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D. Stern (1985)
The interpersonal world of infant
D. Stern (1985)
The interpersonal world of the infant
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Expression in symbolic logic of the characteristics of the system Ucs or the logic of the system Ucs.The International journal of psycho-analysis, 40 1
S. Freud, J. Strachey
Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious
The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 65, No. 2, June 2005 ( 2005) DOI: 10.1007/s11231-005-3627-z Book Reviews Edited by Riva L. Tait, Ph.D. Patterns: Building blocks of experience, by Marilyn Charles. Analytic Press, New Jersey, 2002, 203 pp. In his paper on the Unconscious (1915; particularly Section III, ‘‘On Un- conscious Emotions’’), Freud made specific his sense that the atomic elements of System Ucs were Vorstellungen, visual scenarios, that were themselves constituted by subjects, objects, and drives, which have no independent existence except in the heuristic language of clinicians and theorists. Drives, for instance, were not to be seen outside of their context in these unconscious scenarios but were rather like transitive verbs: they all took on both a subject and an object. Perhaps it was Strachey’s clumsy translation (vorstellung rendered as idea) or perhaps it was our collective inability to accept the loss of the Great Father Freud that has had gener- ations of psychoanalysts reinventing these vorstellungen as object relations, sche- mata, fantasies, and RIGS. Marilyn Charles’ Patterns is more than a recasting of the topographic model with a new terminology. It is revolutionary not so much in its new purview of these structures as it is
The American Journal of Psychoanalysis – Springer Journals
Published: Apr 9, 2005
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