Nr. 39 (2000)
The
mirror image of the present:
Freud's theory of retrogressive screen memories [abstract]
[text]
David L. Smith
Malaise
dans la culture: la place des femmes –
Freud traducteur de L'émancipation des femmes de Mill [abstract]
Michelle Moreau Ricaud
Who's
the author of Freud's works?
A confutation of "A critique of Freud's pre-analytic and psychoanalytic
dream-theory" by Adolf Grünbaum [abstract]
[text]
Franco Baldini
La
migraine: entre la psychosomatique et l'hystérie [abstract]
Huguette Raes
Introduction
to the interview
Gertrudis Van de Vijver
About
psychoanalysis, thunderstorms, and other pleasurable things –
An interview with Karl Pribram - August 13th, 1999
[text]
Gertrudis Van de Vijver
L'autisme
à la lettre:
quels types de changements sont proposés
aux sujets autistes aujourd'hui? [abstract]
[text]
François Sauvagnat
Psychische behandeling
Sigmund Freud [text]
[introduction]
The Mirror Image of the Present: Freud's Theory of Retrogressive Screen Memories
David L. Smith
Freud formulated the concept of retrogressive screen memories in 1897 to describe memories of past events which unconsciously portray contemporary situations. He used this concept at several points in his self-analysis and in the disguised autobiographical paper "Screen memories" (1899). The 1899 paper on screen memories contains contradictions and incoherences. Freud's correspondence allows us to reconstruct what may be the immediate triggers for Freud's recollections of the screen memory of the meadow with the yellow flowers described in 1899. Freud's theory of retrogressive screen memories seems to have been formulated specifically in order to reinterpret the data previously explained by the "seduction theory" of 1896. Freud never used the theory of retrogressive screen memories to reinterpret this data. It is suggested that if Freud had done this he would have been forced to conclude that his patients unconsciously regarded his psychotherapeutic approach as a form of seduction. Freud's screen memory of the meadow with the yellow flowers may have provided a source of countertransference in his treatment of the Rat Man en the Wolf Man.
Key words: Screen Memories, Self-Analysis, Freiberg, Countertransference, Fließ, Breuer.
Civilization and its Discontents: the position of women. Freud translator of Mill's "The Enfranchisement of Women"
Michelle Moreau Ricaud
After
the decease of the official translater of Mill's work, Gomperz entrusted
(on the advice of Von Brentano) the translation of Mill's last volume
to Freud, a brilliant yet needy student at that time. One of the essays
of that volume – The Enfranchisement of Women – which highlighted
the prejudices of the period, was to exercise a revolutionary influence
on Freud, without his knowing. The act of translation produced in Freud
a theoretical child, that would make him readdress the question of femininity
through a new way of listening to his female patients.
Key words: The "Question of Women", Utilitarism, Egalitarian Utopia, the Act of Translating, the "Feminine" for Freud.
Who's the Author of Freud's Works? A Confutation of "A Critique of Freud's Pre-analytic and Psychoanalytic Dream-theory" by Adolf Grünbaum
Franco Baldini
This
work shows how Grunbaum’s critique, "Manifest Dream-Content
a Compromise-Formation with Repressed Wishes. A critique of Freud's pre-analytic
and psychanalytic dream-theory" is wholly inconsistent.
First, it shows that Freud’s theory of dreams as wishfulfillment
was not based on the neurophysiological model of the "Project for
a Scientific Psychology", as Grunbaum suggested.. Further, his reading
of this text rests on four very serious conceptual confusions: 1) confusion
between sleep and dream; 2) confusion between structure and function;
3) confusion between real and rational; 4) confusion between primary process
and irrationality. Finally, it is demonstrated that, even in relation
to psychoanalytic dream-theory, Grünbaum confuses the Ego's different
notions in the development of Freud's theory and radically misunderstands
what Freud says about the "wish to sleep". For all these reasons
it is believed that Grünbaum's work has absolutely no epistemological
value for a critical analysis of Freud's true theories.
Key words: Freud, Psychoanalysis, Philosophy of Science, Freud's Pre-analytic Works, Ego, Psychoanalytic Dream-theory, Freud's Neurobiological Model.
Migraine: Between Psychosomatic and Hystery?
Huguette Raes
In his discussion of Möbius' book Die Migräne, Freud cautions against the view of migraine as a vasomotoric illness. He speaks enthusiastically about Möbius' detailed treatment of the unresolved issue of causality and the subjective factors of this illness, of individual differences in symptomatology level and of the differential diagnosis of migraine and other braindisorders. Freud advances two major theses about migraine: that migraine like conditions of the stomach, back and heart exist and the possibility of a nasal etiology. Migraine is still largely unexplained. From the analytic point of view migraine can be seen as a conversion symptom, and even as a psychosomatic phenomenon.
Key words: Migraine, Psychosomatic, Hysteria, Möbius.
Autism taken literally: What kind of Changes are offered to autistic Subjects Today?
François Sauvagnat
There are currently three main research trends on the disorder of autism. The first (theory of mind) supports the idea that autism is a deficit in the capacity to generate a theory of mind, which allows the child to develop social relationships (a reinterpretation of Kanner's loneliness). This capacity is understood to be modular (J. Fodor). According to the second theory (theory of control), the autistic symptom of sameness as described by Kanner, is crucial, although these authors do not reject the theory of mind. The third theory based on lacanian thinking, proposes that autistic disturbances are caused by the subjects' difficulty in knotting the imaginary, the symbolic and the real. We argue that this theory leads to more differentiated and precise therapeutic strategies.
Key words: Autism, Psychoanalysis, Theories of Mind, Theories of Control, Stereotypy, Surrogate Characters.
