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Ranjana Khanna - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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dark continents psychoanalysis and colonialism
2003Co-Authors: Ranjana KhannaAbstract:"Dark Continents" argues that psychoanalysis is a colonial discipline that paradoxically provides crucial tools for critiques of postcolonialism and neocolonialism. Ranjana Khanna reveals how the concept of the self that emerged in Psychoanalytic Theory, even in its many post-Freudian variations, developed in relation to the concept of the European nation-state. She contends that understanding colonialism's role in the formation of psychoanalysis enables the insight that the nation-state was constituted through the colonial relation and, indeed, must be radically reshaped if it is to survive without colonies. She shows how psychoanalysis helps to explain the melancholia imperialism created among both colonizers and the colonized. Positing that issues of ethics and feminism ultimately lie at the heart of the connections between colonialism and psychoanalysis, Khanna assesses the merits of various models of nationalism, psychoanalysis, and colonialism for a transnational feminist ethics. Khanna traces the development and deployment of psychoanalysis-particularly its relationship to colonial projects-from its beginnings in the late nineteenth century up to the present. Illuminating Freud's debt to the languages of archaeology and anthropology alongside the development of his career, the collapse of the Habsburg empire, and the Nazi occupation of Vienna, she shows how Freud altered his theories of the ego as his own political status changed. Khanna looks at how Psychoanalytic Theory was taken up in the metropole and colonies in the period of decolonization following World War II, focusing on its use by a range of writers including Sartre, Octave Mannoni, Aime and Suzanne Cesaire, Rene Menil, Frantz Fanon, and Albert Memmi. She points out that it was through Sartre's and Mannoni's work that the contingency of the European nation-state first came into view. Given the masculinist nature of many of these writers' thought, Khanna focuses on the necessity of a feminist critique of Psychoanalytic Theory.
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dark continents psychoanalysis and colonialism
2003Co-Authors: Ranjana KhannaAbstract:"Dark Continents" argues that psychoanalysis is a colonial discipline that paradoxically provides crucial tools for critiques of postcolonialism and neocolonialism. Ranjana Khanna reveals how the concept of the self that emerged in Psychoanalytic Theory, even in its many post-Freudian variations, developed in relation to the concept of the European nation-state. She contends that understanding colonialism's role in the formation of psychoanalysis enables the insight that the nation-state was constituted through the colonial relation and, indeed, must be radically reshaped if it is to survive without colonies. She shows how psychoanalysis helps to explain the melancholia imperialism created among both colonizers and the colonized. Positing that issues of ethics and feminism ultimately lie at the heart of the connections between colonialism and psychoanalysis, Khanna assesses the merits of various models of nationalism, psychoanalysis, and colonialism for a transnational feminist ethics. Khanna traces the development and deployment of psychoanalysis-particularly its relationship to colonial projects-from its beginnings in the late nineteenth century up to the present. Illuminating Freud's debt to the languages of archaeology and anthropology alongside the development of his career, the collapse of the Habsburg empire, and the Nazi occupation of Vienna, she shows how Freud altered his theories of the ego as his own political status changed. Khanna looks at how Psychoanalytic Theory was taken up in the metropole and colonies in the period of decolonization following World War II, focusing on its use by a range of writers including Sartre, Octave Mannoni, Aime and Suzanne Cesaire, Rene Menil, Frantz Fanon, and Albert Memmi. She points out that it was through Sartre's and Mannoni's work that the contingency of the European nation-state first came into view. Given the masculinist nature of many of these writers' thought, Khanna focuses on the necessity of a feminist critique of Psychoanalytic Theory.
Jorg Frommer - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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contemporary perspectives on psychosomatics in germany a commentary on karen gubb s paper psychosomatics today a review of contemporary Theory and practice
2013Co-Authors: Jorg FrommerAbstract:Karen Gubb's (2013) review focuses on contemporary developments in Psychoanalytic Theory and practice in relation to psychosomatics, starting with some historical remarks, and Paris School with the Attachment approach. This paper examines the question of how the German scene fits into the issues raised in Gubb's discussion. From a historical point of view, psychosomatic thinking had already come into existence at the beginning of the twentieth century in internal medicine, influenced not only by Freud's ideas, but also by holistic philosophical approaches, anthropology, and semiotic systems Theory as well. Psychosomatics is still under the influence of psychodynamic thinking, but as a required subject for all medical students, it is currently more involved in inpatient treatment settings than in psychoanalyses in the classical couch setting. Research projects using standardized questionnaires, neuroimaging, and other empirical methods have also proved that these treatments are as effective as therapy based on Psychoanalytic concepts like alexithymia or the Attachment approach. In addition, qualitative methods have been implemented to grasp the fine-grained conscious and unconscious processes in the inner life of patients and in the verbal and nonverbal interaction phenomena of therapies. To sum up: Recent developments in Psychoanalytic Theory, which begin to overcome the differences among Psychoanalytic schools in favor of re-erecting a common Psychoanalytic understanding like that demonstrated in Gubb's article, fit together in bridging the gap between insights from classical psychoanalyses and results from empirical research.
Howard Shevrin - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the predictive power of a comprehensive Psychoanalytic Theory
2010Co-Authors: Howard ShevrinAbstract:The growth of neuroscience from its beginnings as an organically based psychiatry to its current ascendance as the main avenue for understanding the link between behavior and the brain is well presented by Raz and Wolfson. Their analysis of potential relationships between psychoanalysis and neuroscience is limited by only taking into consideration the clinical application of psychoanalysis and ignoring psychoanalysis as a comprehensive Theory of the mind.
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anxiety attributional thinking and the primary process
2005Co-Authors: Linda A W Brakel, Howard ShevrinAbstract:In earlier publications, experimental evidence was provided for the existence of the primary vs. secondary process mental organization posited by Freud. A well-established cognitive categorization test based on attributional and relational similarity was found to map on to primary and secondary principles of mental organization respectively, thus offering the opportunity to test hypotheses drawn from Psychoanalytic Theory independent of the clinical situation. In prior work, primary process shifts occurred under three different conditions--all predicted by Psychoanalytic Theory: (1) when stimuli were (subliminal) unconscious; (2) when participants were 3-5 years of age; and (3) when tasks were implicit. In the current study, a fourth condition is examined dealing with the relationship of conscious anxiety to primary and secondary processes. In a naturalistic study, 120 patients waiting in medical center waiting rooms rated how anxious they felt on a 10-point scale and then completed a version of the categorization test alluded to above. Those who reported any anxiety at all showed a significant shift toward primary process categorization over those participants who rated themselves as calm. The implications of this fourth finding are discussed with respect to signal anxiety and symptom formation.
Jose Bleger - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Theory and practice in psychoanalysis Psychoanalytic praxis 1969
2012Co-Authors: Jose BlegerAbstract:The author systematises and examines the relation between Theory and practice in psychoanalysis in three directions: one, eminently epistemological, which is only mentioned because it pertains not only to psychoanalysis but to all the sciences; another, the relation between Theory and technique; and the third, the relation between Theory and the institutional organisation of psychoanalysis and psychoanalysts. All the problems described, especially the second and third points, together define Psychoanalytic praxis. With regard to contradictions between Theory and technique, the author points out that Psychoanalytic Theory is constructed fundamentally on the basis of an approach that is historico-genetic, dynamic and consistent with formal logic, whereas Psychoanalytic practice occurs within a transference–countertransference relation, in a situation configured as an analytic field, a ‘here and now’, within a dramatic explanation and in a dialectic process. This triple diagnosis involves naturalistic and phenomenological approaches, the problem of objectivity and the role given to sexuality as a privileged parameter in Psychoanalytic Theory. In relation to the third direction mentioned above,the author refers briefly to the problem of Psychoanalytic organisations, in the sense that they come into conflict with the development of Psychoanalytic Theory and the deepening of investigation. In reference to the latter, the author emphasises the need to widen the perspective of what constitutes Psychoanalytic praxis. He points out that praxis is always replete with contradictions and that it is not a question of ignoring,denying or impeding these contradictions themselves (which would in any case be totally ineffective), but that by taking them into account, scientific development could be managed in a more planned way, less blindly; that is to say, less abandoned to spontaneity.
Stephen Frosh - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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A Brief Introduction to Psychoanalytic Theory
2012Co-Authors: Stephen FroshAbstract:Book synopsis: Psychoanalytic Theory remains hugely influential to our understanding of the mind and human behaviour. It provides a rich source of ideas for therapeutic practice, while offering dramatic insights for the study of culture and society. This comprehensive review of the field: Explores the birth of psychoanalysis, taking the reader step by step through Freud's original ideas and how they developed and evolved. Provides a clear account of fundamental Psychoanalytic concepts. Discusses the different schools of psychoanalysis that have emerged since Freud. Illustrates the wider applications of Psychoanalytic ideas across film, literature and politics.
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psychoanalysis outside the clinic interventions in psychosocial studies
2010Co-Authors: Stephen FroshAbstract:Psychoanalytic Theory offers an interesting insight into the study of culture and the arts. This unique book explains how clinical concepts inform and engage with key issues throughout the humanities and social sciences. Accessible and comprehensive, this is an important book for students and academics alike.
