Project for a scientific psychology.

Freud, Sigmund; Bonaparte, Marie; Freud, Anna; Kris, Ernst; Mosbacher, Eric; Strachey, James

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“…The 'repressed' in effect did not exist, until the observing woman is confronted with the 'return of the repressed'. Although this may seem an unfamiliar conceptualization of the repressed, it of course accords with Freud's (1950) notion of deferred action, that is, with the idea of retrospective causality whereby a current event (typically, for Freud, of a traumatic sort) triggers the latent impact of an earlier incident. What is also notable about Lacan's approach to this question is that he attempts to understand repression not as a psychological quality or function, but as a potentiality within the signifying field.…”

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Tracking the Lacanian unconscious in language

Hook

2013

Psychodynamic Practice

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This paper makes two contributions to the emerging field of Lacanian Discourse Analysis (LDA), one by way of theoretical exposition, a second oriented toward the challenges of empirical analysis. In the first section of the paper I illustrate and develop upon the elusive Lacanian notion of the unconscious structured as a language. This discussion yields a series of important ideas: the assertion that a matrix of latent significations shadows any utterance; the distinction between statement/enunciation; and the concept of repression-in-language. These concepts provide a platform for the second section of the paper which draws on textual material collected by the Apartheid Archive Project (AAP) in order to demonstrate a particular procedure of LDA. This procedure entails an attention to discontinuous narrative components and the role of symbolic juxtapositions. It points, furthermore, to the value of making novel combinations of given textual elements as a way of querying what may be repressed in the text. Two important conclusions are drawn from this discussion, each of which indicates a priority for Lacanian practice. Firstly, the idea that the ongoing work of symbolic juxtaposition may be more profitable than 'depth' interpretations in conducting analysis. Secondly, that facilitation of lateral significations and associated significations should take priority over the aim of extracting a single over-arching message.

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Tracking the Lacanian unconscious in language

Hook

2013

Psychodynamic Practice

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“…Such primary images and scenes are comparable to, if not always synonymous with, Freud's primary process, detailed in 'Project for a Scientific Psychology' (Freud 1964a) and 'The Interpretation of Dreams' (Freud 1964b and1964c Freud's primary process is largely associated with the unconscious whereas the primary images as labelled in this discussion, and as exemplified with Tremain's eagle, perhaps bear more resemblance to Freud's secondary process which 'characterizes the preconscious-conscious' (Bloom: 177) 1 . It is safest to say that the way in which 'primary' is being used in this discussion is not entirely congruent with a Freudian 'primary process'.…”

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Writing and Dreaming Primary and Primal Scenes

Neale

2013

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“…Giving due place to the first law of thermodynamics, nerve energy was conceived to be conserved, so that if blocked by high resistance in one path, the energy would take another. Freud (1895) in his attempt to lay a scientific foundation for psychoanalysis, later abandoned as 'premature', labelled nerve energy as 'Q' and wrote:…”

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Neurodynamic Models of Brain in Psychiatry

Freeman

2003

Neuropsychopharmacol

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The history of brain theory is described in terms of three kinds of theory of perception. The most widely used kind sees perception as dependent on passive inflow from the environment of information that is used to make and process representations of objects and events. A second kind views perception as an active search for information that is inherent in the environment and is extracted by tuned resonances in brain circuits. A third kind holds that perception works by the creation of information through chaotic dynamics by forming hypotheses about the environment, through which learning takes place. Experimental evidence for creative dynamics in brains is briefly sketched. The explanation is offered that brains, being finite systems, work this way in order to cope with the infinite complexity of the world. All that brains can know is the hypotheses they construct and the results of testing them by acting into the environment, and learning by assimilation from the sensory consequences of their actions. The process is described as intentionality. It works through the action-perception-assimilation cycle. The cost of this solution to the problem of infinite complexity by hypothesis testing is the progressive isolation of individuals, as they accumulate their unique experiences through which their personalities form. Socialization and the acquisition of shared knowledge requires the emergence of new personality structure by self-organization through chaotic dissolution of existing the structure, as a prelude to the creation of new traits, habits, and values. Dissolution works in a crisis situation by regression to earlier stages of development, from which a fresh start can be made. A state of malleability emerges in the depth of crisis, in which compassionate companions through loving care can invite cooperative actions. Joint actions support the growth of a new lifestyle based on trust. Socialization requires neurochemical mechanisms of affiliation and bonding that evolved through the requirements of parental care of altricial offspring in mammalian reproduction. These mechanisms are invoked by means of behavioral techniques from cultural evolution. The dynamics, neural mechanisms, behavioral signs, methods of induction, and therapeutic utility of dissolution should be known by therapists. Lack of recognition and understanding may cause failure to use brief windows of opportunity to instill long-term relief of psychic pain by restructuring intentionality in distressed patients.

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Project for a scientific psychology.

Abstract: note-books" or "the psychology" [as well as of "the psychology for neurologists" and "the (1)'1'(01 "] For the position occupied by the "Project" in Freud's development, see the Introduction, p. 25 ff.

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Tracking the Lacanian unconscious in language

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Neurodynamic Models of Brain in Psychiatry

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