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James Joyce represents one of the most significant novelists of the twentieth century and an adherent of the great tradition of humanistic ethics. The purpose of this paper is to critically examine, primarily in the light of humanistic ethics, the process of the artistic coming of age of the main character of Portrait, Stephen Dedalus. The basic principles of Humanism tend to view man in his physical and spiritual totality, believing that man’s fundamental aim is to >be man< and that the major prerequisite for achieving that aim is to be >man for himself<. Stephen Dedalus epitomizes Fromm’s type of man of productive character, in the sense that he gradually frees himself from the >nets< of Irish society represented in the form of constraints of nationality, family, and religion which he sees as threatening forces bent upon annihilating his own individuality. Stephen Dedalus manages to accomplish true affirmation of his individuality only through artistic vocation. Moreover, it could be argued that Stephen D. (Joyce himself) stands for the epitome of a genuine intellectual living in self-imposed exile and who is, according to the words of philosopher Julien Benda, a guardian and a bearer of independent thought who is loyal solely to truth.
>Who?, where?, what?, in which way?, to whom?< – besides being the questions Paula Heimann suggested that any analyst should ask him- or herself while exploring the patient's communications, these are also the main issues the authors addressed through the results of their survey on the present state of the relationship between psychoanalysis and universities in Europe. This is a pilot study that tries to chart a map of European psychoanalysts (for the moment including only members of the International Psychoanalytic Society) working at various levels in universities. The aim is to set up a network between them for starting a debate on shared problems, hopes, and anxieties relating to the future of psychoanalysis in academia.
This article presents the evolution of a face-to-face analysis of a severely disturbed 16-year-old girl. In the first part of the analysis, communication was mainly at a nonverbal level, via gestures, body movements, gaze, long silences and the coded language of dreams without associations. The importance of listening is stressed, including a >hearing with eyes,< in order to attune to presymbolic levels of the patient's psychic organization and to gather preverbal elements of her subjective expression. The analytic device is considered as a transformation system through which unconscious somatopsychic processes – sensorial, emotional and protomental states – acquire the quality of representability. In the final phase of the analysis, thanks to her acquired capacity to narrate, relive and work through what had been enacted in the relationship and what had been discarded, repeated and transformed in dreams, the patient succeeded in revealing and signifying her internal experience in the context of the transference. The author is confident that the introjection of the analytic experience and the elaboration of the separation from the analyst will further modify, in the post-analysis, the traumatic memory of the death of the patient's mother, which is repeated in the transference at the end of the analysis.
El objetivo para este trabajo ha sido realizar una aproximación indirecta en cuanto al desarrollo de la conciencia moral y de las manifestaciones psicopatológicas asociadas al mismo, utilizando la estrategia epidemiológica en una comunidad rural escasamente desarrollada. – Desde la perspectiva de la evolución de la conciencia moral, los resultados permiten inferir que las manifestaciones sindromáticas de interiorización, aparecen tempranamente, 4 a 5 años, y que dependen más de la relación establecida con los padres y de la presencia de psicopatología en éstos. De los 6 a 8 años, se hace notoria la participación del marco de creencias religiosas y posiblemente su contraste en el proceso de socialización. Por otra parte, las manifestaciones de exteriorización, claramente se hacen patentes en la adolescencia en el estadio del nivel post-convencional del razonamiento moral.
Lacan comenta: >El yo es un sujeto a medias<. El ser humano se compone de una parte consciente en donde entran enjuego todos los fenómenos neurofisiológicos que permiten el saber del sí mismo y del entorno socio-natural que esta alrededor del ser. Por otra parte, se encuentra todo el fenómeno de lo inconsciente, lo que paradójicamente significa no saber del sí mismo. Conciencia (fenómenos neurofisiológicos) e inconsciente (lo existente no conocido por el sujeto) no se encuentran disociados, muy por el contrario; y es el motivo de este trabajo; hay una relación que no puede omitirse. Lenguaje, aprendizaje y memoria, áreas cerebrales y los fenómenos éticos son en sí una totalidad que se fundamenta en la naturaleza del ser.
Since 1999, the author has been working as a psychoanalyst in Munich, Germany, in the context of the German National Health Service, which covers psychoanalytic psychotherapy of up to 300 sessions with a frequency of up to three times a week. He has mostly been working with Italian patients in their common mother language. In other words, globalisation has made it possible to help patients heal the wounds of their old Italian self, develop a new German self, integrate them with each other, and thus allow foreign patients to become >citizens of the world.< After presenting the context of his clinical work, including the German Kassensystem and the characteristics of the Italian patients he works with, the author provides the reader with a review of the literature on migration and identity from a psychoanalytic point of view. Sociology and literature also offer an important key to the understanding of his patients. At this point in the paper, the author presents three patients, their history, the background of their migration to Germany, and the work he did with them. This allows him to come to the conclusion that psychoanalysis can help patients actualise the potentialities intrinsic in globalisation, in order to move towards a richer and more sophisticated identity.
Theodore J. Jacobs is training and supervising analyst at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute and the New York University Psychoanalytic Institute. He is also clinical professor of psychiatry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the New York University School of Medicine. Furthermore, Dr Jacobs is on the editorial board of Psychoanalytic Quarterly (Editorial Board and Board of Directors), Psychoanalytic Inquiry, International Journal of Infant, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy, and Journal of Clinical Psychoanalysis. He has written over 50 papers and book reviews on a variety of psychoanalytic topics, as well as two books: The use of the self: Countertransference and communication in the analytic situation (Madison, CT: International Universities Press, 1991) and On beginning an analysis (co-edited with Arnold Rothstein; Madison, CT: International Universities Press, 1998).