Psychoanalysis
74 essays from the archive on psychoanalysis.
Arturo Varchevker explains why we are all migrants from birth to death
Migration and its vicissitudes The life cycle is an important framework that has been used and can be used by different theoretical perspectives and from
Read the essayAnnie Reiner explores Bion’s concept of “O”
Bion and Being: Passion and the Creative Mind The central focus of my new book, Bion And Being: Passion and the Creative Mind, is Wilfred Bion’s concept o
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Brent Potter, author of Elements of Self Destruction, engages with the works of Wilfred Bion and Martin Heidegger to explore the sometimes horrifying manif
Read the essayDavid Rosenfeld explores the origins of symbols and the logic of thought through the study of autism
The Creation of the Self and Language I consider that the treatment of an autistic child is an opportunity to observe and investigate the origins of verba
Read the essayRaul Moncayo explores the relationship between Zen and Lacanian psychoanalysis
The Signifier Pointing at the Moon: Psychoanalysis and Zen Buddhism I wrote this book to help clarify some misconceptions about Zen and psychoanalysis and
Read the essayTom Ormay’s theory of the fundamental social nature of all human beings
The Social Nature of Persons: One Person is No Person By presenting a series of interconnected studies, effort is made to approach timely questions regard
Read the essayEran J. Rolnik discusses Psychoanalysis and the Making of Modern Jewish Identity
Freud in Zion: Psychoanalysis and the Making of Modern Jewish Identity Few episodes in the history of psychoanalysis are as densely packed with trans-cult
Read the essayDeirdre Johnson explores love as both a form of bondage and liberation
Love: Bondage or Liberation? The Meaning, Values, and Dangers of Falling in Love In the history of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy as we know, falling in
Read the essayPaul Marcus explains the art of living the Good Life
Creating the ‘Good Life’ In my most recent book Creating Heaven on Earth: The Psychology of Experiencing Immortality in Everyday Life, I asked the questio
Read the essayMichael Eigen explores the links between ‘soul sickness’, madness, and mystical experience
Eigen in Seoul: Volume One – Madness and Murder Many years ago a man came up to me after a talk at the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalys
Read the essayJames Rose asks: can we be objective about subjectivity?
Mapping Psychic Reality: Triangulation, Communication, and Insight This book arose out of the convergence in my mind of two strands of thought. The first
Read the essayThomas Dalzell argues for a rapprochement between psychoanalysis and psychiatry in his compelling study of Freud’s Schreber
Freud’s Schreber: Between Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis This book is not another general exploration of Freud’s 1911 Schreber text or yet another account
Read the essayIn the run
On Psychoanalysis and the Politics of Representation Thinking psychoanalytically about a phenomenon involves conceiving of it in a way that takes account
Read the essaySalomon Resnik on the Importance of Ludic Transference
Confessions of a psychoanalyst who has not forgotten how to play There I was, walking along the streets of Buenos Aires in the early 1950s, when I ran int
Read the essayW.M. Bernstein explains why it is impossible to reduce psychology to biology
Objective Subjectivity: A Basic Theory of Neuropsychoanalysis Freud’s ideas about the mind, evolution, and culture were revolutionary. Psychoanalytic theo
Read the essayJacqueline Schaeffer re
The Universal Refusal: A Psychoanalytic Exploration of the Feminine Sphere and its Repudiation Faced with the difficulties and setbacks that he was encoun
Read the essayLeticia Franieck and Michael Günter: On Latency
On Latency: Individual Development, Narcissistic Impulse, Reminiscence, and Cultural Ideal In psychoanalytical terms latency is defined as a developmental
Read the essayPsychoanalyst and playwright Antonio Quinet discusses the origins of his play about Freud
Hilda and Freud: Collected Words Antonio Quinet in the performance of the play (Freud Museum, 2013) This is a play on Hilda Doolittle’s analysis with Fre
Read the essayMeg Harris Williams reveals the true story of Oedipus
Suffering into Truth: The Achievement of Oedipus Given that the story of Oedipus is foundational to psychoanalytic thinking it is surprising that there ha
Read the essayKabbalah and Sigmund Freud: Joseph Berke uncovers The Hidden Freud
The Covert Freud and the Lights He Lit on Western Culture There were many Freuds: the scholar, the academic, the researcher, the neurologist, the founder
Read the essayLove, Art, and Psychoanalysis: Janet Sayers explores ‘at-one
The Interpretation of the Other: An Analysis of Love ‘Oh, yes, I’ve been in love before alright but though violently not to a hundredth this degree. For I
Read the essayAnalysis of the Incest Trauma, by Arnold W. Rachman and Susan A. Klett
Retrieval, Recovery, and Renewal “What have we done to you – poor child?”- Sigmund Freud (1897) There is an important irony in psychoanalysis that our bo
Read the essayRonald Britton discusses his new book ‘Between Mind and Brain’
Models of the Mind, and Models in the Mind “In every writer on philosophy there is a concealed metaphysic, usually unconscious; even if his subject is met
Read the essayFreud and the Buddha: Axel Hoffer on what Psychoanalysis and Buddhism can learn from each other
The Couch and the Cushion My book, Freud and the Buddha: the Couch and the Cushion, aims to explore what two traditions dedicated to the alleviation of hu
Read the essayFreud and the Buddha: Alex Hoffer on what Psychoanalysis and Buddhism can learn from each other
The Couch and the Cushion My book, Freud and the Buddha: the Couch and the Cushion, is a unique contribution to the subject of what two traditions dedicat
Read the essayThe Courage of Simplicity: Hanni Biran explores the central ideas in the work of W.R. Bion
Psychoanalytic thinking through three prisms: person, group, and society The chapters of this book were written throughout a period of many years. The ide
Read the essay‘Invisible Mending: A Novel’, by Guillermo Julio Montero
‘Always’ is a beautiful word This is a film made with the sentences and the plot of the novel Invisible Mending by Argentine psychoanalyst and novelist Gu
Read the essayThe Vicissitudes of Totemism: Gérard Lucas explains how our changing view of totemism reflects our own cultural markings
One hundred years after Totem and Taboo Although it was the object of numerous publications by ethnologists from the mid-nineteenth century up to the Firs
Read the essayImage, Sense, Infinities, and Everyday Life : Acts of Shared Faith, by Michael Eigen
‘On the seashore of endless worlds, children play’ I have been fascinated by images ever since I can remember. How embarrassing for my mother, proudly int
Read the essayThe Oedipus Complex: Solutions or Resolutions?, by Rhona M. Fear
How our attachment experiences determine our response to unresolved oedipal issues I always think it is fascinating to discover what makes a particular au
Read the essayThe Topological Transformation of Freud’s Theory, by Jean
The Future of Psychoanalysis Today in the Babelisation and disorder of the psychoanalytic movement, the Lacanian theory constitutes the open reformulation
Read the essayThe Motive for Metaphor: Brief Essays on Poetry and Psychoanalysis, by Henry M. Seiden
How the poetic and psychoanalytic processes illuminate each other The Motive for Metaphor can be thought of as a small anthology: each chapter a kind of m
Read the essayFilming Bion’s ‘A Memoir of the Future’, by Meg Harris Williams
The Becoming Room This book, whose writing spans 33 years, records a series of experiments in dramatizing Bion’s A Memoir of the Future. The main project
Read the essayMadness Dispersed or Disseminated: A re
Madness in a Maddening World Psychosis can be seen as the sign or symptom of disturbances within our present cultural situation in the world. For a signif
Read the essayThe Hands of Gravity and Chance, by Thomas H. Ogden
Take a Chance, Read a Novel The Hands of Gravity and Chance is about the interior life of the members of a family, as well as the interior life of the fam
Read the essayFreud and War, by Marlène Belilos
Thoughts for the Times on War and Death War is obviously still a core issue for us today – just as it was for Freud, as Eugenie Lemoine-Luccioni observes
Read the essayEthics of Evil: Psychoanalytic Investigations, by Ronald C. Naso and Jon Mills
Moralizing Evil Are we headed toward human extinction? All inhabited continents are engaged in military conflict, and there is no foreseeable end in sight
Read the essayA Forgotten Freudian: The Passion of Karl Stern, by Daniel Burston
The Pillar of Fire: Psychoanalysis and Religion Ever since my undergraduate days, I’ve been interested in the relationship between psychoanalysis and reli
Read the essayThe Scientific Status of Psychoanalysis, by Pushpa Misra
Testing Freud: Evidence and Confirmation It was 1986 and I was taking a course with Henry Kyburg, Jr at the University of Rochester where I was enrolled t
Read the essayMaking Room for Madness in Mental Health, by Marcus Evans
The Psychoanalytic Understanding of Psychotic Communication In her foreword of my book, Edna O’Shaughnessy says ‘that the psychoanalytic method does not k
Read the essayThe Wisdom of Lived Experience, by Maxine K. Anderson
How the ongoing dialogue between the left and right hemispheres constitutes our mental reality My book The Wisdom of Lived Experience explores various asp
Read the essayUnder the Totem: In Search of a Path, by Michael Eigen
The further we go, the more there is to go Totem conveys spirit, a sense of the sacred. Freud attempted to get under the totem and explore psychic forces
Read the essayMabel Dodge Luhan, A. A. Brill, and the Psychoanalytic Adventure in America, by Patricia R. Everett
Corresponding Lives: Mabel Dodge Luhan’s letters to A.A. Brill, the first American psychoanalyst Mabel Dodge Sterne in Taos (c. 1918) and A. A. Brill (c.
Read the essayPsychoanalysis in South Africa, by Joan Raphael
How Psychoanalysis is Taking Root in South Africa The history of psychoanalysis in South Africa is a story of tenaciousness. It began after Wulf Sachs emi
Read the essayPsychoanalysis, Identity and the Internet, by Andrea Marzi
Explorations into Cyberspace Every day on the internet we look for information, play videogames, chat, work, or buy something. But what exactly is the nat
Read the essayCritical Flicker Fusion: Psychoanalysis at the Movies, by William Fried
Publishing a Book About Psychoanalysis and Movies I have been a psychoanalyst for about 45 years, and a writer all of my life. Conducted seriously, both p
Read the essayThe Future of Psychoanalysis, by Peter Zagermann
The Debate about the Training Analyst System The Future of Psychoanalysis is a call to action with the aim of reaching a fundamental discussion within our
Read the essayWhat To Do If the Mind Does Not Develop, by Roberto Bertolini
A Psychoanalytic Study of Pervasive Developmental Disorders What To Do If the Mind Does Not Develop is a psychoanalytic study of pervasive developmental d
Read the essayThe Political Self: Understanding the Social Context for Mental Illness, by Rod Tweedy
How Society Shapes Who We Are The Political Self explores how our social and economic contexts profoundly affect our mental health and well-being, and how
Read the essaySports on the Couch, by Ricardo A. Rubinstein
How the Psychological and the Somatic Interact and Play Off Each Other This book explores how we think about and understand sport from the perspective of
Read the essayPsychoanalysis, the NHS, and Mental Health Work Today, by Alison Vaspe
Is there a way of promoting or instituting better integrated services? This March will see the publication of a timely and significant book illustrating t
Read the essayIsmond Rosen
Pioneer in the synthesis of art and science ‘Civilization’ by Ismond Rosen Ismond Rosen (1924–1996) artist, psychoanalyst, and psychiatrist, created a va
Read the essayJanet Sayers
Barbara Hepworth, Adrian Stokes, and Melanie Klein Barbara Hepworth was keen on carving. So was her close friend, Adrian Stokes, who, unlike Hepworth, was
Read the essayMeg Harris Williams
Art and aesthetic conflict ‘Couple by Candlelight’ by Meg Harris Williams These days the arts are no longer seen merely as neurotic material to be interp
Read the essayHarry Karnac
HARRY KARNAC (1919-2014): ‘The Prince of Psychological Bookselling’ by Professor Brett Kahr On Friday, 4th April, 2014, at approximately 2.00 a.m., Harry
Read the essayThe Social Nature of Persons: One Person is No Person
In the present work I intend to give the basic ideas to a theory of „nos”, and not an exhaustive presentation of the whole topic. The latter would be the t
Read the essayFreud In Zion: Psychoanalysis and the Making of Modern Jewish Identity
Few episodes in the history of psychoanalysis are as densely packed with trans-cultural, ideological, institutional and ethical issues as the arrival of ps
Read the essayBion and Being: Passion and the Creative Mind
The central focus of my new book, Bion And Being: Passion and the Creative Mind, is Wilfred Bion’s concept of O. It is the most mysterious and controversia
Read the essayThe Creation of the Self and Language
I consider that the treatment of an autistic child is an opportunity to observe and investigate the origins of verbal symbols and the creation of language,
Read the essayThe Signifier Pointing at the Moon: Psychoanalysis and Zen Buddhism
I wrote this book to help clarify some misconceptions about Zen and psychoanalysis and particularly to explore the relationship between Zen and Lacanian ps
Read the essayImpediments to the marriage of two minds — Karnacology
Fiona Ross, author of Perversion: a Jungian Approach, presents the unthought and unanswered transferential questions posed when an analyst's unconscious en
Read the essayThe sound of Sigmund Freud — Karnacology
This is the only known audio recording of Sigmund Freud, made by the BBC and broadcast in December, 1938. Freud was ill with throat cancer at the time. A t
Read the essayA demented beehive — Karnacology
Early in my career during the 1990s, I recall occasionally looking up from my discussion with a so-called chronically mentally ill patient to look around t
Read the essayThe intersubjective infant — Karnacology
This implicit, embodied knowledge forms the basis of infant object relationships, which later become accessible in the transference of patients undergoing
Read the essayMigration and its vicissitudes — Karnacology
The life cycle is an important framework that has been used and can be used by different theoretical perspectives and from various disciplines. The concept
Read the essayBRETT KAHR and ILONKA VENIER ALEXANDER
Professor Brett Kahr interviews Ilonka Venier Alexander, the granddaughter of Sigmund Freud’s pupil Franz Alexander, exclusively for Karnacology Franz Gab
Read the essayERNST FALZEDER and BRETT KAHR
INTERVIEW WITH Dr. ERNST FALZEDER by Professor Brett Kahr To mark the publication of Psychoanalytic Filiations: Mapping the Psychoanalytic Movement, Karn
Read the essayBrett Kahr and PETER RUDNYTSKY
Professor Peter Rudnytsky, the distinguished psychoanalytical historian and author, and Honorary Member of the American Psychoanalytic Association, has pub
Read the essayAdam Phillips
Adam Phillips/RSA Interview: Psychoanalysis: Is it Worth It? Adam Phillips, one of Britain’s most renowned psychoanalysts and literary figures, joined RSA
Read the essayDarian Leader
Darian Leader on the Marketing of Depression Darian Leader is a British psychoanalyst and author who studied philosophy in Cambridge and then history of s
Read the essayChristopher Bollas
Christopher Bollas on the Enigma of Schizophrenia Christopher Bollas is a member of the British Psychoanalytical Society, the Los Angeles Institute and So
Read the essayFreud: audio recording
Sigmund Freud on the BBC – 1938: On December 7, 1938, the BBC came to Freud’s Maresfield Gardens home in London to record a short message. By this time hi
Read the essayLacan: Seminar recording (1972)
This footage is from an extremely rare recording of Lacan giving a lecture at Louvain University on 13th Octover 1972. As Sheerly Avni notes, the film is n
Read the essayThe Freud
‘Why War?’: The Freud-Einstein Letters To coincide with the launch of the Freud Museum’s landmark exhibition ‘Why War?‘ Karnacology is reprinting the lett
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