a book for the beginner since it requires both a solid grounding in Rorschach principles and a working knowledge of psychoanalysis. To those clinical psychologists who believe implicitly in the dogma of Rorschach and psychoanalytical theory, this book will be very welcome and an invaluable aid to diagnosis. To those psychologists who believe that psychology should be a science, based only upon ...

In this paper I will explore some of the arguments surrounding the concept of the psychosomatic and psychosomatic disorders. As will become clear this is an idea which has a difficult history within psychoanalysis, and even today there appears to be no clear agreement as to whether the concept of the psychosomatic has any place at all within analytic discourse. I will begin the discussion by ou...

Psychoanalysis and folklore have been uneasy bedfellows. Any psychoanalytic interpretation of folktales makes folklorists twist and turn. Their reactions have ranged from ambivalent acceptance to unequivocal rejection. Psychoanalysts, on the other hand, are ever too ready to consider such a reaction as denial, or at least avoidance of the "true" meaning of fairy tales. As a psychoanalyst, Bruno...

By assaying the aesthetic qualities of psychoanalytic interpretations and the psychoanalytic course (as one would for other aesthetic enterprises, such as drama, fine art, poetry, sculpture), we can evolve criteria for judging psychoanalytic form and content. These criteria shift, I suggest, to some degree just as artistic styles shift to address the existential needs and interests of the cultu...

The paper explores, within the framework of philosophy of psychoanalysis, a question about the epistemology and methodology of participant experience in anthropology: whether the emotional experience of the fieldworker can provide a ‘legitimate means for knowing’. There is a recognised parallel here with the situation of the psychoanalyst vis à vis her patient; both analyst and anthropologist m...

psychoanalysts since sigmund freud have tried to discuss the role of religion in modern societies. freud himself saw religion as an illusion which had struck neurotics, while slavoj žižek viewed it as some sort of “perversion” which functioned in the cycle of law-transgression. in this essay, i dig into these theories to uncover traces of lutheran interpretations of paul’s words on the jewish l...