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Richard Taffler - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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hedge funds and Unconscious Fantasy
Accounting Auditing & Accountability Journal, 2012Co-Authors: Arman Eshraghi, Richard TafflerAbstract:Purpose – This paper aims to help explain the rapid growth in aggregate hedge fund assets under management until June 2008 followed by their subsequent dramatic collapse in terms of the conflicting emotions such investment vehicles evoke, and, from this, to consider the implications of the excitement‐generating potential underlying all financial innovations.Design/methodology/approach – Within the framework of critical discourse analysis, this paper explores how hedge funds were represented in the financial press, manager interviews, investor comments, and Congress hearings, before and after the burst of the hedge fund “bubble”. The authors then draw on the psychodynamic literature, and frame the human Unconscious need for excitement in this discourse.Findings – The paper finds evidence demonstrating how hedge funds were transformed in the minds of investors into objects of fascination and desire with their Unconscious representation dominating their original investment purpose. Based on a psychoanalytic ...
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hedge funds and Unconscious Fantasy
Social Science Research Network, 2009Co-Authors: Arman Eshraghi, Richard TafflerAbstract:We help to explain the rapid growth in aggregate hedge fund assets under management until June 2008 followed by their collapse in terms of the conflicting emotions such investment vehicles evoke. Specifically, we describe how some high-profile hedge funds were transformed in the minds of investors, into objects of fascination and desire, with their Unconscious representation dominating their original investment purpose as providers of investment returns less correlated with more traditional asset classes. Based on a psychoanalytic interpretation of financial markets, and dot.com mania in particular, we show how hedge fund investors’ search for “phantastic objects” and the associated excitement of being invested in them can become dominant, resulting in risk being ignored.
Arman Eshraghi - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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hedge funds and Unconscious Fantasy
Accounting Auditing & Accountability Journal, 2012Co-Authors: Arman Eshraghi, Richard TafflerAbstract:Purpose – This paper aims to help explain the rapid growth in aggregate hedge fund assets under management until June 2008 followed by their subsequent dramatic collapse in terms of the conflicting emotions such investment vehicles evoke, and, from this, to consider the implications of the excitement‐generating potential underlying all financial innovations.Design/methodology/approach – Within the framework of critical discourse analysis, this paper explores how hedge funds were represented in the financial press, manager interviews, investor comments, and Congress hearings, before and after the burst of the hedge fund “bubble”. The authors then draw on the psychodynamic literature, and frame the human Unconscious need for excitement in this discourse.Findings – The paper finds evidence demonstrating how hedge funds were transformed in the minds of investors into objects of fascination and desire with their Unconscious representation dominating their original investment purpose. Based on a psychoanalytic ...
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hedge funds and Unconscious Fantasy
Social Science Research Network, 2009Co-Authors: Arman Eshraghi, Richard TafflerAbstract:We help to explain the rapid growth in aggregate hedge fund assets under management until June 2008 followed by their collapse in terms of the conflicting emotions such investment vehicles evoke. Specifically, we describe how some high-profile hedge funds were transformed in the minds of investors, into objects of fascination and desire, with their Unconscious representation dominating their original investment purpose as providers of investment returns less correlated with more traditional asset classes. Based on a psychoanalytic interpretation of financial markets, and dot.com mania in particular, we show how hedge fund investors’ search for “phantastic objects” and the associated excitement of being invested in them can become dominant, resulting in risk being ignored.
Les Fleischer - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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introduction to death immortality and Unconscious Fantasy a symposium
Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2018Co-Authors: Les FleischerAbstract:Arlene and Arnold Richards’ papers examine a very important and timely topic in psychoanalysis—death, immortality, and Unconscious Fantasy. Given the aging of our profession and society, this topic is highly relevant clinically and personally. Dr. Arlene Kramer Richards provides a comprehensive, concise, historical overview of the usefulness of the idea of the death instinct, comparing the death instinct, death drive, and Unconscious Fantasy of what happens after death. Her article focuses on the clinical utility of the construct, while also providing a poignant examination of the major theoretical and philosophical ideas about death by such psychoanalytic titans as Freud, Klein, Spielrein, Arlow, Brenner, and Kohut, among others. Dr. Arnold Richard examines conscious and Unconscious fantasies of death and immortality, focusing on the wish for immortality, as expressed in our dreams. He provides a collection of his own dreams, and self-analysis, which demonstrate how the wish for immortality operates in dreams and waking life. He provides highly useful commentary on Freud’s conflicts about his own mortality and its impact on the psychoanalytic theory of human motivation. In addition, he offers an innovative framework for potentially integrating wish-fulfillment dreams and traumatic dreams, and suggests that the wish for immortality might be added to the inventory of primary dream wishes, along with sexual and aggressive wishes.
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concluding comments on death immortality and Unconscious Fantasy
Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2018Co-Authors: Les FleischerAbstract:I would like to make some observations on the dynamics of today’s symposium and I will attempt to tie together some central themes. This morning during our audience discussion, the participants’ comments alternated between theoretical issues and personal anecdotes, often followed by a joke about death. There was relatively little discussion of clinical cases. The afternoon’s discussion focused more on clinical issues, with the occasional joke, about death, castration, or immortality, followed by a return to clinical issues, with little focus on personal issues. It seemed as though the participants had to process their own personal reactions about death first, before they could delve into their work with patients. In both the morning and afternoon, the audience seemed to be able to tolerate only a certain amount of discussion about death, without turning to humour, which then enabled the audience to return to theoretical or clinical issues.
Bonnie Evans - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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how autism became autism the radical transformation of a central concept of child development in britain
History of the Human Sciences, 2013Co-Authors: Bonnie EvansAbstract:This article argues that the meaning of the word ‘autism’ experienced a radical shift in the early 1960s in Britain which was contemporaneous with a growth in epidemiological and statistical studies in child psychiatry. The first part of the article explores how ‘autism’ was used as a category to describe hallucinations and Unconscious Fantasy life in infants through the work of significant child psychologists and psychoanalysts such as Jean Piaget, Lauretta Bender, Leo Kanner and Elwyn James Anthony. Theories of autism were then associated both with schizophrenia in adults and with psychoanalytic styles of reasoning. The closure of institutions for ‘mental defectives’ and the growth in speech therapy services in the 1960s and 1970s encouraged new models for understanding autism in infants and children. The second half of the article explores how researchers such as Victor Lotter and Michael Rutter used the category of autism to reconceptualize psychological development in infants and children via epidemiological studies. These historical changes have influenced the form and function of later research into autism and related conditions.
Carla Bauer Rentrop - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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finding Unconscious Fantasy in narrative trauma and body pain a clinical guide edited by paula l ellman and nancy r goodman london and new york routledge 2017 226 pp 52 95 isbn 978 1 138 955001 1
The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2021Co-Authors: Carla Bauer RentropAbstract:What is Unconscious Fantasy? Where and how can it be found? The analytic process of “finding”, presented by Paula Ellman and Nancy Goodman in their book Finding Unconscious Fantasy in Narrative, Tr...
