Volume 65 (2024), Edition 1

What is pain? How is it perceived and how is it processed? Where is it situated and how can it be specified within the framework of a theory of the psychic apparatus? These problems arose for Sigmund Freud ever since his »Project for a Scientific...

Facilitating the patient’s ability to grasp reality truthfully is at the heart of psychoanalytic work. However, Bion’s radical contribution to psychoanalysis and its affinity with contemporary insights from quantum theory, highlight the...

Winnicott was commited to the unconscious as an essential aspect of psychoanalytic theory and practice though he neither elaborated his use nor provided definitions for the term. He argues for the development of the unconscious as one strand of the...

This paper argues that the distinction between the dynamic and the descriptive unconscious is in danger of being lost and indicates some of the practical, clinical consequences of this loss. It does so against the background of Freud’s own...

Freud claimed that objects are means of satisfying drives (Freud, 1916), a view that was strengthened by object-relation theories, which claims that drives are primarily object-seeking (Fairbairn, 1946). In a recently published paper, I have...

In further elaboration of her revised drive theory (briefly summarised here), the author develops the economical and structural-theoretical conditions of the unconscious. The focus is on the quantitative and qualitative aspects of the two opposing...

Unconscious perception can only take place between two unconscious minds, as already described by Freud. This gains in significance in the context of a technique that orients itself on the structural model and that emphasizes the analyst’s...