The Wolf-Man case: classical and self-psychological perspectives

Article Abstract:

The classic Wolf-Man case analyzed by Freud has features suggesting that a self-psychological approach could have contributed to the treatment. The Wolf-Man was probably suffering from a narcissistic personality disorder, making him an ideal candidate for self-psychological intervention. Freud's analysis based on libidinal conflicts and castration anxiety was unsuccessful since the Wolf-Man sought treatment several more times. A self-psychological approach would have touched on deeper layers of fragmentation of the self stemming from the self-object failures of the patient's early caregivers.

Self psychology, Self psychology (Psychoanalytic theory), Narcissism, Freud, Sigmund

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Dora: desire and ambiguity in the fragment of a psychoanalysis

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Lacan's analysis of the 'signifier' highlights the importance of the analysand's speech in the analytical cure. Reinterpretation of Freud's analysis of Dora provides material for the development of a clinically oriented form of linguistic analysis that goes beyond Lacan's work. In addition, the interpretation achieves a fuller understanding of Dora, one of Freud's best known patients. Dora's fear of sexual penetration, desire for control over her own body and distrust of Freud and her father emerge as central aspects of the case.

Lacan, Jacques

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But what do you want? The problem of an absence of desire

Article Abstract:

At a presentation at a meeting of The American Institute for Psychoanalysis, the case of a patient that could not access his inner desires was presented. Treatment consisted of getting him to focus inward and talk about his feelings, with the psychoanalyst remaining silent, so as not to allow him to take suggestions from her.

United States, Psychological aspects, Usage, Practice, Psychoanalysts, Desire, Self-knowledge, Theory of, Self knowledge, Introspection

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