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...

Some of the most severely disturbed patients who primarily experience their bodies as alien have had breakdowns in infancy (Winnicott, 1991 [1974]), also resulting in the insufficient psychological integration of their bodies. How does this manifest...

The author understands bisexuality – not only in the psychological sense – as the basis of all gender identities and every gender identity as the formation of a compromise, which can also be revoked again. Instead of always describing new gender...

Interpretation of latent, unconscious fully formed meanings remains at the heart of the analytic understanding and application of the treatment of neurotic organizations. However, clinical experience with patients whose difficulties lie beyond...