by Victor Tausk. The paper appeared in print in l9l9just about the time of Tausk’s tragic suicide, although an earlier version had been presented the year before to the Vienna Psychoanalytic Group. In many ways this is an odd paper. It reflects Tausk’s great brilliance and at the same time conveys, through its careful and scrupulously documented footnotes, Tausk’s preoccupation with the influen...

What can China bring to the international dialog of eco-fashion? How Chinese ways imagining sustainability teach us new think about fashion, ethics, and environment? This paper focuses on design practice philosophy China’s first-generation eco-fashion designer, Ma Ke, places her work in juxtaposition with mainstream discourses US. Adopting a Lacanian psychoanalytic approach, my analysis identif...

“Benito Cereno” offers an exemplary text to consider obsession in relation narrative form. Melville’s tale operates on at least two levels: the first part, a third-person narration that exhausts itself when “Melville’s ultimate dupe” (Ngai 61), Captain Delano, finally realizes there has been slave revolt Cereno’s ship, and second transcripts from legal depositions court case makes sovereign jud...

Psychoanalysis has benefitted from the application of empirical research efforts to psychodynamic concepts and clinical interventions. One of the most striking examples of research into psychoanalytic concepts is the widespread integration of Bowlby’s attachment theory in developmental and social psychology research (e.g. Cassidy & Shaver, 2008). Other examples include research concerning defen...

Many psychoanalysts believe it is impossible to conduct empirical research without eviscerating or trivializing psychoanalytic constructs, and past research efforts have all too often reinforced this view. A new method for studying personality and personality pathology is presented that challenges such beliefs. This method, the Shedler-Westen Assessment Procedure (SWAP), captures the richness a...

Cognitive therapy for depression is common practice in today's National Health Service, yet it does not work well. Aaron Beck developed it after becoming disillusioned with the psychoanalytic theory and therapy he espoused and practised. But Beck's understanding of psychoanalysis appears to have been seriously flawed. Understood rightly, the psychoanalytic approach offers a cogent theory and th...