Jahrbuch der Psychoanalyse

Winnicott was commited to the unconscious as an essential aspect of psychoanalytic theory and practice though he neither elaborated his use nor provided definitions for the term. He argues for the development of the unconscious as one strand of the...

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...