Francisco Pizarro Obaid

• Doctor
• Managing Director at Diego Portales University

Hugo Correa's work now enjoys wide recognition, both national international, and is considered a milestone in the development of Chilean science fiction. In addition to his celebrated novel Los altísimos, his collection of short stories Los títeres has also attracted significant interest for the way in which it addresses the effects progress and in...

This article seeks to illustrate the theoretical and literary relationship that Hugo Correa sustained with the universe of UFOs and extraterrestrial phenomena throughout his career. From the revision of his works related to the alien phenom ena, it is possible to verify the presence of ufological theories and traditional science fiction topics, but...

Resumen El artículo tiene por objetivo realizar una historia crítica del auge de tres categorías diagnósticas: la neurastenia (fin del siglo XIX), la neurosis (primera mitad del siglo XX) y la depresión (segunda mitad del siglo XX hasta nuestros días). La hipótesis es que su amplia difusión se explicaría debido al vínculo que ellas han tenido con l...

Princess Marie Bonaparte is an important figure in the history of psychoanalysis, remembered for her crucial role in arranging Freud's escape to safety in London from Nazi Vienna, in 1938. This paper connects us to Bonaparte's work on Poe's short stories. Founded on concepts of Freudian theory and an exhaustive review of the biographical facts, Mar...

Este artículo propone criticar la distopía ecológica y la noción de Antropoceno a partir del psicoanálisis y hacer una lectura crítica del lazo entre psicoanálisis y antropocentrismo judeocristiano. Se argumenta que la distopía ecológica es un ensamblaje de datos científicos, neoliberalismo punitivo y antropocentrismo judeocristiano. Se analiza la...

This article critically examines the emergence and uses of digital phenotyping in contemporary psychiatry. From an analysis of its discourses and practices, we show that digital phenotyping diffusion is directly related to its promise to solve some of the major impasses of the so-called "neuro-turn" in contemporary psychiatry. However, more than a...

Freud’s theorising about anxiety has traditionally been based on its nosographical categories (anxiety neurosis, anxiety hysteria) or on the relationship between anxiety and repression (first and second theories of anxiety). While these types of approach have made it possible to identify some milestones in the development of the concept of anxiety,...

The works of Hugo Correa, María Elena Aldunate and Antonio Montero have been recognized as crucial contributions in the development of Chilean Science Fiction, giving rise to the so-called “Golden Age” of the genre (1959-1973). Despite that their novels and stories problematize the sociocultural transformations of their time, their writings also in...

Desde fines del siglo XX los estudios académicos y los especialistas en ciencia ficción emprendieron un renovado estudio de la ciencia ficción chilena, destacando el crucial aporte de Hugo Correa al desarrollo del género. Sin embargo, en aquel itinerario fueron escasamente explorados los obstáculos literarios y editoriales que debió sortear Correa...

Desde la incorporación del trastorno depresivo mayor en el Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III) de 1980, hasta su actualización en el DSM-IV-TR, el sistema clasificatorio DSM consideró necesario incluir el criterio de “exclusión por duelo”, con el objetivo de diferenciar la tristeza normal, vinculada a una pérdida, de un...

El presente artículo expone y analiza las reflexiones que sostuvieron Freud y Ferenczi durante el proceso de creación de la primera cátedra de psicoanálisis en la Universidad de Budapest. A partir de estos elementos, se destacará que no fueron sólo diferencias teóricas o profesionales las que marcaron la relación conflictiva entre el psicoanálisis...

O presente trabalho propõe revisitar os fundamentos histórico-conceituais do componente canibalesco associado à concepção freudiana da oralidade, com o fim de interrogar suas hipóteses regentes e analisar sua possível contribuição para a compreensão dos transtornos alimentares. Em primeiro lugar, se interrogará a origem histórica do termo canibal....

The value and function of self-analysis has been a contentious issue in several studies dedicated to the Freudian legacy. For some writers, Freud's experience of self-analysis is rightly considered to be the master key to an understanding of the origins of the fundamentals of psychoanalysis. For others, the exaggerated importance attributed to the...

The category of anxiety neurosis was the first nosographic innovation that Freud (1895) introduced in the psychopathological field of his time. By its conceptualization, the anguish will be redefined as a crucial problem in the dominion of the neurosis, and the sexual factor will be considered as the central element of its etiology. Nevertheless, t...

In the analysis of the psychic effects of birth, Rank concluded that the separation of the womb should be considered a traumatic event, from which, not only neurosis, but also humanization in general, could be explained. What appeared to be a new contribution to the psychoanalytic cause would finally be a challenge to Freudian assumptions that defi...

In the analysis of the psychic effects of birth, Rank concluded that the separation of the womb should be considered a traumatic event, from which, not only neurosis, but also humanization in general, could be explained. What appeared to be a new contribution to the psychoanalytic cause would finally be a challenge to Freudian assumptions that defi...

The publication of Otto Rank's The Trauma of Birth (1924) gave rise to an intense debate within the secret Committee and confronted Freud with one of his most beloved disciples. After analyzing the letters that the Professor exchanged with his closest collaborators and reviewing the works he published during this period, it is clear that anxiety wa...

This article examines Freud's critique of the category of neurasthenia as proposed by George Beard. First, it presents Beard's hypotheses that associate nervousness, modern civilization and neurasthenia. It then identifies Freud's concept of nervousness as applied to the category of anxiety neurosis. In refuting Beard's postulates, Freud not only m...

El sigio XIX dio lugar a nuevas formas de subjetividad metropolitana que tuvieron en el cuento "El hombre de la multitud", de Edgar Allan Poe, un tratamiento excepcional. Es innegable la relevancia de este relato al interior de su obra, así corno su aporte al desarrollo del género narrativo. Sin embargo, el cuento de Poe puede ser considerado, a su...

The 19th century gave rise to new forms of metropolitan subjectivity with an exceptional treatment in EdgarAllan Poe's tale "TheMan of the Crowd". The relevance of this short story into his work is undeniable, as well as its contribution to the development of the narrative genre. However, Poe's story can be considered as a source of considerable in...

In difference to some fundamental categories that run over the history of psychopathology, the incorporation of the anguish to the nosographic frame of the psychiatry will occur in a tardy manner, in spite of its clinic relevance, starting its redefinition, during the second half of the XIX century. The present work will identify problems related t...

The problem of nervousness has a significant role to play in the construction of several of Edgar Allan Poe's short stories and shows the influence on his work of the gradual transformation of this concept in the field of psychopathology in Europe and North America during the nineteenth century. An analysis of these references raises questions not...

The problem of nervousness has a significant role to play in the construction of several of Edgar Allan Poe's short stories and shows the influence on his work of the gradual transformation of this concept in the field of psychopathology in Europe and North AAmerica during the nineteenth century. AAn analysis of these references raises questions no...