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Psychoanalytic Perspective (psychoanalytic + perspective)

Distribution by Scientific Domains

Psychology	85%
Humanities and Social Sciences	14%

Distribution within Psychology

Psychoanalysis	58%
Psychotherapy & Counseling	41%

Selected Abstracts

THE INDIVIDUAL AND THE INFLUENCE OF SOCIA SETTINGS: A PSYCHOANALYTIC PERSPECTIVE ON THE INTERACTION OF THE INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIETY

BRITISH JOURNAL OF PSYCHOTHERAPY, Issue 2 2005
R.D. HinshelwoodArticle first published online: 17 NOV 200
ABSTRACT Psychoanalysis cannot explain social phenomena directly, but the human responses to social, economic and historical forces can be described. In this paper I want to look at the interaction between the underlying psychology of the unconscious of individuals in groups, and to theorize how that provides a basis upon which social forces may act. Certain aspects of racism and national identity serve as useful illustrations of how the social phenomena interact with the psychology of individuals. [source]

The Emotional Experience of Adoption, a Psychoanalytic Perspective

CHILD & FAMILY SOCIAL WORK, Issue 2 2010
Janette Logan
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

The Geography of Meanings: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Place, Space, Land and Dislocation edited by Hooke, Maria Teresa Savio & Akhtar, Salman

THE JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY, Issue 4 2008
James Astor
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

Psychoanalytic perspectives on sport: a critical review

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF APPLIED PSYCHOANALYTIC STUDIES, Issue 4 2008
Marcus Free
Abstract Critically reviewing and comparing various psychoanalytic perspectives on conscious and unconscious motivations in sport, this paper contends that the appeal of sports participation may variously derive from its simultaneously involving the indulgence of pre-Oedipal and Oedipal symbolism within the outward maturity and disciplining frame of a post-Oedipal symbolic form. It considers differences between distinct psychoanalytic frames, favouring Kleinian and object relations above Lacanian approaches, based on their closer attention to the corporeality and sensuousness of sports participation and the conscious and unconscious fantasies embedded in it. Sport's sensuous corporeality, which enables its embodiment of pre-Oedipal fantasy as well as post-Oedipal submission to social reality, lies at the heart of its appeal. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]

Tricycles, bicycles, life cycles: Psychoanalytic perspectives on childhood loss and transgenerational parenting in Les triplettes de Belleville (2003),

THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOANALYSIS, Issue 4 2006
Alexander Stein
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The emptiness of zero: representations of loss, absence, anxiety and desire in the late twentieth century

CRITICAL QUARTERLY, Issue 1 2004
Kathy Smith
As the new millenium approached, the anxiety which this moment generated found resonance in various cultural representations, and the appearance of spectral imagery seemed to indicate an anxiety about subjectivity, and about its fragmentation or complete loss. Unable to comtemplate a state beyond this loss, there came into being a crisis in subjectivity itself, and the existence of the destabilized millenium subject. This subject approached the moment by both fixating on the threshold and by disavowing what lay beyond. These strategies, and the underlying anxiety which brought them into existence, were resonated through many of the cultural representations of the time. This paper argues that it is through nachträglichkeit - a 'making sense' in retrospect of earlier disparate experiences - that we can begin to examine, contextualise and account for the phenomenon of 'millenium frenzy' which came about at the end of 1999. It constructs a reading of this moment, and of two particular filmic representations which resonate the concerns of the time, examining in the process how - from a psychoanalytic perspective - culture might be understood through its representations, and how these representations can be understood through culture. [source]

A psychoanalytic perspective on life-transforming congregations.

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF APPLIED PSYCHOANALYTIC STUDIES, Issue 1 2009
By R. Ellsworth, J. Ellsworth
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

Lost voices/found words: a psychoanalytic perspective on a writing workshop

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF APPLIED PSYCHOANALYTIC STUDIES, Issue 3 2006
Erika Duncan
First page of article [source]

The ironic detachment of Edward Gibbon

THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOANALYSIS, Issue 3 2009
Harry Trosman
Edward Gibbon, the author of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, has been widely recognized as a master of irony. The historian's early life with parents he found self-serving and unreliable, his reaction to the events surrounding the death of his mother at the age of 9 and the decline of his father, left an impact on his personality and played a role in determining his choice of his life work. Irony has been approached from a psychoanalytic perspective as a mode of communication, as a stylistic device, as a modality through which one might view reality and as a way of uncovering the linkage between pretense and aspiration, between the apparent and the real. Gibbon's ironic detachment can be understood as rooted in his life history. He felt detached from his family of origin, in need of a protective device which would enable him to deal with passion. Sexual and aggressive impulses mobilized defensive postures that were later transformed into an attitude of skepticism and an interest in undercutting false beliefs and irrational authority, positions he attributes to religious ideation which served to instigate historical decline. [source]

From unity to atonement: Some religious correlates of Hans Loewald's developmental theory

THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOANALYSIS, Issue 3 2003
Jenifer A. Nields
Loewald's understanding of ego development offers a way to conceptualise, from a psychoanalytic perspective, those aspects of religious experience that can reflect or contribute to the enrichment of the ego, in contradistinction to the defensive and regressive elements of religious experience that have been well detailed in the psychoanalytic literature in the past. In Loewald's view, a dynamic and metabolic interplay between ego and reality characterises the developmental process. With increasing levels of internalisation, differentiation, individuation and integration, ego and reality are restructured into increasingly resilient and durable forms. An ongoing dialectical tension between separation and reunion provides the driving force for development. Loewald's emphasis on the synthetic rather than defensive aspects of ego functioning forms the basis for his characterisation of sublimation as a ,genuine appropriation' rather than a defence, thus opening up one way to understand non-defensive aspects of religious experience from a psychoanalytic perspective. In the course of this exploration of Loewald's view of ego development and its implications for an understanding of religious experience, the author offers perspectives on Freud's views of religion, on some extreme forms of religious fundamentalism, and on the dynamics of ,mature' faith as illuminated by Loewald's developmental theory. [source]

Psychoanalytic perspectives on sport: a critical review

,Psychoanalysis and war': a summary,

PSYCHOTHERAPY AND POLITICS INTERNATIONAL, Issue 3 2007
Neil Altman
Abstract This paper develops a contrast between Buddhist and psychoanalytic perspectives on war. I discuss dissociative mechanisms that allow people, soldiers and civilians, to avoid coming to terms emotionally with the horror of war. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]

My father's flags: psychoanalytic perspectives on being an American from the streets and the consulting room,

PSYCHOTHERAPY AND POLITICS INTERNATIONAL, Issue 3 2004
Rachael Peltz
Abstract In this paper the author explores the generational object of the American flag in three periods of American history: the post World War Two era, the late 1960s and early 1970s, and the period immediately following 9/11. In each of these periods the flag holds a difference resonance. In the first it symbolized the assurance of a measure of freedom and social security; in the second it represented the imposition of American dominance abroad; and in the third the flag was used to justify a new and unnecessary war. The author argues that a new flag is needed, one that signifies a revitalized ,progressive patriotism' dedicated to reclaiming and rebuilding the institutions that have been eroded in this period of American history. The paper then shifts from the symbol of the flag to the psychoanalytic consulting room. The author maintains that psychoanalytic development and clinical theories now stop short of the examining the psychic relationship to the social world outside of the family and that in order to truly help people live fully in the ,place that they live', psychoanalysis must extend its theories and clinical interventions beyond the Oedipal triad to communal groupings the larger society. Copyright © 2004 Whurr Publishers Ltd [source]

THE WEBSITE,GIRL': CONTEMPORARY THEORIES ABOUT MALE,FEMININITY'

BRITISH JOURNAL OF PSYCHOTHERAPY, Issue 1 2005
Marie Maguire
ABSTRACT I explore a bisexual male patient's need to differentiate highly problematic,feminine'identifications - originating in childhood sexual abuse and impingement by men as well as women - from identifications with more admired aspects of his mother. My main focus is on the patient's sexual identity - the personal meaning he gave to being male - rather than on his bisexuality - his desire for both sexes. In psychoanalytic literature powerful opposite-sex identifications are usually associated either with psychotic confusion or celebrated as a source of psychic strength. The co-existence of problematic and highly valued cross-sex identifications is rarely discussed. I also look at how this patient re-negotiated his identity through the transference relationship with a female psychotherapist, given that his,masculinity'derived mainly from childhood experiences of 'stealing'his mother's phallic power. Through a wideranging theoretical review I conclude that we need to draw together opposing psychoanalytic perspectives about maternal and paternal power, opening up new ways of thinking about triangular relationships in the transference. [source]