Zvuk samo jedne ruke

Author(s): Ante Jerić / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 2/2015

In the series of books, Catherine Malabou severely critiqued the psychoanalytic concept of causality. The aim of this paper is to present her critique, and subsequently to critique the critique itself. It seems there are two ways to do that: to put her critique under the strong critique that aspires to show how Malabou misses something crucial regarding the very foundations of psychoanalytic theory at the cost of rendering her virulent attack on psychoanalysis ineffective; or to put Malabou's critique under the weak critique that includes the revision of clinical cases which she uses as evidence in the carefully constructed case against psychoanalysis. The claim defended in this paper is that the weak critique of the critique, which refrains from examining the foundations of psychoanalytic edifice, can present a more serious challenge to Malabou's project than the strong critique. It can also point directly to the contemporary relevance of psychoanalysis. The paper takes two ideas from Malabou: the distortion of the psychic apparatus reveals the mechanisms of its functioning; the difference between the psychic wounds lies only in degree, and not in kind. It also follows Malabou steps by taking anosognosia as the paradigm of the psychic wound - the most exemplary of all cases of the psychic dysfunctioning and, at the same time, just one case among the others. After reassessing clinical studies which dealt with the diagnosis of anosognosia, paper ends with a conclusion that anosognosia does not display features which would contradict the presupposed foundations of psychoanalysis: the psychoanalytic model of causality should not be abandoned, but retained, expanded and upgraded.

Freudovi »modeli« homoseksualnosti: Tri rasprave o seksualnoj teoriji i teorija edipacije

Author(s): Rašid Durić / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 2/2015

The paper discusses Freud's views and opinions on homosexuality in Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality and Oedipal theory. In the first work homosexuality was interpreted as an inversion of sexual drive (inversional theory). In the second phase, while postulating Oedipal theory, Freud established developmental model. As in the case of most of the author's speculation, such as those about homosexuality were also subject to processing and rejection or supplementing. The question is what caused the abandonment of inversional theory on the behalf of developmental theory. Relation between the two theories will also be examined through two basic approaches of interpretation of Freud's views on homosexuality.

Odredište pisma: Derrida i Lacan

Author(s): Mario Kopić / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 2/2015

Odnos Jacquesa Derride prema Jacquesu Lacanu, kojega tumači prije svega na podlozi punog govora (parole pleine) iz njegova znamenitog rimskog referata održanog rujna 1953. godine pod nazivom Uloga i polje govora i jezika u psihoanalizi (Fonction et champ de la parole et du langage en psychanalyse), nadasve je u znamenju kritike.

Stigma i psihoterapija

Author(s): Mitra Mirković-Hajdukov / Language(s): Bosnian,Croatian,Serbian Issue: 12/2015

U našoj sredini primjena psihoterapija počela je u periodu između 1930.-1940. godine, pod uticajem psihoanalitičkog učenja Freuda. Poslije Drugog svjetskog rata, psihoterapija u našoj sredini počinje se snažno razvijati, a sedamdesetih godina XX. stoljeća počinje i primjena drugih vidova psihoterapije, grupne psihoanalitičke psihoterapije, bihejvioralno-kognitivne psihoterapije, partnerske i porodične psihoterapije, geštalt terapije, transakcione analize, psihoterapije djece i mladih, integrativne psihoterapije, seksualne psihoterapije i dr. Danas je u našoj sredini psihoterapija razvijena, a primjenjuje se u svakodnevnom rutinskom radu. Zbog stigme, osobe s psihičkim poteškoćama se često socijalno izoliraju i osamljuju, a obzirom na uvriježeno mišljenje o odlascima na psihoterapiju, ne traže pomoć i osamljuju se. Temeljni cilj ovog rada je, dakle, ukazati kako se kroz psihoterapiju stigma smanjuje u pojedinim društvima i kako se uči i usvaja tolerancija i razumijevanje koji zamjenjuju predrasude i stigmatizaciju.

Ratna trauma i povjerenje u forenziku: Bosanci u St Louisu

Author(s): Renata Salecl / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 23/2016

U St Louisu živi najveća skupina bosanskih izbjeglica u SAD. Sasvim slučajno, St Louis ima i živahnu psihoanalitičku zajednicu, vodi je dr. Todd Dean koji je godinama pro bono pružao pomoć traumatiziranim izbjeglicama. Sve to nagnalo me je otputovati u St Louis, radoznalu istražiti šta se dogodilo s Bosancima/kama 20 godina poslije rata, kroz kakvu vrst trauma prolaze, kako se nose s prošlošću i kako su se snašli u novoj zemlji.

Narcizam i tijelo

Author(s): Slobodan Sadžakov / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 03/139/2015

This paper will analyse certain aspects of body functioning within contemporary practical reality, primarily within its contextual relationship with contemporary narcissism phenomenon. The analysis mainly focuses on the relationship between individuality and narcissism, considers the possibility of ethical valuation of the position and function of narcissism, as well as valuation of the newly formed bodily identities in contemporary sociability.

Teorijski otpori, čitanje i san o Irminoj injekciji

Author(s): Andrea Milanko / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 3-4/2013

In this paper, the author takes up Freud’s analysis of the so-called dream of Irma’s injection to be an example par excellence of Freud’s dream analysis. The analysis of this specific dream-work is crucial for understanding genealogy that is made of various contested readings between feminist and psychoanalytic criticism, on the one hand, and deconstruction, on the other. Freud’s analysis and its impact on reading procedures outside psychoanalytic interests are being examined in order to gain insight into how they contribute to the politics of reading literary texts. Thus, the discussion will range from Freud and Lacan to Felman and Derrida.

Psychoanalyse und Literatur

Author(s): Lionel Trilling / Language(s): German Issue: 035/1951

The Distribution of Useful Frequencies in Polygraph Sensor Channels

Author(s): Bruce White / Language(s): English Issue: 4 (42)/2017

Purpose: to help other polygraph researchers better understand the distribution of energy across diff erent frequencies in the standard six polygraph channels in common use.Th e channels shown will be pneumo, electrodermal (Axciton), cardio cuff pressure, movement sensor, and infrared plethesmo (Axciton). In all cases we use a zero phase high pass filter with a fourth order roll off . Unless otherwise noted, all frequency traces are kept with a constant gain to show their relative energy or strength content.

From “Lure” to “Cure”. From Critical Spectatorship to a Relational Space of Reverie

Author(s): Maria Walsh / Language(s): English Issue: 35/2023

In her article, the author proposes to address the psychic ‘work’ of the moving image by aligning it with aspects of post-Bionian psychoanalytic theories that allude to virtual spaces as sites of reverie that, in enabling pre-linguistic ‘feelings’ to find expression, might produce shifts in thinking about disturbing or traumatic conditions and experiences. Her approach to psychoanalytic theory and the moving image is tested out in relation to one case study: Jeamin Cha’s artists’ film Sound Garden (2019), a film that refers to practices of counselling engaged in by four female protagonists who, on the soundtrack, reflect on their work and well-being in the context of neoliberalism in South Korean institutions.

Adaptacja wtórna i inne statusy kondycyjne żałoby rodziców po stracie dziecka

Author(s): Zofia Dołęga / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2022

The article is devoted to the characteristics of a course of the psychological crisis caused by a critical event, which is the death of a child. The author of the work refers to the cyclical- phase model of developmental changes, which is well-known in the developmental psychology, and the Dual Process Model of Coping with Bereavement (DPM) of Margaret Stroebe, Henk Schut and Catrin Finkenauer (1999, 2001, 2010, 2013, 2015). What parents experience after the loss of a child is not an identical and parallel process. The course of mourning in parents is not the same. Rather, it is the interweaving of different states of mourning, sometimes with a regres- sion to previous states. The result is a different mental condition of the mother and the father as a consequence of dealing more or less successfully with the loss of a child. The paper, based on theoretical and empirical analyses, proposes an original model of four psychological statuses of parents after the loss of a child. It takes into account the differentiation of the mental condition of parents in connection with the possibility of adequate psychological help. The bereavement status model (MSK) takes into consideration the statuses of secondary adaptation, unfinished mourning, complex persistent bereavement disorder, and the status of possible post-traumatic growth. A hypothesis worthy of empirical verification has been formulated that in assessing the mental condition of parents after the loss of a child, it is worth proposing a specific diagnostic package containing information on the life situation of the family; the time that has passed since the death of a child; the sex of the parent; intensification of feelings of loneliness, availability of social support and its perception by parents, and the assessment of coping strategies for everyday stress. It remains an open question, what are the direct and indirect relationships between these variables and whether their differentiation proves the legitimacy of distinguishing certain condi- tioning statuses of mourning in parents after the loss of a child. This is currently the subject of an empirical research testing out the MSK model.

LACAN’S CONCEPT OF DESIRE AND ITS ARTICULATION IN ROMAN POLANSKI’S FILM REPULSION (1965)

Author(s): Petar Marković / Language(s): English Issue: 01/2023

In this paper, the author undertakes an analysis of the concept of desire (désir) within the theoretical framework set by the French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. The concept of desire is central to his theoretical thought. For Lacan desire is unconscious, not because there are no conscious desires, but because the unconscious is central to the psychoanalytical field. The author will also present the relation between demand and desire, as well as the concept of enjoyment (jouissance) related to both. Lacan defines man’s desire as the desire of Other. The paper aims at an explication of the articulation of desire through a case study of the character of Carol Ledoux in the film Repulsion (1965) directed by Roman Polanski, and the concept of female desire and its articulation by the notion of the Other.

Modal Logic in Integrative Philosophical Practice

Author(s): Aleksandar Fatić / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2023

The paper discusses the differences between a practical emphasis on binary logic on the one hand, and modal logic, on the other, specifically in the fields of philosophical practice and psychotherapy. Although studies of practical applications of modal logic in the helping professions are recent, the discussion largely revolves around the controversial application of modality in psychotherapy by C.G. Jung and Lacan’s psychoanalysis. The present argument touches on some of the conceptual dilemmas associated with the relationship between logical modality, intuition and scientificity in psychotherapy, all of which are a part of the philosophical foundation of psychotherapy.

Szophoklész, Freud és Robert Wilson

Author(s): Antal Bókay / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 3/2023

Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex is a classical, traditional work that received several important ‘post-dramatic’ reinterpretations. I will interpret two radical re-enactments which depart from traditional dramatic tradition. One was in Sigmund Freud’s oeuvre about the Oedipus complex. Freud sees psychoanalytic therapy as a kind of mise en scène, where therapy creates a theatrical situation and psychoanalysis is born out of the theatre. My connected example is Robert Wilson’s Oedipus Rex. I assume that Wilson is not primarily staging Sophocles’ Oedipus, but rather the Oedipus read (created) by Freud. Wilson’s performance of Oedipus is an unconscious narrative based on associative images, formless music, and a fragmented, disjointed text of the original drama, with a strong semiotic discursivity (in Kristeva’s sense), and a fading symbolic background.

L’interartialité, une forme de l’écriture diasporique dans L’éloge de la perte de Lynda-Nawel Tebbani

Author(s): Nezha Aït-Aïssa-Boukerdenna / Language(s): French Issue: 45/2023

The article discusses Lynda-Nawel Tebbani's book L’éloge de la perte and her unique approach to Algerian literature in French. Tebbani uses a hybrid language and an inter-artistic approach that infuses her text with Andalusian music. The book evokes a melancholic aesthetic and a poetics of three main cities: Paris, Algiers, and Constantine. The article aims to unveil this poetic of the city, linked to Andalusian music, that imbues the book with its originality and Algerianness, and the singular voice of the diaspora. The interdisciplinary and analytical approach draws on geocriticism, psychoanalysis, and Gaston Bachelard's poetics of space.

How are online and face-to-face psychotherapy perceived by clients? A metaphor analysis

Author(s): Tuğba Yılmaz,Ece Bekaroğlu / Language(s): English,Serbian Issue: 1/2024

Studies about online psychotherapy have gained momentum as the coronavirus pandemic has had an impact on conducting them face to face. The effectiveness and therapeutic alliance in online psychotherapy have been examined and sometimes compared with face-to-face psychotherapy. In these studies, it was seen that mainly quantitative methods were used. Exploratory qualitative research is needed to refine the literature on online psychotherapy. For this purpose, in this study, data obtained from clients who received face-to-face or online psychotherapy were analyzed using the metaphor analysis method, which is one of the descriptive phenomenological approaches. According to the data obtained from 116 people, nine different categories of metaphors related to online and face-to-face psychotherapy were obtained. The most frequent metaphors about online psychotherapy belonged to categories of convenience, artificiality, similarity to face-to-face psychotherapy, and ineffectiveness. The frequent metaphors about face-to-face psychotherapy belonged to categories of contact, effectiveness, reality, and difficulty. When the participants were divided into two groups according to their age, the opinions about online psychotherapy differed in the two age groups. Similarly, the opinions of people who received psychotherapy with different methods differed for the online psychotherapy. Clinical implications and limitations were discussed.

Psychoanalytic Readings in Troubled Times: Review of Camden Vera J., ed. The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Psychoanalysis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. ISBN 978-1-108-47748-2 Hardback, ISBN 978-1-108-73288-8 Paperback. 321 Pag

Author(s): Edward Waysband / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

This is a review article of Vera J. Camden’s edited Cambridge Companion to Literature and Psychoanalysis, which engages critically with the contributors’ main ideas and connects this volume with contemporary events.

The Labyrinth of Kristeva’s Modernisms: A Review of Maria Margaroni, ed. Understanding Kristeva, Understanding Modernism, New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. Hardback ISBN 978-1-5013-6235-4 Paperback ISBN 979-8-7651-0216-9, xx + 346 pages, 117 $ (h

Author(s): Darin Tenev / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

This is a review article of Maria Margaroni’s edited collection Understanding Kristeva, Understanding Modernism which engages critically with the contributors’ main ideas and connects this book with other contemporary scholarship in the field and discusses the ‘Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism’ Series of Bloomsbury Academic.

Interior Space Design for Psychotherapy Sessions

Author(s): Irina-Ana Drobot / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2023

The purpose of the present paper is to analyze the elements that can bring a state of well-being to the client in the setting of psychotherapy sessions. Every element has its own effect on the client; according to Davies (2018), for example, windows that allow the passage of sunlight could bring about a state of calm and relaxation; plants, as they are a part of nature, can also contribute to mental well-being; the way therapist and client sit is also meant to improve their relationship, and establish it on equal and friendly terms; colors should also be chosen to suggest a soothing atmosphere, and, to this purpose, greens and blues are recommended. Psychological and cultural perceptions of the psychotherapy space design will be considered, together with the recommendations of psychoanalysts such as Sigmund Freud. By examining past and present trends and recommendations, we could draw general conclusions about the psychotherapeutic relationship and the way it can be facilitated by space design.

Skóra, która czuje

Author(s): Jakub Momro / Language(s): Polish Issue: 31/2022

The text is an attempt to approach the problem of desire from three sides: dialectical-political, psychoanalytic and deconstructive. In each of these paradigms of reflection, subjects become effective when they act within the framework of practical self-knowledge, which takes various forms: intentional alienation, elaboration of contradictions inherent in living environments, knowledge arising from the immanent unconscious and from the body exposed to touch.