@misc{KyriazisSoumakiVaslamatzis, author = {Kyriazis, Dimitris and Soumaki, Jeny and Vaslamatzis, Vaslamatzis}, title = {The Intrapsychic and the Intersubjective in Contemporary Psychoanalysis}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Abingdon (Routledge - Taylor and Francis) Vol. 22 (No. 1, 2013), pp. 1-4.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Abingdon (Routledge - Taylor and Francis) Vol. 22 (No. 1, 2013), pp. 1-4.}, language = {en} } @misc{Kyriazisetal, author = {Kyriazis, Dimitris and et al.,}, title = {Editorial: The Intrapsychic and the Intersubjective in Contemporary Psychoanalysis}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 21 (No. 3-4, 2012), pp. 125-129.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 21 (No. 3-4, 2012), pp. 125-129.}, language = {en} } @article{Kyriazis, author = {Kyriazis, Dimitris}, title = {Transformations and the rebirth of the true unconscious subject: An intersubjective perspective}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 21 (No. 3-4, 2012), pp. 173-181.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 21 (No. 3-4, 2012), pp. 173-181.}, abstract = {The transformations that lead to the rebirth of the true-unconscious-subject-as-I (TUs-as-I) in the unconscious of the patient's mind is discussed. The TUs-as-I is the vehicle and main exponent of self-realization, the basis of the intention for freedom of will, for creative motive, and for the construction of meaning. The unconscious ego is the representative of the TUs-as-I, and in cases where it has been devitalized, the patient's unconscious ego/me is lost, broken, or has become >dead.< It is suggested that, in the analytic situation, apart from serving as an external object available for the patient's unconscious imaginary identification, the analyst as the Other also functions as an external Subject, who invites the analysand to respond to his discourse/logos as a supposed-to-be Subject and to identify with his symbolic call. If the patient accepts the call and responds, transformations of his ego/self structures take place that lead to rebirth of the TUs-as-I, to a regenesis of new ego structures, and to a catastrophic change of the >dead imaginary ego-object formations.< The present work discusses certain factors and issues that facilitate the regenesis process, the emergence of a >live true self,< and offers clinical material for the issues discussed.}, language = {en} } @article{FlordellisKyriazis, author = {Flordellis, Christodoulos S. and Kyriazis, Dimitris}, title = {Brain plasticity as a convergence of intrapsychic and intersubjective}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 21 (No. 3-4, 2012), pp. 218-228.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 21 (No. 3-4, 2012), pp. 218-228.}, abstract = {Contemporary neuroscience has demonstrated the radical plasticity of the brain - its ability to change with experience at the synaptic, circuitry, and whole-brain levels - which has profound implications for neuroscience, psychoanalysis, and their interrelationship. With the concept of neural plasticity as an ongoing mobilization of neural form, neuroscience converges with psychoanalysis, which has built its theory and therapeutic practice on the flow of forms in the unconscious. We have attempted to integrate evidence and ideas from contemporary neurobiology, neurophysiology, psychopharmacology, and post-Freudian psychoanalytic theory, mainly based on Lacan, Bion, and Winnicott, and we suggest that the recovery of form, as a tool of investigation in these fields, may promote a neuroscientifically informed psychotherapy. We also suggest that plasticity captures the primacy of the dynamic, interactive surface of both intrapsychic and intersubjective processes and allows a conceptualization of the unconscious, facilitating a new understanding of psychic trauma. It is also compatible with the idea of the subject versus the ego of the unconscious, unconscious transformations, intersubjectivity, and freedom of will. We conclude that a new area of research has been identified at the interface between neuroscience and psychoanalytic theory, with promising epistemological, scientific, and therapeutic implications.}, language = {en} }