Psychoanalysis--the one that we are familiar with--started in the clinical field. Freud and Breuer made some strides in the treatment of hysteria using hypnosis. They put together a theory of psychopathology based on two basic notions: conflicts between acceptable and unacceptable impulses (ideas, desires, fantasies, etc.), and the repression of the unacceptable impulses causing the formation of symptoms. Under hypnosis, the patients were given the chance to abreact the repressed, and the therapeutic endeavor was to allow catharsis, hence the origin of the term -catharsis theory- regarding...
Psychoanalysis--the one that we are familiar with--started in the clinical field. Freud and Breuer made some strides in the treatment of hysteria usin...
In the last few decades consciousness has become a major topic of interest for neurologists, psychologists, and a host of other professionals in various disciplines. Their concerted efforts to define consciousness led them mostly to the same impasse: the leap from the body to the mind, or to the particular link that makes the mind an attribute of consciousness. In 1895 Freud put together a project for a Psychology for the Neurologists. It comprised the elements of a theory of consciousness as a manifestation of the continuous homeostatic pursuit of stability; an aconscious condition. Although...
In the last few decades consciousness has become a major topic of interest for neurologists, psychologists, and a host of other professionals in vario...
Freud s Other Theory of Psychoanalysis: The Replacement for the Indelible Theory of Catharsis argues that Freud s familiar theory of psychoanalysis is an elaboration of his catharsis theory. Although it changed from repression of painful memories to the repression sexuality, to repression of infantile sexuality, to repressing of the Id, it still remained structurally a theory of the repression of objectionable urges. Even in Freud s desperate attempt to replace it with a psychology of the ego, the repression of the objectionable urges, or the Id, remained the source of psychopathology. This...
Freud s Other Theory of Psychoanalysis: The Replacement for the Indelible Theory of Catharsis argues that Freud s familiar theory of psychoanalysis is...
Future Psychoanalysis educes a structural theory of psychoanalysis from its informative theory, linking it to the other structural theories of the humanities. It posits that the future theory of psychoanalysis will comprise a psychology of the human subject, allowing the field to have a more effective exchange with the other human sciences.
Future Psychoanalysis educes a structural theory of psychoanalysis from its informative theory, linking it to the other structural theories of the hu...
