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S A Leavy

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PubMed1993

Self and sign in free association.

Some depressive symptoms may be mitigated early in psychoanalytic treatment, apparently as the consequence of the free association process itself. We may account for these changes by considering possible modification of the self as the container of hitherto unavailable signifying chains, now expressed in the analytic discourse. At the same time, it is useful to consider how similar favorable changes may arise in other forms of treatment, and also in experiences of ordinary life.

Depressive Disorder↗
PubMed1990

Alain-Fournier. Memory, youth, and longing.

The interweaving of life and art appears with unusual clarity in the work and personal history of this author of one novel. Examining them also affords insight into his neurotic burden and its relief through his writing.

Freudian Theory↗
PubMed1990

Lacan's words.

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Humans↗
PubMed1985

Demythologizing oedipus.

The oedipus complex is a basic psychoanalytic concept, which is only historically tied to its eponymic myth. It works in our system and in our method as a hermeneutic principle, organizing our understanding of the discourse of patients. Its validity depends on the situation of childhood development within the family, with its attendant passions and desires.

Child↗
PubMed1983

Speaking in tongues: some linguistic approaches to psychoanalysis.

Four innovative theorists--among others--have applied a variety of linguistic concepts to psychoanalytic theory and practice: Victor Rosen, Marshall Edelson, Roy Schafer, and Jacques Lacan. While their interests have been different, there are points of convergence, and in some ways they complement one another. Beyond the similarities and differences they point the way to the reconsideration of some fundamental positions of psychoanalysis.

Humans↗
PubMed1977

The significance of Jacques Lacan.

The contemporary French psychoanalyst, Jacques Lacan, has offered a reinterpretation of basic Freudian concepts that is to a great extent based on the structural linguistics of F. de Saussure. Certain fundamental ideas of Lacan, such as his views that "the unconscious is structured like a language" and that "the unconscious is the discourse of the Other" are examined here, and an attempt is made to place them in perspective in psychoanalysis.

Dreams↗
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Male homosexuality reconsidered.

Prevailing psychoanalytic attitudes toward male homosexuality are predisposed to the treatment of it as a psychopathological disorder. This study proposes that the appearance of disorder follows from the distortions imposed on the personality during development. Superego conflicts ensue that are relieved rather than resolved in the analysis, if the analyst shares the patient's conviction that it is sexuality that is disordered. The study's second point is the suggestion that the unifying characteristic of male homosexuals is to be found in the particular form of body narcissism that leads to same-sex choice. Third, it is proposed that analysts reconsider the likelihood that biogenetic elements enter into the homosexual outcome.

Freudian Theory↗