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Freud's Other Theory of Psychoanalysis: The Replacement for the
Indelible Theory of Catharsis argues that Freud's familiar theory
of psychoanalysis is an elaboration of his catharsis theory.
Although it changed from repression of painful memories to the
repression sexuality, to repression of infantile sexuality, to
repressing of the Id, it still remained structurally a theory of
the repression of objectionable urges. Even in Freud's desperate
attempt to replace it with a psychology of the ego, the repression
of the objectionable urges, or the Id, remained the source of
psychopathology. This theory had an indelible effect on Freud, and
remained 'the prototype' of almost all theories of contemporary
psychoanalysis. However, when Freud changed his method of dealing
with his patients to listening to their associations he discovered
the workings of the primary process, the representation in the mind
of the endosomatic stimuli, and the manner in which the primary and
the secondary processes entwine to form both the normal and
abnormal 'psychical' products. Another theory of psychoanalysis
came out of those core observations and Freud was able to give
psychoanalysis a central position in western culture as a whole,
and a significant place in the study and treatment of mental
disorders. Freud's unstated discoveries had all the elements of
another full theory; it was the theory that gave psychoanalysis its
outstanding status. However, he did not articulate it as a distinct
theory that could replace the catharsis theory. This tacit theory
is a theory that does not explain psychopathology in terms of
repression of objectionable urges, but explicates the manners of
the entwinement of the primary and secondary processes that create
the healthy and the psychopathological conditions. It is a
comprehensive theory of psychoanalysis that has applications in
almost all psychical matters, one of which is clinical. The
replacement theory is not another theory like the ones offered by
the contemporary schools. It is implicit in the Freudian text; it
is a Freudian replacement for a popular, but flawed, Freudian
theory.
Understanding Classical Psychoanalysis gives a clear overview of
the key tenets of classical Freudian psychoanalysis, and offers a
guide to how these might be best understood and applied to
contemporary psychoanalytic theory and practice. Covering such
essential concepts as the Oedipal complex, narcissism and
metapsychology, Fayek explores what Freud's thinking has to offer
psychoanalysts of all schools of thought today, and what key facets
of his work can usefully be built on to develop future theory. The
book will be of interest to psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic
psychotherapists in practice and training, as well as teaching
faculties and postgraduate students studying Freudian
psychoanalysis.
Understanding Classical Psychoanalysis gives a clear overview of
the key tenets of classical Freudian psychoanalysis, and offers a
guide to how these might be best understood and applied to
contemporary psychoanalytic theory and practice. Covering such
essential concepts as the Oedipal complex, narcissism and
metapsychology, Fayek explores what Freud's thinking has to offer
psychoanalysts of all schools of thought today, and what key facets
of his work can usefully be built on to develop future theory. The
book will be of interest to psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic
psychotherapists in practice and training, as well as teaching
faculties and postgraduate students studying Freudian
psychoanalysis.
In the last few decades consciousness has become a major topic of
interest for neurologists, psychologists, and a host of other
professionals in various disciplines. Their concerted efforts to
define consciousness led them mostly to the same impasse: the leap
from the body to the mind, or to the particular link that makes the
mind an attribute of consciousness. In 1895 Freud put together a
project for a Psychology for the Neurologists. It comprised the
elements of a theory of consciousness as a manifestation of the
continuous homeostatic pursuit of stability; an aconscious
condition. Although he made a distinction between the aconscious
and the unconscious in many of his important works, he did not
clearly define the ways in which the two could co-exist in a
unified theory. In Consciousness and the Aconscious in
Psychoanalytic Theory, Ahmed Fayek summarizes current arguments and
debates stemming from neurological and phenomenological
perspectives. He presents the notion that consciousness needs to be
considered a human phenomenon and not simply a manifestation of
brain activity, which is an occurrence shared by all organisms.
Using Freud's theories as they relate to consciousness, Fayek
places his own theory of the aconscious within the context of
Freudian thought.
A crisis in psychoanalysis has been developing since the 1970s,
manifesting in a gradual but persistent loss of patients and young
mental health providers in psychoanalytic training and therapy. In
a peculiar way, the Freudian informative theory of psychoanalysis
has been going through a parallel crisis of its own. There have
been internal disagreements and differences among analysts about
how to develop the theory and protect the profession of
psychoanalysis. The internal disputes have resulted in chaotic
theoretical plurality, which replaced classical informative theory.
In spite of obvious and serious concerns about these crises, none
of the solutions has been useful. Future Psychoanalysis: Toward a
Psychology of the Human Subject focuses on the future of
psychoanalysis considering its current critical condition. The
informative theory of psychoanalysis has reached its limits, but
its structural base offers a comprehensive theory, promising
fruitful future psychoanalysis. It is a theory of the structural
foundation of the intrapsychical core of the human subject. Since
the human sciences are currently adopting the structural outlook in
their fields of research, psychoanalysis could join the humanities
as one of its fields, not just as a clinical profession that is
parasitically linked to the more active idiographic fields of
epistemology. Future Psychoanalysis introduces a structural theory
of psychoanalysis to replace the demising informative theory and
points to where future psychoanalysis will thrive.
Freud's Other Theory of Psychoanalysis: The Replacement for the
Indelible Theory of Catharsis argues that Freud's familiar theory
of psychoanalysis is an elaboration of his catharsis theory.
Although it changed from repression of painful memories to the
repression sexuality, to repression of infantile sexuality, to
repressing of the Id, it still remained structurally a theory of
the repression of objectionable urges. Even in Freud's desperate
attempt to replace it with a psychology of the ego, the repression
of the objectionable urges, or the Id, remained the source of
psychopathology. This theory had an indelible effect on Freud, and
remained 'the prototype' of almost all theories of contemporary
psychoanalysis. However, when Freud changed his method of dealing
with his patients to listening to their associations he discovered
the workings of the primary process, the representation in the mind
of the endosomatic stimuli, and the manner in which the primary and
the secondary processes entwine to form both the normal and
abnormal 'psychical' products. Another theory of psychoanalysis
came out of those core observations and Freud was able to give
psychoanalysis a central position in western culture as a whole,
and a significant place in the study and treatment of mental
disorders. Freud's unstated discoveries had all the elements of
another full theory; it was the theory that gave psychoanalysis its
outstanding status. However, he did not articulate it as a distinct
theory that could replace the catharsis theory. This tacit theory
is a theory that does not explain psychopathology in terms of
repression of objectionable urges, but explicates the manners of
the entwinement of the primary and secondary processes that create
the healthy and the psychopathological conditions. It is a
comprehensive theory of psychoanalysis that has applications in
almost all psychical matters, one of which is clinical. The
replacement theory is not another theory like the ones offered by
the contemporary schools. It is implicit in the Freudian text; it
is a Freudian replacement for a popular, but flawed, Freudian
theory.
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