Vol 24 (3/4) 2006
The absurdum of another logic: Construction in psychoanalysis – Katrien Steenhoudt
The unnameable voice of Beckett – Jeroen Donckers
The Obsessional-Neurotic Immunisation Strategies of Fernando Pessoa – François Levrau
Treatment of the actual neurosis: a case study – Samuel Markey
The loss of thinking-defence in a case-study of prefrontal brain injury – Wouter Smits
On the objectification of the psyche as a living structure: An epistemological study of Freud’s public and private writings 1890-1900 – Veroniek Knockaert
Hysterical and obsessive-compulsive depression: a psychometric study – Mattias Desmet
De individuele mythe van de neuroticus Of “poëzie en waarheid” in de neurose
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Hysterical and obsessive-compulsive depression: a psychometric study
This paper presents the text of the public defence of a Doctorate that explores and evaluates the possibilities for quantification of the hysterical and obsessional dimension in neurotic psychopathology. It concludes that these psychoanalytic constructs are...
On the objectification of the psyche as a living structure: An epistemological study of Freud’s public and private writings 1890-1900
In this doctoral defence on the objectification of the psyche as a living structure the author writes a transcendental history of psychoanalysis, i.e., a history which implies that an epistemological questioning of the psyche must be situated on a libidinal level.
The loss of thinking-defence in a case-study of prefrontal brain injury
The author asserts that psychoanalysis can serve as both a meta-psychology and as psychotherapy for people who have sustained brain-injury. Changes of personality after traumatic brain-injury are well documented but a strictly neurological explanation is...
Treatment of the actual neurosis: a case study
In this case study, the author illustrates important elements of the treatment of actual neurosis: 1. (Re-) Installation of the primary relation between the subject and the Other; 2. Symbolisation of the manifestations of the real of the drive; 3. Secondary...
The unnameable voice of Beckett
What is there to say when there is no story, how to speak about the experience of reading, of reading Beckett. Not speaking about, but within a text, to continue the text, not deprived of hysteria, to start saying something else with the same words, always a new...
The absurdum of another logic: Construction in psychoanalysis
In psychoanalysis, the function of construction consists in mapping the unheard of the unconscious logic. In this way, speaking (la parole), or the subjective position and thus the desire of the patient, acquire room to move. It is from the dialectic between the...