scholarly journals Traces of Unconscious in Language

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
M. Zuhal Bilik ◽  
Eylül Ceren Hekimoğlu ◽  
Faruk Gençöz
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Main Method ◽  
Metaphor And Metonymy

The significance of language in clinical practice first emerged with the Anna O. case, a study by Freud. Lacan went on to support Freud’s findings. Through the Back to Freud movement, Lacan proved language to be crucial from theoretical and clinical perspectives. According to Lacan, the name of the father in the language used by the mother functions as a signifier for the mother’s desire. It corresponds to the first repression and enters the symbolic register. It refers to Lacan’s famous statement ‘Unconscious is structured like a language’. As such, in his theory, Lacan actively uses the concepts of signifier, signified, metaphor and metonymy and offers new interpretations of these concepts. Therefore, to study the unconscious, working with language is the main method. However, because of repression, the unconscious can only be studied through the traces it shows in language. In this article, traces of the unconscious in language are explained using clinical examples. Clarifications are provided as to how traces of the unconscious can be studied analytically.

scholarly journals Working on dreams, from neuroscience to psychotherapy

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Giorgio Caviglia
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Clinical Work ◽  
The Self ◽  
Current Clinical Practice ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Psychoanalytic Approach ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Aggressive Drive ◽  
Cultural Openness

Within the current clinical practice, the debate on the use of dream is still very topical. In this article, the author suggests to address this question with a notable scientific and cultural openness that embraces either the psychoanalytic approach (classical, modern and intersubjective), and the neurophysiological assumptions and both clinical research and cognitive hypotheses. The utility of dream - in the clinical work with patients - is supported by the author with extensive bibliographic references and personal clinical insights, drawn from his experience as a psychotherapist. Results: From an analysis of recent literature on this topic, the dream assumes a very different function and position in the clinical practice: from ‘via regia to the unconscious’ of Freudian theories - an expression of repressed infantile wishes of libidinal or aggressive drive nature - it becomes the very fulcrum of the analysis, a fundamental capacity to be developed, a necessary and decisive element for the patient’s transformation. The dream can also be use with the function of thinking and mentalization, of problem solving, of adaptation, as well as an indicator of the relationship with the therapist in the analytic dialogue or of dissociated aspects of the self. Finally, the author proposes a challenging reading of the clinical relevance of dream: through listening to the dream, the clinician can help the patient to stand in the spaces of his own self in a more open and fluid way and therefore to know himself better, to regulate his affects, to think and to integrate oneself.

G. C. Lichtenberg: Dreams, Jokes, and the Unconscious in Eighteenth-Century Germany

1992 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 761-799 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig Tomlinson
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Cultural Background ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
Functional Link ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Dream Analysis ◽  
German Physicist

The German physicist and writer Lichtenberg (1742–1799) was well known during the nineteenth century as a humorist, thinker, and psychologist. He was also a favorite author of Freud, who read him beginning in his teens, quoted him frequently, and called him a “remarkable psychologist.” Despite this, he has been ignored by psychoanalysts and historians of psychiatry alike, and most of his writing is still unavailable in English. An introduction to Lichtenberg as a psychologist is provided, stressing material dealing with dream analysis, association theory, and drives. Relevant excerpts are translated into English. Lichtenberg is shown to have insisted upon the need for a systematic and rationalistic study of dreams, to have analyzed individual dreams (describing them as dramatized representations of thoughts, associations, and even conflicts from his own waking life), and to have emphasized the functional link between dreams and daydreams. His remarks on drives and commentary on eighteenth-century association theory represent a significant practical application, and thus refinement, of Enlightenment rationalistic psychology. These achievements are assessed in light of Freud's early fascination with him; it is argued that Lichtenberg is an example of the relevance of the historical and cultural background of psychoanalysis to clinical practice.

Clinical Practice, Science, and the Unconscious

2005 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Douglas McConnell ◽  
Neil Pickering
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
The Unconscious

scholarly journals Envy: How to Interpret a Mortal Sin?

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 93-116
Author(s):  
Eike Hinze
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Emotional State ◽  
Central Element ◽  
Melanie Klein ◽  
Therapeutic Action ◽  
Death Instinct ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Psychoanalytic Concept ◽  
Penis Envy

Abstract Envy has always been a frequent topic in religious scriptures and literature. Freud formulated penis envy as a central element in female psychology. Nowadays this theory has been largely abandoned. Envy, however, continues to keep its position as a central psychoanalytic concept in the form of oral envy. Melanie Klein conceptualized it as a direct derivative of the death instinct. This paper starts with demonstrating examples of envy in literature. The author continues with searching his own life for traces of envy. He then draws on his own clinical practice and on case studies of other analysts. He concludes that a theory, describing envy as directly deriving from the death drive does not do justice to the multiple aspects of the complex emotional state of envy. Anne-Marie and Joseph Sandler’s work on the present and past unconscious as well as Mark Solms’ neuropsychoanalytic research on the unconscious and the therapeutic action of psychoanalysis corroborate this conclusion.

scholarly journals O sintoma e suas implicações na prática clínica do enfermeiro em unidades de terapia intensiva [The symptom and its implications in nurses’ clinical practice in intensive care units] [El síntoma y sus implicaciones en la práctica clínica del enfermero en unidades de cuidados intensivos]

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. e14480
Author(s):  
Petra Kelly Rabelo de Sousa ◽  
Karla Corrêa Lima Miranda ◽  
Manuela De Mendonça Figueirêdo Coelho ◽  
Arisa Nara Saldanha de Almeida
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Intensive Care ◽  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Intensive Care Units ◽  
Life Histories ◽  
Work Process ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Terapia Intensiva ◽  
Historia De Vida

Objetivo: discutir o sintoma e suas implicações na prática clínica do enfermeiro em unidades de terapia intensiva (UTI). Método: estudo teórico, de análise reflexiva, no qual foi abordado o conceito de sintoma a partir de como ele surgiu no campo da medicina, até a dimensão do sintoma considerada na psicanálise. Posteriormente, foi proposta uma reflexão da compreensão de sintoma que permeia a prática clínica do enfermeiro em UTI. Resultados: para se conhecer o sintoma, faz-se necessário conhecer o sujeito que é cuidado e percebê-lo em sua singularidade, por meio de uma escuta focada na sua história de vida, para que permita criar condições de aparecimento do sujeito do inconsciente. Conclusão: o enfermeiro em UTI não pode limitar o seu processo de trabalho exclusivamente à condição de adoecimento do paciente, mas deve antes de tudo se perguntar quem é esse sujeito e qual sua história de vida, considerando a dimensão do inconsciente.ABSTRACTObjective: to discuss the symptom and its implications in the clinical practice of nurses in intensive care units (ICUs). Method: in this theoretical, analytical reflection study, the concept of “symptom” was approached in terms of how it arose in the field of medicine, through to the dimension of symptom considered in psychoanalysis. The proposal was then to reflect on the comprehension of symptom that permeates nurses’ clinical practice in the ICU. Results: in order to know the symptom, it is necessary to know the subjects cared for, and to perceive them in their singularity, by listening focused on their life histories, so as to create the conditions in which the subject of the unconscious can appear. Conclusion: ICU nurses cannot limit their work process exclusively to the patient’s condition in terms of illness, but must first ask themselves who this subject is, and what his or her life history is, to consider the unconscious dimension.RESUMENObjetivo: discutir el síntoma y sus implicaciones en la práctica clínica del enfermero en unidades de terapia intensiva (UTI). Método: estudio teórico, de análisis reflexivo, en el que se abordó el concepto de síntoma desde cómo surgió en el campo de la medicina, hasta la dimensión del síntoma considerado en el psicoanálisis. Posteriormente, se propuso una reflexión de la comprensión de síntoma que está presente en la práctica clínica del enfermero en UTI. Resultados: para conocer el síntoma, se hace necesario conocer al sujeto que objeto del cuidado y entenderlo en su singularidad, por medio de una escucha enfocada en su historia de vida, para que se pueda crear condiciones de surgimiento del sujeto del inconsciente. Conclusión: el enfermero en UTI no puede limitar su proceso de trabajo exclusivamente a la condición del enfermarse del paciente, sino debe, ante todo, preguntarse quién es ese sujeto y cuál es su historia de vida, considerando la dimensión del inconsciente. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12957/reuerj.2017.14480

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.

scholarly journals Anxiety: Melanie Klein's 'deeper' layers

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-41
Author(s):  
R.D. Hinshelwood
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Basic Theory ◽  
The Unconscious

In Klein’s development of a clinical practice with children, she concentrated on the presence and content of anxiety in the little patient’s play.  This led her away from a basic theory grounded in instincts and energy.  As her method developed and her experience accumulated she emphasized the meanings of anxiety and in particular the forms it took in unconscious phantasy.  Ultimately, she became aware of profound phantasies, and anxiety, in her patients about the formation and integrity of the ego, and not just the neurotic conflicts the ego struggles with – those anxieties about identity she called the deeper layers of the unconscious.

Re-visioning creativity in couple psychoanalysis: the importance of Winnicott and Bollas in clinical practice

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-180
Author(s):  
David Hewison
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Christopher Bollas ◽  
Donald Winnicott ◽  
The Relationship

This article suggests that the work of Donald Winnicott and Christopher Bollas is essential in helping us re-vision the current dominant Kleinian and post-Kleinian model of contemporary couple psychoanalysis. It shows how their different understanding of the nature of creativity draws upon different conceptions of the creative couple and upon a radically different understanding of the relationship between the self and the unconscious. It suggests that their thinking on creativity and the unconscious is useful in our work with couples. It goes on to focus on the clinical and technical implications of these ideas in five areas: gesture; repetition; compliance; mood and emotional atmosphere; and the use of objects.

Psychoanalysis and the Imaginary: Translating Freud in Postcolonial Egypt

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 313-335
Author(s):  
Omnia El Shakry
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Large Body ◽  
Theoretical Work ◽  
Clinical Context ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Clinical Encounters ◽  
Female Prostitutes

This article imagines psychoanalysis geopolitically by way of an exploratory foray into the oeuvre of Sami-Ali, the Arabic translator of Sigmund Freud's Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality, author of a large body of original psychoanalytic writings, and translator of the poetry of Sufi masters. Taken together, his writings enable a critical rethinking of the role of the imaginary, the mechanisms of projection, and the epistemology of non-knowledge in the workings of the unconscious. Significantly, such a rethinking of key psychoanalytic concepts drew upon the Sufi metaphysics of the imagination of Ibn ʿArabi. Yet such theoretical work cannot be understood outside of its wider clinical context and the conditions of (im)possibility that structure psychoanalysis within the postcolony. Reconstituting Sami-Ali's early theoretical writings alongside his work with the long-forgotten figures he observed, incarcerated female prostitutes in 1950s Cairo, I argue that his clinical encounters constituted the ground of his theorization of the imaginary within the embodied subject. Attending to the work of translation inherent within psychoanalytic practice – whether from Sigmund Freud's own German writings into French or Arabic, or from clinical practice into theoretical discourse – helps us conceptualize psychoanalysis as taking place otherwise at the intersection of multiple epistemological and ethical traditions.

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