Jahrbuch der Psychoanalyse

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...