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Abstract: Ferenczi produced elaborations on the regression, the traumatism, the transference and counter transference which question deeply the practice of the cure. His first texts (1908–1912) ask still current clinical questions (on the status of the interpretation and on the place of the body and of the acting in the cures, on the status of the language) and open the way to the elaborations of other psychoanalysts. They will be used as a point of departure of our reflection. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

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The paper highlights the relevance of time for the clinic of psychoses. It links time, language and being in order to illuminate possible ways to (re)consider psychosis. The author argues that the dimension of time is equally important for Jacques Lacan as those of repression and the return of the repressed are for Freud (as asserted in the paper, the dimension of time completes the mirror stage). In fact, time represents a third dimension and a solution for a difficult dualist Freudian interpretation, allowing the therapist to observe and interpret the patient's symptom more effectively. The symptom (or its absence) is particularly evident in the case of psychosis where the relation the patient has with time reveals ones attempt of finding a solution to a precarious way of being more astutely. Both hallucination and delirium are such attempts and involve a suspension of time. Given this contextualization, the author concludes that an interpretation is possible for psychotic cases and, even more, that the question of interpretation in psychosis is at the heart of what psychoanalysis itself is. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper approaches the theme of nightmare in two classical short films by Akira Kurosawa and Masaki Kobayashi, by way of Lacanian psychoanalysis. I analyze Freud’s theory of dreams together with Lacan’s reinterpretation of it, considering an indescribable memory of the nightmare that belongs to the Other as a radical lack. Relating to the navel of the dream and to the mystery surrounding it and blurring the already thin borders between sleep and awakening, all these key dimensions of the nightmare stand for its impossibility to be defined, thus intertwining life and death by way of the rigorously portrayed uncanny from the Japanese cinema. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper starts with the psychoanalytic Lacanian difference between Real and reality, to redefine the relations between reality itself, as a real image, and the Imaginary. It insists on the inversion of the relations between Knowledge and the Subject, which Lacan analyzes in Crucial Problems for Psychoanalysis, and clarifies the role of Cartesian doubt as a symptom in the constitution of the modern subject. The division of knowledge between the signifier and the signified thus explains the function of the dream, but also the limits of this function in the particular case of the nightmare, as the return of the Symbolic in the Real. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper focuses on child psychiatry and proposes psychoanalysis as a useful approach in understanding the child as a patient. The author highlights the fact that even before being an object of diagnostic evaluation, the child is an object for his parents and other adults who take care of him/her. Psychiatric evaluation may thus be facilitated by the Lacanian "mirror stage" and by the notion of object "little a". Both findings have the potential to illuminate the particular position of a child as being an object for others and can consequently help the medical doctor allow the object of consultation to represent itself as such; that is to say, as a subject. Such a representation is particularly difficult in the case of autism. The author thus proceeds to shows how autism has put the idea of the object of diagnostic evaluation to the test. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Creativity does not specific only the history of the disciplines of spirit. It also defines normality itself to the extent to which normality is given to man who, at best, to use a term coined by the creator of psychosomatic medicine, Viktor von Wiezsäcker, is stricken by normopathie. After a defining meeting with Freud, he published a research in Die Kreatur magazine demonstrating that, as long as it is to be found "exiled on earth", in its minor and pathological meaning, the "creature" is synonym with suffering. For psychoanalysis, in its major opposite meaning, the therapeutic one, the following is implied: how much creativity so much normality. Given this context, the major theoretical and practical plus that Lacan brings in addition to Freud is represented by the possibility of treatment for psychosis using what he coined as the "substitute". His seminar titled Le Sinthome is entirely focused on the manner in which James Joyce could "substitute" his psychosis through the recursive act of his own creativity. The recursion to creation can substitute the recurrence of psychosis. In this paper we argue the importance and function of the substitute in Samuel Becket's case - he was, for a while, Joyce's personal secretary. After a schizophrenic episode followed by an analysis with Wilfred Bion, Beckett managed not only to find substitution in and through his work, but also to provide some important indications for the therapy of this serious condition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Sexual Acts, Horror and Witchcraft in Cinema. The Copulation with the Devil: a Psychoanalytical Perspective. This paper tries to approach, taking as a starting point a Romanian painting from the 18th century, a scene with a strong phantasmatic load: the sexual act of a woman, who is considered a witch, with the devil. Several films are analyzed: Häxan by Benjamin Christensen (1922), Rosemary’s Baby by Roman Polanski (1968), L’Anticristo by Alberto de Martino (1974), Angel above, Devil below by Dominic Bolla (1975). These films share some common features, important for the analytical process: the copulation with the devil, the presence of traumatized characters who are submitted to a psychological cure, the recycling of psychoanalytical vocabulary, especially “hysteria”, the problems with parental instances. In order to interpret these films, there is a coming back to Freud’s ideas on the Devil, as expressed in the letters to Wilhelm Fliess or in the study A Seventeenth-Century Demonological Neurosis (1923). The devil as an image of unconscious impulsions or as a substitute of the father are the main Freudian intuitions used here for an optimal interpretation of the chosen films. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objectives The goal of this paper was first to review the contributions of Dr. Camille Laurin in the development of psychiatric services at Albert-Prévost, and more specifically the role he played in promoting psychoanalysis as a modality of thinking which informs the various therapeutic measures with psychic caring and therapeutic relationship as a main focus. Psychoanalysis and psychodynamic psychotherapy are currently taught; this teaching is informed by the contemporary challenges posed by the evidence-based medicine, the neuroscience and the recent technological developments in the field of communication. Methods In the first section of this article, a biographical research was completed. In the second section, a brief review of literature was conducted for each topic discussed. Results Dr. Camille Laurin played a major role in the development of psychoanalytic thinking at Albert-Prévost. His heritage is still alive, mainly in the different courses and training activities offered at the Psychotherapy Center of this institution. The efficacy of the psychodynamic psychotherapy as a treatment has now been confirmed for many years. Even if neuroscience and psychoanalysis are two totally different fields of investigation, each of those disciplines can benefit from an open dialogue. The development of new communication technologies and artificial intelligence could eventually modify the practice of psychotherapy. Conclusion Psychoanalysis in its basic theoretical tenets are still widely taught to psychiatric students who mostly apply its principles when they practice psychodynamic psychotherapy. Dr. Camille Laurin played a significant role in promoting this approach at Albert-Prévost and more generally at the Department of psychiatry and addictions of the Université de Montréal.

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The main goal of this paper is to criticize Wittgenstein's reading of Freudian psychoanalysis. According to Wittgenstein, the very notion of "unconscious" can only make sense considered from a grammatical standpoint. The unconscious is not an empirical feature of our mind but a kind of language game. On the basis of a thorough study of Freud's book on Moses, this paper argues that psychoanalysis relies on a legitimate alternative to Wittgenstein's conception of mind and culture. For psychoanalysis, mind and culture would need to be understood as essentially diachronic, rather than as language games. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Résumé Objectifs Le cerveau et l’esprit sont très souvent objet de controverses dans les psychiatries du monde. L’histoire de la psychiatrie américaine est instructive à ce sujet, les États-Unis ayant accueilli très tôt la psychanalyse, inventé le béhaviorisme, promu la psychiatrie biologique, utilisé la biométrie et fabriqué la classification des maladies mentales qui a eu le plus grand succès. L’objectif de cet article est d’étudier cette histoire. Méthodes L’article propose une étude détaillée des théories, des pratiques et des débats d’idées dans le champ de cette psychiatrie américaine depuis le XVIII e siècle et des politiques fédérales de santé mentale. Résultats La psychiatrie des États-Unis a des particularités liées au concept de destinée manifeste, au protestantisme et au pragmatisme, à la manière dont la nation s’est construite (esclavagisme, conquête de l’Ouest, libéralisme économique) et aux guerres qui n’ont pas cessé de sa naissance à ce jour, de la guerre d’indépendance aux guerres du Moyen-Orient, en passant par la guerre civile et les deux guerres mondiales. Comme elle a su assimiler ses immigrés, elle a assimilé et véhiculé leurs cultures et leurs découvertes en matière de psychiatrie. Elle a elle-même donné naissance à de nombreuses théories et pratiques portées par la mondialisation, entre autres les DSM qui s’inscrivent dans l’évolution culturelle, scientifique, économique et politique de la nation. Les profanes ont été très tôt acteurs des changements, des conflits et de l’antipsychiatrie. Discussion Cet article s’interroge sur le succès croissant de la psychanalyse dans les années 1950 et sur les causes de sa perte d’influence dans les années 1970 qu’il n’impute pas au DSM-III, mais aux psychanalystes américains eux-mêmes. Il tente de démontrer que le DSM-III et les DSM suivants n’ont pas entraîné de changement de paradigme, au sens que lui donne Thomas Kuhn. Conclusion L’histoire de la psychiatrie américaine montre qu’il y a peu de chance pour que s’éteignent les conflits entre les tenants d’un cerveau, encore très mal connu, et ceux d’un esprit, souvent bien mal défini, tant que nos connaissances dans le domaine des troubles mentaux seront aussi minces qu’elles le sont aujourd’hui. Objective Very often, the brain and the mind are objects of controversy in the world of psychiatry. The history of American psychiatry is instructive in this respect. From an early date, the United States embraced psychoanalysis, invented behaviorism, promoted biological psychiatry, used biometry and produced a highly successful classification of mental disorders. The objective of this paper is the study of this history. Method The paper proposes a detailed study of the theories, practices and ideological debates in the field of American psychiatry since the 18th century, and of federal mental health policies. Results Psychiatry in the United States has distinctive features linked to the concept of manifest destiny, Protestantism and pragmatism, to the manner in which the nation was constructed (slavery, conquest of the West, economic liberalism) and to the ceaseless wars, from the War of Independence to the Middle Eastern wars, not forgetting the Civil War and two World Wars. As the nation succeeded in integrating its immigrants, it also assimilated their different cultures and their discoveries in the field psychiatry. Many theories and practices that later diffused by globalization were instigated by the nation, among others the DSMs, part of the cultural, scientific, economic and political development of the nation. Lay people were early protagonists in the constructive shifts, conflicts and anti-psychiatry tendencies. Discussion This paper examines the growing success of psychoanalysis in the 1950s and the causes behind its loss of influence in the 1970s. It does not attribute this loss to the DSM-III, but to the psychoanalysts themselves. It sets out to demonstrate that the DSM-III and later DSMs did not result in a paradigm shift in the meaning of Thomas Kuhn. Conclusion The history of American psychiatry proves that there is little chance of seeing an end to the conflicts between advocates of the brain, still poorly understood, and upholders of the mind, often poorly defined, as long as our knowledge in the field of mental disorders remains as slim as it is today. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Vojin Matić was a leading figure in Serbian post-war psychoanalysis, particularly in the 1950s and 1960s. Paleopsychology, looked upon extremely favorably, even in a revolutionary way, by the Serbian psychoanalysts of the time, was the last and indisputably most problematic part of his oeuvre. The absence of necessary anthropological methodology, the uncritical adoption of discredited and rejected concepts (such as matriarchy), the promotion of 19th-century unilineal evolutionism viewing prehistory as the childhood of mankind – these are just some of the problems of Matić's paleopsychological oeuvre. Nevertheless, this did not prevent him from leaving an indelible imprint on the thinking of numerous generations which would go on to position Serbian psychoanalysis on the international stage. Although untenable by contemporary anthropological standards, Matić's paleopsychology is interwoven with the Serbian psychoanalysis of the 1970s and 1980s, exerting a decisive influence on its application in the humanities, from Vladeta Jerotić's psychoanalytical culturology to Zoran Gluščević's literary criticism. Matić, in turn, actively adopted some outdated positions from the Serbian ethnology of the time. By providing this broader theoretical, historical and academic context, the paper seeks to shed light not only on the occurrence of this scientifically questionable theory, but also on its (surprisingy "uncritical") acceptance outside the anthropological community. The paper therefore presents, in turn: 1) the tenets of Matić's paleopsychology, with emphasis on the features it shared with contemporary anthropology; 2) the biographical and disciplinary/historical background of paleopsycholgy in the works of world psychoanalysts and anthropologists, and in the practices of Serbian ethnology; it is pointed out that Matić's paleopsychology merely provided a psychoanalytic perspective to conventional Serbian ethnology; 3) a reading of Matić's paleopsychological system as a "strong" paranoid theory, that is to say, a theory which, through specific mechanisms os associativity and anticipation, absorbs every ethnographic, anthropological and archaeological fact, thus metastasizing into a self-contained and hermetic system (something that Matić himself noted as a possible structure of his own thinking).

Totem and Taboo is confounding and difficult, as the paper too easily sets the reader's mind afar from psychoanalysis. Yet Freud is looking here for a cogent validation of clinical process and a corrboration of psychoanalytic theory, through persistent ancient memory-traces, transmitted within the social fabric, as detected from its cultural remnants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Résumé Objectifs Nous tenterons de situer, dans le contexte psychiatrique et psychanalytique de son temps, l’article sur la genèse de « l’appareil à influencer » de Viktor Tausk. Méthode Nous verrons comment, comme sorte de synthèse de travaux sur l’évolution des délires, ont émergé des travaux structuralistes en psychiatrie qui ont permis une meilleure analyse des phénomènes automatiques dans les psychoses, qui ont été aussi au carrefour de la rencontre entre les travaux psychiatriques de Clérambault et le mouvement structuraliste en psychanalyse. Résultats À ce même carrefour, se situe le travail de Tausk sur l’automatisme dans les psychoses. Discussion Il est, de ce fait, structuraliste avant son ère, car il va au-delà de la théorie freudienne sur les psychoses de cette même période, jusqu’à une conception du « symptôme » psychotique en tant que « condensateur de jouissance ». Conclusions Ce n’est pas un hasard si à l’époque de l’automatisation de la production ont émergé des théories psychanalytiques sur l’automatisme créateur de l’inconscient, et, de plus, sur les phénomènes automatiques dans la psychose. Objectives This paper will attempt to place Viktor Tausk's famous article on the genesis of the “influencing machine” in schizophrenia within the psychiatric and psychoanalytic context of its time, particularly in relation to the concepts of structure and automatism. Methodology/approach Following the summary of Tausk's paper, we will analyse the predominant ideas concerning the evolution of delusion in time, in psychiatry of the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th. We will then look into how, as a result of this evolution, some more or less structuralist works arose, which permitted, among other things, a better analysis of automatic phenomena in psychoses. These phenomena have also been at the confluence of the psychiatric work of Clérambault and the psychoanalytic structuralist movement initiated by Jacques Lacan. Results It is at the crossroad between the works of the two that we may place, though in an independent register, Tausk's pioneering work on automatism in psychoses, which is not only a commentary on the evolution of delusion, but also on the underlying element that presides over delusion, from the point of its initial hypochondriac state to the generation of persecutory delusion ideas, amongst which the existence of an “influencing machine”. Discussion Tausk's work, akin to Clérambault's and Lacan's on automatism, may thus be considered structuralist before its time. More specifically, his swan song – the “influencing machine” paper – goes beyond the Freudian theory on psychoses of the time, which focused on the psychotic's denied homosexuality, and up to the concept of the psychotic “symptom” as a capacitor of enjoyment ( jouissance ). Conclusions It is most singular that at the time of production's automation during the industrial revolution, not only were delusions modified in relation to this evolution, but there was also the development of psychoanalytic theories on the creative automatism of the unconscious, and on the automatic phenomena of the psychosis, which are related to the former. Concerning these phenomena, the influencing ideas have been the subject of several studies, by Freud and Tausk firstly, and by Clérambault and Lacan later on, each time both accusing the other of plagiarism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Résumé Objectifs L’objectif de cet article est d’analyser les limites de la représentation et les caractéristiques des fictions dans leurs relations à la métapsychologie freudienne. Cette approche comporte ainsi une dimension épistémologique qui interroge les sources et les modèles de la fiction, notamment dans l’élaboration du concept de pulsion. Méthode Cet article correspond à une recherche théorique sur les fictions et les fondements des concepts psychanalytiques, à travers l’analyse épistémologique et historique de la métapsychologie freudienne. La théorie des pulsions est située dans le processus historique de sa construction. Résultats Cette étude démontre que les fictions correspondent à une approche heuristique pour penser « quelque chose d’inconnu ». Cet article suggère aussi que les fictions métapsychologiques ont différents modes d’existence : « fictions théoriques », « concepts fondamentaux », mythes… Ainsi, d’importants arguments en faveur des fictions mythologiques sont exposés : dans le cas de la pulsion de mort, les mythes peuvent fournir une représentation des pulsions et ainsi donner une place à ce qui échappe au savoir scientifique. Discussion L’article propose une approche synthétique du positionnement fictionaliste à l’œuvre dans L’interprétation du rêve . La caractérisation des « fictions théoriques » est reliée à un champ philosophique et aux principaux précurseurs du fictionalisme freudien : Kant et Hans Vaihinger. Un aspect important consiste à montrer comment la métapsychologie intègre un questionnement philosophique concernant la possibilité de la représentation. La question des « concepts fondamentaux » est abordée : la réflexion se concentre alors sur la notion de « convention » et la signification du « concept-limite ». Si le modèle freudien de 1915 est clairement scientifique et conceptuel, l’approche métapsychologique de 1920 devient fondamentalement mythologique et narrative. Ce tournant épistémologique est examiné et sa signification est discutée. Conclusion Cet article propose une conclusion générale : l’épistémologie freudienne de la fiction repose sur une aporie qui est au cœur de la possibilité même de la représentation métapsychologique. D’un point de vue épistémologique, la métapsychologie formule et maintient une position critique sur la question des « concepts fondamentaux » et des constructions théoriques : cette conclusion propose de faire des liens entre le problème des fictions et la question de la croyance. Aims The purpose of this study is to analyse the limits of representation and the characteristics of fictions in Freudian metapsychology. As such, this paper has an epistemological angle, which looks at the sources and models of fiction in the elaboration of the drive concept. Method This article is a theoretical research on fictions and foundations of psychoanalytical concepts, through an epistemological and historical analysis of Freudian metapsychology. The drive theory is located in the process of its construction. Results This study shows that fictions correspond to an heuristic approach to thinking “something unknown”. This article suggests that metapsychological fictions have different modes of existence: “theoretical fictions”, “fundamental concepts”, myths… In this paper, important arguments for mythological fictions are exposed: in the case of death drive, myths may provide a representation of drives and a place for that which escapes the realms of scientific knowledge. Discussion The article contains a brief overview of the fictional position in The Interpretation of Dreams . The characterization of “theoretical fictions” is connected with a philosophical field and the principal precursors of Freudian fictionalism: Kant and Hans Vaihinger. An important aspect is to show how metapsychology integrates a philosophical investigation of the possibility for representation. The question of “fundamental concepts” is examined: the focus concerns the notion of “convention” and the significance of “limit-concept”. If the 1915 drive model is clearly scientific and conceptual, Freud's 1920 approach is fundamentally mythological and narrative. This epistemological shift is examined and its significance is discussed. Conclusion This paper proposes a general conclusion: the Freudian epistemology of fiction is based on an aporia which is present at the core of the possibility of metapsychological representation. From an epistemological point of view, metapsychology formulates and maintains a critical position on the question of “fundamental concepts” and theoretical constructions: this conclusion connects the problem of fictions with the question of belief. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The editors pointed out that all interactions require some degree of mediation. In other words, a common ground needs to be established on which communication can be based, and when difficulties emerge mediation will be required. In this paper, we will argue that there are contexts where the assumption of common ground is stronger or weaker depending on the training, experience and disciplinary background of those involved in the interaction. The need for mediation may thus be greater in contexts where the assumption of common ground is over-optimistic, and where the consequences of not spotting the potential misunderstanding, and hence skipping mediation, may be serious. Language professionals are very much aware of variation in language proficiency and are less likely to assume complete common ground with fluent Foreign Language (LX) users than professionals from other backgrounds for whom language is merely a technical tool that does not merit special attention. Thus, considering an interlocutor who can talk easily about the weather in an LX, a Foreign Language teacher is less likely to assume complete linguistic common ground than a psychotherapist whose main concern is to locate the source of a client’s issues. The language teacher has been taught that students may have linguistic and cultural gaps that are not immediately apparent and that meaning may need to be negotiated in the classroom. The psychotherapist has been trained to try to understand the client’s worldview, but frequently that training ignores their clients’ linguistic profiles and experiences. Negotiation about meanings and across differences and power differentials, which goes to the heart of psychotherapeutic communication, often ignores the linguistic gap. In particular, psychotherapists (especially monolingual ones) may be less aware that multilinguals can have different levels of proficiency in different discourse domains (Grosjean, 2016). In other words, the ability to converse fluently in the LX about certain everyday topics does not necessarily imply an ability to convey subtle, complex emotions in that language. Clients themselves may be unaware of this. The aim of the present paper is therefore to highlight the need for extra awareness among psychotherapists about both visible and invisible linguistic and cultural obstacles to emotion communication that will require mediation with their LX clients, using appropriate strategies.

The Kristeva Circle Conference of 2017 in Pittsburgh confirmed that writers throughout the world have been engaging with Julia Kristeva’s thought in large numbers and in ways relevant to “an ethics of inclusion,” the topic of the Conference. The question of race arguably came to a head at the conference when one of the founders of the Kristeva Circle, Fanny Söderbäck, commented on the paper just delivered by Kristeva via Skype, “The Psychic Life--A Life in Time: Psychoanalysis and Culture.” According to Söderbäck, we run the risk of reinforcing Islamophobic views that equate terrorism with Islam if we focus on young women intent on jihad without simultaneously addressing the behavior of white men bent on white supremacist violence and terrorism. Kristeva did not directly address the issue of her lecture’s reinforcement of Islamophobic views in her response. Instead, she spoke at some length about a patient whose confrontation with Arabic poetry led to improvement in her psychic health. I introduce the following papers in part as a dialogue with Kristeva on race and as a response to Söderbäck’s comments. The essays all make reference to questions of race and ethnicity in Kristeva’s work. They do so in ways that provoke thought on the contributions of psychoanalytic writing, appreciated and also criticized for its universalizing tendencies, which may in part explain its vulnerability to charges of racism.

Dario Argento and the Mother‐Witch: Psychoanalysis of an Obsessive Image. This paper tries to present the complexity of the maternal figures in the work and biography of film director Dario Argento. The methods of interpretation are inspired by psychoanalysis, because Argento often referred to Freud’s writings in his films or in his recent autobiography, Fear, published in 2014. The criminal mothers depicted in some films signed by Dario Argento show, through violent narratives, the difficulties he had in dealing with the maternal imago. But the most striking embodiments of the maternal monstrosity are to be found in the figure of the mother‐witch, in the trilogy composed by Suspiria (1977), Inferno (1980), La Terza Madre (2007). The mother‐witch has, of course, biographical sources, but its presence in some classical fairy‐tales or in fin‐de‐siècle decadent literature also inspired the film director. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to analyse Lemonnier's novel starting from its theme, that of love, and looking at ways in which this theme reminds readers of other novels. The love story is analysed by looking at theories belonging to psychoanalysis, narratology, at the connections between characters and nature, at the relationships between characters, and, in order to understand the context of the age, at the connections between narrative and painting. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this work is to assess, on an historical and critical point of view, the new psychological perspective, introduced by Charcot (1825-1893), during the ten last years (1882-1892) of his life to explain hysteria symptomas. From clinical examples (hypnosis and hypnotherapy, "hystero-traumatism", "psychological theory of hysteria", "faith healing"), the paper shows how psychological dimension went back into the Parisian Hospital Medicine. This occurred on the late XIXth century, just one century after Mesmer, when Freud was Charcot's intern, at La Salpêtrière hospital, during years 1885-1886. The return of a non-rational thought into hospital medicine upset the organicist concepts of the Parisian "Ecole anatomo-clinique".

Use of psychoanalytic psychotherapy for the elderly remains an issue. Even though regular psychoanalysis cure is contraindicated for elderly patients in most cases, yet, face-to-face psychotherapies can prove useful. The methods used for psychoanalytic psychotherapy for elderly patients are different from those applicable to middle age patients. These methods take into account the mourning process experienced by the elderly patient in three spheres: loss of object, loss of function and loss of oneself. Indications concerning psychoanalytic psychotherapy for the elderly have to be carefully assessed and will be detailed throughout the paper.

Wilhelm Bölsche (1861-1939) is the author of a poetic history of the evolution of love entitled Das Liebesleben in der Natur (1898-1903). This work, inspired by the writings of biologist Ernst Haeckel, was greatly successful in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century. Freud kept a copy of the three volumes in his London library and cites the text in his lectures on an Introduction to psychoanalysis. Bölsche develops an Entwicklungsgeschichte (history of evolution) of the distinguishing sexuality of several types of love (oral, anal and urinary). In addition, he describes the "zoological reactionary" homosexual and ties this sexual behaviour to the history of the development of anal sexuality. This paper will address an excerpt on this topic from Bölsche's text that has been translated for the occasion. The task at hand is to prepare the ground for a study of German evolutionism, both popular and scientific, and its ties to psychoanalysis.

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This article argues that the Paul Ricoeur's conception of figurative language (in particular, metaphorical statements) can be taken as a model for an aesthetic dimension in his reading of psychoanalysis, namely his reading of the «work of image» in Freud's theory of interpretation. This claim will be put forward by using the theories of metaphor and image stemming from his work, and following the hypothesis according to which the figurative phenomena of language form the basis for a kind of métaphoricité present in the works of art. The paper undertakes to reassemble also Ricoeur's defense of the Freud's psychoanalysis as reflection on art. The pertinence of this defense is analyzed under the aegis of Ricoeur's theorization about the art and aesthetic experience its importance to the formative role of imagination and metaphor. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The paper revisits some aspects of analytic listening. After reviewing some evolution in Freud's position, the paper distinguishes two components of evenly hovering attention: the evenly part holds it fast, the hovering part keeps it rocking. Thereafter basic requirements of that listening are discussed with a clinical vignette showing how it goes astray. Follows a parallel between the work of listening with that of speaking, relying on examples provided by Freud's clinical material to show how both aspects rely on preliminary psychic work from the analyst mediating listening and interpreting, namely, the chimera and the anticipatory idea. The last part of the paper deals with the infantile sources of listening fueling the analyst's silent activity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: This paper argues that Freud''s insights into human aggression can at the very least be viewed as one-sided and problematic, and that the heuristic potential of the Œdipus myth, correspondingly, is limited. It considers how the Hungarian psychiatrist Lipót Szondi, tries to bridge this gap using the myth of Cain and Abel. The aim of this paper is to explore how Szondi''s interpretation of this myth offers a much more subtle approach to human aggression. Szondi''s alternative and distinctive look at aggressive phenomena offers an exciting and fruitful addition to Freud''s interpretation as exclusively referring to sadism and/or the death instinct. This contribution wants to highlight Szondi''s amendment to Freud''s Œdipus and aims to show that psychoanalysis can benefit from taking into account the mythical figures of Cain and Abel as its “prodigal sons”. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Abstract: This paper tries to answer to the following question: is there a psychoanalytic explanation to drugless addictions? Freud mentions the possibility of a strong attachment to a virtual object (game, sex, ideology) through several papers scattered in his works from 1920 to 1937. The main concept is what we consider nowadays as the concept of “tie”. The “tie” is to be considered as a link between the subject and the object of addiction. The so-called “pathology of the tie” was first described in group analysis by René Kaès then later on extended to the field of addictions. It implies subordination, lack of freedom, narcissism deviation, compulsion of repeat. Actually, addiction may be considered as a fight between Eros and Thanatos, in which Thanatos is always the winner. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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