CLINICAL FIGURES OF UGLINESS UP AGAINST METAPSYCHOLOGY

Treatment of imagined ugliness

Greek dysmorphia, meaning ugliness (expressly of the face) was first coined by Morselli in the late19th century. He described a subjective feeling of a physical defect which the patient feels is noticeable to others, although his appearance is within normal limits. Dysmorphophobia first appeared in the US psychiatric nosology (as an atypical somatoform disorder) in 1980, with the publication of...

Does ugliness affect judgment ?

Freud as Philosopher: Metapsychology After Lacan

On the metapsychology of narcissistic pathology.

IN AN EARLIER PAPER (Eisnitz, 1969) I proposed a modification of Freud's (1914) classification of object choice. I suggested that narcissistic object choice be defined as that wherein the major cathexis is directed to the self representation, and attachment object choice as that wherein the major cathexis is directed to the object representation . In this formulation, the emphasis is placed on ...

What is scientific metapsychology ? Carlos Eduardo