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Freudian investigation of the unconscious has reasonably altered interpretation Shakespeare’s seminal work, Hamlet. This research paper analyses notion ‘Fetishism’ with reference to eponymous play, During course this study, an attempt been made establish that Ghost in play is a conspicuous representation psychoanalytic fetish Moreover, motivations underlie development fetishes and way they affe...

Abstract: the article is devoted to psychological analysis of image witch in women's initiation stories fairy-tale therapy. It was revealed that modern culture various peoples world there are female images similar both name and their characteristics, main functions which keeping hearth taking care children. The etymological lexical witch, grandmother Yaga, sorceress, healer, fortune teller, pri...

What happens when psychoanalytic knowledge leaves the clinic? What is to be gained from these interventions, and can psychoanalysis itself benefit from an application outside the context in which it originated? Those are the questions Stephen Frosh raises and attempts to answer in his nuanced and accessible new book. Writing from the relatively young discipline of psychosocial studies, he provi...

Richard D. Chessick: Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Northwestern University. Emeritus Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst, Center for Psychoanalytic Studies in Chicago. Psychoanalytic Fellow, American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry. Distinguished Life Fellow, American Psychiatric Association. Emeritus Senior Attending Psychiatrist, Evanston Hospit...

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One might expect that a paper concerning R. D. Laing's enigmatic relationship with and contribution to psychoanalysis would examine Laing's impact on the psychoanalytic community in England, where Laing lived and practiced, and in the United States, where he enjoyed enormous popularity throughout most of his career (though it had significantly waned by the time of his death in 1989). Were this ...

To certain areas once dominated by psychoanalytic conceptualizations of psychopathology and pathogenesis, general psychiatry has in recent years made significant contributions. The obsessive-compulsive disorder is cited as an example, and illustrations of such contributions are described and discussed. Some implications for psychoanalytic theory and research are suggested.

There has now been more than a hundred years of psychoanalytic theorizing on the development of personality, and there are consequently a variety of different psychodynamic models. Despite sharing common origins, each of these theories has a different emphasis. Some theorists have sought to adapt existing ideas to remain within the psychoanalytic approach, while others have redefined them as di...