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Although the comparison between two great Victorian masterminds, Sigmund Freud and Sherlock Holmes, and their respective methods, is in itself not new (see for example Ginzburg 1979, 1980; Brooks 1984; Marcus 1984; Shephard 1985; Spence 1987), it merits further investigation, as it raises important questions regarding the nature and structure of clinical evidence, clinical epistemology, and clinical narration. In this article, the author: refers both to the common cultural background of these two projects (including the of the modern world and the complicated dialog between rationality and imagination) and their common epistemological situation; analyses their and , and characterizes both Holmes and Freud as and . Their operandi are described as hermeneutical procedures, methodologically similar to Charles Sanders Peirce's .
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAt the intersection of literature and psychoanalysis, this essay draws on Freud's discovery of the infantile sexual unconscious to explore moments in the late novels of Henry James, in which an adult protagonist both recognizes and disavows the visible evidence of a sexual relationship. The essay considers Hans Holbein's 1533 painting, The Ambassadors, as a possible source for Henry James' choice of title for his 1903 novel: the painting's visual play with point of view touches on the narrative disavowal of what is there to be seen. The essay explores some narrative dimensions of Freud's writing to highlight the dynamic disclosure of the infantile within the adult.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAn Enmeshed Family System? Jean Piaget as a Designated Therapist in 1920.
Integr Psychol Behav Sci
January 2025
Centre Jean Piaget, Université de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland.
Over the past century, numerous studies have examined Jean Piaget's relationship with psychoanalysis. Until the 1970s, they often emphasized the value of a rapprochement between Piaget and Freud and highlighted the use of Piaget's ideas in therapeutic practice. Then from the 1980s onwards, several studies focused on the relationship between his work-seen as purely cognitive, to the exclusion of the social and the affective-and his conflicted relationship with his mother.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFContinuing Revisions: Reconsidering Freud's Biography and Rethinking Our Thinking.
Psychoanal Rev
December 2024
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This reflection follows the work of a "Freud basher," Frederick Crews, elucidating some of Sigmund Freud's limitations and errors. It argues that a flawed Freud is preferable to the myth of a godlike genius and recommends ways in which to ground the future of psychoanalytic thinking.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOccasioned by the publication of , the text represents exchanges held in the summer of 2024 at the invitation of . It addresses the genesis and the history of the project, and its impact on psychoanalytic rethinking, formation, and practice. While exploring the potential and the limits of revisioning, it also raises questions about the nature of transmission of psychoanalytic knowledge and about the field's relation to the state of its own standards in the age of Anthropocene.
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