Abstract
The paper examines fluctuations between conscious and unconscious modes of mind functioning as outlined in Melanie Klein’s interpretation of Magic Word (Klein, 1929/1948), using the double lens of psychoanalytic and semiotic concepts of symbol. The study aims to explore the process of transformation that takes place in conscious and unconscious parts of the mind, when the mind overcomes maniac defences and is confronted with core depressive recognition: a truth about separateness of individual, and all anxieties it arouses. The examination of conscious aspects of depressive position will be performed through the prism of Charles Peirce (1998) semiotic, while unconscious content will be explored according to Melanie Klein psychoanalysis. The results of the study reveal, that employment of psychoanalytic and semiotic perspective simultaneously, when examining dynamics of psychic position, allows to break down the process to smaller, but still explorable sequences. Such approach allows not only to study most distinctive elements of the position but also to track dependencies that occur between them in time on both conscious and unconscious level. Moreover breaking down depressive dynamic to the smaller sequences facilitates more careful monitoring of the disturbing influence of unconscious to consciousness when psychotic response picks up. Similarly, sequential view enables more precise identification of the point when triangle space returns, and so facilitates analysis of conditions associated with that important change.
Highlights
The aim of the paper is to perform an analysis of the move, that the mind performs when it switches from more conscious operating modes to those dominated by unconscious, and how it further returns back to a more conscious setting
The base for the analysis will be a description of these fluctuations provided by Melanie Klein in her interpretation of Magic Word, that she included into her early paper Infantile anxietysituations reflected in a work of art and in the creative impulse (Klein, 1929/1948)
The idea to read Klein’s paper through the lens of symbolism in its psychoanalytical and semiotic dimensions is grounded in discoveries of Richardo Steiner, who first spotted and analysed the connection between the two perspective in his paper Does the Peirce’s semiotic model based on index, icon, symbol have anything to do with psychoanalysis? (Steiner R. , 2007)
Summary
The aim of the paper is to perform an analysis of the move, that the mind performs when it switches from more conscious operating modes to those dominated by unconscious, and how it further returns back to a more conscious setting. The base for the analysis will be a description of these fluctuations provided by Melanie Klein in her interpretation of Magic Word, that she included into her early paper Infantile anxietysituations reflected in a work of art and in the creative impulse (Klein, 1929/1948) These moves of mind that are to be analysed: from unconscious phantasy (mainly paranoidschizoid position) to conscious recognition of actual, external world (mainly depressive position) are -according to Klein - at the core of mind development, for they match the unique internal world of the person with the environment of the individual, and so enable genuine, personal growth. Such flexible concept – unarguably przestrzeń powraca, a tym samym ułatwia analizę warunków powiązanych z tą istotną zmianą
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