Psychoanalytic Research Articles

Kajian Psikoanalisis Sigmund Freud Berbasis Novel Karya Tulus Setiyadi untuk Menangani Kecemasan

Anxiety is one of the most common psychological problems experienced by everyone. The novel Kasrimpet Piweling and Puspita Rinengga by Tulus Setiyadi is one of the literary works that raises the issue of anxiety for its characters. Therefore, this research will discuss the anxiety of the main character in the novels Kasrimpet Piweling and Puspita Rinengga by Tulus Setiyadi using the psychoanalytic view proposed by Sigmund Freud. This research aims to explain the anxiety experienced by the main character in both novels. The theory used in this research is Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis theory. Data collection with literature study method using library techniques, reading, recording and classification. Data analysis is done by looking at the personality structure, anxiety and ego defense mechanisms used by the characters. This type of research is literary research using descriptive method. The research data are in the form of words, phrases, clauses, sentences, narration from the narrator, characters' speech, and characters' actions related to ego defense mechanisms in Kasrimpet Piweling and Puspita Rinengga novels. The data collection techniques in this research are as follows: (1) conducting a literature study, (2) reading and understanding the novel, (3) marking the parts of the novel that indicate id, ego, and super ego (4) identifying the main characters and additional characters in the novel, (5) recording the data in the novel.

Troubling and diffracting Winnicott’s pioneering approach to playing through Deleuze’s ontology for early childhood education

ABSTRACT This paper diffracts Deleuze and quantum physics through Winnicott’s work to argue for an enrichment to playing. The roots of the play-cognitive hierarchy in Freudian psychoanalysis makes visible that progression and the stages that a child must pass en route to rationality continue to feed educational assumptions that a child must leave playing behind in order to learn. Addressing critiques of Freud’s psychosexual theory of child development, I introduce Winnicott’s work on playing as creative activity and transitional phenomena which cast playing in a positive light. I then turn to Deleuze’s critique of Freud’s foundational concepts of child development influenced by Newtonian physics to argue that a Deleuzian concept of energy aligns with quantum physics, which unsettles the binary play-cognition hierarchy. I introduce a vignette to illustrate a rich array of concepts involved in playing that are read through Winnicott. In the final step, I argue that Winnicott’s transitional object provides a juncture with Deleuze’s concept of the partial/virtual object paving the way to graft an alternative and more processual ontology onto Winnicott’s work on playing that acts beside cognitive connections in ways that bring learning alive and liberate teachers to enter less constrained relationships with children.

The Defense Mechanism of the Colonel Kalawa’s Character in the Drama Script Our Beloved President by Agus Noor: Sigmund Freud's Psychoanalysis

The problem in this study is how the defense mechanism of the character Colonel Kalawa in the drama script of Our Beloved President by Agus Noor based on Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis study. The purpose of this study was to determine the defense mechanism of the character Colonel Kalawa in the drama script of Our Beloved President by Agus Noor based on Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis study. The theory used in this study is Sigmund Freud's defense mechanism. This research is qualitative. The source of data in this study is Agus Noor's beloved drama script President Kita. The data collection methods used are library methods, and documentation. Based on the results of data analysis conducted on the drama script of our Beloved President, it can be concluded that the character of Colonel Kalawa in the drama script of our Beloved President has 6 defense mechanisms based on the psychoanalytical perspective of Sigmudn Freud. The results of data analysis in this study, it can be known various defense mechanisms of Colonel Kalawa's figure, namely there are 3 data regarding the concept of repression defense that arises in the form of symbolization. There are 2 data included in the defense of sublimation in the form of self-adjustment and attitude change. Then there are 7 data on the concept of projection defense in the form of blaming others. Furthermore, there is 1 data regarding the defense of the diversion in the form of finding vent. Furthermore, there are 8 rationalization self-defense data in the form of seeking justification. As well as the last there are 6 data that belong to the defense of aggression and apathy in the form of anger and anxiety.

Can Democratic “We” Be Thought? The Politics of Negativity in Nihilistic Times

In this article I attempt to systematically reconstruct Theodor Adorno’s account of the relationship between the processes of authoritarian subject formation and the processes of political formation of the democratic common will. Undertaking a reading that brings Adorno into dialogue with contemporary philosophical perspectives, the paper asks the question of whether it is possible to think of a “democratic We” in nihilistic times. In order to achieve this aim, I will analyze in reverse the modifications that the concept of narcissism has undergone, from Adorno’s use of it to account for the symbolic obstacles to the formation of democratic subjectivities after the Holocaust, to the initial formulations of Freudian psychoanalysis. Finally, I will attempt to outline an affirmative answer to the initial question, formulating the potentials and merits of what I will call a politics of negativity.

A fresh lens on psychological flexibility: Using network analysis and the Unified Flexibility and Mindfulness Model to uncover paths to wellbeing and distress

The current study sought to ground exploratory network analyses on 12 dimensions of psychological flexibility (PF) within the conceptual framework of the Unified Flexibility and Mindfulness (UFM) Model, organizing aspects of psychological flexibility into distinct stepwise stages of responding to difficult thoughts, feelings, and experiences. Toward that end, psychological network analyses were conducted within a sample of 276 undergraduate students (62% White, 61% female, Mage = 19) with a wide range of psychological distress and wellbeing in order to comprehensively explore the relationships between psychological flexibility and inflexibility processes as well as their unique links to various individual outcomes. The results offered new insights to the PF model. Whereas dimensions of flexibility demonstrated robust links to wellbeing, dimensions of inflexibility demonstrated more robust links to forms of distress. The models also highlighted cognitive fusion, inaction, contact with values, and self-as-context as notably central processes demonstrating strong links to many other forms of PF and to both psychological distress and wellbeing. Visualizing the results within the UFM conceptual framework offered tentative support for that model, as the results suggested that maintaining mindful present moment awareness was proximally linked to greater use of decentering strategies (i.e., acceptance, self-as-context, defusion) in response to difficult experiences, which were in turn proximally linked to more value-driven behavior (i.e., maintaining contact with values and engaging in committed action despite any setbacks or difficulties), which were proximally linked to various forms of wellbeing (i.e., psychological, social, environmental, and physical health wellbeing, flourishing). Additional links emerged (albeit relatively weaker) suggesting an even higher level of interconnectivity among mindful flexibility processes than suggested by the stages of the UFM. In fact, although most of the links were in the expected directions, experiential avoidance was linked to greater self-as-context, suggesting possible adaptive forms of that behavior. Implications are discussed.

Tribute to Laura Marcus

ABSTRACT This essay pays mournful tribute to Laura Marcus through a reading of Hilda Doolittle's extrapolations of Freudian psychoanalysis, an area of scholarship pioneered by Marcus. Examining the dream-like shapes of H.D.’s writing on Freud in Tribute to Freud and her own oneiric experiences in works such as Helen in Egypt, it elaborates on what H.D. called ‘the hieroglyph of the unconscious’, cinematic realms of projection which bear testimony to ineffable events that seem to occur outside of time.

“Making the Holy Obscene”: A Thematic Analysis of Freudian Psychoanalysis in the Catholic Press

This study completed a thematic analysis of the U.S. Catholic newspapers in the Catholic News Archive to assess the characterization of psychoanalysis in the Catholic press. References to psychoanalysis in the Catholic press peaked in the 1960s and diminished starting in the 1970s, parallel to its rising popularity and later disappearance from the larger public landscape. The qualitative themes identified Catholic concerns about the presence of pansexuality (referring to the theory that sexuality is the sole explanation of all psychopathologies) and determinism in psychoanalytic theory and the overlapping territory between confession and psychoanalysis, but overall a clear desire for reconciliation between two anthropologies. The identified themes demonstrate the differences in how Catholicism and psychoanalysis conceptualize psychological suffering and the effective interventions to reduce the suffering. Contemporary psychoanalysts and Catholic theologians are encouraged to continue the historical collaborations to use each of their strengths to address the urgent needs of the Church and society.

MARXISM AND AMOR INTELLECTUALIS: TOWARD A THEORY OF SOCIALIST CULTURE BY VOLODYMYR YURYNETS

The paper analyzes the methodological framework of the philosophy of culture and new literary criticism of the Ukrainian philosopher and literary critic Volodymyr Yurynets (1891—1937) within his article “To the Problem of Socialist Culture (Introduction to the book ‘Mykola Bazhan’).” His ideas testify to the powerful methodological searches in the field of Marxist criticism of the 1920s aimed at substantiating the nature of post-revolutionary culture. Balancing between Marxism and Western idealist philosophy, Yurynets brings elements of the latter into his philosophical Marxist criticism.
 While elaborating a model of new criticism, Yurynets substantiates perception based on a “fluxion of intellectual sympathy.” In this process, the recipient becomes an organ of “amor intellectualis, indifferent amazement.” Yurynets considers his philosophical criticism of culture to be a Marxist form of cultural philosophy. He asserts that literature is a form of philosophical thinking and argues that literary criticism armed with philosophy is a phenomenon completely different from academic literary criticism. Justifying philosophical criticism as an active and modeling force of the modern time, Yurynets appeals to the ideas of the literary critic Leonid Grossman, the literary theorist Pavel Medvedev, and the linguist Nikolai Marr. Yurynets’s concept comes down to the search for the meaning of art in relation to the “life world” of a man. At the same time, he interprets the discovery of the “living forces of the epoch” in the context of historical materialism. In an effort to purify aesthetic perception from subjectivity, psychology, and emotion, Yurynets actually adapts E. Husserl’s ‘phenomenological reduction’ and applies it to the aesthetic reception. The scholar also refers to reflexology and Freudian psychoanalysis as sources of artistic inspiration and interpretive ideas for contemporary philosophical criticism.

Helmuth Plessner’s Schellingian Reconciliation of Idealism and Realism About the Psyche

While Schelling’s anticipation of Freudian psychoanalysis is well established, it has thus far gone unnoticed that Schelling’s ideas also proved fruitful in the context of a distinctively philosophical theory of the psyche developed by a younger contemporary of Freud. During the 1920s Helmuth Plessner, a key figure of philosophical anthropology, outlined a complex conception of the psyche as an individualized, inner region of reality. Although Plessner did not present his philosophical psychology in a systematic form, its building blocks can be found in The Unity of the Senses, The Limits of Community, and Levels of Organic Life and the Human, among other writings. Moreover, Plessner left a clue as to how these building blocks fit together, which suggests that Plessner viewed his philosophical psychology as structurally analogous to the model of personality outlined in Schelling’s 1809 treatise on human freedom. I propose that Plessner sought to formulate an alternative to both idealism and realism about the psyche that might reconcile the insights motivating these rival positions. Schelling provided Plessner with a workable model for such a reconciliation. After reviewing textual evidence for my hypothesis, I sketch Schelling’s predecessor theory. Based on the Schellingian template, I then reconstruct Plessner’s non-reductively naturalistic theory of the psyche, which aligns the real bodily ground of the psyche with its ideal existence. Highlighting the strengths of Plessner’s philosophical psychology against the foil of Paul Ricoeur’s and John McDowell’s relevant arguments, I argue that the theory reconstructed here deserves contemporary consideration as a plausible contender.

ICAM-1 Deletion Using CRISPR/Cas9 Protects the Brain from Traumatic Brain Injury-Induced Inflammatory Leukocyte Adhesion and Transmigration Cascades by Attenuating the Paxillin/FAK-Dependent Rho GTPase Pathway.

Intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1) is identified as an initiator of neuroinflammatory responses that lead to neurodegeneration and cognitive and sensory-motor deficits in several pathophysiological conditions including traumatic brain injury (TBI). However, the underlying mechanisms of ICAM-1-mediated leukocyte adhesion and transmigration and its link with neuroinflammation and functional deficits following TBI remain elusive. Here, we hypothesize that blocking of ICAM-1 attenuates the transmigration of leukocytes to the brain and promotes functional recovery after TBI. The experimental TBI was induced in vivo by fluid percussion injury (25 psi) in male and female wild-type and ICAM-1-/- mice and in vitro by stretch injury (3 psi) in human brain microvascular endothelial cells (hBMVECs). We treated hBMVECs and animals with ICAM-1 CRISPR/Cas9 and conducted several biochemical analyses and demonstrated that CRISPR/Cas9-mediated ICAM-1 deletion mitigates blood-brain barrier (BBB) damage and leukocyte transmigration to the brain by attenuating the paxillin/focal adhesion kinase (FAK)-dependent Rho GTPase pathway. For analyzing functional outcomes, we used a cohort of behavioral tests that included sensorimotor functions, psychological stress analyses, and spatial memory and learning following TBI. In conclusion, this study could establish the significance of deletion or blocking of ICAM-1 in transforming into a novel preventive approach against the pathophysiology of TBI.

VERBALIZATION PECULIARITIES OF THE "WAR" CONCEPT IN MEDIA DISCO URSE: CORPUS-BASED AND TRANSLATION PERSPECTIVES

This article delves into the complex verbalization of the "WAR" concept within media discourse, drawing from corpus-based analysis and translation perspectives. It highlights the multifaceted nature of the concept, shaped by cultural and linguistic factors, emphasizing the media's significant role in shaping public perceptions of war. Through a corpus-based approach, it examines linguistic choices in war-related terminology, and it explores the challenges and strategies involved in translating this concept. This study delved into various dimensions, ranging from historical and cultural perspectives to technological and psychological analyses. The study also shows that the lexical and semantic field of the concept "WAR" is a dynamic and expansive domain that reflects the evolving nature of human conflict. This research provides valuable insights into the nuanced meanings, cultural variations, and interdisciplinary dimensions that contribute to the richness of this crucial term in our linguistic and conceptual landscape.

Questioning the dualities of psychoanalysis and architecture

While Freudian psychoanalysis and Jungian psychology may seek to go beyond the Cartesian split of body and mind, they draw their own lines of division, splitting the mind into two worlds of ego-conscious and unconscious, each with their own ways of Being and rules of behaviour. Furthermore, they tend to ignore the relevance of the material world for our psychological wellbeing, preferring to focus on interpersonal and intrapersonal human relationships. This essay examines the models of the unconscious put forward by Freud and Jung in relation to the material, non-human environment to reconsider the significance of the built environment for their theories. I conclude that Jung’s approach to the built environment is perhaps more defensive or closed-off to the “outside” world than he otherwise suggests in his writings, while Freud’s by contrast is potentially more open to it, and probably more than he himself realized or was willing to accept.

Analisis Id, Ego, dan Supergo pada Tokoh Lolita dalam Novel Secret Obsession Karya Anggarani

Id, ego and super-ego are separate psychic structures in humans but interact with each other. This concept was formulated by Sigmund Freud. This journal discusses the id, ego and super-ego in the literary work of the novel entitled Secret Obsession by Angkai. The problem of this research is how the id, ego and super-ego influence the behavior of the main character in the novel entitled Secret Obsession by Budgeti. The method used in this research uses a literary psychology approach with Sigmud Freud's psychoanalysis theory regarding the id, ego and super-ego of the character Lolita in the novel Secret Obsession by Budgeti. The results of this research can be concluded that Lolita shows more mature ego development, is able to control the id's feelings of pleasure and interact more realistically. Additionally, Lolita's superego side shows moral evolution, such as guilt, regret, and the drive to become a better person. The factors that influence the development of Lolita's character consist of the people around her, the environment, and hurt feelings. Analysis is carried out from the beginning, middle, to the end of the story, showing significant character evolution.

The Plague of Certitude: Why Fromm Matters Today

ABSTRACT Today, a plague of certitude is spreading within American psychoanalysis. This socially constructed virus is increasingly dominating our unmoderated list serves, appearing in our journals, and slowly seeping into our institutes. Having transcended the objectivism of traditional Freudian analysis, we seem to be revivifying its spirit. Rigorous claims to truth, superior knowledge, and contempt for those not in agreement abound. The life and work of psychoanalyst and sociologist Erich Fromm is offered as an antidote and model for resistance to this plague. He consistently objected to all forms of authoritarianism, from the Right and the Left. As a radical humanist he viewed us all as responsible selves, not mere vessels for instinctual drives or victims of unbearable circumstances. As Paul Roazan said about Fromm: “It still seems to me remarkable how he was willing to stand up for what he believed in. He should be a model of independence and autonomy for us all.”

ОНЕЙРИЧЕСКИЙ СИМВОЛИЗМ И МУЛЬТИПОЛЯРНАЯ СУБЪЕКТИВНОСТЬ В ФЕНОМЕНОЛОГИЧЕСКОЙ ОНТОЛОГИИ М. МЕРЛО-ПОНТИ

In the lecture course of 1954–1955, dealing with the issue of “passivity” in phenomenological philosophy, M. Merleau-Ponty pays much attention to the “unconscious” as “Freud’s discovery”. The philosopher finds approaches to the unconscious by analysing the phenomena of dreaming, memory, etc. on the basis of Freud’s descriptions and offering his own terminology and interpretations of psychoanalytic observations. Merleau-Ponty sets out to overcome the limitations of the original readings of psychoanalytic discovery due, among other things, to the reliance of Freud’s theoretical models on the classical Cartesian concept of subjectivity. In this article, we will consider the theory of “oneiric symbolism”: an area of “mythical” sense-formation, which very phenomenal existence – at the boundary between unconscious and consciousness, activity and passivity, subject and world – pushes Merleau-Ponty to revise classical ontological models. We will show for what fundamental issues of phenomenological ontology Merleau-Ponty uses the concept of “oneiric symbolism” and what conclusions he manages to reach with its help, and briefly characterise the mutual relation between the models of subjectivity offered by phenomenological ontology and Freudian psychoanalysis.

An Analysis of Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Dreamers from a Symbolist Perspective

Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Dreamers, adapted from the novel The Holy Innocents by Gilbert Adair, is set against the backdrop of Events of May 1968 in Paris, though without making much visible effort to reconstruct the look of the period. This paper attempts to analyze the character behavior of The Dreamers from the perspective of Freudian psychoanalysis and explore the ideology and culture represented by Isabella, Theo, and Matthew from the perspective of symbolism, with the interperation of the story background and metaphor of the whole film.

“Über dies eigene Ich wieder hinaus”: Stefan Zweig and Adlerian Psychology

AbstractThis article examines the biographical and literary connections between Austrian writer Stefan Zweig and psychologist Alfred Adler. While Zweig's reception of Freudian psychoanalysis has been widely documented by scholarship, the impact of Adler's Individual Psychology on Zweig's works has so far received little attention. The article will first establish the nature and extent of their personal relationship and Zweig's engagement with and reception of Individual Psychology. It will then draw on Zweig's posthumously published novella War er es? (1942) and provide an Adlerian reading of the text. It will be argued that Zweig's focus on Adler in his exile works owes much to his concept of Finalität, which Zweig adopts as a fundamental future‐oriented outlook in much of his later fiction and nonfiction.

Kant and Freud on the restriction of the subject

Subjectivity is a common problem in both philosophy and psychoanalysis. In this article, through analysis of the respective thoughts of Kant and Freud, it will be discovered that Kant's critical philosophy and Freud's psychoanalysis have a possibility of dialogue in the restriction of subject, and the basis of this possibility is the finite subjectivism. This positive dialogue between critical philosophy and psychoanalysis will have some theoretical significance for both in dealing with scientism.

Проблема применимости понятия парадигма к философскому процессу

Since the second half of the 20th century, Kuhn's concept has been used in philosophy of natural science, sociology and history of science, biology, medicine, political sciences, economics and history of economics, anthropology and history of anthropology, psychology and history of psychoanalysis, theory of art and literature, mathematics, linguistics. A.P. Ogurtsov and S.S. Neretina systematized the controversial issues of this concept, including the question of the qualification of philosophy as a discipline. The author joined this discussion in the process of reconstructing the political philosophy of M.K. Petrov. This article discusses several new topics related to the interpretation of T. Kuhn's concept.

Libertad, historia y el sujeto del inconsciente. Contribuciones teóricas al estudio de la ideología

In this article we address the notions of freedom, history and subjectivity, in order make an original contribution to the studies of ideology. Our methodology will consist in crossing Freudian-Lacanian psychoanalysis and the theory of interpellation of Louis Althusser. In the introduction, we start by exposing two major critiques of Freudian psychoanalysis, one formulated by Jean-Paul Sartre, and the other by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, thus shedding the light on how the psychoanalysis could represent (despite those critical arguments), a field of freedom rather than determinism, and a domain which is inherently historical, rather than the opposite. In the first section, will look closer at the notions of freedom, memory and history, advancing a preliminary hypothesis according to which within the symbolic space, the past remains open to changes – which will make both ideology and freedom possible. Moreover, we will see what aspects of freedom could be found within the Althusserian theory of interpellation, and how Lacanian psychoanalysis is compatible with it or can lead us beyond its limitations. In the second section, we will see how there can be a subject that precedes subjectivation, and how Lacan’s theory of subject which arises from the traumatic remainder, surpasses the scope of the theory of interpellation. The third section will address the pulse-traumatic core of the subject, such as it is conceived by Freud, not only as a determining dimension of the individual psyche, but as a structural condition of culture. Via these considerations, we will show how psychoanalysis can provide an explanation of the foundations of ideology, by conceiving the pulse-traumatic core of law that resides in the Name-of-Father. In the conclusion, we will see, through a series of examples, how ideology appears in the guise of truth, and why the psychoanalytic understanding of the unconscious is necessary for debunking the illusions it produces.