Jahrbuch der Psychoanalyse

The development of perception and the experience of space are investigated through dreams and psychotic states in which interior and exterior spaces are mixed and disrupted. For this purpose, reference is made to the concepts of Euclidean and...

One essential albeit often neglected aspect of dreams is that we dream in images. Freud repeatedly emphasized the hallucinatory quality of dream images: the dreamer does not see the images, but experiences them. Without the experiential character of...

Intuition, which is widely defined by Kant’s definition as the contact with reality without the brokerage of rational thinking, was brought back by Bion to the psychoanalytic vocabulary. The present paper focuses on Bion’s term of intuition as...

The author argues that the implications from Freud’s discoveries in Beyond the Pleasure Principle have not yet been fully drawn in the theory of structural psychoanalysis, but especially not in treatment technique. With regard to the structure of...