Lacan's original approach to language expands the reaches of psychoanalysis. Not limited to a set of technical instructions that guide "treatments of the soul," lacanian psychoanalysis can be seen as a theoretical toolbox whose utility is multidisciplinary. This paper contends that, by establishing a connection between (i) the idea that subjects are produced by language and bear the mark of the...

Psychoanalysis ushered in this century. Will its influence on developmental psychopathology end in the next? The paper explores some critical obstacles in the way of psychodynamic research, including the fragmentation of psychoanalytic theory. the relative independence of theory from its clinical and empirical base, the predominance of inductive scientific logic, the polymorphous use of terms, ...

The early history of psychoanalysis in San Francisco begins in 1918 and ends in 1953. During those 35 years the San Francisco Bay Area witnessed the awakening of interest in psychoanalysis, the arrival of the European émigré analysts and the emergence of individuals and groups engaging in extraordinarily creative work and doing so in an ecumenical spirit and with a social commitment. This artic...

Interest in linking psychoanalysis with scientific psychology waxes and wanes. In part, the difficulties have been caused by the preference of psychoanalysts for Freud's clinical theory (and its emphasis on narrative truth) as opposed to his metapsychology (with its requirement for historical truth). Even though contemporary scientific psychology evolved largely independently of psychoanalysis,...

Sigmund Freud’s Psychoanalysis continuously develops as it also does in the academic arena. The theory explains humans’ personality structure which covers three aspects: id, ego, and superego. Freud has successfully developed a that divides of mind into three: consciousness, preconsciousness, unconsciousness. From above three, consciousness can be said to most dominant important determine behav...

Here she proposes a view of psychoanalysis as a treatment that owes its successes largely to its biological nature—biological in its capacity to best approximate the extinction of problems arising owing to aversive conditioning. She also discusses whether “the mental” can have any real ontological standing, advancing a new form of reductive physicalism— diachronic conjunctive token physicalism ...

The main goal of this paper is to analyze the (pseudo)scientific status psychoanalysis and identifying methodological problems testing psychoanalytic hypotheses. After considering scientific hermeneutic reception psychoanalysis, we see future in pluralism as a research method that bridges gap between two mentioned traditions.