Unconscious Phenomena Research Articles

Um olhar clínico na sala de aula: uma nova metodologia pedagógica?

The aim of this paper is to reflect on the importance of the unconscious phenomena in the educative processes. During the construction of the psychoanalysis, Freud asked himself several times about the real effect of the psychic function faced to the multiple social areas where the human being is: the educational context is one of them. We believe that it forms the learning process, in its multiple impediments that can make the subject manifest, taking in account implicit subjective and inter-subjective aspects in relation to the teachers, pupils and knowledge. We defends the idea that a clinical view on the pertaining of the school educational phenomenon, is a possible way to reveal the subject.

Theoretical Diversity: A Debate about Transactional Analysis and Psychoanalysis

This article presents a lively debate in the form of four letters exchanged by Michele Novellino, a proponent of transactional psychoanalysis, which utilizes the analysis of transference, countertransference, and unconscious phenomena, and Claude Steiner, who takes the position that transactional analysis was developed as a radical departure from psychoanalysis and does not benefit from the use of psychoanalytic terminology.

Formal Rules and Complex Negotiations: A New Theoretical Insight With a Psychoanalytical Lense

In organizational theories as well as in negotiation theories, formal rules and the frame they form have not been studied in depth, even regarding complex negotiations which often remain intractable. In this paper, we begin by looking at the literature in both fields regarding formal rules and frames. The quasi-absence of research appears to come from the definition of rationality used by researchers: Simon's bounded rationality. We propose another definition of rationality which takes into account unconscious phenomena, inspired by psychoanalysis. We also conceptualize the negotiation frame and rules through this psychoanalytic lens. Here, formal rules and frames play a founding role in the negotiations helping the parties to accept their ambivalence and destructiveness. Contained by the negotiation's rules and a facilitator, the parties reduce their resistance stances, projections and repetitions; these phenomena impeding creativity in negotiations and the reaching of an agreement. Afterwards, we illustrate our theoretical proposal analyzing the movie Thirteen Days, on the Cuba Missile Crisis. We chose several key extracts to give meaning to the parties' interactions. We can see that, paradoxically, when the parties accept their unrational behaviors, it allows them to increase their rational ones.

Le structuralisme abordé à partir du paradigme du style : implications cliniques en psychothérapie

The term “structuralism” designates a “method” and certain presumptions principally that of unconscious phenomena, which organize human groups, and therefore, the subjects themselves. The meaning and spirit of structuralism are sometimes misunderstood and identified to a simplified semiology or to complex and little understood modelizations. Structuralism will first be defined by its founders: Galois, Saussure, Lévi-Strauss, and described in his reports on psychoanalysis: Freud and Lacan. The concept of “style” will be our “guide” throughout the text, to lead to the idea according to which psychotherapic cure can resemble “stylistic work”. The “style” will thus correspond to the particular approach of a subject to jouissance, which results in the notion of “analysis of style” as a diagnostical path and the “stylistic work” as a cure. Such a method can lead the way to a return to the notion of “therapeutic art” to promote “a clinic of the detail”.

What's American About American Psychoanalysis?

In this essay, we pose the question of psychoanalysis and national character. We explore the Americanness of psychoanalysis in this country through an examination of the history of its emergence in the early and mid-20th century, and through an examination of the impact of pragmatism on the formation and evolution of psychoanalysis in the United States. We consider American models of change and the impact of theoretical movements such as feminism and queer theory. We explore a particular quality and meaning of unconscious phenomena through an examination of American visions of nature over the past century and a half. The impact of elements of national identity and dominant American ideas and practices on relational psychoanalysis is also addressed.

Linking mind, body and language: free association revisited

Psychoanalysis differs from other theories because of the great significance it attributes to a man's unconscious. Psychoanalysis differs fundamentally from other therapeutic methods in its use of free association and the significance and power it gives to this method when investigating unconscious phenomena. The present article begins with a brief review of the history of free association and its use as a method. After that, I discuss the relationship between free association and memory, neuropsychoanalysis and semiotics. Free association is linked with implicit memory and seen as a way of remembering; unconscious experiences are given a verbal form with the help of free association. The psychoanalytical setting and transference together constitute a psychic space, in which it becomes possible for the patient to get into touch with his or her bodily, psychic and verbal experiences and material simultaneously. The author sees free association specifically as a form of mental processing which is typical to psychoanalysis; it is a core process where the experiences of mind, body and language and their expressions link together. Free association is simultaneously the result of a memory activity and creative activity and, above all, a combination or synthesis of these two processes.

Associative learning: A generalisation too far

I argue that Perruchet & Vinter's claim that representations are conscious, and processes unconscious, gives too much ground to the cognitive unconscious; and that the boundary between conscious and unconscious mental phenomena is unlikely to fall neatly along these lines. I also propose that in the absence of more detailed models that demonstrably provide a reasonable account of the data, claims that associative mechanisms may underlie all cognition are premature.

THE GENERATION OF PSYCHOANALYTIC KNOWLEDGE: SOCIOLOGICAL AND CLINICAL PERSPECTIVES PART TWO: PROJECTIVE IDENTIFICATION ‐ THE OTHER SIDE OF THE EQUATION

Michael Rustin has proposed that the equivalent of Pasteur's `laboratory' in psychoanalytic research has traditionally been the consulting room. It has been the consulting room that contributors to the development of psychoanalytic thinking have turned for evidence of psychoanalytic phenomena. It has become accepted as `good science' within the field of psychoanalysis that new ideas should be supported by clinical evidence in the form of case material. There has also been a long psychoanalytic tradition of turning to literature for further support or elucidation of some aspect of unconscious life (the poets saw it first) and, of course, it may be that a poem, novel or play first sensitizes the clinician to clinical phenomena that he or she is currently struggling with, or, that it makes suddenly transparent something that seemed previously opaque. But it has traditionally been the consulting room where hard evidence has been found or sought, where codification and purification of procedures have been developed. I would like to propose that material from psychoanalytic infant observation, as originated by Esther Bick (1964), be considered equivalent to case material from clinical work, both in its potential for the generation of new ideas, amending current theoretical constructs and clinical technique, but also with regard to the specification and standardization of what takes place in the infant observation setting. The setting for psychoanalytic infant observation is prescribed just as it is in clinical work: one hour on a particular day of the week is negotiated with the observed family. The requirements of the observer are also clear: the observer should not give advice, influence the family's behaviour, initiate interactions or look after the baby. The observer, like the analyst, is not responsible for what unfolds (in infant observation, the unconscious interpersonal relationships between infant and other family members) but the observer is responsible, like the analyst in the consulting room, for struggling to take in what is seen and heard, and to allow it to have a life in the mind and then, subsequently, to record in as much detail as possible after the observational hour. To each setting psychoanalytically informed thinking is brought, characterized by a wish to understand unconscious phenomena and a recognition of the importance of valuing what is not understood. It is precisely because of these parallels that

Unconscious Phenomena in the Process of Theater: Preliminary Hypotheses

Unconscious Phenomena in the Process of Theater: Preliminary Hypotheses

Consciousness and Control

As research on unconscious processes in personality and social psychology increases, there is a danger that disparate phenomena will be confused with each other, and that characteristics of particular unconscious processes will be over generalized. In order to reduce this danger, a simple framework for describing unconscious phenomena is presented. It focuses on the related issues of consciousness and control. The framework was developed to clarify the theoretical status of spontaneous trait inferences, so that research is reviewed first. Then the framework is described, applied to spontaneous trait inferences, and further illustrated by using it to characterize automatic construct activation and mindlessness.

Observations on maternal protective behavior derived from unconscious phenomena.

Observations on Maternal Protective Behavior Derived from Unconscious PhenomenaArthur W. EpsteinArthur W. EpsteinTulane Medical Center Hospital and Clinic, New Orleans, Louisiana.Search for more papers by this authorPublished Online:July 2017https://doi.org/10.1521/jaap.1.1987.15.3.407PDFPDF PLUS ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations AboutReferencesChapman A. H. (1959), Obsessions of infanticide, Arch. Gen. Psychiatry, 1, 28–32. Crossref, Google Scholard'Orban P. T. (1979), Women who kill their children, Br. J. Psychiatry, 134, 560–571. Crossref, Google ScholarEpstein A. W., and Ervin F. R. (1956), Psychodynamic significance of seizure content in psychomotor epilepsy, Psychosom. Med., 18, 43–55. Crossref Medline, Google ScholarEpstein A. W. (1979), Effect of certain cerebral hemispheric diseases on dreaming, Biol. Psychiat., 14, 77–93. Medline, Google ScholarLaughlin C. D., and d'Aquili E. G. (1974), Biogenetic Structuralism, Columbia University Press, New York. Google ScholarLibbin R. M., and Person P. (1979), Neonatal rat surgery: Avoiding maternal cannibalism, Science, 206, 66. Crossref Medline, Google ScholarResnick P. J. (1969), Child murder by parents: A psychiatric review of filicide, Am. J. Psychiatry, 126, 325–334. Crossref Medline, Google Scholar Previous article Next article FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Volume 15Issue 3Jul 1987 Information© 1987 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.PDF download

Behaviorism and the unconscious

It is argued that the behaviorist's rejection of mind as irrelevant to a functional account of behavior does not necessitate his rejection of unconscious phenomena, and that the behaviorist can account for behavior normally attributed to the workings of an unconscious mind by reference to historical rather than to contemporary factors controlling behavior, and to the independent acquisition of verbal and motor behavior.