The article argues that the importation into psychoanalytic theory of the terms "self" and "subject" is neither true to Freud's intentions, nor necessary, nor helpful. Having observed how Freud undermined these concepts in both his Topographical Model and Structural Model, the article turns to th...
Night after night Eugene Aserinsky had been working late. He’d dragged an ancient brain-wave machine, an Offner Dynograph, from the basement to the physiology lab on the second floor of Abbott Hall at the University of Chicago. He had tinkered with it long enough to think it m...
As a British-Asian growing up as a second generation immigrant in the United Kingdom I have always been interested in groups and how they act out collective unconscious phantasies towards the threat of 'the other'. I enjoyed how Volkan started this book by sharing his own context and story ...
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the house of his uncle, who drank heavily and watched pornographic films. It was on these nights that the abuse generally took place, although it sometimes happened during the day. This abuse started when Kjartan was only 4 or 5 years old and continued until he was 11 or 12, but was ...
In 2004, that is, about 20 years ago, the author of this article started studying this strange phenomenon. While researching body modification, he came across people who wished to have an amputation; at that time, this phenomenon was called “apotemnophilia”. At the time, it was completely...
healthcare Review The Girl Who Wants to Get Rid of Her Left Leg—Body Identity Dysphoria Erich Kasten Department of Psychology, Faculty of Human Sciences, Medical School Hamburg, 20457 Hamburg, Germany; erikasten@aol.com Abstract: Introduction: One of the strangest kinds of misperceptions of the...