Henrik Enckell

University of Jyväskylä | JYU · Department of Psychology

Psychoanalysts try to facilitate their patients’ grasp and understanding of themselves. Since the mid-19th century, we have two conceptions of understanding. In one tradition, we need to suspect presented pictures and try to get “behind” facades in order to grasp the “true” self. In this tradition we get a hold of ourselves if we look for the origi...

Vaikka eri psykoterapiasuuntaukset pyrkivät kaikki yhteisenä tavoitteenaan potilaan itsehavainnoin- nin muutokseen, on itseanalyysiä pidetty yhtenä psykoanalyysille erityisenä tavoitteena. Itseanalyyt- tisen työn avulla psykoanalyyttinen prosessi voi jatkua terapian päättymisen jälkeen. Huolimatta tästä keskeisyydestä läpi eri psykoanalyyttisten ko...

This case study adresses the multiple meanings of a moment of strong non-verbal and bodily expression within a course of psychoanalytic psychotherapy. One therapy session was video-recorded in the private practice of the therapist-researcher. In selecting important moments for qualitative analysis, two criteria were used: 1) the moment included int...

Freud was conflicted in relation to his religious background. On the one hand, he was very clear on his adherence to a scientific Weltanschauung. On the other, he was fascinated by the Moses figure and one may see a Judaist structure in his way of thinking. The aim of this paper is to reflect on this conflict and the question of faith in psychoanal...

In Jewish thought, contradictory positions may be legitimate. This is seen in Freud´s position in relation to tradition and memory: remembrance is valuable, but so is a movement forward. The main claim of this paper is that psychoanalysis in this respect has changed. While in especially the early Freudian position, one could see a stress on the imp...

Many authors have shown that Freud, irrespective of his own claims, was influenced by his Jewish background, and that this background forms part of his scientific contribution. Today, many psychoanalysts say that we have parted from many of Freud´s basic assumptions, and that contemporary psychoanalytic theory is based on empirical evidence. One ma...

Psychoanalysis is an art of reflection, i.e. it tries to facilitate the subject's retrieval of his own self. The 'material' to be reflected upon consists of the products of human symbolization. But there are two views of reflection. In one, the self is searched in a temporal, structural and procedural 'anterior' (the model of archaeology). In the o...

During the last two decades, the self-image of psychoanalysis has changed. This paper suggests that Paul Ricoeur's model of reflection may be used to put these changes into focus. According to Ricoeur, we may look for the subject in an archaeological look backward, or in a teleology reaching forward. The aim of this paper is to put psychoanalytic m...

During the treatment of violent individuals who were, incidentally, highly verbal, the authors noticed that physical assaults were often preceded by the perpetrator' s use of metaphors. It was observed that the linguistic metaphors failed to function as ordinary 'as if' devices and became 'concretised'. When this occurred, the perpetrators resorted...

This study is an attempt to provide a uniform model for how the phenomenon and conditions of emotions can be understood within psychoanalysis. Emotions will be considered from three angles: drive, representation and perception. First, Freud's early drive theory will be reviewed. According to this theory, somatic demands seek a place in the world of...

In this paper, the history of the The Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review is described by three of its chief editors. The background and the founding of the journal is first described. This is followed by a description of the editorial policies of the different periods, including special occasions and problems as well as descriptions of the result o...

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This paper discusses the psychotherapy of a latency boy who suffered from a progressive visual impairment. It first describes some of the problems blind and visually impaired children meet in their development: (1) difficulty in constituting objects, (2) as this is accomplished, difficulty in separation, (3) the need to establish concrete contact w...

This paper investigates the structure and function of transference through the theory of metaphor. Transference is described as a manner of experiencing—and relating to—the analyst, manifesting an unconscious fantasy. The unconscious fantasy may be seen as a specific pattern of action, and the transference relationship as a step in the actualizatio...