Myth, metaphor, and parable in the psychoanalytic concept of development

2021 ◽  
pp. 169-182
Author(s):  
Ian Hughes
Keyword(s):  
Psychoanalytic Concept

Oedipal and other Conflicts

2002 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 365-382 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gail Boldt
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Sexual Development ◽  
Normal Development ◽  
Sexual Preferences ◽  
Oedipal Conflict ◽  
Psychoanalytic Concept ◽  
Dominant Discourses

In this article, the author offers a reading of the psychoanalytic concept of the Oedipal conflict, taking into account a post-structural or cultural studies' theorizing of subjectivity and the constructed nature of childhood. It is taken for granted that what are typically seen as natural gendered behaviors or natural sexual preferences are instead performative expressions of dominant discourses. Working from this stance, it is proposed that it likewise makes sense to understand the psychoanalytic perspectives on a child's gender and sexual development as tremendously instructive descriptions of how adults work through dominant discourses about normal development to bring children into being as gendered and sexualized subjects. The author argues that a major facet of parenting for most contemporary, heterosexual Western parents involves the demand that our children experience the Oedipal conflict. Using stories of the author's own parenting, she describes some of the ways that she participated in provoking outcomes that at least consciously she thought she did not intend.

scholarly journals DIALEKTIKA HASRAT MANUSIA DALAM NOVEL HAYY BIN YAQZAN KARYA IBN TUFAIL

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 231
Author(s):  
Iftitah Iftitah
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Psychological Development ◽  
The Real ◽  
Psychoanalytic Concept

The paper discusses Ibn Tufail's work, Hayy bin Yaqzan, which describes the differences in the potential for thinking of humans and animals. As perfect beings, humans realize their lives more dynamically than animals. How- ever, humans have a desire that always develops beyond all their needs. In this case, humans have a lack and always tries to fulfill it even though it will never end. Therefore, humans always lead to tension between their identities and others. The article will analyze the stages of human psychological development based on Jacques Lacan's psychoanalytic concept of desires such as the real, the imaginary, and the symbolic. Consequently, human life is not to keep apart from dialectics at these stages and their identities. 

The Psychoanalytic Concept of the Self

1981 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 429-434
Author(s):  
Marjorie McDonald
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Psychoanalytic Concept

A Contribution to the Psychoanalytic Concept of Autonomy

1993 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Siri Erika Gullestad
Keyword(s):  
Psychoanalytic Concept

Is there a Place for Psychoanalysis in Public Mental Health?

2002 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 338-341
Author(s):  
Rick Curnow
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Borderline Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Public Mental Health ◽  
Borderline Personality ◽  
Psychiatric Training ◽  
Psychoanalytic Concept ◽  
Supervisory Process ◽  
Level Of Understanding

Objective: To describe a programme of theoretical and clinical seminars, and to discuss the benefit of introducing a psychoanalyst's perspective to the supervisory process in psychiatric training. Conclusions: Vignettes of work from seminars provide examples that explain how the teaching that occurs is at the level of understanding of the countertransference experience, rather than at the level of psychoanalytic formulations. An application of the psychoanalytic concept of containment is found to be helpful to the trainees in understanding patients, particularly those with borderline personality disorder.

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