The author reflects on the concept of conflict in contemporary psychoanalysis, and especially in European psychoanalysis. In the latter, this concept does not seem to have aroused significant interest. This does not necessarily mean that conflict has been rejected or replaced; rather, there has been a greater focus on preconflictual stages of development. Indeed, conflict is generally implicit ...

The paper explores, within the framework of philosophy of psychoanalysis, a question about the epistemology and methodology of participant experience in anthropology: whether the emotional experience of the fieldworker can provide a ‘legitimate means for knowing’. There is a recognised parallel here with the situation of the psychoanalyst vis à vis her patient; both analyst and anthropologist m...

Objectives: Evaluate the available informations about dreams, analyzing hypotheses of neuroscience and psychoanalysis. It is proposed to show discoveries dreams’ neurobiology as well how psychology can explain this phenomenon, in order observe an integration between these perspectives.
 
 Methods: For literature review studies were selected (databases - MEDLINE, PUBMED, SCIENCE DIRECT...

Within the broad spectrum of critical theories in Folklore studies, tenets Historical materialism and Psychoanalysis are great significance. With appropriation propounded by Engels Marx Freudian psychoanalytical perspectives, there emerged two novel trends studies. Marxist folklorists argue that folk- creator folklore mostly constitutes working class. Therefore, body folk literature is symbolic...

The kind of science that psychoanalysis is (can be), and the kind of research appropriate to it, qualitative and ⁄ or quantitative, have been divisive issues from the very inception of the discipline. I explore in detail the complexity of these issues, definitional and semantic, as well as methodological and substantive. A plea is made for the application of qualitative (idiographic)and quantit...

Sexual motivation is a fundamental behavior in human. For a long time, this behavior has been somehow ignored from psychological and neuroscientific research. In this article - reflecting the collaboration of a clinical psychologist and a neuroscientist - we show that in the current period, sexual affiliation is one of the most promising affiliation context to articulate a debate, a dialog and ...

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Freud, Psychoanalysis, and Symbolism offers an innovative general theory of symbolism, derived from Freud’s psychoanalytic theory and relocated within mainstream scientific psychology. It is the first systematic investigation of the development of Freud’s treatment of symbolism throughout his published works, and discovers in those writings a broad theory which is far superior to the widely acc...

In the past decade or so the term postmodernism has captured the attention of a generation of artists, intellectuals, authors, and professionals to such a degree that the term has even crept into the comparatively sober psychoanalytic literature, the last place one would have expected to find it. Yet any marriage between the psychoanalytic treatment perspective with its painstaking, laborious p...