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2. Una nota sull'articolo di Mark Solms.
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Kernberg, Otto F.
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CONFLICT (Psychology) , *PSYCHOBIOLOGY , *MOTIVATION (Psychology) , *PSYCHOANALYSIS , *LIBIDO - Abstract
In the paper "Revision of drive theory" (Psicoterapia e Scienze Umane, 2022, 56, 3: 363-422) Mark Solms (2021a) correctly argues that the basic motivational forces are affect systems, activated following the general homeostatic principles that govern biological processes that assure survival and reproduction. However, psychoanalytic object relation theory points to a specifically human, supraordinate integrative motivational system that condenses component affect systems into the affiliative and counteraffiliative motivations described by Freud with the concepts of libido and aggression. They are not "drives" in the psychobiological sense, but profoundly define unconscious intrapsychic conflict and are relevant in clinical psychoanalysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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3. Libertà, dipendenza e destino: una storia clinica.
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RUGGIERI, ALESSANDRO
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Copyright of Psicoanalisi is the property of FrancoAngeli srl and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
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- 2023
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4. The beginning of heartache in character disorders: On the way to relatedness and intimacy through primal affects and symbolization.
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Kavaler-Adler, Susan
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PSYCHOANALYSIS ,PSYCHOTHERAPY ,PATHOLOGICAL psychology ,MENTAL health - Abstract
This paper studies the interaction of the clinical theories of two major British theorists, Melanie Klein and Donald Winnicott. Through three clinical examples, we see how the “Klein-Winnicott dialectic” operates in a significantly developmental fashion to advance and fulfill clinical work. Winnicott’s “object survival” is looked at in developmental conjunction with Klein’s “mourning” as a primary clinical and developmental process. This interaction also captures the essence of working with the aggression of a self that has been traumatically disrupted within its early development. This paper demonstrates how such work leads to the assimilation and grieving of primal object loss, evolving into a “developmental mourning process.” This developmental mourning includes the working-through of an “abandonment depression” in the character-disordered patient. A clinical example in a 1989 essay on “psychic pain” by Betty Joseph is used to set up the clinical challenge of going beyond the symptomatic clinging behavior of developmental arrest, into full psychic birth as a separate other, an Other who can relate to an Other. Conclusively, the subjective visceral affect noted and monitored in its clinical dimensions here is that of human “heartache,” which can also include regret. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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5. Symptomatic enjoyment: a postcolonial and psychoanalytic interpretation of Turkey’s relations with the European Union
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Sandrin, Paula
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- 2021
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6. A quest for truth or solidarity? A third way ahead for psychoanalysis.
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Gonzalez-Torres, Miguel Angel
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PSYCHOANALYSIS ,TRUTH ,SOLIDARITY ,PHYSICIAN-patient relations ,KLEINIAN groups - Abstract
Today, there are two ways of conceiving psychoanalysis, a classical one focused on the search for truth within the internal world of the patient, and a contemporary one perceiving the patient–therapist relationship as the axis of exploration. Rorty's criterion, which divides disciplines into either truth-based or solidarity-based, may be applied to this dichotomy. These conflicting positions come from two different historical periods: the Enlightenment and the contemporary world. They inhabit a sterile environment without theoretical discussion or comparison. The Renaissance relocated man at the centre of creation and urged him to seek encounters with others as well as with the truth concealed in nature. Possibly, these elements of truth and solidarity, initially designed as complementary, integrative, and nonconflicting, can be found in the work of some psychoanalysts, specifically in Otto Kernberg's proposals. Kernberg makes a creative integration of object relations theory, especially in its Kleinian approach, and ego psychology. In addition, Kernberg's consideration of affects as key elements of the human's internal world reflects a third psychoanalytical “way,” exposing the centrality of relational experiences from the earliest stages of life, alongside constitutional drive forces that link us to our biological make-up and determine much of our inner world and behaviour. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2016
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7. On the metapsychology of affects.
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Enckell, Henrik
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EMOTIONS ,PSYCHOANALYSIS ,SENSORY perception ,METAPSYCHOLOGY - Abstract
This study is an attempt to provide a uniform model for how the phenomenon and conditions of emotions can be understood within psychoanalysis. Emotions will be considered from three angles: drive, representation and perception. First, Freud's early drive theory will be reviewed. According to this theorv. somatic demands seek a place in the world of representations. The drivejinds a representative in what later authors have termed a mental matrix. The charged matrix opens up a somatic process that may be perceived in feelings such as joy. sorrow or shame. The perception in question comes into being in a combination of various representations. This picture will be developed with the help of Paul Ricoeur's model, which indicates that language is vital when words act on each other: analogically, it might be said that the psyche has a life when representations influence each other. Finally. the author will attempt to show that emotions have a specific meaning in the psychoanalytic clinic, since (1) they provide a direct perception of paychic reality, and since (2) they imply a quest for p5ychic work that may result in a mental transformation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2005
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8. Silence in the Communication or Communicating through Silence: Silence in Psychoanalysis
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Marta, Rita
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Psychiatry ,significado ,inconsciente ,Psicanálise ,RC435-571 ,Relações médico-doente ,food and beverages ,psicanálise ,Silêncio ,comunicação humana ,afectos ,BF1-990 ,Comunicação ,Silence ,human comunication ,psychoanalysis ,unconcious ,meaning ,affects ,Psychology ,psicologia - Abstract
This paper is a reflection upon the meaning and importance of silence in the psychoanalytical relationship. Beginning with the silence in the “normal” relationship between people, we show how silence can be experienced as confortable or unconfortable, and how it can be used to achieve a bigger proximity or distance in the relationship with others. We show these same aspects in the psychoanalytical relationship, and the evolution of the regard towards silence along the development of psychoanalysis. We end, presenting the Nacht’s thinking about silence, who emphasizes its integrative and fundamental role in the psychoanalytical relationship. Thus, only through silence certain affects can be born, and silence allows the patient to internalize the analyst., Neste artigo faz-se uma reflexão sobre o significado e importância do silêncio na relação psicanalítica. Partindo do silêncio na relação comum entre as pessoas, exemplificamos como o silêncio pode ser sentido como confortável ou perturbador, e como pode ser utilizado para aproximar ou afastar na relação com o outro. Evidenciamos estas mesmas características na relação psicanalítica, e a evolução do olhar sobre o silêncio, ao longo da evolução da teoria e prática psicanalítica. Apresentamos em seguida a visão de Nacht, sobre o silêncio, o qual enfatiza o seu papel integrador e fundamental na relação analítica. Assim, só no silêncio nascem certos afectos e o silêncio facilita a interiorização do analista.
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- 2005
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