Psychoanalytic view of Jacques Lacan on love

Jacques Lacan and French psychiatry

Jacques Lacan died in September 1981 at the age of 81. The French press, the mass media and several members of the French government all paid him tribute. For several years his name had been linked with that of Sigmund Freud, and he was often referred to as the French Freud. Students of medicine and the social sciences studied his writings, or pretended to read them. Even some secondary school ...

Psychoanalytic Reading of the Play This is not a Pipe, written by Seyyed Mohammad Mosavat based on the Views of Jacques Lacan

The uncertainty of the events, behaviors and relationships of characters are important features of the play This is not a Pipe, written by Seyyed Mohammad Mosavat. This study is an analytical-descriptive research, using Jacques Lacan theories in psychoanalytic criticism and it is conducted with the aim of examining the relationships of family members, their conversations and actions. According ...

A psychoanalytic view of sleep.

Psychoanalytic treatment: a neurobiological view

We present a review of several hypotheses concerning the possible neurobiological correlates of the main processes involved in analytic therapy. Attachment theory may represent an interesting link between psychoanalysis and neurobiology. According to Bowlby’s conception, interactions with parental figures during infancy lead to the formation of an “internal working model.” This determines how t...

Bourdieu’s Disavowal of Lacan: Psychoanalytic Theory and the Concepts of “Habitus” and “Symbolic Capital”

Although Bourdieu is often seen as “a theorist who will have no truck with Freudian psychoanalytic theory,” he seemed to recognize in the last decade of his life (1930-2002) that psychoanalysis was intrinsic to his own project.2 The pressure of the Freudian tradition was first revealed in his writing by the recurrence of the words “unconscious” – used both as adjective and as noun – and “misrec...