Jahrbuch der Psychoanalyse

The aporia of Nachträglichkeit is examined as a tension between progressive and regressive temporal structures. The aim of the study is the hypothesis that the regressive time vector of Nachträglichkeit can offer a heuristic and hermeneutic model...

Drawing on the writings of Sigmund Freud, the author suggests that the categories of time and space require a specific approach in psychoanalysis. He discusses the timelessness of the unconscious in relation to Freud’s assertion that psychic work...

The preconscious, as described in the first topic, is located between the ego and the unconscious. This is where exchange processes and connections develop, fed by instinctual energy and organised by repression. Among other things, the preconscious...

Freud invented psychoanalysis during his self-analysis and through it (Anzieu, 1990, p. 4), discovering a specific perceptual attitude for which he coined the term »evenly hovering attention« in 1912. However, he subsequently refrained from...

Freud provided an important impetus for dealing with the topic of »time« in his A Note Upon the »Mystic Writing-Pad«. Psychosomatics and disorders in relation to this »reality«, which we find in our clinical work, speak against the idea that...

The chronological time provided by our consciousness is distorted in many ways under the influence of the unconscious. Freud summarised these forms of distortion under the term »timelessness« of the unconscious. Just like the concept of time, the...

In the author’s view, working through temporality is central to the development of personality, thinking and the ability to differentiate. Finitude is the most important concept in contemporary psychoanalysis, insofar as it stands in contrast to...

Wilfred Bion’s works are considered to be difficult, obscure and abstract; reading them is seen as a strenuous, demanding task. This paper argues that one reason for this perception lies in Erika Krejci’s translations of Bion’s key texts,...

Since Descartes until the second half of nineteenth century the mind has been thought as an unextended substance occupying, no place, no space. This notion prevented for more than two centuries the possibility of any science of mind. It has changed...

It is in the realm of language where much of the psychoanalytic work with adults that we describe with Winnicott as playing together takes place. This is where the subjective inner reality and the objective outer reality of patient and analyst come...

The paper, stemming from clinical challenges in therapeutic encounters with challenging courses of development, introduces a psychoanalytic perspective on the multi-dimensional archaic proto-body-scheme. It offers a novel way of mapping the...

This article reflects on the working methods and results of the EPF Working Party on Psychosomatics from the author’s personal perspective. Through the lens of the sociology of professions, this paper examines a group of analysts, heterogeneous in...

This text will both trace the emergence and history of the concept of ›operational thinking‹ (pensée operatoire), which was first described in 1962 by the psychosomatic doctors of the Paris School, and the conceptual and treatment-related...

This paper examines how an analyst’s conscious or unconscious overreliance on established psychoanalytic theory can lead to ›concretization‹ in the analytic field. Such concretization impedes the emergence of realizations and hinders...

It is precisely in »crises of contact« (Will, 2023) that the analytic session gives rise to pronounced, sometimes even rousing and enveloping reveries, which are often confusing – but can be of great value for restoring contact between analyst...

In French psychoanalytic writing, the term ›concrete thinking‹ is rarely used in connection to thought disorders in schizophrenia, likely because ›abstract thinking‹ is also considered characteristic of these pathologies. The term...

This work deals with the question of whether and how the awareness of mortality is reflected in dreams of old age. Based on the dream theory of Moser & von Zeppelin, the author examines his own dream diary and focusses on a typical dream type in...

This essay examines the structural and conceptual differences between poetic intelligence and the linguistic abilities of artificial intelligence, in particular so-called Large Language Models (LLMs). Our starting point is the thesis that poetic...