The Psychoanalysis of Incest

[On the significance of incest].

[Psychoanalysis].

First and foremost, the term designates the method of psychiatric treatment created by Sigmund Freud, who coined the term in two publications of 1896: Weitere Bemerkungen über Abwehr-Neuropsychosen (Further Remarks on the Neuro-Psychoses of Defense) and L ́hérédité et l ́étiologie des névroses (Heredity and the Aetiology of the Neuroses), the latter a treatise written in French, in which he depic...

The Psychoanalysis of Violence

Let me begin by summarising our model of the normal and abnormal experience of psychic reality. Both clinical and cognitive research evidence have shown that a normal awareness of the relationship between internal and external reality is not universal, but rather a developmental achievement (Fonagy & Target, 1996; Target & Fonagy, 1996). A child normally moves from an experience of psychic real...

The Biological Foundations of the Incest Taboo

The Promise of Psychoanalysis