Psychology in Japan developed gradually since the mid-nineteenth century and the opening of the country after its long feudal period. Foreign cooperation played an important role in this development: Holland, Germany, but especially the U.S are the main countries that hosted japanese students and researchers for further training. Primarily experimental in its origins, psychology became after th...

This article aims to present some criticisms of Foucault and post-structuralist feminists the psychoanalytic device, mainly about hysterization woman’s body ‘hysterical woman’, constructed in 18Th century trough scientific discourses. And also, bringing feminism closer Freudian psychoanalysis, through reappropiation by discourse subject being author their own speech.

After years of reciprocal lack of interest, if not opposition, neuroscience and psychoanalysis are poised for a renewed dialogue. This article discusses some aspects of the Freudian metapsychology and its link with specific biological mechanisms. It highlights in particular how the physiological concept of homeostasis resonates with certain fundamental concepts of psychoanalysis. Similarly, the...

That our mental lives are not transparent to us is one of the few Freudian doctrines that has been robustly confirmed by subsequent psychological research. Nevertheless, much work in the philosophy of language, as well as formal work in economics and computer science, assumes various “iteration principles” that can seem to conflict with this psychological truism. By “iteration principles” I hav...

To begin with the meaning of ambivalence. Its dictionary definitions include the condition of ‘having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone’ (Oxford); ‘the simultaneous existence of two opposed and conflicting attitudes, emotions etc..’ (Collins). In Freudian psychoanalysis ambivalence is manifest in love/hate relationships towards somebody or something. A condition o...

Sexual revolution, which became a social movement in 1960s, had its antecedents in early 20th century Freudian and certain French social theories.[1] Sexual discourse and expression ever since have turned toward a highly charged political and rights‐based movement. On the other hand, sexual revolution helped people seek professional help for their intimate relationship issues and thereby receiv...

In the 1980s, the terms "cognitive unconscious" were invented to denominate a perspective on unconscious mental processes independent from the psychoanalytical views. For several reasons, the two approaches to unconscious are generally conceived as irreducible. Nowadays, we are witnessing a certain convergence between both fields. The aim of this paper consists in examining the four basic postu...