Jahrbuch der Psychoanalyse

Phasmids are beings that are also their environment. They therefore have no boundaries or border zones to be determined. In a theoretical model, the environment would be empty, with a value of 0. If one takes DidiHuberman’s discovery as a...

In his work Mord – Selbstmord oder die Bildung des Selbstbewußtseins (Murder – Suicide or the Formation of Self-Consciousness), Wolfgang Loch analysed from a primarily philosophical perspective the psychological logic of a suicidal patient who...

This short article is divided into two parts. The first part explains how the concept of ›surprise‹ is understood in theoretical neuroscience today. The second part shows how remarkably closely the modern neuroscientific conception of the brain...

In this article, we offer some reflections on the concept of surprise by questioning its place and role in the practice of analytic processes. After discussing some elements related to the preconditions for surprise to occur in the analytic...

Unconscious perception can only take place between two unconscious minds, as already described by Freud. This gains in significance in the context of a technique that orients itself on the structural model and that emphasizes the analyst’s...