Gunnar Karlsson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3832883 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gunnar Karlsson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gunnar |
| FAMILY NAME | Karlsson |
| SIGNATURE | KARLSSON G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stockholm University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3704-1338 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Psychoanalytic and Phenomenological Reflections on Masculinity
Psychoanalysis and meaning – a comment on Arild Utaker’s “Images and words: A Reconsideration of the Psychic Dimension
Psychoanalysis and meaning – a comment on Arild Utaker’s “Images and words: a reconsideration of the psychic dimension”
Masculinity as project: Some Psychoanalytic Reflections
In this article the question of phallic masculinity is discussed from a subjective perspective, more specifically from a psychoanalytic perspective supplemented with phenomenological reflections. A vantage point for this discussion is the distinction between sex/being a male and gender/masculinity. The focus is on the boy's/man's striving for a phallic masculine identity – a striving that can be described in terms of a ‘project’. The term ‘projec…
A Phenomenological Analysis of the Psychotic Experience
Psychoanalysis in a New Light
What kind of a science is psychoanalysis? What constitutes its domain? What truth claims does it maintain? In this unique and scholarly work concerning the nature of psychoanalysis, Gunnar Karlsson guides his arguments through phenomenological thinking which, he claims, can be seen as an alternative to the recent attempts to cite neuropsychoanalysis as the answer to the crisis of psychoanalysis. Karlsson criticizes this effort to ground psychoana…
Psychoanalysis in a new light
What kind of a science is psychoanalysis? What constitutes its domain? What truth claims does it maintain? In this unique and scholarly work concerning the nature of psychoanalysis, Gunnar Karlsson guides his arguments through phenomenological thinking which, he claims, can be seen as an alternative to the recent attempts to cite neuropsychoanalysis as the answer to the crisis of psychoanalysis. Karlsson criticises this effort to ground psychoana…
The Experiences of Guilt and Shame: A Phenomenological–Psychological Study
The Ethnicity of the Vinelanders
This paper searches for the most logical answer to the question about the ethnicity of the European people who attempted to settle permanently on the continent of North America around the turn of the 11th century. Were they Norwegians, Icelanders, Greenlanders, or just Norsemen? Following a short study of the ethnic identities of Icelanders and Norwegians in the Viking Age, the answer suggested is that the Vinelanders had a double ethnic identity…
The Body Language of Adults Who Are Blind1
The body expressions of adults who are blind have been relatively unexplored. The aim of this study was therefore to deepen the understanding of different forms of body expression, or “body language”, in adults who are blind. More specifically the study aimed at answering the following questions: What forms of body expression do adults who are blind display? What can the conditions for some different forms of body expression be? What importance c…
The conceptualisation of the psychical in psychoanalysis
This article aims to clarify the psychoanalytic conceptualisation of the psychical, which includes a discussion of the relationship between consciousness and the unconscious. The unconscious is conceived of as being on the border between the so‐called ‘ego's conscious intending’ and a rudimentary body‐ego experiencing. Phenomenological ideas on the essence of consciousness are used in order to help delineate the crucial differences between consci…
Metaphor and the Psychodynamic Functions of the Mind
The question of truth claims in psychoanalysis
This article discusses the question of truth claims in psychoanalysis, revolving around the concepts “construction”, “reconstruction”, “historical truth” and “narrative truth”. In Part I of the article, these concepts are discussed in an historical context, in particular, Freud's view, the narrative tradition and some of Bion's ideas. In Part II, an attempt is made to synthesize these concepts. It is argued that the constructed character of the u…
Beyond the pleasure principle: The Affirmation of Existence
Freud's concept of the death instinct has given rise to many different interpretations which have often been contradictory. It is in fact already possible to discern two diametrically opposite meanings of this concept in Freud's work from 1920—Beyond the Pleasure Principle—in which he first introduced the concept of the death instinct. In this paper, it is argued that both these meanings are relevant in describing psychical life, although only on…
Reader‐Relativism in History
It is contended in this article that the discipline of history differs from most scien tific activities by being essentially relative to its recipients. It is meant to consist in a kind of tripartite communication between the past, the author and the audience. This view is substantiated by considering the work of the historian on two levels, that of individualities or facts, and that of totalities or colligation. On the area of facts the author a…
Plague without rats: The case of fifteenth-century Iceland
In the fifteenth century Iceland was ravaged by two epidemics which usually have been identified as plague. It is shown here that these epidemics were no less lethal than the Black Death in Europe. The first one probably killed half the population or more and persisted in the country for at least a year and a half. Since, for several reasons, it can safely be assumed that Iceland was not populated by rats at this time, this may offer the stronges…
The experience of spatiality for congenitally blind people: A phenomenological-psychological study
The Grounding of Psychological Research in a Phenomenological Epistemology
The purpose of this article is to provide an understanding of how psychological research can be grounded in phenomenological epistemology, as it has been articulated in particular by Edmund Husserl, the founder of phenomenology. This article begins by establishing that mainstream academic psychology has placed subjective, meaningful experience secondary to natural-scientific descriptions of the world. Mainstream psychological research can be said…
Ein Griechisches Morgengebet Aus Ägypten
Plague without rats: The case of fifteenth-century Iceland
In the fifteenth century Iceland was ravaged by two epidemics which usually have been identified as plague. It is shown here that these epidemics were no less lethal than the Black Death in Europe. The first one probably killed half the population or more and persisted in the country for at least a year and a half. Since, for several reasons, it can safely be assumed that Iceland was not populated by rats at this time, this may offer the stronges…
The Experiences of Guilt and Shame: A Phenomenological–Psychological Study
A Phenomenological Analysis of the Psychotic Experience
The question of truth claims in psychoanalysis
This article discusses the question of truth claims in psychoanalysis, revolving around the concepts “construction”, “reconstruction”, “historical truth” and “narrative truth”. In Part I of the article, these concepts are discussed in an historical context, in particular, Freud's view, the narrative tradition and some of Bion's ideas. In Part II, an attempt is made to synthesize these concepts. It is argued that the constructed character of the u…
Beyond the pleasure principle: The Affirmation of Existence
Freud's concept of the death instinct has given rise to many different interpretations which have often been contradictory. It is in fact already possible to discern two diametrically opposite meanings of this concept in Freud's work from 1920—Beyond the Pleasure Principle—in which he first introduced the concept of the death instinct. In this paper, it is argued that both these meanings are relevant in describing psychical life, although only on…
The experience of spatiality for congenitally blind people: A phenomenological-psychological study
Masculinity as project: Some Psychoanalytic Reflections
In this article the question of phallic masculinity is discussed from a subjective perspective, more specifically from a psychoanalytic perspective supplemented with phenomenological reflections. A vantage point for this discussion is the distinction between sex/being a male and gender/masculinity. The focus is on the boy's/man's striving for a phallic masculine identity – a striving that can be described in terms of a ‘project’. The term ‘projec…
The conceptualisation of the psychical in psychoanalysis
This article aims to clarify the psychoanalytic conceptualisation of the psychical, which includes a discussion of the relationship between consciousness and the unconscious. The unconscious is conceived of as being on the border between the so‐called ‘ego's conscious intending’ and a rudimentary body‐ego experiencing. Phenomenological ideas on the essence of consciousness are used in order to help delineate the crucial differences between consci…
Metaphor and the Psychodynamic Functions of the Mind
Ein Griechisches Morgengebet Aus Ägypten
The Grounding of Psychological Research in a Phenomenological Epistemology
The purpose of this article is to provide an understanding of how psychological research can be grounded in phenomenological epistemology, as it has been articulated in particular by Edmund Husserl, the founder of phenomenology. This article begins by establishing that mainstream academic psychology has placed subjective, meaningful experience secondary to natural-scientific descriptions of the world. Mainstream psychological research can be said…
Plague without rats: The case of fifteenth-century Iceland
In the fifteenth century Iceland was ravaged by two epidemics which usually have been identified as plague. It is shown here that these epidemics were no less lethal than the Black Death in Europe. The first one probably killed half the population or more and persisted in the country for at least a year and a half. Since, for several reasons, it can safely be assumed that Iceland was not populated by rats at this time, this may offer the stronges…
The experience of spatiality for congenitally blind people: A phenomenological-psychological study
Reader‐Relativism in History
It is contended in this article that the discipline of history differs from most scien tific activities by being essentially relative to its recipients. It is meant to consist in a kind of tripartite communication between the past, the author and the audience. This view is substantiated by considering the work of the historian on two levels, that of individualities or facts, and that of totalities or colligation. On the area of facts the author a…
Beyond the pleasure principle: The Affirmation of Existence
Freud's concept of the death instinct has given rise to many different interpretations which have often been contradictory. It is in fact already possible to discern two diametrically opposite meanings of this concept in Freud's work from 1920—Beyond the Pleasure Principle—in which he first introduced the concept of the death instinct. In this paper, it is argued that both these meanings are relevant in describing psychical life, although only on…
The question of truth claims in psychoanalysis
This article discusses the question of truth claims in psychoanalysis, revolving around the concepts “construction”, “reconstruction”, “historical truth” and “narrative truth”. In Part I of the article, these concepts are discussed in an historical context, in particular, Freud's view, the narrative tradition and some of Bion's ideas. In Part II, an attempt is made to synthesize these concepts. It is argued that the constructed character of the u…
Metaphor and the Psychodynamic Functions of the Mind
The conceptualisation of the psychical in psychoanalysis
This article aims to clarify the psychoanalytic conceptualisation of the psychical, which includes a discussion of the relationship between consciousness and the unconscious. The unconscious is conceived of as being on the border between the so‐called ‘ego's conscious intending’ and a rudimentary body‐ego experiencing. Phenomenological ideas on the essence of consciousness are used in order to help delineate the crucial differences between consci…
The Body Language of Adults Who Are Blind1
The body expressions of adults who are blind have been relatively unexplored. The aim of this study was therefore to deepen the understanding of different forms of body expression, or “body language”, in adults who are blind. More specifically the study aimed at answering the following questions: What forms of body expression do adults who are blind display? What can the conditions for some different forms of body expression be? What importance c…
The Experiences of Guilt and Shame: A Phenomenological–Psychological Study
The Ethnicity of the Vinelanders
This paper searches for the most logical answer to the question about the ethnicity of the European people who attempted to settle permanently on the continent of North America around the turn of the 11th century. Were they Norwegians, Icelanders, Greenlanders, or just Norsemen? Following a short study of the ethnic identities of Icelanders and Norwegians in the Viking Age, the answer suggested is that the Vinelanders had a double ethnic identity…
Psychoanalysis in a New Light
What kind of a science is psychoanalysis? What constitutes its domain? What truth claims does it maintain? In this unique and scholarly work concerning the nature of psychoanalysis, Gunnar Karlsson guides his arguments through phenomenological thinking which, he claims, can be seen as an alternative to the recent attempts to cite neuropsychoanalysis as the answer to the crisis of psychoanalysis. Karlsson criticizes this effort to ground psychoana…
Psychoanalysis in a new light
What kind of a science is psychoanalysis? What constitutes its domain? What truth claims does it maintain? In this unique and scholarly work concerning the nature of psychoanalysis, Gunnar Karlsson guides his arguments through phenomenological thinking which, he claims, can be seen as an alternative to the recent attempts to cite neuropsychoanalysis as the answer to the crisis of psychoanalysis. Karlsson criticises this effort to ground psychoana…
A Phenomenological Analysis of the Psychotic Experience
Masculinity as project: Some Psychoanalytic Reflections
In this article the question of phallic masculinity is discussed from a subjective perspective, more specifically from a psychoanalytic perspective supplemented with phenomenological reflections. A vantage point for this discussion is the distinction between sex/being a male and gender/masculinity. The focus is on the boy's/man's striving for a phallic masculine identity – a striving that can be described in terms of a ‘project’. The term ‘projec…
Psychoanalysis and meaning – a comment on Arild Utaker’s “Images and words: A Reconsideration of the Psychic Dimension
Psychoanalysis and meaning – a comment on Arild Utaker’s “Images and words: a reconsideration of the psychic dimension”
Psychoanalytic and Phenomenological Reflections on Masculinity
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