Psychoanalytic theory has been criticized for decontextualizing individual development. While recognizing the historical neglect of sociocultural context in psychoanalytic theory, this article raises attention to psychoanalytic contributions to the exploration of sociocultural issues in psychotherapy and calls for a systematic inclusion of cultural competence as a core area of emphasis of psych...

According to the author's critique, Reinke's article about the Frankfurt project for criminal offenders omits any genuine psychoanalytic reflection on the attributions of subject and object, culprit and victim, therapist and patient. Given this omission, these attributions cannot be incorporated or resolved within the intended process of change.

AbstractThis paper is Hamka's critique of Sigmund Freud on psychoanalysis. For Freud, human life driven by sexual desire from birth. With this, causing the loss divine nature in humans. views soul as a creature that only controlled sex libido which tends to be pessimistic. By using literature review and qualitative data. The result found different view with Hamka. Hamka denies humans are libido...

Dominant psychoanalytic paradigms locate the breast or penis/phallus as the touchstone for gender/sex/sexual development. This essay offers a critique of these accounts and an alternative theory of sexed forms of being: pregnancy envy and the kinship rules that result from this. The essay also provides an intellectual history of how previous efforts to theorize pregnancy envy, especially work b...

ALTHOUGH HE HAD BEEN USING the term for some years prior, Freud formally introduced the concept of narcissism into psychoanalytic theory in 1914 on the heels of Jung's painful defection from the psychoanalytic community. The theory of narcissism was largely a response to the conceptual challenge posed by Jung's critique of Freudian theory. Freud's libido theory had provided a powerful and compe...

This paper will examine gestalt therapy in light of clinical and theoretical insights from self psychology and intersubjectivity theory. These theories have stirred a great deal of controversy in the psychoanalytic community, and many practitioners claim that either one or both of the theories has revolutionized their approach to treatment. The theories challenge basic assumptions of psychoanal...