TY - JOUR A1 - Siirala, Marti T1 - Comments on Yasuhiko Taketomo's and Mildred C. Broffman's Paper: An Ostracism in Modern Society JF - G. Condrau and A. Hicklin (Eds.), Individuum - Familie - Gesellschaft im Spannungsfeld zwischen Zwang und Freiheit. Vorträge des V. Internationalen Forums für Psychoanalyse, Zürich 1974 (= Weiterentwicklungen der Psychoanalyse und ihrer Anwendungen, Vol. Y1 - 1977 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Siirala, Marti T1 - Psykoterapeuttista hoitokotia suunnittelemassa JF - Psykoterapia, Helsinki, (No. 2/3, 1988), pp. 2-13. Y1 - 1988 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Siirala, Marti T1 - Oidipus, laios ja Sosiaalipatologia JF - Psykoterapia, Helsinki, (No. 4/5, 1988), pp. 2-11. Y1 - 1988 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Siirala, Marti T1 - From Transfer to Transference or: Let us Not Forget Laios When We Recognize Oedipus JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Oslo (Scandinavian University Press), Vol. 2 (No. 2, June 1993), pp. 90-101. N2 - The author develops the thesis that transference can only be properly understood as representing a transferred burden. Wherever the burden, by means of the symptoms it causes, succeeds in finding readiness in a fellow human being to share the predicament, therapy ensues in form of exceptional vicarious solidarity. Thus transfer is transformed into transference. Therapy, then, amounts to a second, a dialogical reception. This means reconnection of the ties, once lost, with a common human responsibility with regard to the challenges and potentialities of individual and social life contained in the burden. This constitutes the human ground, and the only ground, on which any methodical skills and theory formations carry real human weight. Y1 - 1993 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Siirala, Marti T1 - The Myth of Man's Fall and the Basic Rule for Psychoanalytic Therapy, Discovered by Sigmund Freud: Free Association - A Program against Hubris JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Oslo (Scandinavian University Press) Vol. 6 (No. 1, April 1997), pp. 33-40. N2 - The title contains the thesis of the paper. Hubris is here: the godlike position of knowing good and evid. The mythical story about man's self-estrangement, as it is told in the biblical canon about three thousand years ago, depicts more a rise than a fall, as it entails a seizure of the throne of the one and absolute >Thou<. On good grounds that myth can be regarded as a particularly universal instance of man's selfand existence interpretation. In any case it seems obvious that the basic rule, as it implies giving voting right to everything announcing itself in man, even and especially to all that is defying his >already-knowing<, his open or latent judgements, is of crucial value on his way towards an authentic wholeness as a person. Consequences for the conception of not only therapeutic knowledge but knowledge in general, are discussed. How the myth of man's fall throws essential light upon deep depression, especially as met in psychoanalytic therapy, is demonstrated by means of two case histories. Y1 - 1997 ER -