The article investigates the separation of protagonist August Pullman in novel Wonder written by R. J.Palacio from his previous world that is home, and reintegration society. This study made lence literary criticism. It devoted to trace functions liminality psychological development fictional postmodern Wonder. As almost all children’s novels, mainly revolves sheds light on protagonist’s change...

Oligarchical collectivism that supports totalitarianism silences freedom of speech, privacy, assembly, etc. both personal and communal through horrific pain or plentiful pleasure. Authors write literary works to remind readers this situation novels, poems, plays, political essays, satire. In today's life, it seems these two ways are being practiced in life singly combined different parts the wo...

There are literally several books, dozens of psychoanalytic journals and hundreds of psychoanalytic articles published each month; with this flood of content it often seems an impossibility to separate wheat from chaff. As readers, our hope is that with each new article or book, the material will open unexpected ideational doors and thrust us into revisiting old issues or exploring new ones pre...

Although psychoanalysis once dominated psychology, evidence now points to the waning influence of psychoanalytic theory in psychological science, psychiatric diagnosis, undergraduate instruction, and graduate training. In this article I describe 7 self-destructive behaviors exhibited by psychoanalysts that contributed to the precipitous decline of psychoanalytic theory in recent years. I then o...

This paper provides an overview of narcissistic personality disorders as they present clinically along a spectrum of severity ranging from the best functioning forms of pathological narcissism to the most threatening to the patient's psychosocial and physical survival. It proposes a general interpretive psychoanalytic stance with all these clinical syndromes that range from standard psychoanaly...

The author offers some thoughts on reading and teaching Freud, on translating Freud, on translation in general, and on a possible kinship between translation and the psychoanalytic process. His reading of Freud's works, and the years he spent translating them into Hebrew and editing Hebrew editions of his writings, have made a deep and salient impression on his personal psychoanalytic palimpses...

Introduction THIS PAPER PRESENTS A POINT OF VIEW on the psychoanalytic situation and on psychoanalytic technique through, in part, a selective review of the literature. An important underlying assumption of the paper is that existing theoretical models inevitably influence and reflect practice. This is often true even of models that practitioners claim they do not take seriously or literally. S...

Psychoanalytic theory’s roots (in the clinic rather than the laboratory), and aims (depth understanding of the individual) have led to the development of a theoretical perspective that relies primarily on idiographic data and case material to derive and test psychoanalytic hypotheses. In this article, I describe nomothetic psychoanalysis–a framework for conceptualizing and evaluating psychoanal...