Vol 22 (3/4) 2004
Inspiration of the cure or technique? The ethical loneliness of the analyst – Julien Quackelbeen
Writings around Das Ding – Veroniek Knockaert
Some reflections on urgency, crisis and psychiatry – Wim Galle
Reflections on the structure and finality of psychoanalytic interpretations – Samuel Markey
Freud’s “Project” – A purloined letter – Mai Wegener
Symbol and metaphor – Charles Sasse
Care and Repetition: About good, truth and writing – Jeroen Donckers
Art and psychoanalysis: An inspirational encounter – Jean-Pierre Van Eeckhout – Sarah Willems – Els Buytaert
“I don’t stop; I start again.” The position of the analyst in ‘long term care’
From a lacanian orientation, the relation between 'treatment', 'coaching' and 'care' is questioned in case of what one calls 'long term care'. This question is approached from the perspective of a case study. A young man accuses himself constantly of not adapting...
Vampires, Viruses and Verbalisation: Bram Stoker’s Dracula as a genealogical window into fin-de-siècle science
This paper analyses Bram Stoker’s classic Dracula as a literary document which reflects important scientific and technological developments of the fin-the-siècle era, ranging from blood transfusion and virology via psychotherapy and psychoanalysis up to brain research...
Psychoanalysis: a symptomatic problem
In this article the author explores why psychoanalysts are often seen as troublesome people and why they give so much critique. Foucault stated that in modernity the epistèmè changed: ‘man’ came in the thinking frame and human sciences were born. In his opinion...
The Violence of Right: Rereading ‘Why War?’
In this contribution, the often neglected correspondence ‘Why War?’ (Freud, 1933b) is presented as the locus classicus of Freud’s account of ‘Right and Violence’. In the discussion with Freud, Einstein’s position appears in the light of Kant’s Toward Perpetual Peace....
Art and psychoanalysis: An inspirational encounter
The sixth colloquium of A.L.E.P.H. (11/12/2004-12/12/2004) united psychoanalysts, art historians, philosophers and artists in the Fine Arts Museum of Tourcoing on the theme "Art and Psychoanalysis". In this article, three authors reflect on what touched them during...
Care and Repetition: About good, truth and writing
This article deals with the formidable challenge of repetition for therapeutic or educational care. Two forms of repetition are differentiated: one driven by the Oedipal life drive, the other by the death drive. Through a close reading of the classic myth of Oedipus...
Symbol and metaphor
The symbolic dimension occupies a central position in the constitution of the subject and of the social field. It is argued that the function of the symbol and its effects on the psychical apparatus and on clinical practise are elucidated by psychoanalytic theory ....
Freud’s “Project” – A purloined letter
The present article, based on more detailed work by the author (Wegener, 2004) deals with Freud's Project of a Scientific Psychology. Taking into account the con¬text in which the manuscript was written in 1895, namely, Freud's correspondence with Wilhelm Fließ, the...
Reflections on the structure and finality of psychoanalytic interpretations
This article differentiates between two forms of interpretation: symbolic and imaginary. It is argued that an analytic interpretation always revisits a symbolic interpretation made by the subject, resulting in the subject also making an imaginary interpretation.....
Some reflections on urgency, crisis and psychiatry
Some reflections on urgency, psychiatry and the position of the analyst are the main themes of this article. First of all he takes an historical detour via the figure of Gia¬como Casanova. With his work Ma voisine, la postérité the author compares a medical emergency...