{"title":"Oedipus’ anxiety from past to the present: a case study","authors":"Münevver Zuhal Baydar","doi":"10.1080/01062301.2023.2290406","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01062301.2023.2290406","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":346715,"journal":{"name":"The Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review","volume":"37 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138596848","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Truth, anxiety and the contribution of Heidegger’s phenomenological ontology to psychoanalytic conceptualization and practice","authors":"B. Shoshani, Naama Shoshani-Breda, M. Shoshani","doi":"10.1080/01062301.2023.2277097","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01062301.2023.2277097","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":346715,"journal":{"name":"The Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review","volume":"63 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139235418","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Some notes on the phenomenology of psychological disorders: from the birth of Freudian psychoanalysis to the possible contribution of multiple etiopathogenic factors","authors":"Silvia Cimino","doi":"10.1080/01062301.2023.2281132","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01062301.2023.2281132","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTIn this contribution, the author explores the shift from viewing psychological issues as ‘psychic pathology’ to adopting a perspective of ‘pathological psychology’. This transition underscores the need to consider the intricate interplay between individual and environmental factors in the development of psychological disorders. The author emphasizes the importance of understanding mental illness as a result of complex interactions and disruptions in equilibrium. Alongside neurobiological influences, life experiences and the environment also wield a pivotal role. A clinical case of a four-session-a week psychoanalysis illustrates the significance of the environment. This case highlights how the interplay between internal and relational-environmental factors is crucial not only in understanding symptoms but also in the interpretive process.KEYWORDS: Phenomenology and psychoanalysisetiopathogenesisrelational and environmental factors Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1. Among the most significant figures emerge K. Jaspers with the ‘General Psychopathology’ treatise (1913), E. Minkowski with the text ‘Schizophrenia’ (1927), and L. Binswanger with ‘Psychiatry as the Science of Man’ (1957).2. The medical-experimental approach considers psychopathological symptoms as consequences of cerebral lesions and therefore devoid of meaning.3. The contribution of Freud, along with other authors such as K. Jaspers, E. Minkowski, L. Binswanger in the phenomenological field, K. Lorenz through ethological studies, and G. Bateson from a perspective of philosophical thought applied to anthropology and psychology, has made it possible to shift the focus of observation from ‘psychic pathology’ to that of ‘psychology of the pathological.4. In M. Foucault’s text (‘History of Madness in the Classical Age,’ 1961), around the 18th century, madness is depicted through the image of a reed that symbolizes an empty head. It is interesting to recall that in much earlier times, Philo of Alexandria already spoke of madness as the ‘death of the mind.5. This representation originates from the 17th-century theorization of the philosopher Thomas Hobbes.6. The reading of the works of W. Dilthey, a German philosopher and psychologist from the mid-1800s, likely brought Freud closer to the complexity of the relationships between the sciences of nature and the humanities.7. The shift from a ‘synchronic’ to a ‘diachronic’ perspective highlights how it is possible to move from the symptomatic and static description of a mental disorder to the consideration of the meaning of symptoms in the patient’s life experience. These symptoms take on new forms and meanings in relation to the temporality that alters subjective experience.Additional informationNotes on contributorsSilvia CiminoSilvia Cimino, Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology, Department of Dynamic, Clinical, and Health Psychology, “Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, Sa","PeriodicalId":346715,"journal":{"name":"The Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review","volume":"30 41","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134953825","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Siktprövningar Essäer om psykoanalys och skapandeReview of the book ” <b>Siktprövningar Essäer om psykoanalys och skapande</b> ”, Catharina Engström, Themis, 2023.","authors":"Daniel Maroti","doi":"10.1080/01062301.2023.2277632","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01062301.2023.2277632","url":null,"abstract":"\"Siktprövningar Essäer om psykoanalys och skapande.\" The Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2 Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1. Somewhat contradictorily and daringly, however, Engström states that ‘Psychoanalysis…is not a medical treatment but can very well measure its results with those of medicine’.","PeriodicalId":346715,"journal":{"name":"The Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review","volume":"13 30","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135818620","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nachträglichkeit and psychoanalytic creativity","authors":"Emil Dalsgaard Larsen, Bent Rosenbaum","doi":"10.1080/01062301.2023.2277095","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01062301.2023.2277095","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThis article sheds light on the concept of Nachträglichkeit as a basic psychoanalytic concept that not only contributes to the explanation of the dynamic evolution of traumatization but also may serve as a basic concept in the understanding of the creativity inherent in the transformative process towards curative psychic change. We will argue 1) that Freud’s concept of Nachträglichkeit can be seen in a broader perspective than as a way to understanding only the mechanism of the trauma. This will be done through a presentation of some fundamental and more recent viewpoints and interpretations of the concept; 2) that the concept of Nachträglichkeit as a complex dynamic causality of proactive and retroactive processes is a basic concept in the understanding of psychoanalytic practice as such; 3) that the dynamics of the curative effects of the psychoanalytic process may rely on the analyst’s ability to include conscious and unconscious creativity in the work with the repetitive aspects of Nachträglichkeit.KEYWORDS: Nachträglichkeitdeferred actionaprès-couptraumacreativity Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationFundingBertil Wennborgs Stiftelse. A grateful thank you to Bertil Wennborgs Stiftelse for supporting the work with this article.Notes on contributorsEmil Dalsgaard LarsenEmil Dalsgaard Larsen is a clinical psychologist working in the Danish NGO TUBA providing therapy for young adults who grew up in families with alcohol or drug problems. He is a candidate in the Danish Psychoanalytical Society.Bent RosenbaumBent Rosenbaum. Psychiatrist, DMSci., Psychiatric Center Copenhagen.Training and supervising Psychoanalyst (Danish Psychoanalytical Society).Professor emeritus, Institute of Psychology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.","PeriodicalId":346715,"journal":{"name":"The Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review","volume":"28 6","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135819630","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mechanisms and fundamental principles in Freudian explanations","authors":"Ståle Gundersen","doi":"10.1080/01062301.2023.2274145","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01062301.2023.2274145","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this paper is to analyze the structure of explanation in Freudian psychoanalysis. Psychoanalysis contains some fundamental psychoanalytic and philosophical principles – for example, determinism, the laws governing psychic energy, and the differentiation of the mind into id, ego, and super-ego – that are involved in explanations of psychoanalytic phenomena. However, psychoanalysis also explains phenomena by demonstrating how they are generated by underlying psychodynamic mechanisms. For example, repression is an explanatory model that describes the psychodynamic mechanism whereby unpleasant memories and thoughts are blocked from entering consciousness. It is not clear what is the relation between the fundamental principles and the mechanistic models. It is argued that in Freudian psychoanalysis the fundamental principles are used as tools and guidelines to construct explanatory mechanistic models of psychoanalytic phenomena. This account of Freudian psychoanalysis’ explanatory structure is based on theories of scientific models and explanation that are currently being discussed in philosophy of science.","PeriodicalId":346715,"journal":{"name":"The Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review","volume":"508 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136376178","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On black holes, psychic deadness and aliveness","authors":"David Potik","doi":"10.1080/01062301.2023.2265274","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01062301.2023.2265274","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTIn this article, the author uses the astrophysical term of the ‘black hole’ to describe the subjective feelings of patients who have experienced trauma in their inter-personal relationships, such as sudden separation or adultery. Such experiences are actually breakdowns that occurred in the past, but were not fully experienced. The fall into a black hole represents a deep regressive state in which the patient encounters a psychic deadness that he or she has tried to avoid. Presencing and therapeutic passion on the side of the therapist can help them to survive and confront dissociated self-states. Recovery from a black hole experience relies on physical and psychic aliveness, which are facilitated by the analytic setting.KEYWORDS: Black holefear of breakdownpsychic deadnessneed of truthaliveness Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationNotes on contributorsDavid PotikDavid Potik is a clinical criminologist and PhD candidate at the Department of Criminology at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. He works in a day care psychiatric department and in the Adelson clinic for the research and treatment of drug abuse. David has published articles on psychotherapy, addictions, and psychopathology, and authored a book entitled Psychodynamic Approaches for Treatment of Drug Abuse and Addiction in 2020.","PeriodicalId":346715,"journal":{"name":"The Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135855216","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The rejection of knowing","authors":"Katrine Zeuthen","doi":"10.1080/01062301.2023.2260614","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01062301.2023.2260614","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTCases of child sexual trauma are rarely understood in ways that lead to a clear separation of an internal and external reality. The child’s as well as the professionals’ meaning making process requires time, patience and listening rather than isolated structured observations, a process that opposes an empirical paradigm dictating what reality is, where to look for it and how. Just as the myth of King Oedipus deals with the significance of the outer reality and how it affects the inner world, various developments of psychoanalytic theory and practice have through time unfolded different descriptions of how we should understand the relation between our analysands’ outer world, and the world they present to us in the analytic room. Through case-material from two child analyses with children addicted to sexual excitement and with the theories of Laplanche and Lacan and the myth of Oedipus, the paper argues that the children’s expressions represent the enigmatic approach of the other as always being inside and also outside – always for real and in fantasy. Because children cannot find the answer in themselves, they act in realized ways that put the analyst to work in a position of not knowing.KEYWORDS: Infantile sexualitysexual traumaOedipusLaplancheLacan AcknowledgmentsThe writing of the article has been supported by Bertil Wennborgs Stiftelse.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by the Bertil Wennborg Stiftelsen [2018].Notes on contributorsKatrine ZeuthenKatrine Zeuthen is Associate Professor in Clinical Child Pychology at The University of Copenhagen and Psychoanalyst in private practice. Member of The Danish Psychoanalytic Society and IPA.","PeriodicalId":346715,"journal":{"name":"The Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review","volume":"83 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136294323","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}