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Dansk Psykoanalytisk Selskab blev grundlagt 1957 af Nils Nielsen, Thorkil Vanggaard og Erik Bjerg Hansen. Artiklen tager udgangspunkt i de tre grundlæggeres skriftlige produktion og viser at de alle tre var klassiske psykoanalytikere, men at gruppen aldrig blev i stand til at organisere en uddannelse. Mentalt forekom Vanggaard primært at have fungeret i den fallisknarcissistiske position, og var derfor ikke i stand til at formidle psykoanalyse på en måde, som fik interessen at vokse. De to andre syntes bedre at være i stand til at fungere i en psykoanalytisk position og bidrog dermed til, at der senere kom gang i en psykoanalytisk uddannelse. De var dog ikke i stand til at forhindre Vanggaard i at udgive ‘psykoterapi ad modum Vanggaard’ for at være psykoanalyse og var dermed indirekte ansvarlige for at udviklingen af klinisk psykoanalyse blev forsinket i Danmark.

Samlade Skrifter av Sigmund Freud, Index and Register [Collected Works of Sigmund Freud, Index and Register] Natur och Kultur , Stockholm , 19962011 ; 12 vols The publication of Volume XII is the c...

This paper uses the Biblical story of the expulsion from the Garden of Eden as a metaphor for the depressive position, wherein integration, development and maturation take place, and the confluence of hatred and love towards the object gives rise to sadness and guilt feelings. Adam and Eve took an important developmental step by eating fruit from the tree of knowledge, learning to distinguish between good and evil, but were banished from the Garden. They had set foot on the bridge between the internal and external worlds, where there is constant movement, and moved towards seeing the Other and developing a sense of reality. The myth shows how painful such maturation can be. Clinical material from the psychoanalysis of a traumatized child is used to illustrate how the depressive position can be a near-impossible step and an experience as brutal as the expulsion from the Garden of Eden.

When Freud founded the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA), he wanted a network of local groups responsible for psychoanalytic training. The groups would function as ‘headquarters whose business it would be to declare: All this nonsense is nothing to do with analysis; this is not psychoanalysis. Today, with psychoanalytic pluralism, Tuckett (in press) has asked ‘Does anything go? He has pointed out that the psychoanalytic community has been increasingly willing to accept within its ranks apparently very varied approaches to theory and practice, and that this increasing diversity has many negative consequences for psychoanalytic institutions and especially for training schemas. The aim of this paper is to give an example of psychoanalysis that ‘did not go’, and how that led to a shaky start for the new Danish Psychoanalytical Society, with confusing boundary relations between psychoanalysis and psychotherapy and no training institute. Beginning with the written psychoanalytical contribution of the three founders of the Danish Society, the paper will try to identify factors that contributed to the ‘shaky start’. The paper will also examine how stones were removed from the path, thus paving the way for the members of the Society to discover ‘competent psychoanalysis’.

Chief physician and psychiatrist at Stavanger University Hospital in Norway, Jon Morgan Stokkeland asks some of life’s big questions in his doctoral thesis: “Why are we afraid of love?” and “What m...

(1998). Blue velvet by David Lynch: A fairy tale about the developmental conflicts of growing from boyhood to manhood. Psychoanalytic Inquiry: Vol. 18, Projections of psychic reality: A centennial of film and psychoanalysis, pp. 238-250.

The following case report is an attempt to describe how infant-mother observation is an exercise in a psychoanalytic mode of thinking and reacting, developing knowledge of object-relation theory. The aim of infant observation is not therapeutic; however, this paper suggests that it also might have a therapeutic side effect, creating mental space for the mother and thereby, helping her from becoming too engulfed by the intensive needs of the baby.

This paper describes a phobic patient who inhibited her capacity to mentalize defensively in situations when emotionally overwhelmed. When provoked by anxiety, she used the ‘silencing-method’, not reflecting on her internal world or her relationships. In order to avoid painful thinking, she stopped mentalizing and used practical or physical activities as a psychic retreat from an unpleasant reality. In psychoanalysis, she developed a growing tolerance to conceiving her own mental states However, even after several years of analysis, inhibiting her mentalizing capacities remained her defensive strategy. This paper suggests that phobia could be understood as an intolerance of conceiving mental states, preventing integration of psychic trauma. Improvement of the mentalizing capacities through psychoanalysis makes phobic symptoms fade.

(1994). A comparison of concepts in self-psychology and Winnicott's theory of the development of the self. The Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review: Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 40-58.