Psychoanalyse im Widerspruch

After tracing Ferenczi’s expulsion from the psychoanalytic institution and the milestones of the Ferenczian renaissance, the author describes the main differences between Freud and Ferenczi in the way of practicing analysis and the implications...

The paper examines the relationship between Sándor Ferenczi and film from several perspectives: His ambivalent role in the »film affair« of 1925, the significance of his treatment technique and his trauma theory for the methodology of film...

This contribution presents a methodological and conceptual approach to the metaphor of psychotherapy as a »dance«, which has become popular in the field of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy research. First a historically conceptual paralleling of...

The paper takes up an existing discussion between psychoanalysis, the gender discussion and the dekonstruction about the incest taboo and applies this on the #MeToo debate. It is about the importance of this taboo and, at the same time, its...

The debate about trans* is highly topical and polarized. In the debate, attention should be paid to gender-sensitive and gender-equitable language, especially when dealing with people who define themselves as trans or non-binary. Language expresses...

Bodies are always already in trans positions. From a psychoanalytical perspective, genders are dependent on bodies. Bodies that today are considered surgically and hormonally modifiable can be both productive and disruptive for a positioning in a...

As psychoanalysts, we work with concepts that have great heuristic value and at the same time continue to emphasize the naturalness of gender difference and binarity. In terms of queer theory, binarity is not simply described through these...

This article provides an overview of the changes that have taken place in recent years in the context of trans* from a clinical perspective and in recognition of the complex and sometimes contradictory developments within the medical care system in...

The article points to a connection between the theoretical development and the politics of science in psychoanalysis since the beginning of its institutionalisation. Freud’s striving to establish his Ideas as a recognized (natural) science in a...

The article recapitulates the recurrent debate on pluralism and/or unity in psychoanalysis, which is criticized as fruitless because it could not yield any significant results and weakens the psychoanalytic community from within. Instead of...

Psychoanalysis has evolved primarily by not stopping at Freud’s drive psychology. The development of the so-called four psychologies are an example. With the help of extended structural diagnostic possibilities and with empirical research it is...

The question of its common ground has occupied psychoanalysis for many decades. This article first discusses whether psychoanalysis needs such a shared understanding of its foundations and, if so, why. This question is answered positively in terms...

After a brief review of the fate of depth psychology/psychoanalysis at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich and some points of criticism of behaviorist and cognitive psychology as a starting point for a never-ending interest in...

The text interprets Kate Bushe’s first hit Wuthering Heights, including the literary original. At the same time,it provides an examination of female socialization and female masochism from the perspective of psychoanalysis.

The developments of the last 20 years suggest that the general understanding of sexualized violence and sexualized power in society has improved. At the same time, it has become clear that the barriers to our ability to recognize sexual abuse and...

The article examines the life of Sigmund Freud’s grandson Anton Walter Freud. After reconstructing his youth, his family relations in Vienna as well as the events that led to the family’s emigration to England, and after describing the very...

The text provides a deconstruction of the Monroe myth via a review of Anne Carson’s play Norma Jeane Baker of Troy, which reaches far into the imagination about her private life. This also affects Monroe’s attempts to interpret long-standing...

The article starts with the background of Freud’s text and the problem of applying psychoanalytic knowledge to collective phenomena such as violence and war. Freud’s analysis of the relationship between violence and law is discussed in the...