These concepts, while familiar from prior psychoanalytic theory (above all Freud’s), are articulated by Lacan in new terms.

(Norcross 2005) I am well aware that the claims I have summarized here do not do justice to the full complexity and variety of views in psychoanalysis, both as a theory and a therapy. I am saying only ...

Fundamental Freudian concepts reveal their foundation in the physiological ... the impact of this connection on current neuroscientific theories? Second, from the psychoanalytic side, why should ...

He is considered the father of psychoanalysis and is ... Why are Freud’s theories important? Created with Sketch. Freud’s concepts persist in the popular imagination and his work forms an ...

Modern psychoanalysis is the term used by Hyman Spotnitz [1] to describe the techniques he developed for the treatment of narcissistic (also called preverbal or preoedipal) disorders. In the interest ...

Psychoanalytic theory has been the subject of attacks from philosophers ... previous work in this area through the self-consciousness with which psychoanalytic concepts are employed and the ...

The Electra complex is a psychoanalytic term that describes a girl's sense of competition with her mother for her father's affection. It is comparable to the Oedipus c ...

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This paper explores how their analyses figure broader tensions between phenomenology and psychoanalysis, and how this bears ... it is necessary to situate this passage within Lacan’s theory of vision, ...

The human psyche is, Freud would argue, so evidently an embodied psyche that without this acknowledgement, all psychoanalytic theory fails ... in the case discussion at the conference involved ...