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The Psychoanalysis of Heroine Alissa on the Path of Virtue

Author(s): Hulya Kol / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2016

André Gide, a writer of the twentieth century, has his way of interpreting the problems of his generation. He differs from other writers because he does not like imitation. In his novel, Strait Is the Gate, Gide criticizes the exaggeration on the path of virtue. By renouncing life, Alissa not only spoils her life but also spoils the lives of those who love her. The narrative appears like this on the surface but we must go down into the depths to clarify things. As it is said so well, the medallion has two faces. Even if Alissa appears to abandon herself on the path of God, there are implicit reasons which push her towards despair. In reality, Alissa remains impotent before her sentimental failure and finds no outlet to get by. So she renounces life because she can no longer stand this painful situation. Death seems to her a solution to escape from it. This is the case of many young people who live in the same difficult period. Their weakness ends up annihilating them because they lose their hope.

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Poza polis – o (nie)możliwych zastosowaniach psychoanalizy w refleksji nad Prawem i dewiacją

Author(s): Grzegorz Michalik / Language(s): Polish Issue: 24/2017

In this paper, author describes topics of the Law and deviation in lacanian psychoanalysis, using socio-political works of Slavoj Żiżek. Issues include questions about the possibility of psychoanalytic reflection on deviation - what is the law and its transgression in perspective of psychoanalysis? Psychoanalysis shows that the Law (in the broadest sense) remains in a constant dialectical relation with Desire. This, on the one hand, is a basis of subject’s normative relation with the Law. On the other hand, dialectic of Law and Desire could be basis for deviational behaviors . Also, the Law has a emancipatory nature because Law protects subject form trauma of the Other's desire, allows liberation from his dependence; but also, the Law is a condition of its own trasgression. Moreover, the Lacanian terms of Real and Lack could offer new pespectives on deviation and its ethical dimension.

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Realizm w psychoanalizie

Author(s): Alenka Zupančič / Language(s): Polish Issue: 28/2018

Many recent philosophical discussions have been marked by the rather stunning re-launching of the question of realism, triggered by Quentin Meillassoux’s book After finitude (Après la finitude, 2006), and followed by a wider, albeit less homogeneous, movement named ‘speculative realism’. This paper raises the question of whether the conceptual field of Lacanian psychoanalysis is concerned with this debate, and if so how. The central argument scrutinizes the status of the ‘real’ in science, and its implications for psychoanalysis in view of the Lacanian identification of the subject of the unconscious with the subject of (Galilean) science. Taking seriously Lacan’s claim that ‘If I am anything, it is clear that I’m not a nominalist’, the present paper aims at sketching out a psychoanalytic version of realism.

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Ontologia przypadłości »jak gdyby« w teorii Heleny Deutsch: Narodziny teorii kobiet albo sondowanie granic psychoanalizy

Author(s): Agnieszka Więckiewicz / Language(s): Polish Issue: 28/2018

The article presents a new interpretation of works written by Helene Deutsch, Polish psychoanalyst, one of the closest colleagues of Sigmund Freud and the precursor of women’s psychoanalysis. Beginning with the social and cultural history of psychoanalysis, I try to (re)argue and (re)read the works of female analysts in Freud’s movement, especially those by Deutsch. In the article I propose the unfamiliar and new possibility of studying and writing about women’s psychoanalysis. One approach to the work of Polish analysts is to understand it not only as a clinical theory but also as a literature and philosophy. Working on a famous theory of „as if” identification, developed by Deutsch, in the light of the concept of plasticity proposed by French philosopher Catherine Malabou, the article is a contribution to a new method in reading and understanding theory as well as non-clinical works by Polish analysts through the categories of identity, memory and plasticity.

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Krytyka czystej nieświadomości: Kilka uwag o wpływie filozofii Kanta na Anty-Edypa Deleuze’a i Guattariego

Author(s): Jakub Tercz / Language(s): Polish Issue: 28/2018

In spite of popular interpretation of Gilles Deleuze’s philosophy as a kind of postmodernism, poststructuralism or Nietzscheanism, this paper reveals its deep rooting in the transcendental idealism of Immanuel Kant. According to the main thesis, it was Kant who delivered the primary source of philosophical schemes that inspired both the early (expressed mainly in Difference and Repetition, 1986), and late period of Deleuze’s work, starting with the first volume of Capitalism and Schizophrenia called Anti-Oedipus, written in collaboration with Félix Guattari (1972). The main part of the essay contains contextual analysis of the latter. In Anti-Oedipus Deleuze and Guattari propose the concept of desire (unconscious) as a power capable of constituting nomadic subjectivity, characterized by the openness to difference, creativity, and drawing strength from social diversity. However, they note that a desire is characterized by a tendency to undergo internal illusions and, as a result, to block its own revolutionary and creative possibilities. That is why, say Deleuze and Guattari, it is necessary to carry on the critique of pure unconsciousness, whose aim is to reveal these illusions and perhaps to free us from them.

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Travma Sonrasi Ortaya Çikan Psikolojik Bozukluklar Üzerine Bir Değerlendirme

Author(s): Yener Özen / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 4/2018

To study psychological trauma is to face human injury both in the natural world and the evil capacity of human nature. The meaning of studying psychological trauma is to witness dreadful events. When events are natural disasters or "God's work", witnesses are ready to sympathize. But when the traumatic events are human, they are caught in a conflict between the victim and the perpetrator. It is not morally possible to remain neutral in this conflict. The audience is forced to take sides. In the situation between the victim and the perpetrator, the audience remains, but they are not aware of the fact. The perpetrator wants the audience to remain silent. The victim waits for the burial and the burden to be shared. The reactions that occur after trauma depend on many factors. Potentially traumatic events vary in terms of type and frequency, and their psychological effects are determined by the curricular and social variables. The reactions that occur after trauma depend on many factors. Potentially traumatic events vary in terms of type and frequency, and their psychological effects are determined by the curricular and social variables. Sometimes trauma causes itself, sometimes triggers. Therefore, it is not surprising that exposure to trauma is associated with a range of different symptoms and disorders. Psychological problems after trauma can be examined in two groups. First group; Acute Stress Response, Acute Stress Disorder, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, and the second group is when the psychological trauma is necessary but not sufficient to cause the disorder. Psychological trauma is not necessary but is the trigger of trauma: Dissociative Disorders, Anxiety Disorders, Mood Disorders (Depression, etc.), Somatization Disorders, Alcohol and Substance Use Disorders, Sleep Disorders, Schizophrenia and Psychotic Disorders, Personality Disorders, Sexual Disorders, Eating disorders. In the context of DSM 5, re-diagnosis and treatment of these conditions have been investigated.

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Unknowability, Persecution, and the Ethical Bind: Reading through the Works of Sigmund Freud and Emmanuel Lévinas

Author(s): Valerie Oved Giovanini / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2018

This paper shows how persecution is a condition that binds each in an ethical obligation. Persecution is functionally defined here as an impinging, affective relation, one that is neither mediated by reason nor open to apology. The works of Sigmund Freud help illuminate the psychological mechanism responsible for impeding rational transparency in delusions of persecution and super-egoical moral demands. Similar to Freud who employs what Paul Ricœur has called a “hermeneutics of suspicion” to interrogate the status of a fully knowing subject, I contend that Emmanuel Lévinas’s work on the ethical subject is useful for developing a “hermeneutics of trust” in an ambivalent ontological condition that is unavoidably ethical. By thinking Freud and Lévinas together, I show how the commitment to total mastery of an unknowable ego leads to a persecutory relation, yielding moralities that are unconcerned with injuring the other in the name of that which is judged as good. In answer to this ethical dilemma, I propose that a turn toward relational ethics and an intentionality of search offers traces of a morality where differences are preserved and thus prevent the persecution of the other for one’s own moral fulfillment

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W zniewoleniu szczęśliwi. Raz jeszcze o Zniewolonym umyśle Miłosza

Author(s): Marek Zaleski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 4/2018

Zaleski reads Czesław Miłosz’s The Captive Mind through Lacanian psychoanalysis. This framework allows him to trace Miłosz’s book as a diagnosis once foreshadowed in Étienne de La Boétie’s Discourse on Voluntary Servitude.

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PSICHOANALIZĖS REIKŠMĖ SOCIALINIŲ NORMŲ PAŽINIMUI

Author(s): Mindaugas Verbickas / Language(s): Lithuanian Issue: 1/2018

Modern society undergoes such rapid transformations, leading to social norms and institutions being faced with difficulties relating to adaptation. The question arises of whether psychoanalysis can be useful for the settlement of ethical and legal dilemmas related to the transformations of modern society. Even if the psychoanalytical process and social norms do not share the same goals, they meet in the Oedipal phase, because it is there, in the context of the prohibition of incest, that we find the first requirement that supposes the existence of moral law. Can data obtained in the process of psychoanalysis and examining a person’s mental well-being be used as an argument to substantiate the cited transformations? Aren’t certain value-based, institutional and legal transformations of modern society the result of the at least partial influence of data obtained during the process of psychoanalysis? However, unconscious meanings received as data in the psychoanalytic process and social norms are two completely different spaces: the moralist’s power is always in the norms, but the outcome of a psychoanalytical process does not anticipate making patient moral. The process of psychoanalysis accomplishes the function of liberating the morality of guilt and changing the relation with social norms.

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„Czy warto być czystym sceptykiem, bez domieszki?” Tajemnice Opętanych Witolda Gombrowicza

Author(s): Łukasz Tischner / Language(s): Polish Issue: 34/2017

The article analyzes Witold Gombrowicz’s pre-war novel Opętani (Possessed). The novel was published under a pseudonym and Gombrowicz had professed to be its actual author just before he died. This long-term concealment provoked an argument about the novel’s artistic value. According to Maria Janion, the novel is a legitimate and important part of Gombrowicz’s writings, whereas Jerzy Jarzębski, the second major participant of the dispute, pointed out the flamboyant schematism of the text. The author of the article espouses Jarzębski’s viewpoint, although he believes Opętani to be a mediocre good book rather than a good bad book. The novelty of this interpretation lies in discovering an important inspiration of Gombrowicz’s text: Julian Ochorowicz’s writings on mediumship. The author proves that Hińcz, one of the novel’s characters, was undoubtedly modeled on Ochorowicz. The author also states that Gombrowicz composed the plot of the novel under the influence of some accounts of Ochorowicz’s mediumistic experiments. The article suggests that the poetics of popular fiction and gothic novel might hide some more sophisticated psychological meanings, but they are revoked by the schematism of Opętani to eventually come to the fore in Ślub (The Marriage) and Pornografia.

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Między darowaniem sobie a darem dla drugiego. O sztuce pomagania refleksji kilka

Author(s): Małgorzata Opoczyńska-Morasiewicz / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2017

If psychological help could beart, then what differentiates it from other forms that could be called the technology of helping? The answer sought here begins with the question “what can I know about you without being yourself?”. The way to answer follows the length and breadth of therapeutic experience, to finally take the form of a question: must the art of helping the other, if not apparent, remain uncertain? Just as every art, it is not confident of what it already knows, possesses and is able to. It is not satisfied with what is already known. It knows that in every word “sleep you, my un-hearing”. Does it listen because it is given?

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An illness of one’s own. Memoir as art form and research as witness

Author(s): Arthur W. Frank / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2018

The author reviews his own experiences of writing an illness memoir, asking what makes such storytelling possible. How telling stories about suffering can precipitate healing is then considered. Finally, the argument pivots to health care research, asking what sort of research would be consistent with the ideas about illness that have been expressed.

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Affekt und Phantasie im Aufb au personaler Realitäten. Zur emotiven Wirkungsphänomenologie der Lebenswelt

Author(s): Jagna Brudzińska / Language(s): German Issue: 57supl./2012

In the modern philosophy fantasies, affects and emotions are often unregarded or dismissed as subject of psychology. Today they are (re-)discovered by the modern cognitive – and neurosciences. But first of all it is the phenomenology of Edmund Husserl which investigates fantasies and affects with regard to its constitutive functions in the self and world experience. The phenomenology interprets fantasies and affects by its fundamental functions of the emotive effectiveness as a consciousness of a concrete bodily and personal subjectivity. Only with the genetic-phenomenological intentional analysis fantasies, bodily affects and emotions can also be investigated within the deeper levels of passive experience with regard to its subjective and intersubjective effectiveness as affections, kinaesthesis and phantasma. The method of genetic phenomenology makes it possible to understand the emotive dynamics of these fields and to find out the concrete emotive achievements of sense-performing in our subjective life. In my contribution I discuss these aspects beginning with the draft of a phenomenological concept of emotiveness. I describe the basic character of the emotive effectiveness-structure of the subjective constitution and discuss the phenomenological understanding of fantasy as a consciousness of experience with regard to its emotive structure of effectiveness. Thereby I consider its temporal and motivational dynamics. On this background I analyze the emotive aspect of the personal as well as interpersonal constitution and finally I shortly describe a specific structure of intersubjective sympathetic experience, which has in my view a fundamental significance for the genesis of our shared world as life-world. This sympathetic experience can only be interpreted with respect to the understanding of the emotive structure of experiencing consciousness. In this way fantasies, affects and emotions get a new importance as a research field of theoretical and practical phenomenology

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Rola biegłych psychiatrów i problemy związane z ich opiniowaniem w postępowaniu karnym

Author(s): Roksana Wszołek / Language(s): Polish Issue: 4/2018

The main reason to analize the problem of the role of psychiatrists in criminal procedure was the Ombudsman’s raport about people who are mentaly ill and who were sentenced to prison. The author is looking for the reason of this problem, so checking the way of appointment psychiatrists, what they do, how and why. It is showed what way they are appointed and how much rigorous it is. It is discussed, that the institution is not perfect at all, there are essential mistakes of expert opinions and using they. Furthermore, the role of psychologists is so limited. The author points out the large problem of this kind of specialists and propose her point of view to find a solution of it.

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W poszukiwaniu magii utraconej - Alchemia czasu i przestrzeni w filozofii Carla Gustava Junga i Gastona Bachelarda

Author(s): Barbara Barysz / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2018

The article presents the concept of time and space in the depth psychology of Carl Gustav Jung and the psychoanalysis of dreams of his philosophical heir, Gaston Bachelard. The main thesis of the article is the philosophical, metaphysical and structural affinities between the concept of space-time in the works of both philosophers and the one that emerges from pre-scientific and pre-philosophical alchemical way of thinking and acting. In the course of the analysis, it becomes clear that the concept of space-time of both thinkers is not only non-linear, but even sacral at times, and thus the way of experiencing the world that emerges from their works has, in some ways, more to do with religious experience than with rational analysis of data that is so triumphant in the modern discourse.

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Symbolic Order in Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy” and “Lady Lazarus”: A Lacanian Reading

Author(s): Somaye Mostafaei,Ensieh Shabanirad / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2018

Sylvia Plath’s works are mainly considered self-reflective mirrors that reverberate her predicaments, especially her troubled relationships with her father and her hus- band. Plath’s responses to gender-biased language, which is the main medium of male-dominated discourses, are full of conflicting desires. On the one hand, as one of the subjects of language, Plath wants to preserve her submissive position; on the other hand, as a poet, she desires to create her own order free of the restrictive and meddling presence of male-centered language. This paper thus aims to investigate the role of the Father in Sylvia Plath’s two significant works, “Daddy” (1965) and “Lady Lazarus” (1965), by the employment of Jacques Lacan’s views on the order of identity formation and creation of the subject, especially Lacan’s Symbolic Order. This paper is an attempt to investigate how the presence and absence of the father figure influences Plath and how she rebuilds a new Order with the free play of signi- fication and devoid of the domineering voice of the Father.

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A PSYCHOANALYTICAL APPROACH TO JOSEPH CONRAD'S NOVELS

Author(s): Dimitrie Andrei Borcan / Language(s): English Issue: 15/2018

The present study intends to approach Conrad's works from an psychoanalytical point of view. I have been trying to interpret a few Conradian novels and novellas psychoanalytically: Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, Almayer's Folly, Nostromo, Chance and The Nigger of the Narcissus. I will refer in this study to Sigmund Freud and Carl Gustav Jung, by identifying instances of the theories belonging to them as applicable to Conrad's novels.

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An Artistic and Psychoanalytic Approach of Leonardo da Vinci’s Paintings

Author(s): Irina-Andreea Stoleriu / Language(s): English Issue: 08/2015

The starting point of the present paper is the work 'The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne', made by Leonardo da Vinci. The paper is based both on an artistic and psychoanalytic approach which opens new ways of interpretation due to the research of Sigmund Freud - 'Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of His Childhood'. Freud claims that Leonardo had found the lost image of his mother in his works 'The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne' and 'Mona Lisa', thus justifying the artist’s direct attachment to these creations. Along with specific interpretations of the creative process, the psychoanalytic approach intends to explain and enrich the content of ideas of the present paper regarding one of the most valuable creations of Leonardo and also an artistic testament created towards the end of his life. Freud’s psychoanalytic approach brings specific interpretative content for the mentioned work of art. It is different from the artistic method, not contradicting various artistic studies, but complementing them in a harmonious way.

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CREATIVE MODES OF CONSTRUCTING POETRY IN CLEMENTINA MIHĂILESCU’S STYLISTICS

Author(s): Georgeta Obilișteanu / Language(s): English Issue: 14/2018

The paper entitled ˮCreative Modes of Construing Poetry in Clementina Mihăilescu’s Stylistics’’ consists in a complex theoretical examination of “Stylistics” throughout the ages. It starts with ancient times and continues up to modern stylistics, offers various definitions of style, insists upon the need of uniting the analytical description offered by Vossler, Spitzer, Bally, Guirraud, Auerbach, Roman Jakobson, DeVito, Parpală, Coșeriu, Vianu and the literary stylistic interpretation. Mihăilescu̕ s book on Stylistics comprises interesting interdisciplinary approaches to the experience of the poetic self apprehended via T.S. Eliot̕ s and Leech̕ s Theory of Music, Jung̕ Psychoanalysis, Liiceanu̕ s Symbolism of the Limit.

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THE PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC COMMUNICATION, BETWEEN PERCEPTION AND EMPATHY

Author(s): Doina Mihaela Popa / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 13/2018

In the interdisciplinary field of communication, beyond the strictly psychological mechanism of the communication situation, as an inter-human phenomenon, can no longer be reduced to the behavioral scheme Stimulus → Response. The classical definition of communication, as human interaction through messages, is perceived as obsolete, both by the theoreticians of the school-process of communication and by those of the semiotic school, for which the importance of meaning moves from the transmitter to the interaction of the message with the receiver: the empathy is not only on communication-as-process, but on communication-generating-of-significance. In analytical treatment, the analyst/ analyzed interaction relies mainly on the method of free associations, therefore, on raw verbal material, as the unconscious manifests, according to Lacan's fundamental thesis, after which "the unconscious is structured as a language. From the more general perspective of communication within any complementary, psychotherapeutic relationship, the essence of this interpersonal communication technique is empathy, as a non-directive attitude of understanding the Other.

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