Few subjects promote such lively interest as the theory and practice of psychoanalysis, or the life and work of its founder, Sigmund Freud. In this article Dr. J. H. Kahn reviews two important new books, Psychoanalysis observed*, which attempts to put psychoanalysis in its contemporary setting, and The psychoanalytic revolutionf, which demonstrates the inseparability between psychoanalysis and ...

there is a bilateral relationship between psychoanalysis and literature. literature enlivens the soul and psychoanalysis dissects literature. what psychoanalysts express today has attended in the past literature and is proposed now scientifically after psychoanalysis was identified as a science. by analyzing an art work from the perspective of psychology, it seems being possible to understand a...

In this paper, the author wishes first to highlight, within the general cultural context, some possible elementary computational psychoanalysis formalizations concerning Matte Blanco’s bi-logic components through certain very elementary mathematical tools and notions drawn from theoretical physics and algebra. Afterwards, on the basis of recent work of Giampaolo Sasso (1999; 2005; 2011), relyin...

Recent discussions among psychoanalysts have noted and decried the failure of psychoanalysis to find a place in university curricula and thus, to attract the interest of much of the younger generation. There is as a result, little interest in the field on the part of those who could in the future help keep psychoanalysis alive as a viable field of interest and endeavor. Along similar lines, gen...

Recent advances in the cognitive, affective and social neurosciences have enabled these fields to study aspects of the mind that are central to psychoanalysis. These developments raise a number of possibilities for psychoanalysis. Can it engage the neurosciences in a productive and mutually enriching dialogue without compromising its own integrity and unique perspective? While many analysts wel...

Already in the 1950s some were proclaiming the twentieth century the " psychoanalytic century. " As it happened, they were right. But to which psychoanalysis were they referring? For clearly there has never been one psychoanalysis, as scholars of various persuasions have noted. Even during Freud's life as a psychoanalyst, from 1896-1939, we find a multitude of possible psychoanalyses at work. F...

Robert Langs sets himself a difficult task in attempting "a hierarchical theory of psychoanalysis to render it as complete a theory of the emotional domain as presently possible" (p. 47). He knows the criticisms that have been leveled at psychoanalysis, and he separates himself from other apologists for the theory. He is forthright in acknowledging that psychoanalysis up to now has been unfalsi...