Vol 29 (1/2) 2011
On Dreams as Letters from the Unconscious and how to read them – Huguette Raes
Dream Interpretation and Transference: How far does the Via Regia Reach? – Dominique Hubain
Dream Interpretation: The Interpretation of Dreams? – Sara Bergmans
A New Paradigm: Dream Interpretation in the Footsteps of Bion – Marc Hebbrecht
The Joke and its Relation to the Unconscious: Freud’s Footnote to the Interpretation of Dreams – David Blomme
Between Phallic Façade and Discrete Euphoria: Freud on Fore-pleasure in Jokes and the Three Essays – Tomas Geyskens
The Joke and its Occasional Bitter After-taste for the Joker – Julien Quackelbeen
Lacanian Sublimation and Verticality – Viviana M. Saint-Cyr
Three Psychoanalytic Readings of the Buddhist Emptiness – Michael De Herdt
“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....
Three Psychoanalytic Readings of the Buddhist Emptiness
Both Buddhism and psychoanalysis show us alternative ways to bear human suffering. Buddhism teaches us the path of emptiness (śūnyatā), psychoanalysis that of sublimation. In this comparative literature study we explore how we can conceptualize the realization (jñāna)...
Lacanian Sublimation and Verticality
This is a study of the relationship between sublimation and verticality in architecture – specifically Gothic architecture – and in psychoanalysis – more precisely, the Lacanian formula that sublimation "raises an object to the dignity of the Thing" (Lacan, 1986...
The Joke and its Occasional Bitter After-taste for the Joker
This paper is a reflection on the, at times, odd inversion of the joke. Its power does not just apply to the one who hears it, but also to the one who produces it. Those who deny the proper implication of this have missed the point of what Freud intends with his small...
Between Phallic Façade and Discrete Euphoria: Freud on Fore-pleasure in Jokes and the Three Essays
In 1905 Freud published Three essays on the theory of sexuality and Jokes and their relation to the unconscious. He wrote these two works simultaneously. According to Ernest Jones, "Freud kept the manuscript of each on two adjoining tables and wrote now on one and now...
The Joke and its Relation to the Unconscious: Freud’s Footnote to the Interpretation of Dreams
This article, part of a broader research agenda on the link between psychoanalysis and Witz, presents a study of the reception of The Joke and its Relation to the Unconscious within Freud's own work. In contrast to the numerous references that can be found in the work...
A New Paradigm: Dream Interpretation in the Footsteps of Bion
In contrast to Freud's theory that dream-work is necessary to disguise unconscious wishes, Bion conceives of dreaming as a filter that sorts, categorizes, and prioritizes emotional facts that are stimulated by sensory input. First, emotional experiences must be...