Psychoanalysis - Science topic

This article proposes to develop an analysis of the behavior displayed by members of international terrorist networks, in particular those of an Islamic extremist nature, from the perspective of psychoanalytic doctrine. Based on what is known about the psyche of Islamic radicals, he defends the hypothesis of a traumatic childhood added to manipulat...

The paper is devoted to the study of archetypal images in the genre of literary fairy tales. Any author's work has a certain set of archetypal images that have their own special national meaning. Each image has its own specific functions that embody artistic, emotional, psychological, social and philosophical tasks. These tasks form the author's fi...

Humayun Ahmed is a prominent author from Bangladesh, widely read for his ability to blend surrealism within the boundaries of middle-class families in Asian households. Nondito Noroke (In Blissful Hell), was the first-ever work of the author published in the 1970s. The plot revolves around a lower-middle-class family struggling to make ends meet. R...

This is a response to my article concerning the impact of the European Holocaust upon the mostly Jewish leaders and fellow travellers in 20th century psychoanalysis. Both my comments, as well as the comments of Rachael Mckays, who is also a distinguished psychoanalyst, are enclosed.

This study aims to analyse psychoanalysis as a basic component of Leo Löwenthal's critical theory. It focuses on the configuration of subjectivity within late capitalism. Bearing in mind Löwenthal's idea that the culture industry is psychoanalysis in reverse, it also explores the actuality of some problematic components of the sociability that the...

This study examines the hitherto unexplained phenomenon of seemingly random and unpredictable fluctuations in the contemporary art market’s valuation of artworks, which has only been exacerbated by the recent rapid rise (and subsequent fast fall) of the value of non-fungible tokens (NFTs). This study aims to provide a novel explanation for this phe...

This research aims to analyze the connection between childhood trauma and the behavior of one of the characters, Janie, in The Perfect Child novel by Lucinda Berry. This study employed a qualitative method and used Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis theory to obtain a deeper understanding, particularly the defense mechanisms and the tripartite model (i...

Ideology, a central concept in the social sciences introduced by Marx, links thought to social activity. Although it was initially consolidated in Marxism, it was questioned by the Frankfurt School in the 1930s due to the distance between expectations of emancipation and reality. Slavoj Žižek, in “The Sublime Object of Ideology,” argues for the rel...

Résumé français (English version see below) : La contribution a pour but de montrer que le séjour à Paris du jeune Gottfried Semper, ainsi que son Grand Tour, sont à considérer comme un double mouvement dans l’espace et le temps : espace extérieur et espace intérieur. En ce qui concerne le mouvement dans la temporalité, nous constatons que ces mou...

In this paper, I investigate my experience coaching extremely normal clients in a leading professional services firm. I contextualize my experience with insights from philosophical and psychoanalytic writing on normalcy, contrasting a contemptuous view of normalcy in the writings of Nietzsche and de Boton with a more compassionate understanding of...

In Iris Murdoch’s novels, characters often search for a sense of purpose in life by attaching themselves to figures of authority. Two prominent powerful figures in her fiction are the characters of the psychoanalyst and the Buddhist. This study examines the way Murdoch has used the mythical trickster figure to highlight the opposing characteristics...

This article is about the connection between envy and ressentiment. Both are understood as emotional strategies for dealing with desire. Ressentiment is understood as the perpetuation and radicalization of a strong form of envy. Lacan’s mirror stage as well as Nietzsche’s and Scheler’s theories of ressentiment serve as a frame of reference for the...

This review commentary offers reflections on some of the key themes of Douglas Torgerson’s refreshing, perceptive and timely study of the work of Harold Lasswell, The Policy Sciences of Harold Lasswell: Contextual Orientation and the Critical Dimension. The commentary attempts to connect those themes to our present with the aim of making a very sma...

Abstract: Joseph Conrad is celebrated for his profound portrayals of postcolonial experiences. His Heart of Darkness reveals how the power dynamics shape the perceptions of enlightenment. This research sheds lights on the binary oppositions inherent in British colonialism which erodes the established norms and enlightening ideals. Colonialism has...

Nowadays, the problem of adolescent anxiety has become a common social phenomenon, and it is also a hot topic of social concern. Some researchers have found that parenting style and excessive academic pressure have a significant impact on adolescent anxiety, but the underlying mechanism and influence range are still lacking a unified explanation. T...

O luto, para a psicanálise, é um processo que marca um sofrimento pela perda de um objeto investido de afeto. A vivência deste luto pode ocorrer a partir de uma perda concreta, como a morte, ou de uma perda simbólica, de grande representação e significação para o sujeito. Neste sentido, os objetivos deste trabalho são apresentar as contribuições te...

Gender roles and their representation in literature have long been subjects of critical examination, particularly in the context of African societies where cultural norms deeply influence societal structures and individual identities. In African drama, the depiction of male and female characters often mirrors traditional gender expectations, which...

In this article, situating myself in the context of Mexico and Central America, I critically reflect on psychoanalysis in relation to coloniality, cultural intercourse, native peoples, their ancestral knowledge, and their conceptions of subjectivity. I highlight the cohabitation of psychoanalysts and traditional healers in the Mesoamerican context....

This text offers a summary of experiences in multidisciplinary supervision with workers of public health and social care networks in Brazil. Based on the contributions of diagnostic reasoning offered by clinical knowledge and listening as a central element in a psychoanalytically oriented work, a space for supervision was proposed for workers in mu...

Based on the psychoanalytic clinical experience in a quilombo in Brazil, we propose the thesis, shared by countercolonial intellectuals, that the unconscious heir to colonisation processes has a specific form of defence: the crypt. As a drive intensity not printed in the mother language of jouissance, the crypt remains untranslated in the linguisti...

Starting from a dialogue between Amerindian perspectivism and psychoanalysis—more specifically, concerning the conceptual pair nature and culture—the goal of this article is to outline a notion of cultural experience in psychoanalysis and highlight its consequences for the psychoanalytic clinic. In order to do that, we investigate the notions of na...

This paper explores the notion of presence pedagogy in the private higher education sector, drawing on contributions from social constructivism and psychoanalysis, specifically the concept of affective containment. Higher education is a space that, by its nature, invokes feelings of defensiveness, uncertainty, weakness and anxiety in students, who...

This article proposes an approach between psychoanalysis and decolonial thinking to reflect upon the psychic effects of the process of banning the use and subsequent extinction of the mother languages of original and diasporic peoples in places marked by assimilationist colonisation policies and possible resistance strategies, given this specific t...

In a short yet dense section of Black Skin White Masks, Frantz Fanon tackles an unexpected topic, namely that of how, within colonial contexts, white subjects might enjoy or fantasize scenes involving their own humiliation or debasement by those they have colonized. These pages make an important contribution to psychoanalytic engagements with the p...

During the last decade, we can observe rising support for right-wing leaders who produce a discourse of semblance of strength. These leaders, the new masters of politics, concentrate on the performance of political charisma and manifest a disregard for the norms of the contemporary public sphere. Using Jacques Lacan’s theory of discourses, this art...

Gaining insight is often considered to be the specific mechanism that leads to change in psychoanalytic therapy. By returning to Freud’s seminal paper on remembering, repeating, and working through and his neurological model of the mind, we develop the role of representational and non-representational processes in psychoanalytic therapy. Freud argu...

This study presents an interdisciplinary analysis of Márcia Denser's work Diana the Huntress, focusing on the complex dynamics between desire and guilt that permeate the protagonist's journey. Utilising Freudian concepts of Eros and Thanatos, the Oedipus complex, and the compulsion to repeat, the research interprets Diana's self-destructive behavio...

Studying the contribution of interactivity and immersiveness of multimedia technology-based exhibitions to aesthetic experience (AE) is of particular interest due to the increasing digitalization of the art sphere and young people’s preference for new media art. The lack of comprehensive research on how personality traits contribute to AE and how A...

Aesthetic experience is the result of the process of passing several stages, each of which is accompanied by an emotional evaluating: perceptual analysis of the work of art, further integration of the results of analysis with the implicit memory of the viewer, explicit classification of the work, its semantic interpretation, and at the final stage...

A key theme in Lacanian psychoanalysis is the disappearance of the subject, through aphanisis. Aphanisis was a term used in psychoanalysis to refer to the fading of the sexual desire of the subject. The term was coined by Ernest Jones in 1927, and was seen as the foundation of all neuroses. Since Jacques Lacan set desire within the realm of languag...

This study presents an interdisciplinary analysis of Márcia Denser's work Diana the Huntress, focusing on the complex dynamics between desire and guilt that permeate the protagonist's journey. Utilising Freudian concepts of Eros and Thanatos, the Oedipus complex, and the compulsion to repeat, the research interprets Diana's self-destructive behavio...

Background Recently, attention has been paid to how rehabilitation not only provides medical treatment and instrumental skills but also impacts psychological well-being and identity. We all have psychological structures that discipline the self, enforcing norms internalised during early life and exacting judgments when we fail to ‘make the grade’....

Las creencias en seres inmateriales o espirituales que operan como agentes externos para alterar el curso de los acontecimientos e influenciar el comportamiento humano son muy arcaicas y hunden sus raíces en la historia pre civilizada de nuestra especie. Entre este género de creencias, las relacionadas con demonios y entes maléficos ocupan un lugar...

The work substantiates the cross-cultural MAPE model of the organization's personnel management (Mastering – Antimobbing – Psychoanalysis – Education), which allows reducing the negative, especially mobbing, effects of cross-cultural differentiation of the company's personnel. The model creates conditions for effective intra-organizational cross-cu...

My study examines how the role of forensic psychiatric experts took shape in the trials following the 1956 revolution, to what extent the expectations of professional and political fields were present, and what opportunities existed for creating individual decisions. Alongside contemporary press and literature, I use trial documents for my analysis...

This paper traces the stimulating and encouraging experience of two decades of bringing a psychoanalytic frame to clinical psychologists in training in an Irish university setting. I am taking this as one area in which our work of reaching over between psychoanalysis and other fields can be fruitful. Starting with a portrayal of the nature of this...

Starting from Freud’s model of primary and secondary processes and from Lacan’s concept of the signifier, we propose a series of measures for these mental processes, which can be mobilized independently of psychoanalytic training. The GeoCat 1.3 is a non-linguistic tool based on forced similarity choices between geometric figures, with good psychom...

In a world increasingly defined by division—between individuals and within societies—the fractures in human relationships reflect a deeper psychological and spiritual struggle. Whether it is the breaking of soulmate bonds, characterized by profound emotional and spiritual connection, or the polarization of communities, the patterns underlying these...

Resumo Este artigo busca percorrer, sob uma perspectiva psicanalítica, os caminhos em que a morte era percebida e entendida no ocidente, desde quando ela acontecia em casa, junto a familiares, até sua chegada ao hospital, local onde a maioria das mortes atualmente ocorrem. Para isso, serão discutidos inicialmente os períodos abordados por Philippe...

This paper explores the characters of The Narrator and Tyler Durden in Fight Club through Freud's Psychoanalytic Theory, complemented by Erich Fromm's Humanistic Psychoanalysis. By analyzing the interactions, conflicts, and attitudes of these personas, the paper applies Freud's concepts of the id, ego, and superego, demonstrating how Tyler emerges...

Articulações entre o discurso médico e o discurso do analista no contexto hospitalar Articulations between the medical discourse and the discourse of the analyst in the hospital Arthur Kelles Andrade (orcid.org/0000-0003-4558-4639) 1 Resumo O presente trabalho é um estudo teórico que objetiva realizar uma análise das possíveis articulações e disjun...

Gothic fear produces a profound malaise to the protagonist. In some cases, this fear causes an inability to cope which could go as far as being a psychological disintegration The recurrent motif of dreams and visions in both novels demonstrates the psychical fragmentation the characters are going through. Indeed, psychoanalysis and the Gothic share...

The focus of psychology has shifted significantly throughout history and separate schools of thought have developed to explain this important topic. Four major trends in modern psychology have progressed research and understanding, with each trend starting through a mindset to compensate for weakness in preceding theories. Psychoanalysis, behaviori...

This paper is an attempt to figure out whether the symbolic representations of unconscious mind found in the work of Indian surrealist artists have been inspired by some signature lines from Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theories. The paper studies how the main concepts in Freud like dream symbolism, repression, Oedipus complex and unconscious ins...

O presente trabalho pretende estabelecer uma interpretação argumentativa da teoria epistemológica na filosofia bachelardiana, a fim de demonstrar o espaço em que se inserem suas reflexões sobre a psicanálise na ordem do desenvolvimento do conhecimento científico. Esta abordagem epistemológica pode ser encontrada em seu conjunto de obras que compõem...

This paper synthesizes research on temporal experience in Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) from a phenomenologically grounded perspective. It advocates for a closer integration of phenomenology with empirical research results, with the specific goal of bridging the gap between theoretical and evidence-based understanding of BPD temporality. Ut...

O presente artigo procura investigar como a partir da modernidade, com base na filosofia de Descartes, a compreensão da experiência humana, do sujeito moderno, passou a se valer de alguma noção de negativo. A fim de verificar de que modo isso chega à contemporaneidade, é também realizado o estudo de como a psicanálise, em sua vertente freudiana e l...

Psychoanalysis, literature, and philosophy—these practices and disciplines are linked by a dual paradigm of affinity and asymmetry [...]

This research explores the interdisciplinary interaction between psychoanalysis and computer science, suggesting a mutually beneficial exchange. Indeed, psychoanalytic concepts can enrich technological applications involving unconscious, elusive aspects of the human factor, such as social media and other interactive digital platforms. Conversely, c...

Key Takeaways • Relational psychology emphasizes the importance of social contexts in understanding individual identity, moving from an individual-centric to a society-centric perspective. • Traditional psychoanalysis and family therapy are critiqued for their limited focus on individual identity and relationships, advocating for a relational appro...

Espinoza Lolas, Ricardo (2023)Psychoanalysis for Intersectional Humanity. Sade ReloadedOxon/New York: Routledge, 162 p. ISBN 9781032440392

Freud’s British Family presents ground-breaking research into the lives of the British branch of the Freud family, their connections to the founder of psychoanalysis, and into Freud’s relationship to Britain. Documenting the complex relationships the elder Freud brothers had with their much younger brother Sigmund, Freud’s British Family reveals t...

This research is titled "Psychoanalysis of the Character's Anxiety Emotion in Script Inside Out 2," which aims to analyze the personality structure of the emotion character Anxiety in Riley's life. Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory is used to identify the personality structure by analyzing the id, ego, and superego. Through the qualitative desc...

With the short story “Corpse of dust” (Xác bụi), Nguyen Ngoc Tu has created a new and impressive view of how to build a plot according to psychological characteristics. The story structure is a series of developments in the psychology of Diu's character revolving around the subtleties and sensitivity to many changing events of life. Using the psych...

This research aims to examine the projection of the character Buster Moon in the animated film "Sing" (2016) using a psychoanalytic theory approach, especially defense mechanisms. Buster Moon, an optimistic and persistent koala, struggles to save his theater from bankruptcy by holding a singing competition. This study explores how the character ref...

Ben Gook explores in this chapter the relationships among libido, economy, and crisis in psychoanalytic theory and contemporary critique. Drawing on Freudian concepts and their subsequent developments, he examines how libidinal economy animates both individual and collective life. The chapter outlines how the libidinal extends beyond biological sex...

Zadie Smith's acclaimed novel White Teeth explores the complexities of identity, belonging, and cultural hybridity in multi-ethnic London. This paper offers a Lacanian psychoanalytic reading of the novel, delving into the ways in which Smith's characters grapple with the fragmented nature of the self and the elusive quest for a stable, unified iden...

Este artículo se inserta en los desarrollos investigativos sobre el tema de la ironía en la clínica psicoanalítica. En particular, referido a las enseñanzas que podemos extraer, como analistas, de la conceptualización de la ironía en el denominado “primer romanticismo alemán” (Frühromantik) de finales del siglo XVIII. Las producciones de autores co...

W.R. Bion believes intuition (which he considers radically different from the intellect), is a mental capacity that will allow the psychoanalyst to make contact with the dynamic psychic reality of the patient and of the analist himself, - that is the ultimate reality, or O (Bion, 1962, p. 53). The aim of this conference is to address the source and...

The 20th century marked a peak in trauma phenomena, largely driven by numerous wars and catastrophes that had devastating effects on both individual and collective identities. The identity void created by unconscious defense mechanisms emerged as a significant issue, resulting in fragmented narratives, disjointed identities, and broken relationship...

Abstract: George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four is considered one of the pillars of twentieth-century English dystopian fiction. In the narrative, Oceania is a futuristic setting where behavior, thought, and emotion are constantly surveilled and dissent is violently punished. Indeed, the protagonists Winston and Julia politically revolt against the...

This study aims to analyze the life of the Prophet Muhammad through a Freudian analysis. Although Sigmund Freud’s study of Islam is considered inaccurate in portraying Islam as a simplified repetition of Judaism, his psychoanalytic approach is useful to study the historical development of the Prophet’s life and his early community. By closely readi...

This paper explores the longstanding debate on whether psychoanalysis qualifies as a science. Grounded in the Brazilian context, where recent publications have revived the debate, I examine the demarcation problem in the philosophy of science, highlighting how traditional criteria for defining scientific knowledge may exclude epistemically fruitful...

British writer Doris Lessing (1919-2013) is praised as an epicist of the female experience. In 2007, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Summer Before the Dark, published in 1973, is one of Lessing’s best-selling books. It has been mostly studied from the perspectives of feminism, psychoanalysis, and narratology. This paper adopts an...

This book brings together Lacanian psychoanalysis, neuropsychoanalytic work by Mark Solms and Ariane Bazan, Jaak Panksepp’s affective neuroscience, Karl Friston’s free energy principle, Adrian Johnston’s transcendental materialist philosophy, and Darian Leader’s critique of jouissance in Lacanian theory. In doing so, it articulates a philosophical...

The cultural icon and trail blazer of Bengali Renaissance Rabindranath Tagore has experimented successfully upon some great female protagonists in his fiction who have managed to curve a niche for themselves in world literature. A master artist, he has also depicted with his dexterously professional brushstrokes a host of highly progressive and bra...

Introduction. The rise of the incel (involuntary celibate) phenomenon offers a lens through which to examine the intersection of neoliberal commodification and psychoanalytic theory. Incels, predominantly men expressing frustration over their inability to form sexual or romantic relationships, are marked by toxic discourses of misogyny, entitlement...

1. Autism before autism 2. The ‘discovery’ of autism 3. Criticism of classical psychoanalysis 4. Autism in other cultures This chapter introduces autism in its classical definition, the one that goes from the definition proposed by Leo Kanner to the DSM-IV. The first chapter has its natural extension and continuation in Chapters 7, 8 and 12. In thi...

This paper suggests that psychoanalysis is a crucial tool for understanding the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on us as speaking beings. It explores the nature of undecidability, which is both paradoxical and incomputable. The paper argues that the discovery of this undecidability, whether in language or formal systems, challenges the supre...

This article poses a simple question: can AI lie? In response to this question, the article examines, as its point of inquiry, popular AI chatbots, such as, ChatGPT. In doing so, an examination of the psychoanalytic, philosophical, and technological significance of AI and its complexities are located in relation to the dynamics of truth, falsity, a...

In recent years, mythological retellings have garnered increasing acclaim. One such example is Louise Glück’s book of poetry Averno (2006), in which she blends the myths of Narcissus and Persephone. In the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, a narcissus serves as bait when Hades abducts Persephone. However, in Glück’s contemporary rewriting, Persephone seeks...

A psicanálise, proposta inicialmente por Freud, surgiu da observação, especialmente em mulheres histéricas, de sintomas físicos sem causas orgânicas. Freud escutou essas pacientes e desenvolveu a metapsicologia, analisando o funcionamento dinâmico, topológico e econômico do aparelho psíquico. A psicanálise evolui em diferentes correntes, destacando...

This article reconstructs the origins of psychosomatic medicine in Latin America through the history of the institutionalization of psychoanalysis in Argentina and Brazil. The study focuses on the exchange between Argentine and Brazilian psychoanalysts from 1942 to 1959. The analyses indicate similarities and differences between the two projects of...

The psychological problems that happen in society are growing day by day. Trauma is a common thing that can happen to somebody, and with trauma, there are also ways to handle it called defense mechanisms. From the defense mechanism, a pathological personality emerges. A person who has a pathological personality will use a defense mechanism to prote...

addiction, classical psychoanalysis, contemporary psychoanalysis, personality disorders

Although Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible (1953) was written centuries after (‘post’) the events in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692, it was through this play that we could relate to those events. In this sense, the play was ‘before’ (pre-) the past itself. The dynamic of preposterousness serves, I argue, to work through the past from the viewpoint o...

In this Note, Lacanian psychoanalysis provides a model for approaching what Pierre Schlag called “The Problem of the Subject” in contemporary legal thought. Schlag argued that all schools of contemporary legal thought “establish, depend upon, and eclipse a quintessentially liberal individual subject.” David Caudill has posited Lacanian psychoanalys...

At present, personalized recommendation technology is widely used in digital marketing. In this paper, on the basis of the existing personalized recommendation algorithm based on commodity characteristics, from the perspective of consumer psychology, we propose a multiple attitude recommendation algorithm under the apparent awareness of the custome...

Das Handbuch der weniger bekannten und unbekannten Psychotherapeutischen Interventionen. --- Psychotherapy is a profoundly complex field. As profoundly complex as the problem it aims to solve. This is where the kernel of the conversation lies. This is where all the questions about the validity, the scientific basis, the ethical frameworks, the mora...

Objective: The present study was intended to list out the phytochemical multiples and to investigate the antihyperglycemic effect of Premna corymbosa using in vitro assays and in silico molecular docking methods. Methods: The phytochemical multiples of methanol proportion of P. corymbosa leaves were appraised by Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry...

The essay aims to present the interpretation of the society-nature relationship as a reworking of the Oedipal complex and neuroses in the psyche. With the support of psychoanalysis and philosophy readings, I discuss the human feeling of continuation or discontinuation with nature and the impacts of the interdictions against instinctual desires betw...

Stanislaw Lem's 1961 sci-fi classic Solaris features one of the most enduring, strange, and seemingly inexhaustible presentments of the concept of an ocean. Lem’s economy of craft resonantly renders the premise of the text on the idea that there are inescapable ontological gaps between objects encountering one another. Using immense detail, and a s...

Zusammenfassung Der Artikel zeichnet die Entwicklung des Körperverständnisses in den psychodynamisch orientierten Methoden nach. In den Anfängen bestand großes Interesse seelische Vorgänge auch mit körperlichen Phänomenen in Bezug zu bringen. Nach der Abkehr Freuds von der Triebtheorie gab es innerhalb der Psychoanalyse kaum mehr Beschäftigung mit...

Teaching about sexuality causes embarrassment and general discomfort among both teachers and students. This article contends that the subject matter itself causes resistance, as sexuality is inherently transgressive. It is sex that makes sexuality education a challenge. Research has not focused on manifestations of resistance in relation to sexuali...

A science or individual and group opinion. Psychotherapy covers a wide field and no single paper can deal with it all, but what this paper can do is consider the differences between psychiatry, now still in ascendent, and the former. By doing so hopefully light can be thrown onto both. Although apparently connected, each function differently and ha...

This study examined the psychological issues and how they affect the behaviors of the protagonists Will and Louisa in the movie Me Before You and their decision-making processes. The research employed a qualitative descriptive approach and incorporated Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory to analyze the film's narrative. Freud's concepts of the id...

Psychoanalysis has, from its origins, made a claim to superior interpretative knowledge of literature than literary studies itself, often using its knowledge of literature to affirm and reaffirm its own colonial logics. In this paper, I examine how this colonial epistemological position is reaffirmed in literary interpretations of postcolonial and...

Objective: The objective of this study was to understand the meaning of mental symptoms manifested at work by articulating their material basis present in the work context and the subject's historical singularity. Theoretical Framework: Psychoanalytic theory is used in this case study as a basis for understanding the relationship between knowledge...

The subject of the research paper is one of the visual creation means in Belgrade Surrealism-a photograph. The paper relates to the study of methods used in the above mentioned photographic acts, as well as in the main functions which such a photograph should arise with an observer. By examining the significant determinants and relations, both in t...

O presente estudo aborda os transtornos alimentares e a obesidade, tendo como referência de leitura a teoria psicanalítica. Tal abordagem se faz necessária diante o aumento significativo de pessoas com esses distúrbios e como estes estão diretamente ligados ao social. O objetivo é trazer a compreensão de como o sujeito se relaciona com a alimentaçã...

This work aims to offer a guideline for treating losses from the COVID-19 pandemic. Psychoanalysis has proven to provide multiple levels of interpretation of both dreams and clinical material, as well as myths, which, for this reason, can also act as an interpretative grid of many current clinical situations, being paradigmatic of human dramas, con...

This study explores the role of ideology in social psychology and psychoanalysis by drawing on the theoretical approaches of key figures such as Martín-Baró, Moscovici, Lacan, and Žižek. The research highlights how ideology functions as a structure influencing human subjectivity and actions, particularly through the mechanism of fantasy as articula...

Este trabalho analisa sobre o lugar da mulher ao longo da história. Tal abordagem se faz necessária a partir do modelo inserido do feminino em nossa sociedade. Assim, o propósito deste estudo é entender o caminho e quais fatores levaram a distinção e silenciamento da mulher ao longo da história. Esta tarefa foi executada através da revisão bibliogr...

The objective of this article is to highlight, in a panoramic manner, the žižekian project of philosophy in his attempt to reconcile Lacanian psychology with Hegelian philosophy. We will highlight that this reading of Žižek will give primacy to Lacanian psychoanalysis by trying to interpret Hegel in the light of Lacan and not Lacan in the light of...

August Strindberg’s Miss Julie and Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard have always been recurrently analyzed within disputable studies concerning the characters’ psychoanalytic makeup, the characters’ breakdown at the break of a new social class, and a naturalistic, existential approach. Such a foundational approach for analysis is overpoweringly hi...

"Shahr Khali Kocha Khali" is a renowned novel written by Mustansar Hussain Tarar, a prominent Pakistani writer and travelogue author. The novel was first published in 1979 and has since become a classic of Pakistani literature. Tarar's writing evokes a sense of nostalgia for a bygone era while also addressing contemporary issues. "Shahr Khali Kocha...

This article primarily focuses on the analysis of a subject exhibiting neurotic anxiety, interpreting the client’s clinical symptoms, underlying causes, and self-intervention methods. Subsequently, the article introduces the 'fictionalized' free association technique and utilizes it to analyze the client's unconscious conflicts and motivations. It...

Wśród humanistów reprezentujących szeroko pojęty nurt postmodernistyczny można dostrzec postawę uznania względem fenomenu religii. Do grona pozytywnie nastawionych do religii autorów postracjonalnych należy Julia Kristeva, francusko-bułgarska psychoanalityczka, filozofka i literaturoznawczyni. Jej nieskrywany szacunek do treści, które niesie religi...

Psychoanalysis is a dominant field of social science that explores the complex layers of human psychology. In the novel The Silence of the Lambs written by Thomas Harris, psychoanalytic theory plays a significant role. The researchers objective is to traverse the complex characteristics of Hannibal Lecter and Clarice Starling, who possess dichotomi...