What is psychoanalysis in simple terms? Psychoanalysis is a set of psychological theories and techniques that look at the individual's unconscious mind as the primary area of focus for clinical symptoms. How do you explain psychoanalysis? Psychoanalysis can be explained as a psychological method that...
With the knowledge generated in this field of study, human beings should be able to understand themselves and their situations more thoroughly, as they will be equipped with skills to deal with their vexing situations. In simple terms, this means that this field of study exhorts people to be ...
This book provides the first truly sustained commentary to appear in either French or English on Lacan's most important seminar, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis. The 16 contributors unpack Lacan's notoriously difficult work in simple terms, and supply elegant illustrations from a varie...
“A psychoanalysis consists in speaking freely, in not hushing the ideas that go through your head, like we’re doing right now. Little by little, from within your own words, another meaning forms and surprises you, then falls apart, taking the pain with it. Usually, you discover just ho...
The central hypothesis of this paper is that the concepts and methods of psychoanalysis can be applied to the study of AI and human/AI interaction. The paper connects three research fields: machine behavior approach, psychoanalysis and anthropology of sc
Could you put the same concept in less Lacanian terms? I call a ‘symptom’ everything that comes from the real. And the real is everything that isn’t right, does not work, and is opposed to man’s life and his engagement with his personality. The real always returns to ...
“an unconscious strategy that aims to keep us ignorant of feelings in ourselves that we’re unable to tolerate.” Grosz, however, defers to the patient’s phrase, “the bigger the front, the bigger the back,” declaring it “more telling.”“The technical terms just stopped being useful,...
The choice to enter Social Work and Psychotherapy were hers, a path to forging her own identity, at a time when even then expectations of women were framed in terms of family and home. She could be sharply critical but with an eye on the benefit of the larger project. She was a woman...
Metaphors and similes can be used to interpret a patient's repetitive feelings and behavior in a poignant way.
An instinct is an innate capacity or necessity to react to a particular set of stimuli in a stereotyped or constant way, a way that is usually thought of as comprising behavior which is considerably more complex than what we speak of as a simple reflex What we call a drive in man, on ...