Jahrbuch der Psychoanalyse

Freud claimed that objects are means of satisfying drives (Freud, 1916), a view that was strengthened by object-relation theories, which claims that drives are primarily object-seeking (Fairbairn, 1946). In a recently published paper, I have...

What is pain? How is it perceived and how is it processed? Where is it situated and how can it be specified within the framework of a theory of the psychic apparatus? These problems arose for Sigmund Freud ever since his »Project for a Scientific...

Facilitating the patient’s ability to grasp reality truthfully is at the heart of psychoanalytic work. However, Bion’s radical contribution to psychoanalysis and its affinity with contemporary insights from quantum theory, highlight the...

In this paper I will try to show how the chimera, as I understand it, is the result of an unsettling encounter between the traumatic traces of the two protagonists, culminating in a process of reverie, a process, indeed, of hallucinatory emergence,...

Analytic awareness of the process of meaning-making involves tracking premonitions and intuitions to their sources. As precursors of symbolic processing, premonitions are essential elements in any relationship, including the analytic relationship....

Knowledge arising from the clinician’s bodily sensations and visual imagination are considered through a clinical example where disruption to the setting culminated in the psychotherapist developing temporarily incapacitating physical symptoms in...