William I Grossman
Biographic Data
| ID | 5211697 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William I Grossman |
| GIVEN NAMES | William I |
| FAMILY NAME | Grossman |
| SIGNATURE | GROSSMAN W I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Albert Einstein College of Medicine |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
History of the vicissitudes in the application of psychoanalytic method during the last fifty years
Hierarchies, Boundaries, and Representation in a Freudian Model of Mental Organization
Freud used a spatial model of mental organization, derived from his explanation of aphasia, as an organizing framework for psychoanalytic theory. He introduced the ideas of representation and over-determination to describe relations of the contents of systems that were joined to form, first, a hierarchical nervous system, then, mental systems. Freud used his basic model to organize aspects of mental function and phenomena, of interpersonal and so…
Pain, Aggression, Fantasy, and Concepts of Sadomasochism
Traumatized infants and children may exhibit syndromes of aggressive, pain-seeking, and self-destructive behavior resembling the so-called sadomasochism seen in adults. Three hypotheses are offered to account for the repetition of sadomasochistic phenomena in childhood and later character disorders: 1) pain and painful affects are sources of aggression; 2) the need to control aggression plays an important role in the development of psychic struct…
A Phylogenetic Fantasy
The discovery of the manuscript of one of Freud's lost metapsychological papers has understandably excited a great deal of scholarly interest. Although it has little to say to modern clinicians, the publication of the 1915 draft of the twelfth metapsychological essay, of the Transference Neuroses, provides a useful critical edition of an important transitional work in the development of Freud's thought. Like other works Freud excluded from his co…
Some Sources for a Slip in a Translation by Freud
Among Freud's papers, we find instances in which Freud describes the "psychopalhology of everyday life" as he found it in himself and in others. "A Religious Experience" (Freud, 1928) contains examples of both kinds. In addition, this paper contains a slip of which Freud appears to have been unaware. Freud's paper interprets a religious conversion described in a letter written to him in English. In the translation of this letter into German, Freu…
Notes on Masochism
The concept of masochism is used in both descriptive and explanatory ways to cover a wide variety of clinical phenomena. Although the concept has been thought to refer to a ubiquitous, fundamental, and paradoxical phenomenon, recent discussions reveal growing uncertainty about the clinical value of the term. The origins of the problem are traced here to Freud's early reliance on concepts borrowed from Krafft-Ebing's sexology. Freud later emphasiz…
Before the Pleasure Principle
While from the point of view of precise translation, desire and delight may, perhaps, be the most accurate English equivalent, some additional factors may be worth considering before it is assumed that the translation is Freud's conception. The foremost consideration is that Freud's (1880) translation of Mill's (1866) essay on Plato regularly renders as Lust. The idea of a principle of pleasure and pain regulating mind and behavior was not new an…
The Self as Fantasy
Freud ou Reich? Psychanalyse Et Illusion
The Relationship of Small Limb Movements During REM Sleep to Dreamed Limb Action
Ten adult subjects, selected for good dream recall and ability to produce spontaneously fine limb movements in the laboratory, reported their last dream experience after awakenings from REM sleep during various limb movement and no movement conditions. The reports were rated for amount and girdle location of dreamed actions by judges blind to the awakening condition. There was a significant correlation between the number of girdles moving before …
Some Factors Affecting the Reliability of Surface Electromyography
The use of surface electrodes for measuring the action potentials accompanying muscle contraction requires high-gain amplifiers having flat frequency response and high input impedance. Some polygraphs currently in use in "muscle tension" experiments fail to fulfill these requirements, having at high gain, output voltages which are a function of the frequency of the signal source at constant input voltage. A number of studies suggests that under c…
The Self as Fantasy
Notes on Masochism
The concept of masochism is used in both descriptive and explanatory ways to cover a wide variety of clinical phenomena. Although the concept has been thought to refer to a ubiquitous, fundamental, and paradoxical phenomenon, recent discussions reveal growing uncertainty about the clinical value of the term. The origins of the problem are traced here to Freud's early reliance on concepts borrowed from Krafft-Ebing's sexology. Freud later emphasiz…
Hierarchies, Boundaries, and Representation in a Freudian Model of Mental Organization
Freud used a spatial model of mental organization, derived from his explanation of aphasia, as an organizing framework for psychoanalytic theory. He introduced the ideas of representation and over-determination to describe relations of the contents of systems that were joined to form, first, a hierarchical nervous system, then, mental systems. Freud used his basic model to organize aspects of mental function and phenomena, of interpersonal and so…
Pain, Aggression, Fantasy, and Concepts of Sadomasochism
Traumatized infants and children may exhibit syndromes of aggressive, pain-seeking, and self-destructive behavior resembling the so-called sadomasochism seen in adults. Three hypotheses are offered to account for the repetition of sadomasochistic phenomena in childhood and later character disorders: 1) pain and painful affects are sources of aggression; 2) the need to control aggression plays an important role in the development of psychic struct…
Before the Pleasure Principle
While from the point of view of precise translation, desire and delight may, perhaps, be the most accurate English equivalent, some additional factors may be worth considering before it is assumed that the translation is Freud's conception. The foremost consideration is that Freud's (1880) translation of Mill's (1866) essay on Plato regularly renders as Lust. The idea of a principle of pleasure and pain regulating mind and behavior was not new an…
Some Factors Affecting the Reliability of Surface Electromyography
The use of surface electrodes for measuring the action potentials accompanying muscle contraction requires high-gain amplifiers having flat frequency response and high input impedance. Some polygraphs currently in use in "muscle tension" experiments fail to fulfill these requirements, having at high gain, output voltages which are a function of the frequency of the signal source at constant input voltage. A number of studies suggests that under c…
The Relationship of Small Limb Movements During REM Sleep to Dreamed Limb Action
Ten adult subjects, selected for good dream recall and ability to produce spontaneously fine limb movements in the laboratory, reported their last dream experience after awakenings from REM sleep during various limb movement and no movement conditions. The reports were rated for amount and girdle location of dreamed actions by judges blind to the awakening condition. There was a significant correlation between the number of girdles moving before …
Freud ou Reich? Psychanalyse Et Illusion
The Self as Fantasy
Notes on Masochism
The concept of masochism is used in both descriptive and explanatory ways to cover a wide variety of clinical phenomena. Although the concept has been thought to refer to a ubiquitous, fundamental, and paradoxical phenomenon, recent discussions reveal growing uncertainty about the clinical value of the term. The origins of the problem are traced here to Freud's early reliance on concepts borrowed from Krafft-Ebing's sexology. Freud later emphasiz…
Before the Pleasure Principle
While from the point of view of precise translation, desire and delight may, perhaps, be the most accurate English equivalent, some additional factors may be worth considering before it is assumed that the translation is Freud's conception. The foremost consideration is that Freud's (1880) translation of Mill's (1866) essay on Plato regularly renders as Lust. The idea of a principle of pleasure and pain regulating mind and behavior was not new an…
Some Sources for a Slip in a Translation by Freud
Among Freud's papers, we find instances in which Freud describes the "psychopalhology of everyday life" as he found it in himself and in others. "A Religious Experience" (Freud, 1928) contains examples of both kinds. In addition, this paper contains a slip of which Freud appears to have been unaware. Freud's paper interprets a religious conversion described in a letter written to him in English. In the translation of this letter into German, Freu…
A Phylogenetic Fantasy
The discovery of the manuscript of one of Freud's lost metapsychological papers has understandably excited a great deal of scholarly interest. Although it has little to say to modern clinicians, the publication of the 1915 draft of the twelfth metapsychological essay, of the Transference Neuroses, provides a useful critical edition of an important transitional work in the development of Freud's thought. Like other works Freud excluded from his co…
Pain, Aggression, Fantasy, and Concepts of Sadomasochism
Traumatized infants and children may exhibit syndromes of aggressive, pain-seeking, and self-destructive behavior resembling the so-called sadomasochism seen in adults. Three hypotheses are offered to account for the repetition of sadomasochistic phenomena in childhood and later character disorders: 1) pain and painful affects are sources of aggression; 2) the need to control aggression plays an important role in the development of psychic struct…
Hierarchies, Boundaries, and Representation in a Freudian Model of Mental Organization
Freud used a spatial model of mental organization, derived from his explanation of aphasia, as an organizing framework for psychoanalytic theory. He introduced the ideas of representation and over-determination to describe relations of the contents of systems that were joined to form, first, a hierarchical nervous system, then, mental systems. Freud used his basic model to organize aspects of mental function and phenomena, of interpersonal and so…
History of the vicissitudes in the application of psychoanalytic method during the last fifty years
Psychology (10 works) · Psychoanalysis (9 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (6 works) · Fantasy (4 works) · Psychoanalytic theory (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Literature (3 works)