This is the second volume of the works of the late Karl Abraham, whose 'Selected Papers on Psycho-Analysis', is one of the most widely read and highly valued classics on the subject. This volume includes 'Two Contributions to the Study of Symbols' and 'Dreams and Myths'
It is most remarkable that linguistic and medical research lead to the same
conclusion on this point. As Freud 1 has proved, man's sexual instinct is, in an
early phase, auto-erotic. This means that he knows as yet no object outside
himself on ...
This classic text probes the relationship between psychoanalysis and science and religion as well as defining the unconscious, the repetition, the transference, and the drive as the underlying concepts of psycho-analysis.
In our time, in the historical period that has seen the formation of a science that
may be termed human, but which must be distinguished from any kind of psycho-
sociology, namely, linguistics, whose model is the combinatory operation, ...
Sigmund Freud evolved his theories throughout his lifetime. This entailed many revisions and changes which he himself never tried to standardize rigidly into a definitive conceptual system. The need for some sort of a reliable guide which would spell out both the pattern of the evolution of Freud's thinking, as well as establish its inherent logic, was felt for a long time by both scholars and students of psychoanalysis. Drs. Laplanche and Pontalis of the Association Psychoanalytique de France succeeded admirably in providing a dictionary of Freud's concepts which is more than a compilation of mere definitions. After many years of creative and industrious research, they were able to give an authentic account of the evolution of each concept with pertinent supporting texts from Freud's own writing (in the Standard Edition translation), and thus have endowed us with an instrument for work and research which is characterized by its thoroughness, exactitude and lack of prejudice towards dogma.The Language of Psychoanalysis has already established itself as a classic, and will long continue to be indispensible guide to psychoanalytic vocabulary for both student and research-worker in psychoanalysis.
The idea of a symbolic order which structures interhuman reality was introduced
into the social sciences above all by Claude Levi-Strauss (1), who took as his
model the structural linguistics developed from the teaching of Ferdinand de ...
This book calls for a reappraisment of our entire view of human nature. Meltzer sees sexuality not as an appetite, but instead as an aspect if identity that structures the personality itself, manifest in childish, adult, or perverse states of mind.
CHAPTER 10 The Genesis of the Super-ego-Ideal Rather than pause to explain
the elision of super-ego and ego-ideal in the title, let us press on to the substance
, hoping that by the end its significance will have become clear. Freud took an ...
