The two dreams in Freud’s (1905) Fragments of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria (‘Dora’) (Draft of chapter to be published in the forthcoming Routledge book The Science and Art of Dreaming, by Blagrove and Lockheart.)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Blagrove ◽  
Julia Lockheart
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Unconscious Processes ◽  
Science And Art

This chapter argues that the two dreams of ‘Dora’, told as part of her analysis with Sigmund Freud at the end of 1900, are poignant depictions of the distress, abuse and hopes in her life. The argument is that this can be seen clearly from Dora’s free associations to her dreams. Unfortunately, these interpretations of her dreams, although present in Freud’s account of the analysis, are overshadowed in the case study by the highly speculative further interpretations of the dreams by Freud, which derive from Freud’s own associations. Freud did have oppressive and patriarchal judgements and advice to Dora, yet he did believe that Dora was subjected to ‘persecution’ by Herr K. We must credit Freud, though, for recording, and interpreting the two dreams of Dora, on the basis of her free-associations to her waking life, even though his own associations may overshadow that success and instead relate the dreams to unconfirmable unconscious processes.

‘Behind the Poetic Fiction’: Freud, Schnitzler and Feminine Subjectivity

2004 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-223
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Goodstein
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
The Other ◽  
Modernist Literature ◽  
Arthur Schnitzler ◽  
Feminine Subjectivity ◽  
The Uncanny ◽  
Poetic Fiction ◽  
Psychoanalytic Theories

In 1922 Sigmund Freud wrote to fellow Viennese author and dramatist Arthur Schnitzler: ‘I believe I have avoided you out of a sort of fear of my double’. Through a series of reflections on this imagined doubling and its reception, this paper demonstrates that the ambivalent desire for his literary other attested by Freud's confession goes to the heart of both theoretical and historical questions regarding the nature of psychoanalysis. Bringing Schnitzler's resistance to Freud into conversation with attempts by psychoanalytically oriented literary scholars to affirm the Doppengängertum of the two men, it argues that not only psychoanalytic theories and modernist literature but also the tendency to identify the two must be treated as historical phenomena. Furthermore, the paper contends, Schnitzler's work stands in a more critical relationship to its Viennese milieu than Freud's: his examination of the vicissitudes of feminine desire in ‘Fräulein Else’ underlines the importance of what lies outside the oedipal narrative through which the case study of ‘Dora’ comes to be centered on the uncanny nexus of identification with and anxious flight from the other.

The Americanization of Sigmund Freud: Adaptations of Psychoanalysis before 1917

1967 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. H. Matthews
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Interesting Case ◽  
Moral Code ◽  
World War ◽  
Political Debate ◽  
New Science ◽  
Outright Rejection ◽  
Maximum Penetration ◽  
Foreign Ideas

The early reactions by American intellectuals to the psychoanalytic ideas of Sigmund Freud offer an interesting case study in the ‘Americanization’ of ‘foreign’ ideas. While the heyday of Freudian influence on the lay intelligentsia came after the World War—probably in the 1920s—and the maximum penetration of specialized disciplines by Freudian concepts came after 1930, already by 1917 identifiable and influential groups of thinkers had discovered Freudian ideas, and had reacted to them. The reaction sometimes took the form of outright rejection, but more often that of some form of assimilation, some attempt to use Freudian doctrine in support of a pre-existing ideology, or even to recast present doctrine in the light of Freud's theories. These early reactions foreshadowed the kinds of polemical and ideological utility which psychoanalysis would have on a larger scale after 1920; these first adaptations and reworkings of Freudian ideas prefigured such latter accommodations of Freud to America as Neo-Freudianism and ‘adjustment psychology’. Psychoanalysis quickly became an accepted polemical tool in literary and political debate. To neoromantic radicals it offered a new method of personal salvation by sloughing off skins of civilized repression. On a more complex level of thought, it became one element in the construction of a positivist and determinist system of psychology. At the same time, and sometimes by the same men, it was used—and radically revised—in the ideological endeavour to assimilate deterministic psychology to the persistent optimistic, activist moral code, which many scholars were anxious to harmonize with their new science.

IMPACT OF THE HBM PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC MODEL ON ANXIETY DISORDER: A CASE STUDY

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 35-44
Author(s):  
Catarina Certal ◽  
Milene Medeiros
Keyword(s):  
Anxiety Disorder ◽  
Human Behavior ◽  
Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index ◽  
Study Participant ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Unconscious Processes ◽  
Assessment Protocol ◽  
Severe Anxiety

Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is characterized by excessive worrying and/or fear in everyday contexts, for at least 6 months (APA, 2014). The study participant is female, 41 years old and she has severe anxiety symptoms. We used as a method a psychodiagnosis with a clinical interview, following the assessment protocol of the Human Behavior Map Model (HBM), the Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI), the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index and the Beck Depression Inventory - Second Edition (BDI-II). The theoretical framework adopted was the HBM Psychotherapeutic Model, in which the intervention was anchored on the human behavior map. This map describes the conscious and unconscious processes of the human mind. HBM has two techniques to release emotional states: athenese and morfese (Certal et al., 2016). This intervention led to the improvement of the studied variables in the participant, particularly the reduction of the GAD symptoms.

A Cognitive-Behavioral Approach to Panic Disorder in a Woman With a History of Incest: A Case Study

1992 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irene H. Oestrich
Keyword(s):  
Panic Attacks ◽  
Behavioral Approach ◽  
Cognitive Behavioral ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Childhood Experiences ◽  
Unconscious Processes ◽  
History Of ◽  
Treatment Procedures

This case study is of particular interest because it highlights phenomena that behavior therapists have not described until recently. Such phenomena are regarded as important to an understanding and appreciation of the holistic and complex functioning of human beings. Michael Mahoney and other cognitive therapists (Eelen & Fontaine, 1986, Mahoney, 1980, Mahoney, 1986) have brought our attention to the unconscious processes, psychological self-focus, dynamic conflicts and childhood experiences that may be essential issues in therapy. These personal processes may be very important in coping with anxiety, especially anxiety that derives from early stages of development. The description of this case is an attempt to show how cognitive-behavioral techniques can lead to disclosure in psychotherapy and help a client who suffers from panic attacks. The case study describes how a 47-year-old, married woman, Laura, a victim of incest in early childhood, was helped through cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy. The intense experiences of encroachment and invasion involved in incest are described, together with a demonstration of how cognitive methods are useful in uncovering tacit or unconscious processes. Methods used are in essence similar to well- known treatment procedures with clients suffering from panic attacks (Hawton, Salkovskis, Kirk, & Clark, 1989). In addition, the highly damaging phenomenon of incest in this case involves obstacles of resistance and brings us into deeper levels of interpretation and understanding.

scholarly journals Investigating the Effect of Advertising on Emotional Reactions of Customers (Case Study: Branches of Parsian Bank in Tehran)

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (04) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hojjat Soheyli Rad
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Simple Random Sampling ◽  
Emotional Reactions ◽  
Statistical Population ◽  
Science And Art ◽  
Industrial Age ◽  
Brand Promotion ◽  
Commercial Advertising ◽  
Post Industrial

At the current word and in the industrial and even post-industrial age, advertising is a need. Advertising mixed of science and art can be called also as miracle industry and an industry, which can recover the industry and can also destroy industry, if it is used in wrong way. Commercial advertising, with use of modern media that are being more variable and effective over the time with wonderful speed, is not a simple marketing or notification to link consumers and suppliers anymore and is in fact a reality that can leave deep and fundamental effects on domains of human social life and on human. Therefore, the present study has investigated the effect of advertising on emotional reactions of customers in branches of Parsian Bank in Tehran. Statistical population in this study consists of customers of all branches of Parsian Bank in Tehran. Using Morgan table, 146 people were selected as sample using simple random sampling method. Data analysis was done using SPSS22 and Lisrel8.8 software. The results of the study showed that there is significant correlation between advertising and emotional reactions of customers. Moreover, the results showed that there is significant correlation between brand promotion in advertising, related news in advertising, and empathy in advertising, familiarity with advertising, confusion in advertising, and entertainment in advertising with customer emotional reactions. Moreover, there is significant correlation between enjoyable emotional reactions of customers to advertising and advantage-based value and hedonic value.

scholarly journals Setting up stall in the market place: psychotherapy in a state health service

1996 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 277-281
Author(s):  
Christopher Maloney
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Market Place ◽  
Creative Development ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Unconscious Processes ◽  
Service Resource ◽  
Health Service Resource

Public sector psychotherapy differs from private practice in its explicit responsibility for a population. This has major implications, with the need to ration a scarce resource inevitably affecting clinical practice. De facto rationing has existed within the National Health Service (NHS) for years, and the ‘unconscious' processes involved must be made explicit if NHS psychotherapists are to deal with their broader responsibilities, and influence current changes in the Health Service. Resource issues and the related psychological conflicts shape clinical practice and thus theoretical concepts. The effects on practice could be seen as a series of unhappy compromises, or a stimulus to the creative development of a specific NHS psychotherapy, as envisaged by Sigmund Freud.

Critique of Flowers: The Exigency of Life in the Era of Its Technical Reproducibility

October ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 26-69
Author(s):  
Cassandra Xin Guan
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Physical Environment ◽  
Time Lapse ◽  
Emotional Reactions ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Technical Reproducibility ◽  
Responsive Behavior ◽  
Selling Point ◽  
Century Science

Abstract Need, as an epigenetic concept, originated with Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, for whom it referred to the pressure of circumstances that compel animals to develop new organs in the course of evolution. It reappeared in twentieth-century science as the somatic disequilibrium that Sigmund Freud, following Psycho-Lamarckian biologists, first called “the need of life” (die Not des Lebens) and then “the drives” (Trieb). The invention of time-lapse cinematography around 1900, initially as an optical instrument in the experimental study of plant physiology, visibly enlarged the epigenetic paradigm: Plants were suddenly perceived as agential beings, attached to the physical environment not by their roots, but rather by their needs and activities. The disquieting impression of responsive behavior became the selling point of the BASF-commissioned nitrogen-fertilizer commercial Miracle of Flowers (1926), a film celebrated by Rudolf Arnheim as “the most fantastic, thrilling, and beautiful picture ever made.” This article interrogates the sovereignty of need in epigenesis, using Miracle of Flowers as a case study. Through a close reading of the animal-like organisms in this film and the emotional reactions they elicited, need is reimagined as a maladaptive force embodied in technical media that tethers unhappy individuals to punishing environments.

scholarly journals Why Superman Will Not Save the World: Theorizing the Relationship Between Suffering and DC Comics Superman

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 119-137
Author(s):  
Kwasu Tembo
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Comic Book ◽  
Human Suffering ◽  
Pleasure Principle ◽  
Physical Suffering ◽  
The World ◽  
Pure Altruism ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Do So

The hypothesis that there is an inextricable link between comic book superheroes and suffering would, to anyone with a cursory knowledge of superhero characters found in DC, Marvel, Image, Wildstorm and other houses, and their histories, ostensibly seem valid. This validity depends on which character one is applying said hypothesis to; the psychological and physical suffering of a Batman being more acceptable as such than that of a Plastic Man, for example. However, using DC Comics character Superman as a case study, this paper explores the inextricable link between Otherness, power, and suffering within the remit of the character's mythos. In order to do so, this paper refers to psychoanalytic concepts elaborated by Sigmund Freud in his text Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1922) as a way of demonstrating that despite the character's conventional appraisal as a positivist humanistic symbol of pure altruism, an insuperable, unimpeachable symbol of selflessness and good morality, there is in fact a fundamental link between Superman's 'tridentity' of selves (Clark Kent/Kal-El/Superman), the character's own suffering, and human suffering on a terrestrial scale, as represented within the numerous realities of the DC Comics Multiverse.

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