Psychoanalyse im Widerspruch

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...