Vol 25 (2) 2007
The poetical identity implosion of Fernando Pessoa – a psychoanalytical reading and interpretation of a literary oeuvre – François Levrau
On Psychoanalytic Technique as foundation for the investigation of Creativity [text] – Filip Geerardyn
“I want to be a parasite in your body”. On a particular case of transference love. – Peter Walleghem
Unhinging the familiar: The uncanny in Henry James’s The turn of the screw – Stijn Praet
Free association: talk! … and the other side? – Wim Galle
The aim of the psychoanalytical cure: to assume existential guilt … and beyond – Katrien Steenhoudt
The aim of the psychoanalytical cure: to assume existential guilt … and beyond
The aim of the psychoanalytic cure is here considered as the movement which targets the subject’s assumption of its existential guilt, i.e., the guilt resulting from not living up to its destiny as inscribed by the Other. Through the psychoanalytic work the patient is...
Free association: talk! … and the other side?
In this article the author tries to problematize and to specify the place of free association within the psychoanalytic cure: this (free?) talking is fundamental to the psychoanalytic method. The starting point is the investigation of some problems in clinical...
Unhinging the familiar: The uncanny in Henry James’s The turn of the screw
The Turn of the Screw (1898) is one of the most Gothic short stories ever written by modernist author Henry James. Its effect on the reader can be quite unnerving, uncanny even. Though Sigmund Freud’s essay on The Uncanny (1919a) has often been used by scholars of...
“I want to be a parasite in your body”. On a particular case of transference love.
In this case study of a thirty year old woman, we address the question of a particular form of transference love. Freud pointed out that the therapeutic functioning of a psychoanalytic cure relies on transference and that the development of this transference is based...
On Psychoanalytic Technique as foundation for the investigation of Creativity
Can psychoanalytic technique be used to investigate creativity? With reference to MacMillan’s work (MacMillan et al., 2003) on Freud’s essay on the Moses of Michelangelo (Freud, 1914b), the author begins this article by arguing that this is not always productive. In...
The poetical identity implosion of Fernando Pessoa – a psychoanalytical reading and interpretation of a literary oeuvre
First and foremost, this article deals with the process of reading and interpreting the oeuvre of the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa. Furthermore, it wants to examine whether freudo-lacanian psychoanalysis anno 2008 is still relevant for analysing and unlocking the...