What Is to Be Done?
(1993)
The Golden Moment: 1945-1963
(1993)
The Idea of the Postmodern
(1993)
Schreber's fantasy of turning into a woman to be fertilized by God and produce a new race of mankind was a major motive for Superintendent of Sonnenstein, Dr Guido Weber, to maintain that Schreber was a case of chronic and incurable paranoia and unfit for life in society, failing to see the difference between the concrete and the metaphorical. Schreber not only proved Weber wrong, but prophetically anticipated a number of issues in current awareness of gender psychology and gender roles in society. – In Schreber's system the two principal elements of his delusions (his transformation into a woman and his favored relation to God) are linked by the assumption of a feminine attitude towarh God. It will be our task to show that there is an essential genetic relation between these two elements. Otherwise we shall be like a man holding a sieve under a he-goat while some one else milks it.
Class Struggle
(1993)
Repressive Desublimation
(1993)
Estranged Labour
(1993)
Camera Obscura
(1993)
On Imperialism in India
(1993)
The Values of Commodities
(1993)
The Fetishism of Commodities
(1993)
Labour-Power and Capital
(1993)
This paper was presented at a Mind and Life seminar arranged by the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, India, in October 1992, the theme being >Sleeping, dreaming and dying<. The first part of this paper summarises Freud's theories on sleeping and dreaming, and the relation of dream theory to the theory of the life and death instincts. Part two presents a clinical vignette including a dream of the analysand as well as a dream of the analyst to illustrate the creative potentiality of dream analysis. Part three is a discussion of the theories of sleep and dream after Freud. Attention is drawn to Geza Roheim's idea of dreaming as an essential elemental force which revitalizes every human being in his relation to himself and others. Reference is also made to Dadoun's concept of dreaming as a possible source of the creation of sexuality and desire rather than the other way round as Freud conceived of it. Bertram Lewin's concept of sleep as a blank screen upon which dream scenes are projected and its link with the primitive image of the >breast mother< is also discussed as well as certain of Winnicott's concepts.
Starting with the credo that it is the healthy part of the personality that allows a person to be creative, the author investigates factors behind failures to create. First the relation to the external world is considered, followed by a more detailed discussion of factors pertaining to the internal world: the role of pregenital sexuality, and the importance of the universal bisexual wishes. Possible reasons for differences between the sexes are indicated and discussed in relation to clinical material. Main conclusions are: 1. In a sense, all creative acts may be conceptualized as a fusion of the masculine and feminine elements in our psychic structure. If this unconsciously represents stealing the generative powers of the parents, creative activity may be experienced as a transgression and thus become a cause of inhibition. 2. to create is to claim one's right to separate existence and individual identity. This too may be fantasized as a transgression if the creative act is experienced as an attack on the primitive maternal image and may in turn become a source of severe inhibition.
The Self, the I, and the Me
(1993)
Social Structure and Anomie
(1993)
The New Liberalism
(1993)
Wie human sind die sozialen Berufe? Überlegungen und Strategien zur Humanisierung sozialer Praxis
(1993)
Letters to the Editor
(1993)
Geschichte der Selbstanalyse
(1993)