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Rachel B Bla

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ID4055349
NAMERachel B Bla
GIVEN NAMESRachel B
FAMILY NAMEBla
SIGNATUREBLA R B
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS3
TOTAL CITATIONS8
WORKS AS AUTHOR3
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2002
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1
  • On the Power of the Experience of “Longing” in the Development of Freud’s Thinking

    Rachel B Bla, Rachel B Blass et al.•ARTICLE•Psychoanalytic Inquiry•2025•References: 3

    In this paper, I show how the failure of Freud’s efforts to understand the phenomenon of depression in economic terms played an important role in the development of his object relational understanding of the person. That is, that the experience of depression, not well encompassed by energetic terms and the pleasure principle with which it is so strongly associated, compelled Freud to ground his thinking in a metapsychological model that is more r…

  • The Role of Tradition in Concealing and Grounding Truth

    Rachel B Bla, Rachel B Blass et al.•ARTICLE•American imago•2006•Cited by: 8

    The classic Freudian view of truth regards tradition negatively as that which, on the basis of unwarranted authority, blinds us to a realistic perception of the world. However, implicit in Freud's writings there is another, very different view of truth. The latter view regards tradition as the ground of truth, that which inevitably shapes human perception of the world and determines it ethical value. Through an examination of Freud's Totem and Ta…

  • The Meaning of the Dream in Psychoanalysis (S U N Y Series in Dream Studies)

    Rachel B Bla, Rachel B Blass•BOOK•The Meaning of the Dream in…•2002

  • The Role of Tradition in Concealing and Grounding Truth

    Rachel B Bla, Rachel B Blass et al.•ARTICLE•American imago•2006•Cited by: 8

    The classic Freudian view of truth regards tradition negatively as that which, on the basis of unwarranted authority, blinds us to a realistic perception of the world. However, implicit in Freud's writings there is another, very different view of truth. The latter view regards tradition as the ground of truth, that which inevitably shapes human perception of the world and determines it ethical value. Through an examination of Freud's Totem and Ta…

  • The Meaning of the Dream in Psychoanalysis (S U N Y Series in Dream Studies)

    Rachel B Bla, Rachel B Blass•BOOK•The Meaning of the Dream in…•2002

  • The Role of Tradition in Concealing and Grounding Truth

    Rachel B Bla, Rachel B Blass et al.•ARTICLE•American imago•2006•Cited by: 8

    The classic Freudian view of truth regards tradition negatively as that which, on the basis of unwarranted authority, blinds us to a realistic perception of the world. However, implicit in Freud's writings there is another, very different view of truth. The latter view regards tradition as the ground of truth, that which inevitably shapes human perception of the world and determines it ethical value. Through an examination of Freud's Totem and Ta…

  • On the Power of the Experience of “Longing” in the Development of Freud’s Thinking

    Rachel B Bla, Rachel B Blass et al.•ARTICLE•Psychoanalytic Inquiry•2025•References: 3

    In this paper, I show how the failure of Freud’s efforts to understand the phenomenon of depression in economic terms played an important role in the development of his object relational understanding of the person. That is, that the experience of depression, not well encompassed by energetic terms and the pleasure principle with which it is so strongly associated, compelled Freud to ground his thinking in a metapsychological model that is more r…

Psychoanalysis (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Freud's Psychoanalytic Theories (2 works) · Psychoanalytic theory (2 works) · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Anthropology (1 work) · Dream interpretation (1 work) · Dream interpretation (1 work) · Dreams (1 work)

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