Psychoanalytic Understanding of 'Dukkha' in Buddhism: Based on 'Four Noble Truths' Part 1

Psychoanalytic understanding of the human predicament pays more attention to developmental experiences within families of origin, of whatever form, than to the communities in which they grow up. Recent critiques of attachment theory draw attention to cultural factors that question measures of attachment security based on WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialised, Rich, and Democratic) family assumptions, and emphasise instead the significance of trust for individual and community well-being. Music forms part of the communications web in all societies, and arguably precedes language in connecting and separating people. This exploratory contribution will consider the role music, and jazz in particular, can play in communication, considering both its connective and disruptive potential within families and communities. Using clinical illustration, it will consider jazz as a metaphor for couple psychoanalysis.

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Mediating Trauma and Anxiety: Letters to Françoise Dolto, 1976-1978

Journal of Medical Humanities ◽

10.1007/s10912-020-09625-7 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Richard Bates

Keyword(s):

Later Life ◽

Child Rearing ◽

Psychological Consequences ◽

Psychoanalytic Understanding ◽

1960S And 1970S ◽

The 1960S ◽

Childhood Traumas ◽

The Relationship

AbstractFrançoise Dolto (1908-88) was a prominent French cultural figure thanks to her practice of dispensing psychoanalytically-informed child-rearing advice via the radio. From 1976 to 1978, on her show Lorsque l’enfant paraît, she responded to thousands of letters sent in by listeners requesting help with parenting problems and personal questions of a psychological nature. The article explores Dolto’s cultural position as a child psychoanalyst – understood in the 1960s and 1970s as a radical profession – but from a conservative, Catholic background. It then examines a sample of the letters sent in to her show, analysing the demographics of the correspondents and highlighting their most common concerns. Finally the article studies the relationship between psychoanalysis and trauma. It indicates the anxiety that a psychoanalytic understanding can cause, by reinforcing parents’ fears that childhood traumas are common, can be created unwittingly by parents, and lead to major psychological consequences in later life.

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From negation to negationism: the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil

Journal of Psychosocial Studies ◽

10.1332/147867321x16285243650694 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Paulo Beer

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Philosophy Of Science ◽

Health Consequences ◽

Theoretical Frameworks ◽

Historical Ontology ◽

Psychoanalytic Understanding ◽

Identification Processes ◽

Shed Light

Even beyond the dramatic social and health consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, one can affirm that the manner in which the pandemic was and is being handled in Brazil involves more than mere questions of public health. This article focuses on the negationist discourse that emerged in Brazil, and proposes that its roots are to be found in a previous process of dismantling established knowledge and identifications. This process is observed in the government’s handling of the pandemic. To support this idea, we refer to two main clinical and theoretical frameworks, the first of which involves a psychoanalytic understanding of the place of truth in discursivity and in identification processes; this will be employed to shed light on a particular functioning of negationist discourses. Second, the idea of historical ontology is introduced from the philosophy of science to gain a further understanding of the effects of this process on identification.

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