Seit den 1990er Jahren erfährt die Psychoanalyse aufgrund der Professionalisierung der Psychother... more Seit den 1990er Jahren erfährt die Psychoanalyse aufgrund der Professionalisierung der Psychotherapie eine immer stärker werdende Reduzierung auf die Psychotechnik. Die praktisch-theoretische Dialektik, aus der die Psychoanalyse Freuds entstand, wird dadurch aufs Empfindlichste gestört.
Alfred Lorenzer gehörte zu den Analytikern der Nachkriegszeit, die nach Lösungen für das von Habermas postulierte »szientistische Selbstmissverständnis« der Psychoanalyse suchten. Geprägt von der Diskussion über den wissenschaftlichen Stellenwert der Psychoanalyse versuchte er die Rolle der Psychoanalyse in der Gesellschaft und ihr Verhältnis zur Soziologie neu zu überdenken. Die Beiträger widmen sich den verschiedenen Aspekten von Lorenzers Ansätzen, entwickeln diese weiter und zeigen neue zeitgemäße Perspektiven auf.
The author examines Bowlby's attachment theory and more recent versions of it from an epistemolog... more The author examines Bowlby's attachment theory and more recent versions of it from an epistemological viewpoint and subjects it to questioning on whether they are in line with central concepts of Freudian psychoanalysis. He argues that Bowlby's basic tenets regarding attachment theory, which later attachment theorists never seriously questioned, do not conform to scientifi c standards, and that psychoanalytic issues such as the dynamic unconscious, internal confl icts, interaction of drive wishes and the role of defence in establishing substitutive formations are either ignored or not treated in suffi cient depth. In the light of this, Fonagy's assertion that psychoanalytic criticism of attachment theory arose from mutual misunderstandings and ought nowadays to be seen as outdated is reversed: psychoanalytic criticism can only be regarded as outdated if either basic tenets of Freudian psychoanalysis, or attachment theory or both are misunderstood.
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This paper examines Freud's concept of repression and the relationship be... more This paper examines Freud's concept of repression and the relationship between repression and substitutive formation as it presents itself in Freud's writings. The author shows that Freud gives at least four different meanings to the term "repression": Freud uses it interchangeably with defense, as a consciously intended forgetting, as a specific unconscious mechanism of defense, and to describe the consequence of defense mechanisms leading to substitutive formations. The inconsistencies in this relationship are discussed and clarified, and Freud's economic and linguistic attempts at founding repression are subjected to critique; the need of a primal repression as a necessary condition for repression proper is pointed out. In developing Freud's linguistic foundation of repression further, the author presents defense as a semantic displacement. Ideas are excluded from the realm of the concepts that belong to them historically. These presentations become unconscious, that is, repressed, in that they can no longer be identified as "cases" of these conceptual internal contents. At the same time they are displaced into the extensions of concepts whose internal contents do not belong to them originally. It is by virtue of the internal contents of these concepts that the displaced elements as substitutive formations once again attain consciousness, albeit a false one. The author suggests dismissing repression as a specific defense mechanism of its own; to reversing Freud's thesis that repression, as a rule, creates a substitutive formation into its opposite; and recognizing that the mechanisms used to build substitutes, as a rule, create repression.
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ABSTRACT The author questions whether disavowal is to be understood as a defence mechanism in its... more ABSTRACT The author questions whether disavowal is to be understood as a defence mechanism in its own right. After discussing the different understandings of disavowal as a defence mechanism, as the outcome of defence mechanisms and as a synonym for defence in general, he recapitulates Freud's use of disavowal and confronts it with Freud's concept of defence mechanisms. He concludes that in Freud's conceptual framework, disavowal does not qualify as such a mechanism. To avoid the confusion produced by using disavowal with reference to a process, the outcome of a process, the individual in the general and the general in the individual, he recommends using the concept in Freud's conceptualisation only in agreement with Brenner, and Moore and Fine, to denote the properties of defence mechanisms and substitutive formations.
Zeitschrift für Psychosomatische Medizin und Psychoanalyse
In this article the question is discussed in how far the processes of understanding in the nomolo... more In this article the question is discussed in how far the processes of understanding in the nomological social sciences an "objectivication", which is demanded of psychoanalysts, can be used for psychoanalytically gained insights to human behavior. For one it is shown that it is impossible in principle to verify or falsify hypotheses within the nomologically oriented methodological self understanding. Furthermore the logical, empirical scientific process obligated to proving hypotheses is pursued in the perspective of a psychoanalytic social psychology and the thesis is developed that these insights, which are gained in nomological research projects are also always products of neurotic-blind interaction, so that nothing can be said of the value of knowledge gained in these research findings as long as the scientists do not clarify their research practice psychoanalytically.
Seit den 1990er Jahren erfährt die Psychoanalyse aufgrund der Professionalisierung der Psychother... more Seit den 1990er Jahren erfährt die Psychoanalyse aufgrund der Professionalisierung der Psychotherapie eine immer stärker werdende Reduzierung auf die Psychotechnik. Die praktisch-theoretische Dialektik, aus der die Psychoanalyse Freuds entstand, wird dadurch aufs Empfindlichste gestört.
Alfred Lorenzer gehörte zu den Analytikern der Nachkriegszeit, die nach Lösungen für das von Habermas postulierte »szientistische Selbstmissverständnis« der Psychoanalyse suchten. Geprägt von der Diskussion über den wissenschaftlichen Stellenwert der Psychoanalyse versuchte er die Rolle der Psychoanalyse in der Gesellschaft und ihr Verhältnis zur Soziologie neu zu überdenken. Die Beiträger widmen sich den verschiedenen Aspekten von Lorenzers Ansätzen, entwickeln diese weiter und zeigen neue zeitgemäße Perspektiven auf.
The author examines Bowlby's attachment theory and more recent versions of it from an epistemolog... more The author examines Bowlby's attachment theory and more recent versions of it from an epistemological viewpoint and subjects it to questioning on whether they are in line with central concepts of Freudian psychoanalysis. He argues that Bowlby's basic tenets regarding attachment theory, which later attachment theorists never seriously questioned, do not conform to scientifi c standards, and that psychoanalytic issues such as the dynamic unconscious, internal confl icts, interaction of drive wishes and the role of defence in establishing substitutive formations are either ignored or not treated in suffi cient depth. In the light of this, Fonagy's assertion that psychoanalytic criticism of attachment theory arose from mutual misunderstandings and ought nowadays to be seen as outdated is reversed: psychoanalytic criticism can only be regarded as outdated if either basic tenets of Freudian psychoanalysis, or attachment theory or both are misunderstood.
Http Dx Doi Org 10 1521 Prev 2012 99 3 397, Jun 1, 2012
This paper examines Freud's concept of repression and the relationship be... more This paper examines Freud's concept of repression and the relationship between repression and substitutive formation as it presents itself in Freud's writings. The author shows that Freud gives at least four different meanings to the term "repression": Freud uses it interchangeably with defense, as a consciously intended forgetting, as a specific unconscious mechanism of defense, and to describe the consequence of defense mechanisms leading to substitutive formations. The inconsistencies in this relationship are discussed and clarified, and Freud's economic and linguistic attempts at founding repression are subjected to critique; the need of a primal repression as a necessary condition for repression proper is pointed out. In developing Freud's linguistic foundation of repression further, the author presents defense as a semantic displacement. Ideas are excluded from the realm of the concepts that belong to them historically. These presentations become unconscious, that is, repressed, in that they can no longer be identified as "cases" of these conceptual internal contents. At the same time they are displaced into the extensions of concepts whose internal contents do not belong to them originally. It is by virtue of the internal contents of these concepts that the displaced elements as substitutive formations once again attain consciousness, albeit a false one. The author suggests dismissing repression as a specific defense mechanism of its own; to reversing Freud's thesis that repression, as a rule, creates a substitutive formation into its opposite; and recognizing that the mechanisms used to build substitutes, as a rule, create repression.
Http Dx Doi Org 10 1080 01062301 2013 795367, Jun 1, 2013
ABSTRACT The author questions whether disavowal is to be understood as a defence mechanism in its... more ABSTRACT The author questions whether disavowal is to be understood as a defence mechanism in its own right. After discussing the different understandings of disavowal as a defence mechanism, as the outcome of defence mechanisms and as a synonym for defence in general, he recapitulates Freud's use of disavowal and confronts it with Freud's concept of defence mechanisms. He concludes that in Freud's conceptual framework, disavowal does not qualify as such a mechanism. To avoid the confusion produced by using disavowal with reference to a process, the outcome of a process, the individual in the general and the general in the individual, he recommends using the concept in Freud's conceptualisation only in agreement with Brenner, and Moore and Fine, to denote the properties of defence mechanisms and substitutive formations.
Zeitschrift für Psychosomatische Medizin und Psychoanalyse
In this article the question is discussed in how far the processes of understanding in the nomolo... more In this article the question is discussed in how far the processes of understanding in the nomological social sciences an "objectivication", which is demanded of psychoanalysts, can be used for psychoanalytically gained insights to human behavior. For one it is shown that it is impossible in principle to verify or falsify hypotheses within the nomologically oriented methodological self understanding. Furthermore the logical, empirical scientific process obligated to proving hypotheses is pursued in the perspective of a psychoanalytic social psychology and the thesis is developed that these insights, which are gained in nomological research projects are also always products of neurotic-blind interaction, so that nothing can be said of the value of knowledge gained in these research findings as long as the scientists do not clarify their research practice psychoanalytically.
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Alfred Lorenzer gehörte zu den Analytikern der Nachkriegszeit, die nach Lösungen für das von Habermas postulierte »szientistische Selbstmissverständnis« der Psychoanalyse suchten. Geprägt von der Diskussion über den wissenschaftlichen Stellenwert der Psychoanalyse versuchte er die Rolle der Psychoanalyse in der Gesellschaft und ihr Verhältnis zur Soziologie neu zu überdenken. Die Beiträger widmen sich den verschiedenen Aspekten von Lorenzers Ansätzen, entwickeln diese weiter und zeigen neue zeitgemäße Perspektiven auf.
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Alfred Lorenzer gehörte zu den Analytikern der Nachkriegszeit, die nach Lösungen für das von Habermas postulierte »szientistische Selbstmissverständnis« der Psychoanalyse suchten. Geprägt von der Diskussion über den wissenschaftlichen Stellenwert der Psychoanalyse versuchte er die Rolle der Psychoanalyse in der Gesellschaft und ihr Verhältnis zur Soziologie neu zu überdenken. Die Beiträger widmen sich den verschiedenen Aspekten von Lorenzers Ansätzen, entwickeln diese weiter und zeigen neue zeitgemäße Perspektiven auf.