Most people are aware that Freud, like other outstanding medical men, passed through a phase of cocaine addiction. His writings on this episode are, however, less well known. This authoritative and complete version of the 'Cocaine papers' (1884-1887), with notes by his daughter Anna, is, therefore, welcome. They include his writings on the subject: for example, his paper 'Ujber Coca' of 1884, a...

The notion of sublimation is essential to Nietzsche and Freud. However, Freud’s writings fail to provide a persuasive notion of sublimation. In particular, Freud’s writings are confused on the distinction between pathological symptoms and sublimation and on the relation between sublimation and repression. After rehearsing these problems in some detail, it is proposed that a return to Nietzsche ...

Freud never used the term ‘Instinct’ to characterize human motivation despite continued misrepresentations and commentaries that claim otherwise. Instead he describes the process by which unconsciously enlisted variants emanate from their immediate, embodied sentient nature and evolve in both form and content to produce a robustly complex and overdetermined system of human development and socia...

EVEN THE CASUAL reader of Jung’s works recognises that the influence on analytical psychology of Janet’s writings must be significant. There is little that is tangible, however, apart from a few phrases, invariably quoted in French (above all, abaissement du niveau mental). My investigations into this matter have convinced me that a great deal of the misunderstanding which developed between Fre...

When people see a life-sized virtual body (VB) from first person perspective in virtual reality they are likely to have the perceptual illusion that it is their body. Additionally such virtual embodiment can lead to changes in perception, implicit attitudes and behaviour based on attributes of the VB. To date the changes that have been studied are as a result of being embodied in a body represe...

Den eben wo Begriffe fehlen Da stellt ein Wort zur rechten Zeit sich ein. [Precisely where concepts fail you, A timely word will come to mind. A new translation of Freud is a significant event because all translation is also an interpretation, a rewriting, and inevitably, a betrayal. Due to the inherently unsatisfactory nature of translation, when it matters, many of us control the English tran...