Chaussures à talons hauts et compensation phallique chez la femme

Les chaussures à talons hauts étaient réservées aux bouchers, qui les arboraient pour se protéger du sang des animaux. Par la suite, elles deviennent l’apanage des bourgeois aristocrates qui les chaussent pour exprimer leur grandeur. Elles sont à chaque fois liées à l’expression d’une problématique spécifique. Malgré les différents inconforts et pathologies dont elles sont à l’origine, les chaussures à talons hauts sont devenues un élément incontournable de la mode féminine et un symbole de la féminité. L’objectif de cette étude est de déterminer la motion pulsionnelle profonde (inconsciente) qui pousse les femmes à arborer des chaussures qui, au-delà de la beauté visuelle dont elles font preuves, sont source d’un malaise physique bien réel. La psychanalyse appliquée a permis de mettre en évidence l’existence d’un sentiment inconscient d’infériorité chez la femme. La recherche d’une compensation phallique de cette infériorité ressentie est ce qui conduit au port des chaussures à talons hauts, en dépit des conséquences néfastes sur le corps. Une femme en talons hauts donne raison à Freud qui estime que toute la vie de la femme est une recherche du phallus. High-heeled shoes were reserved for butchers, who wore them to protect themselves from the blood of animals. They subsequently became the prerogative of the bourgeois aristocrats who put on their shoes to express their greatness. They are each time linked to the expression of a specific problem. Despite the various discomforts and pathologies they cause, high-heeled shoes have become a staple of women's fashion and a symbol of femininity. The objective of this study is to determine the deep drive (unconscious) motion that prompts women to wear shoes which, beyond the visual beauty they demonstrate, are a source of very real physical discomfort. Applied psychoanalysis has brought to light the existence of an unconscious feeling of inferiority in women. The search for phallic compensation for this perceived inferiority is what leads to wearing high heels, despite the negative consequences on the body. A woman in high heels agrees with Freud who considers that the whole of a woman's life is a search for the phallus.

Selfie Narratives Made by Young People

This study aimed to investigate the phenomenon of selfies on social networks, identifying the meanings produced by young people about their selfies and seeking to expand the understanding about this type of photography. Structured interviews were conducted with 15 college students between 18 and 28 years old that were analyzed through “applied psychoanalysis”. The participants chose personal selfies and justified their publication on social networks. The interviews pointed to multiple meanings interacting with each other. Five narrative categories were created to reflect on the elements that appeared privileged in the interviewees’ speech. The results showed aspects little or not discussed in the literature on the subject, revealing the plurality of meanings that exist in selfies. Thus, this study broadens the interpretation about the use that young people make of social networks and contributes with new insights to the work on this theme in contemporary clinical practice.

Appeal to the Work of F. M. Dostoevsky by Russian Emigration in Chekhia: A. L. Bem and the Psychoanalytic Method of Interpreting a Work of Art

The article is devoted to the conversion around works of F. M. Dostoevsky which took place among Czech intellectuals, among whom there were a lot of immigrants from Russia. In this context, the example of Alfred Ludwigovich Bem is indicative. The article reveals main reasons for the interest in Dostoevsky in Czechoslovakia. An important role in the study of Dostoevsky was played by the so-called ‘Russian action of aid’ and ‘Russian trace’ left by the exiles in Prague. In this regard, A. L. Bem is interesting not only as a researcher who devoted many works to Dostoevsky’s work but also as one of the founders of Dostoevsky’s first international society. Bem was also one of the first researchers who applied psychoanalysis to the interpretation of Dostoevsky’s literary works. He was also one of those who also analyzed the specifics of using psychoanalytic methods in literary criticism. The article reveals the methodological basis of Bem’s interpretation: attention is drawn not only to the connection between the theme “Dostoevsky and his Reader” and psychoanalysis (Bem’s ‘method of small observations’), but also to the origins of Bem’s interpretation of psychoanalysis associated with the formal school in literary criticism; the disadvantages of psychoanalysis as a way of interpreting a work of art are emphasized.

A Psychological Journey Of Optimistic/Pessimistic Cycle In The Fault In Our Stars

This paper attempts to explore the presence of Freud’s psychoanalytical tools- id, ego, and superego and their role in determining the protagonists’ optimistic/pessimistic cycle towards life. The researcher has applied Psychoanalysis theory of Sigmund Freud to analyse the novel. The research has successfully revealed application of Freudian psychoanalytical tools. Moreover, the researcher has also unveiled the psychological drives which were evident during the optimistic/pessimistic cycle of protagonists’ lives. The researcher has concluded her research on the ground which illustrates when protagonists were having positive approach towards life, the working of superego in their life was indicated and while having pessimistic approach in their life witnessed the presence of id.

The Northfield Experiments—a reappraisal 70 Years On

More than 70 years ago during the Second World War, what became known as the Northfield Experiments began in a southern suburb of Birmingham, England. By 1946 these experiments had ceased and the major participants had journeyed in different directions but carried with them new ideas, particularly in relation to group psychotherapy and more generally applied psychoanalysis. John Rickman, Wilfred Bion, Tom Main, Sigmund Foulkes, Harold Bridger, Patrick de Maré and others at the end of the war dispersed to create abundantly. Such creativity fertilized the development of the principles and practices of therapeutic communities, psychoanalytic group therapy, the application of an analytic understanding to organizations and more. This article includes a consideration of how practice was influenced from these origins. This contribution has as a background the author working for over two years at the Cassel Hospital early in the 1990s and more recently attending a conference in January 2018 conducted at Northfield or Hollymoor Hospital, as it was originally, and remains, known. It includes some personal reflections.