Volume 35 (2023), Edition 2

The article recapitulates the recurrent debate on pluralism and/or unity in psychoanalysis, which is criticized as fruitless because it could not yield any significant results and weakens the psychoanalytic community from within. Instead of...

The article points to a connection between the theoretical development and the politics of science in psychoanalysis since the beginning of its institutionalisation. Freud’s striving to establish his Ideas as a recognized (natural) science in a...

The question of its common ground has occupied psychoanalysis for many decades. This article first discusses whether psychoanalysis needs such a shared understanding of its foundations and, if so, why. This question is answered positively in terms...

After a brief review of the fate of depth psychology/psychoanalysis at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich and some points of criticism of behaviorist and cognitive psychology as a starting point for a never-ending interest in...

Psychoanalysis has evolved primarily by not stopping at Freud’s drive psychology. The development of the so-called four psychologies are an example. With the help of extended structural diagnostic possibilities and with empirical research it is...

The text interprets Kate Bushe’s first hit Wuthering Heights, including the literary original. At the same time,it provides an examination of female socialization and female masochism from the perspective of psychoanalysis.