scholarly journals From conscious to unconscious and back. Remarks on Melanie Klein’s interpretation of Magic Word

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (33) ◽  
pp. 17-26
Author(s):  
Marta Iwaszuk
Keyword(s):  
Important Change ◽  
Melanie Klein ◽  
Careful Monitoring ◽  
Precise Identification ◽  
Depressive Position ◽  
Semiotic Perspective ◽  
Charles Peirce ◽  
The Mind

The paper examines fluctuations between conscious and unconscious modes of mind functioning as outlined in Melanie Klein’s interpretation of Magic Word (Klein, 1929/1948), using the double lens of psychoanalytic and semiotic concepts of symbol. The study aims to explore the process of transformation that takes place in conscious and unconscious parts of the mind, when the mind overcomes maniac defences and is confronted with core depressive recognition: a truth about separateness of individual, and all anxieties it arouses. The examination of conscious aspects of depressive position will be performed through the prism of Charles Peirce (1998) semiotic, while unconscious content will be explored according to Melanie Klein psychoanalysis. The results of the study reveal, that employment of psychoanalytic and semiotic perspective simultaneously, when examining dynamics of psychic position, allows to break down the process to smaller, but still explorable sequences. Such approach allows not only to study most distinctive elements of the position but also to track dependencies that occur between them in time on both conscious and unconscious level. Moreover breaking down depressive dynamic to the smaller sequences facilitates more careful monitoring of the disturbing influence of unconscious to consciousness when psychotic response picks up. Similarly, sequential view enables more precise identification of the point when triangle space returns, and so facilitates analysis of conditions associated with that important change.

Psychoanalyse im Turm zu Babel

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Heim
Keyword(s):  
Jacques Lacan ◽  
Melanie Klein ◽  
Depressive Position

In fiktionaler, zuweilen humorvoller und kritischer Weise bringt Robert Heim drei ikonische Gestalten der Psychoanalyse nach Freud miteinander ins Gespräch: Melanie Klein, Wilfred R. Bion und Jacques Lacan. Ob Kleins paranoid-schizoide und depressive Position, Bions Container oder Lacans Begehren und Genießen – mittels einer komparatistischen Methode eröffnet der Autor neue Perspektiven auf grundlegende Begriffe und zentrale Bereiche der Psychoanalyse. Neben theoretischen und behandlungstechnischen Fragen widmet er sich auch aktuellen gesellschaftlichen Themen wie der Klimakrise.

scholarly journals Psycho-semiotic model of thinking. Combining Klein and Peirce theory of symbol for more comprehensive model of mind

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-67
Author(s):  
Marta Iwaszuk
Keyword(s):  
Object Relations ◽  
Object Representation ◽  
Object Relation ◽  
Melanie Klein ◽  
Sign Theory ◽  
Semiotic Model ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Individual Potential ◽  
Semiotic Perspective ◽  
Definition Of

Thesis: Aim of the paper is to present Melanie Klein and Charles S. Peirce concept of symbol in order to combine them into scheme that presents conscious and unconscious aspect of thinking through symbolic signs (signs based on convention). Presented concepts: Paper presents concept of symbol in psychoanalytical and semiotic perspective. Psychoanalytical view is based on interpretation of symbol according to object relation paradigm proposed by Klein. There are two reasons for selecting her theory for the model: it is most closely bound with interdependency between communication and thinking plus her concept of proper symbol fulfills definition of symbolic sign in Peirce theory, due to deployment of matter of absence in substitution process. Peirce theory however is selected to present semiotic perspective not only for its good linkage to Klein’s “proper symbol” but also for its accurate understating of object representation in quasi- mind through Representamen and as a result recognition of symbol embedment in code through unlimited semiosis. Chosen concepts are consolidated into psycho-semiotic model of thinking which recognizes symbol to be co-created by unique internal world of unconscious phantasy with simultaneous employment of semiotic devices oriented to external, group order perspective. Results and conclusions: Proposed psycho-semiotic model of thinking enhances psychoanalytic view, based on drive for object, by recognizing communication means required for meaningful relation and with that for thinking itself. As a result conceptualizing thinking processes is enriched with semiotic discoveries such as mechanics and structure of Representamen and Interpretant, along with indispensable code rules, with unlimited semiosis at its core. In turn psychoanalytical view adds to semiotic perspective sensitivity to individual potential and constrains when code is in use and with that raises precision of exploration in the field. Contribution to the field: Proposed model enriches theory of thinking based on object relations with semiotic sign theory, which being focused on communication serves as a frame for establishing object relations and their conceptualization. In turn employing psychoanalytic perspective into semiotic field brings back code theory to actual code usage, and by that expands it to various unconscious forces, which ultimately determine Interpretant

The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Human Growth ◽  
The Body ◽  
Psychological Disorder ◽  
Psychoanalytic Treatment ◽  
Depressive Position ◽  
Inner World ◽  
Human Growth And Development ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Donald Winnicott

Volume 11 of the Collected Works, with an introduction by the British analyst Professor Steven Groarke, consists of two books of Winnicott’s writings, Human Nature and The Piggle, both published posthumously. Human Nature gathers together Winnicott’s own teaching notes on the subject of human growth and development with other unpublished writings from this period. Winnicott reflects on the vast subject of human nature from his own experience, returning throughout to certain topics of continuing interest for him, including psyche-soma and the mind, health and ill health, the body and psychological disorder, psychosomatics and emotional development, health and the instincts, the depressive position, repression, hypochondria, the inner world, intellectual function, illusion, creativity, the environment in psychoanalysis, withdrawal, and regression. The second half of Volume 11 consists of the case history The Piggle: An Account of the Psychoanalytic Treatment of a Little Girl, in preparation by Winnicott at the end of his life but completed and published after his death. This book includes an introduction by Donald Winnicott, a preface by Clare Winnicott and the British analyst Ray Shepherd, and a foreword by the American analyst Ishak Ramzy, who corresponded with Winnicott and, with his help, prepared and edited the book for publication. The Piggle collects Winnicott’s records of sixteen consultations with a toddler-age child, Gabrielle, and an afterword by her parents. Volume 11 is introduced by the psychoanalyst and Professor of Social Thought, Steven Groarke.

Charles Peirce and Bertrand Russell on Euclid

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (37) ◽  
pp. 79-94
Author(s):  
Irving Anellis
Keyword(s):  
Deductive Reasoning ◽  
Charles Sanders Peirce ◽  
Diagrammatic Reasoning ◽  
Bertrand Russell ◽  
Mathematical Intuition ◽  
Existential Graphs ◽  
Charles Peirce ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Graphical System

Both Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914) and Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) held that Euclid’s proofs in geometry were fundamentally flawed, and based largely on mathematical intuition rather than on sound deductive reasoning. They differed, however, as to the role which diagramming played in Euclid’s emonstrations. Specifically, whereas Russell attributed the failures on Euclid’s proofs to his reasoning from diagrams, Peirce held that diagrammatic reasoning could be rendered as logically rigorous and formal. In 1906, in his manuscript “Phaneroscopy” of 1906, he described his existential graphs, his highly iconic, graphical system of logic, as a moving picture of thought, “rendering literally visible before one’s very eyes the operation of thinking in actu”, and as a “generalized diagram of the Mind” (Peirce 1906; 1933, 4.582). More generally, Peirce personally found it more natural for him to reason diagrammatically, rather than algebraically. Rather, his concern with Euclid’s demonstrations was with its absence of explicit explanations, based upon the laws of logic, of how to proceed from one line of the “proof” to the next. This is the aspect of his criticism of Euclid that he shared with Russell; that Euclid’s demonstrations drew from mathematical intuition, rather than from strict formal deduction.

The Depressive Position

2016 ◽  
pp. 91-102
Author(s):  
Donald W. Winnicott
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Melanie Klein ◽  
Depressive Position ◽  
Psychic Reality

In the first chapter of Part III, on the depressive position (as described by Melanie Klein), Winnicott looks at the emotions of concern and guilt and how inner personal psychic reality grows from these. He also demonstrates his ideas using tables, recapitulating his views on the depressive position, and referring to repression, to the management of good and bad forces within the self, and to the accompanying potential for inner richness and complexity within the developing self.

scholarly journals Reformulated Object Relations Theory: A Bridge Between Clinical Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy Integration, and the Understanding and Treatment of Suicidal Depression

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Golan Shahar
Keyword(s):  
Object Relations ◽  
Behavioral Therapy ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Psychotherapy Research ◽  
Melanie Klein ◽  
Object Relations Theory ◽  
Psychological Science ◽  
Depressive Position ◽  
Psychoanalytic Understanding ◽  
Therapeutic Schools

In contrast to the fruitful relationship between psychoanalysis/psychoanalysts and the humanities, institutionalized psychoanalysis has been largely resistant to the integration of psychoanalysis with other empirical branches of knowledge (infant observation, psychotherapy research, psychological and neurobiological sciences), as well as clinical ones [primarily cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT)]. Drawing from two decades of theoretical and empirical work on psychopathology, psychotherapy, and psychoanalysis, the author aims to show how a reformulation of object relations theory (RORT) using (neuro-)psychological science may enhance a clinical-psychoanalytic understanding and treatment of suicidal depression, which constitutes one of the most formidable health challenges of our time. Specifically, he rewrote the notion of Melanie Klein positions—primarily the depressive position—using extant knowledge of structure of emotions, the centrality of mental representations of the future (“prospection”) and the toxic nature of criticism-based emotions. This reformulation enables a dialog between clinical psychoanalysis and other therapeutic schools of thought and sheds light on the understanding and treatment of suicidal depression.

Melanie Klein and Repression: An Examination of Some Unpublished Notes of 1934

2006 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
R.D. Hinshelwood
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Material ◽  
Melanie Klein ◽  
Close Attention ◽  
Depressive Position ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
The Way

Fifteen pages of unpublished Notes were found in the Melanie Klein Archives dating from early 1934, a crucial moment in Klein's development. She was at this time, 1934, moving away from child analysis, whilst also rethinking and revising her allegiance to Karl Abraham's theory of the phases of libidinal development. These Notes, entitled ‘Early Repression Mechanism’, show Klein struggling to develop what became her characteristic theories of the depressive position and the paranoid-schizoid position. Although these Notes are precursors of the paper Klein gave later to the IPA Congress in 1934, they also show the origins of the emphasis she and her followers eventually gave to ‘splitting’ rather than repression. The Notes give us an insight into the way that she worked clinically at the time. We see Klein's confidence develop as she diverged from the classical theories and technique. Her ideas were based on close attention to the detail of her clinical material, rather than attacking theoretical problems directly. The Notes show her method of struggling to her own conclusions, and they offer us a chance to grasp the roots of the subsequent controversy over Kleinian thought.

A rose is more than a rose … the diatextual constitution of subjects and objects

2017 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Giuseppe Mininni ◽  
Amelia Manuti
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
The World ◽  
Subject And Object ◽  
Semiotic Perspective ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Performative Power

AbstractThis paper integrates contributions coming from psychology with a phenomenological and semiotic perspective and focuses on the relationship of reciprocal constitution between “Subject” and “Object.” This relationship is evoked through radically different concepts such as the notions of “experience,” “consciousness” and “embodiment,” focusing attention on “discourse” as a macro-procedure generating the mutual link between Subject and Object. Therefore, the relationship between subject and object is identifiable through the text, namely “diatext.” It will be further argued that human beings act as “diatexters” of their existence in the world. Accordingly, psycho-discursive practices have the performative power to constitute both objects and subjects because they offer a creative solution by interlacing the “Body-Mind-Problem” to the “Mind-Culture-Problem.” In detail, the discursive resource granted by metaphors may be recognized as a modelling matrix embodying thought, as the interweaving of conceptual fields and as reasoning processes.

scholarly journals Erectile Dysfunction: A Systemic look at the Mind-Body connection in Erectile Physiology

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 01-04
Author(s):  
Denise Brito
Keyword(s):  
Erectile Dysfunction ◽  
Multidisciplinary Approach ◽  
Important Change ◽  
Sexual Contact ◽  
Natural Process ◽  
Sexual Life ◽  
Complete Understanding ◽  
Know How ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Mind

Sex is, without a doubt, an experience for the senses and, as such, it is fundamentally an experience for the "here and now". Human sexuality is a natural and poignant experience. Although they may be accentuated by words, the vitality and depth of feelings provided by sexual contact are expressed through immediate sensory experience. Despite this, few people know how to create the satisfying and rewarding sexual experiences they desire. Since sex is essentially a present and undoubtedly a sensual experience, the most important change in internal processes involves paying attention to the sensations. This review aims to show how essential it is to have a careful attention of the patient as a whole, requiring a systemic look at him through a multidisciplinary approach, seeing the individual. Additionally, it will be shown the sexual dysfunction, as a psychosomatic being, integrating the physical and psychological evaluation, seeking data on the sexual life of the patient, relevant to the treatment of his dysfunction. The use of such approach facilitates the obtaining of unconscious information, brought through an extremely careful interview to raise the individual internal processes; understand attitudes, external behaviors, subjective states, representative systems and beliefs, in addition to a thorough observation of the ocular access tracks of the patient with erectile dysfunction, where incongruities may arise that could otherwise be disregarded and hinder the proper treatment of the patient. All this will allow a more complete understanding of his physiological response and will facilitate the reconnection of the individual to his natural process of sexual response.

Charles Peirce and the Drawings of the Mind

1994 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leila Haaparanta
Keyword(s):  
Charles Peirce ◽  
The Mind
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