perte de Lynda-Nawel Tebbani

Author(s): Nezha Aït-Aïssa-Boukerdenna / Language(s): French Issue: 45/2023

The article discusses Lynda-Nawel Tebbani's book L’éloge de la perte and her unique approach to Algerian literature in French. Tebbani uses a hybrid language and an inter-artistic approach that infuses her text with Andalusian music. The book evokes a melancholic aesthetic and a poetics of three main cities: Paris, Algiers, and Constantine. The article aims to unveil this poetic of the city, linked to Andalusian music, that imbues the book with its originality and Algerianness, and the singular voice of the diaspora. The interdisciplinary and analytical approach draws on geocriticism, psychoanalysis, and Gaston Bachelard's poetics of space.

How are online and face-to-face psychotherapy perceived by clients? A metaphor analysis

Author(s): Tuğba Yılmaz,Ece Bekaroğlu / Language(s): English,Serbian Issue: 1/2024

Studies about online psychotherapy have gained momentum as the coronavirus pandemic has had an impact on conducting them face to face. The effectiveness and therapeutic alliance in online psychotherapy have been examined and sometimes compared with face-to-face psychotherapy. In these studies, it was seen that mainly quantitative methods were used. Exploratory qualitative research is needed to refine the literature on online psychotherapy. For this purpose, in this study, data obtained from clients who received face-to-face or online psychotherapy were analyzed using the metaphor analysis method, which is one of the descriptive phenomenological approaches. According to the data obtained from 116 people, nine different categories of metaphors related to online and face-to-face psychotherapy were obtained. The most frequent metaphors about online psychotherapy belonged to categories of convenience, artificiality, similarity to face-to-face psychotherapy, and ineffectiveness. The frequent metaphors about face-to-face psychotherapy belonged to categories of contact, effectiveness, reality, and difficulty. When the participants were divided into two groups according to their age, the opinions about online psychotherapy differed in the two age groups. Similarly, the opinions of people who received psychotherapy with different methods differed for the online psychotherapy. Clinical implications and limitations were discussed.

Psychoanalytic Readings in Troubled Times: Review of Camden Vera J., ed. The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Psychoanalysis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. ISBN 978-1-108-47748-2 Hardback, ISBN 978-1-108-73288-8 Paperback. 321 Pag

Author(s): Edward Waysband / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

This is a review article of Vera J. Camden’s edited Cambridge Companion to Literature and Psychoanalysis, which engages critically with the contributors’ main ideas and connects this volume with contemporary events.

The Labyrinth of Kristeva’s Modernisms: A Review of Maria Margaroni, ed. Understanding Kristeva, Understanding Modernism, New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. Hardback ISBN 978-1-5013-6235-4 Paperback ISBN 979-8-7651-0216-9, xx + 346 pages, 117 $ (h

Author(s): Darin Tenev / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

This is a review article of Maria Margaroni’s edited collection Understanding Kristeva, Understanding Modernism which engages critically with the contributors’ main ideas and connects this book with other contemporary scholarship in the field and discusses the ‘Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism’ Series of Bloomsbury Academic.

Interior Space Design for Psychotherapy Sessions

Author(s): Irina-Ana Drobot / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2023

The purpose of the present paper is to analyze the elements that can bring a state of well-being to the client in the setting of psychotherapy sessions. Every element has its own effect on the client; according to Davies (2018), for example, windows that allow the passage of sunlight could bring about a state of calm and relaxation; plants, as they are a part of nature, can also contribute to mental well-being; the way therapist and client sit is also meant to improve their relationship, and establish it on equal and friendly terms; colors should also be chosen to suggest a soothing atmosphere, and, to this purpose, greens and blues are recommended. Psychological and cultural perceptions of the psychotherapy space design will be considered, together with the recommendations of psychoanalysts such as Sigmund Freud. By examining past and present trends and recommendations, we could draw general conclusions about the psychotherapeutic relationship and the way it can be facilitated by space design.

Skóra, która czuje

Author(s): Jakub Momro / Language(s): Polish Issue: 31/2022

The text is an attempt to approach the problem of desire from three sides: dialectical-political, psychoanalytic and deconstructive. In each of these paradigms of reflection, subjects become effective when they act within the framework of practical self-knowledge, which takes various forms: intentional alienation, elaboration of contradictions inherent in living environments, knowledge arising from the immanent unconscious and from the body exposed to touch.

The counselling and psychotherapy room as a healer space

Author(s): Giselle Marie Cara / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2018

The counseling and psychotherapy room is perceived as an actual space in western society which seems likely that psychotherapy and counseling is fulfilling a need which was in the past met by other means. People in the community, family members, neighbors, friends, local doctors, and clergy, usually form emotional and social support systems for individuals. In this Literature review, I hope to establish the different aspects of this healing process. The first part of the Literature Review delineates the relationship between the concepts of extra-sensory perception and healing. Secondly, this review provides an overview of the importance of Self-knowledge as part study of the healing process in the counseling and psychotherapist room. Finally, in part three, a typological psychotic view of the subject will be given. This development shifts the field of scientific enquiries into a new period; one that is separated from the past by its recognition of the psychiatric, psychological and medical field which influence in a direct and indirect way the work carried out in the counseling room as a healing space.

METAFIZIKA NESVESNOG

Author(s): Nemanja Kanački / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 1/2009

This paper examines the problems with considering psychoanalysis as science, as seen from various philosophic aspects. The philosophy of the Vienna circle generally allows the conceptual framework of psychoanalysis, but requires that its ultimate justification be its success. Popper, however, rejects Freud’s theory as unscientific since it does not satisfy the falsifiability criterion. Wittgenstein on the other hand, contends that psychoanalysis can be fruitful as long as it is adequately understood – as an alternative manner of speaking about a specific class of psychological phenomena. Since its ultimate suppositions are not based in evidence, it should not be regarded as a literally true scientific theory.

Inteligencja emocjonalna a gotowość do podejmowania nieetycznych zachowań proorganizacyjnych (NZPO).

Author(s): Damian Grabowski,Rafał Kaznocha,Patrycja Stawiarska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 4/2024

Objective: The aim of the study was to establish the relationship between emotional intelligence (EI) considered as a trait and readiness to engage in unethical pro-organizational behavior (NZPO). This study was to fill the gap in the existing research on the relationship between emotional intelligence and NZPO. Method: The study covered 103 people working in companies throughout Poland. Emotional intelligence (EI) was examined using a questionnaire for diagnosing the level of EI developed by Borkowska et al. (2006). Readiness to engage in NZPO was measured using the Polish version of the scale of unethical pro-organizational behavior (Grabowski et al., 2019). Results: The study showed that there is a negative relationship between EI and NZPO. Mood regulation, perception of emotions and empathy, and emotional knowledge and insight are negatively related to readiness to engage in NZPO. Mood regulation and emotion perceptionand empathy also appear as predictors of reduced readiness to undertakeNZPO, which explain approximately 20% of NZPO.Conclusions: The research provided significant knowledge on the relationship between EI and NZPOin the group of Polish employees. It can be assumed that emotional intelligence (EI),and especially mood regulation and emotion perception and empathy, are factors reducing readiness to undertake NZPO.

Naracija u pesku: primena Jungovske terapije igrom u pesku u radu sa žrtvama traume

Author(s): Velimir Popović,Marijana Popović,Haris Bilalović / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 4/2017

Jungian Sandplay therapy has slowly shaped itself for the last 60 years within the traditional analytical frame of mind. It has mainly been used as a nonverbal method that complements the traditional Jungian / analytical process yet in recent times it has started to develop on its own terms as an autonomous therapeutic method. As such, nowadays it is used both as a technique supplementing Jungian analysis and as an independent analytical procedure that is used in therapy with children, adolescents and adult people, and as a diagnostic tool. Lately, sandplay is applied with trauma victims and survivors and the positive outcomes that it produces are corroborated by qualitative and quantitative surveys. In spite of the fact that many Jungians nowadays use it as reliable method for trauma survivors one can scarcely find articles which outline the theoretical basis of such an approach. Therefore, in this article we will introduce our (Jungian) theoretical footings upon which our therapeutic work with trauma victims is grounded. We assume our model could be used as a theoretical foundation as well as theoretical justification for a Jungian sandplay method when employed for trauma victims.