The goal of this paper is to give some indications on the concept of affect in psychoanalysis. There is no single theory of affect, and Freud gave successive definitions, which continue to be deepened in contemporary psychoanalysis. We review some steps of Freud works on affect, then we look into some present major questions, such as its relationship to soma, the nature of unconscious affects a...

The aim of this manuscript is to highlight that from the phenomenology and psychoanalysis point of view, the meaning of the notion of the body is different from the medical biologicist discourse. In psychoanalysis, the body is an erogenized body. It is constituted as an object for another self. Similarly, in phenomenology, the body is an own body in first instance. It is the body of a self, rat...

Psychoanalysis not to be confused with psychology or psychiatry. Psychoanalysis is intended as a theory and a therapeutic technique. As theory would be acceptable if show is true enough; as technique, if shown to be sufficiently effective. But to sustain the claim to truth or claim of efficiency, their ideas and practices must submit the same to the canons of development of pure and applied sci...

This journey started in 1950 at Antioch College when I wrote a required Life Aims paper to make a comparative study of East and West in philosophy, religion, art, literature, and the social sciences. In 1977 I went to India on a grant for clinical psychoanalytic research to assess the psychological effects of Westernization on Indians, to ascertain differences in configurations of the self from...

Qualitive methodologies and psychoanalysis have much in common as ways to understand the meaning of human experience. However, they each lacunae, or areas absence, which other kinds evidence could be used fill. Psychoanalysis can said lack robust evidence. Qualitative research methods criticized for lacking depth not allowing researcher’s impact. This paper asserts that there are additional dat...