To put Kierkegaard and psychoanalysis together in a title seems like putting together two different and completely divergent worlds that have no common ground of intersection, standing wide apart, so that any conjunction would seem to be forced and contrived. And yet, despite the radically different context, one could disentangle a common agenda that is played out and where Freud, unwittingly no doubt, takes up a thread that was left suspended in the air by Kierkegaard. The themes that come to the fore are anamnesis and repeating. The comparison is based primarily on Freud’s Remembering, Repeating and Working-Through and Kierkegaard’s Repeating. From the author’s analysis it comes out, that Freud, if red properly, should be placed on the side of repeating.
This article attempts at showing a characteristic evolution of perception of the genealogy of female hysteria within the confines of psychoanalytical tradition. Starting from Freud's approach where hysteria was unambiguously associated with female sexuality, contestable attempts at 'rehabilitating' the latter made by Horney or Klein, through to Lacan's, Irigaray's or Kristeva's concepts, each of whom, in his or her peculiar way, tries to evade both the simplifications of a Freudian patriarchalism and a biologism like the one represented by the author of Female Sexuality. What all those concepts or approaches have in common is their failure at completely overcoming the identification of hysteria with the 'nature' of femininity, although they seek to draw dissimilar consequences from it. The question is whether one should rather radically break with such identification, rather than see a 'different language' of femininity in hysteria?
Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz's homosexual texts - specific as they are, owing to the specificity of the discourse, the psychosexual, social and cultural construction of the author within the text - are disturbing with their peculiar aura. The stories told are usually discontinuous, unclear and inexplicable. The topic of a 'different love' is masked, shown indirectly, or even if it seems open or neutral, it gets entangled in a net of embroiled, if not contradictory, addresser's intentions ('Przyjaciele' (Friends), 'Mefisto - Walc' (Mephisto Waltz)), or becomes the subject of an elaborate literary game, be it stylisation ('Czwarta symfonia' (The Fourth Symphony)), suspense, or 'self-thematism' ('Nauczyciel' (The Teacher), 'Martwa pasieka' (A dead apiary)). Such signals enable a double reading, which is accessible to 'initiate' readers. But they are also a sign of a double nature of the world, which - according to German Ritz - is part of any homosexual experience. In Iwaszkiewicz, the homosexual identity is never expressed out loud and never gets integrated. It is generated by confirmation concurrent with negation, camouflage and allusiveness or provocative openness, is interrelated with a voyeuristic attitude ('Tatarak' (The sweet rush)) and liberates through sublimation.
The present paper is an interpretation of incarnations of the Orpheus and Euridice myth using Lacan's theory. By referring to operatic embodiments of the myth (in Monteverdi, Gluck, and, at a later date, Offenbach), the author considers the change in how the role of woman is seen, as a muse and 'midwife' of a male's talent. He shows the changing concepts of Euridice's gesture: she gives Orpheus back his talent through her death. Lastly, by tracing the diversified ideas of composers with regards to how the Orpheus's part is to be performed (varied voice ranges, from female soprano to male tenor), the author puts forward a thesis that casting female singers in both parts, i.e. as Orpheus and Euridice, and thereby, giving their relationship lesbian traits, would contribute to emphasising the myth's hidden meanings.
The authoress emphasises an instance of breach of the binding copyright by the Polish translators of Bruno Bettelheim's book 'A Good Enough Parent', who have heavily interfered with the text, misrepresenting and distorting its contents. Translation errors are analysed, having occurred due to unsatisfactory command of the English language and the scientific domain concerned by the Bettelheim book, i.e. psychoanalysis.
The authoress reconstructs two grand Freudian metaphors: the magic block and bobbin spool, which enables her to juxtapose the experience of a psychical human from the Freud's time, referred to, for the present purpose, as 'oedipal', with the experience of a modern man, called 'late-modern'. She confronts five tendencies: (1) indestructibility of mark vs. randomness of construction; (2) absence as the condition of symbolisation vs. presence that prevents it; (3) ban (of incest) vs. order of self-fulfilment; unmanageability/non-disposability of what is human vs. creation of prostheses-fetishes; (5) circuitous path of the psyche vs. 'fast track': discharge or instantaneous fulfilment. The authoress shows how comprehensive processes of modernity have contributed to altered methods of shaping subjectivity in the space between the individual's social and biographical situation and his/her internal experience, which space has been opened by psychoanalysis. These reflections are illustrated with clinical cases from her own several years' psychoanalytical practice.
The monograph introduces the reader to the psychology of religion through the work of Antoine Vergote, a theoretician who has influenced the development of this discipline in Europe in fundamental ways for several decades. Behind the iron curtain, the importance of a psychology of religion was suppressed and its cultivation banished from the scope of research. On the solid basis of his lifework and of his psychoanalytically oriented pioneering research, Vergote now presents the Hungarian reader with empirical methods of studying various cases, his preliminary considerations, and the results of his investigations supported by his insight into several disciplines. Vergote approaches definitions, symbols, and rituals from a wide theoretical foundation making use of different fields such as psychology, theology, and a religiously based and practically oriented pedagogy. While the author has developed a system of criteria to distinguish between healthy and pathological forms of religious practices, he points out that the adequate training of the practitioner is key to a successful treatment. Vergote's works are now an indispensable resource for any research in the field connecting psychology and theology.
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The article presents two grasps of love - in Schopenhauer's pessimistic philosophy and Freud's psychoanalysis. A similarity between Schopenhauer's metaphysics and Freud's psychoanalysis is shown. Schopenhauer's 'will' and Freud's 'id' are almost the same, though grasped in two different manners. Just like 'id', ' will' becomes the source of misfortune, and culture with its ethical values (particularly love) can become remedy for evil and suffering. Separating 'eros' from 'agape', Schopenhauer placed sexual love as a handmaid to 'will' and considered it the source of human suffering. In this understanding, love of one's neighbor becomes liberation from suffering, but it is a seeming consolation, as such love is in fact a concealed egoism. Introducing the notion of sublimation, Freud made a passage between 'eros' and 'agape'. Love, wherever its source, in Freud's grasp assures security and thus gives happiness which is the final purpose of everyone.
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Although classical psychoanalysis and its off-shoots has not brought any “theory or narration” that would become part of literary narratology, it has postulated several basic elements of “general psychoanalytic narratology” as implicit psychoanalytic theory of narration (the therapeutic function of narration, dialogic part, in-depth interpretation, the thematization of interpersonal relationships). At the same time, the article analyses how the interpretation of the dynamic (narrative) aspect of literature has contributed to the creation of psychoanalytic theory itself and the role played by the reliability or unreliability of the narrator in it.
The paper takes as its starting point the category of the Other which has deeply marked the contemporary philosophy, although in very different ways. The red thread is the category of the Other in psychoanalysis, where already Freud spoke of the unconscious as “the other scene”, and Lacan emphatically proposed formulas like “the unconscious is the discourse of the Other”, “the desire is the desire of the Other” and spoke about women as “the Other sex”. The paper tries to provide some clarity in the various uses of this term in psychoanalysis. Finally one has to confront the fundamental antinomy that on the one hand the dimension of Otherness presents the basic terrain of all psychoanalytic concepts, and on the other hand the key thesis proposed by Lacan that “the Other doesn’t exist”. But if the Other doesn’t exist it doesn’t mean that it doesn’t produce effects, and this is the main difficulty in conceiving the Other. The paper tries to situate this problem in a wider philosophical context, reaching from the ancient atomism via Hegel to the contemporary philosophy.
In The Reedpipe Tale Oksana Zabuzhko shows comlicated relationship beetwen members of family, which is member of closed and opportune society, can comletely destroy life of adolescent girl. Patriarchal society, in which heroine lived, didn’t want to, or couldn’t accepther femous beauty. There for phisical side of her person (gr. sarks) came to the completely smothered her spiritual side (gr. soma). She was convieted by the inner circle to be “the body” – beautiful, desired, amazing – but only “body”, without soul. Heroine of the novel has inherit not only her mothers’s unsolved complex. Heroine wasn’t able to build healthy relationship. She had fallen into erotic psychosis, which made her dependent on night meeting with devil. Also her younger, less atractive and less cleaver sister, accepting a Dmytro’s proposal, the boy, who was meant for her – the oldest one, stealing own fate. The novel ended in tragedy – the oldest sister killed youngest one becouse of deep repressed anger not only to her, but also to unifair fait. Zabuzhko has reconstructed folk tale, which one girl (“mother’s daughter”) kills her sister (“father’s dauther”). She touched upon a problem of women flesh, which can be blessing and profanity at the same time. She also shows how unfairly cuold be life in closed, patriarchal society woman of extraordinary beauty and autstanding sensitivity.
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Classical Psychoanalysis and Politics. The article is concerned with psychoanalysis and its application to politics. First part focuses on social thinking of Sigmund Freud. Second part examines political insights of Carl Gustav Jung. Third part examines the social theory of Erich Fromm. Forth part calls attention to political opinions of Herbert Marcuse. The article highlights a traditional Freudian approach to society and politics.
How can we consider human subjectivity as ethical, granted that human beings are essentially interdependent, self-opaque, vulnerable and ambivalent in their attitudes? The aim of this paper is to tackle the question against the background of the relational notion of subjectivity developed in the ethics of care. First, we analyse Carol Gilligan’s theory of moral development and focus on its underlying notion of relational subjectivity. Further, we revise some of Gilligan’s ideas with the help of the object relations theory and Donald Winnicott’s concept of the transitional area of play in particular. Finally, we show how Winnicott’s view of the role of play in human development, especially its capacity to be transformative, joyful, binding and critical, enriches the notion of relational subjectivity and its ethical implications as studied by care ethicists.
In the children´s world, the communication runs in various forms different from those typical for the communication of the adults. Humorous verses, by means of which mainly the children of the same age communicate within the environment distant from their family background, represent special forms of contacts. Despite the long-term tradition in researching the children´s folklore, Czech ethnology remains a debtor in this field, not only in the field of basic research, but also especially in the field of interdisciplinary study. As to the formal and aesthetical standpoint, the rhythm and rhyme are primary features of children´s output, namely at the expense of all other elements. However, the motifs of individual rhymed expresses, the humour, the ratio of perceiving the vulgarity of certain words, the trust in the truth of expressions acquired at transmission among the children of the same age and especially the motivation to create the verses- all the above is significantly influenced by the age of a child. Many questions in this field can be answered by the developmental psychology and the psychoanalysis.
By using lacanian notions Marxist philosopher Slavoj Žižek brings a new and creative critique of ideology in postmodern times. The author of this paper shows their usage on liberal democracy. He builds himself a retrospective image, a fantasy, how he got to this point. The liberal democracy gives him the feeling of freedom to choose. Even if he won´t participate, he has to confront himself with the superego imperative - the pressure of the societal and intersubjective demands. Which if aren´t fulfilled, he is becoming isolated from the group and feels guilty. That feeling of detachment forces him to get more involved. Because of these self-regulators, the subject is unable to identify the flaws of liberal democracy, and cannot step outside that ideology. Critique has to keep in mind that other past forms of democracy (e.g. Athenian slave democracy) have put themselves into the position of non-ideology and build on it. Žižek also works with the Freudian concept of death drive, i.e. a human capacity, which concentrates itself on the core of an ideological system holding it together.
The article deals with the logic of comedy and its inherent connection with the “functioning” of love (or better “the love which does work”). The comical along with laughter is a Nietzschean theme par excellence; love, on its turn, the most “tangible” figure of duality. Here “two” does not represent a pair or two people; it is a figure which resolves the antinomy of desire (“willing”) and delight (Thing, Nothingness) by articulating them both on the same thematic background. Thus the core of Nietzsche’s theory of duality, is revealed, i.e. the truth and the real as a “montage” of two illusions. The latter is analysed in the author’s book, which includes also the published chapter conceived as a separate appendix.
Historical studies of Mao Tse-tung and Maoism are mostly damning moralisations. As for Mao’s influence in philosophy, such studies are rare if not completely non-existent. By conducting a brief genealogy of Lacano-Maoism, a hybrid of Lacanian psychoanalysis and Maoist politics which emerged post-May 68 in France and whose adherents still include Alain Badiou and Slavoj Žižek, this article considers the extent to which this fusion of Mao and Lacan may still have implications for contemporary philosophy and related theoretical discourses. The article speculates on Mao, not as a historical figure, but as a “master signifier” in French theory of the 1960s and 1970s.
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The paper considers the issue of moral motivation in light of recent construals and accounts of Freud's views. It attempts to show the merits of taking some Freudian claims, especially those concerning the development of superego, as giving a plausible naturalistic picture of dynamic process of assimilation of Kantian categorical imperative. In the course of this attempt the views of such philosophers as R. Wollheim, J. Lear, and D. Velleman are being invoked and discussed.
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