This paper looks at the work of two figures who, while marginal to theoretical developments within the history of psychoanalysis, each briefly played an important role in the dissemination of analytical ideas in China, contributing to an early psychoanalytic culture there. Bingham Dai, a native of China, while studying for a PhD in sociology at Chicago, received instruction from Harry Stack Sul...

In moving from concepts of motherhood and mothers to a theorisation of maternal subjectivity that emphasises unconscious intersubjectivity, this paper casts light on the following questions: ⇒ What is meant by maternal and who qualifies? ⇒ Do gender and sex of parents and carers make any systematic difference to an infant, child or adolescent’s experience of parenting and their own capacity to ...

An Address given to the Ulster Medical Society IT is unusual for a paper to a Medical Society to deal with a special branch of medical practice as a whole, instead of focussing upon a part. I have, however, decided to deal with the whole field of the practice of psychological medicine, in a general manner, by describing cases illustrating the different types of problem with which one is called ...

The starting point for this investigation is provided by a fact without parallel, which defies all explanation or.Sigmund Freud, who wrote about his theory and method from 1895 until he died in 1939. sigmund freud the unconscious book Learned to appreciate more accurately the significance of symbolism in dreams or rather, in unconscious thought. In the.ABSTRACTThe unconscious mind is still view...

In collaboration with the advisory board of the ERS project: Religion has been studied from a scholarly and scientific perspective for as long as there have been scholars and scientists. religion from a naturalistic perspective, without invoking the actual existence of supernatural agents or events. Today, there is an enormous body of information on religious phenomena from a naturalistic persp...

Psychoanalytic theories of mind consist of comprehensive explanations of human behavior and motivation. Such theories seek to account for normal and abnormal development at both the population and individual levels, but these abstract and global ideas can seem distant from our personal, moment-by-moment, lived experience. Intersubjectivity theory has reformulated psychological concepts of why p...

EDWIN R. WALLACE (IV), Freud and anthropology. A history and reappraisal, New York, International Universities Press, 1983, 8vo, pp. xi, 306, $22.50. No scientific discipline outside his own gave Sigmund Freud's ideas such long-sustained and critical attention as did anthropology. Conversely, no other social or behavioural science so affected Freud's thinking over the course of his long career....