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  • Psychopathia sexualis: sexuality in old and new psychoanalysis.
    Journal of Clinical Psychology, 2013
    Co-Authors: Louis Breger
    Abstract:

    The different conceptions of sexuality in classical and contemporary psychoanalysis are explored. Freud's misguided theories of sexual or libidinal drives and the Oedipus complex are shown to be defenses against his own traumatic attachment history. The evidence for this is found in a review of his childhood and self-analysis, and further illustrated with the cases reported in the Studies on Hysteria and elsewhere. Modern views of sex turn these old theories on their heads, demonstrating that sexual fantasies and actions are phenomena, unique to each individual, that are themselves in need of explanation. These radically different conceptions of sexuality are illustrated with 3 case histories.

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Heath, Joanne Margaret - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Bodies, Gazes and Images between Hysteria and Modernism: Tracing the Maternal in the Case History of ‘Frau Emmy von N’ and in Selected Paintings by Suzanne Valadon
    University of Leeds, 2011
    Co-Authors: Heath, Joanne Margaret
    Abstract:

    This thesis is structured around the dual scenarios of doctor/patient and artist/model. Having analysed the underlying politics of class and gender that structured the relationship between doctor and patient, and between artist and model, at the fin-de-siecle, it goes on to examine how these relations were transformed by two developments: the emergence of psychoanalysis in relation to Hysteria, and the growing involvement of women as artists in the field of modernist painting. Its key research questions fall, therefore, upon identifying a historical method for understanding the impact of women’s self-enunciation in these scenarios that shifts the now classic image of masculinised modernism in both its psychological and aesthetic dimensions. It is centred upon a close reading of two case Studies—that of ‘Frau Emmy von N’ from the Studies on Hysteria, published jointly by Sigmund Freud and Joseph Breuer in 1895, and that of model-turned-artist Suzanne Valadon (1865-1938)—and examines the extent to which the scenarios of doctor/patient and artist/model underwent a radical internal transformation as a result of their reconfiguration by the women involved. Moving between psychoanalysis and modernism at the moment of their historical co-emergence, and re-reading their conjunction through contemporary feminist theory, it also interrogates one of the traditional blind spots of psychoanalysis: maternal subjectivity. In the first two chapters, I revisit Freud’s first written case history of ‘Frau Emmy von N’ in order to explore the significance of Freud’s belated acknowledgement of his patient’s ambivalent experience of motherhood to the history and theory of what would become psychoanalysis. Having tracked the shift in the relations between doctor and patient that occurred over the course of this early, proto-analytic, encounter, I go on to examine a corresponding transformation in my second identified scenario of artist/model. In the third chapter, I consider the social, artistic and psychic dilemmas faced by those self-consciously modem ‘New Women’ who sought in the early years of the twentieth century to participate in modernist art and culture not merely as mute objects of representation, but as creative subjects in their own right. In this chapter, I investigate how the question of the maternal might be processed in the being of women as artists in the modernist moment. Having analysed both the possibilities and limitations of those psychoanalytic theorisations that view feminine creativity as necessarily bound up with depressive mourning for the mother and the maternal body, in the final two chapters, I draw upon the Matrixial theory of Bracha Ettinger in order to consider how the traces of some different relation to the feminine/maternal may be otherwise inscribed in certain paintings of the female nude by Suzanne Valadon

  • Bodies, gazes and images between Hysteria and modernism : tracing the maternal in the case history of 'Frau Emmy von N' and in selected paintings by Suzanne Valadon
    2011
    Co-Authors: Heath, Joanne Margaret
    Abstract:

    This thesis is structured around the dual scenarios of doctor/patient and artist/model. Having analysed the underlying politics of class and gender that structured the relationship between doctor and patient, and between artist and model, at the fin-de-siecle, it goes on to examine how these relations were transformed by two developments: the emergence of psychoanalysis in relation to Hysteria, and the growing involvement of women as artists in the field of modernist painting. Its key research questions fall, therefore, upon identifying a historical method for understanding the impact of women’s self-enunciation in these scenarios that shifts the now classic image of masculinised modernism in both its psychological and aesthetic dimensions. It is centred upon a close reading of two case Studies—that of ‘Frau Emmy von N’ from the Studies on Hysteria, published jointly by Sigmund Freud and Joseph Breuer in 1895, and that of model-turned-artist Suzanne Valadon (1865-1938)—and examines the extent to which the scenarios of doctor/patient and artist/model underwent a radical internal transformation as a result of their reconfiguration by the women involved. Moving between psychoanalysis and modernism at the moment of their historical co-emergence, and re-reading their conjunction through contemporary feminist theory, it also interrogates one of the traditional blind spots of psychoanalysis: maternal subjectivity. In the first two chapters, I revisit Freud’s first written case history of ‘Frau Emmy von N’ in order to explore the significance of Freud’s belated acknowledgement of his patient’s ambivalent experience of motherhood to the history and theory of what would become psychoanalysis. Having tracked the shift in the relations between doctor and patient that occurred over the course of this early, proto-analytic, encounter, I go on to examine a corresponding transformation in my second identified scenario of artist/model. In the third chapter, I consider the social, artistic and psychic dilemmas faced by those self-consciously modem ‘New Women’ who sought in the early years of the twentieth century to participate in modernist art and culture not merely as mute objects of representation, but as creative subjects in their own right. In this chapter, I investigate how the question of the maternal might be processed in the being of women as artists in the modernist moment. Having analysed both the possibilities and limitations of those psychoanalytic theorisations that view feminine creativity as necessarily bound up with depressive mourning for the mother and the maternal body, in the final two chapters, I draw upon the Matrixial theory of Bracha Ettinger in order to consider how the traces of some different relation to the feminine/maternal may be otherwise inscribed in certain paintings of the female nude by Suzanne Valadon.EThOS - Electronic Theses online ServiceGBUnited Kingdo

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  • Janet and Freud: revealing the roots of dy narn ic psychiatry
    2016
    Co-Authors: Paul Brown, Malcolm B. Macmillan, Russel Meares, Onno Van Der Hart, Professor Of Psychology, Franzcp Professor Psychiatry, Onno Van
    Abstract:

    scholarly revival and, in the process, his contribution to dynamic psychiatry is increasingly being recognised. This article compares and contrasts Pierre Janet’s early Studies on Hysteria and the neuroses with those of Freud. Method: The study surveys original works by Janet and Freud and contempo-rary scholarly exegeses. It particularly focuses on ideation and memory, con-sciousness and dissociation, psychological trauma, the self, therapeutic influence, and treatment by integration versus abreaction. Results: Grounds are presented for either preferring Janet’s notions to Freud’s, or for integrating them. Conclusion: It is concluded that a number of Janet’s contributions to psy-chopathology and psychotherapy, particularly in the field of dissociative dis-orders, deserve further exploration and application. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 1996; 30:480-491 Dynamic psychiatry was conceived at the Salp&tri&-e just over 100 years ago. First Janet [l] and then Breuer and Freud [2] published Studies on the dynamics of Hysteria. For the following half a century Freud’s influence on psychiatry eclipsed that of Janet. Two publications spanning the last 25 years reflect a reversal of that process: Ellenberger’s chapter on Janet in his The Discovery of the Unconscious [ 3] and Van der Kolk and Van der Hart’s Pierre Janet and the Breakdown of Adaptation in Psychologiccil Truuma [4]. What had been a slow trickle of re-publications and articles on Janet’s wor