Language, Symbolization, and Psychosis

Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-1-85575-585-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 230 mm x 146 mm, Gewicht: 456 g

In this book, the authors compare different psychoanalytic thinking and models – all of a rigorously Freudian stamp – on three concepts of great theoretical and clinical importance: language, symbolization, and psychosis.

Zielgruppe

Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ambrosio, Giovanna

Argentieri, Simona

Canestri, Jorge

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword -- Language, symbolization, and psychosis: an introduction -- A psychoanalytic enquiry into Pandora’s box: symbol and metaphor -- Deciphering the secrets of oblivion -- Self formation, symbolic capacity, and spontaneity -- A language for remembering the future -- Symbolization and psychosis: the mediating function of images in individual psychoanalytic psychodrama -- ‘White Psychoses’: silence and delusions -- When actions speak louder than words -- Reflections on listening to and speaking with the patient during analysis -- The past unconscious and the present unconscious -- The mystery of the unsaid name: commonalities between God and Rumpelstiltskin -- Texts and pre-texts in psychoanalytic clinical practice: languages and idioms -- Symbolism in love and sex -- Does the Pierce’s semiotic model based on index, icon, symbol have anything to do with psychoanalysis? -- The foreign language

Über Autor(innen)

Ambrosio, Giovanna