George Hagman
Biographic Data
| ID | 5444016 |
|---|---|
| NAME | George Hagman |
| GIVEN NAMES | George |
| FAMILY NAME | Hagman |
| SIGNATURE | HAGMAN G |
| AFFILIATIONS | (STAMFORD, CT) |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
This essay is a self psychological discussion of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. It explores the narcissistic dynamics underlying Victor Frankenstein’s creation of the man he brings to life and the catastrophic consequences of the abandonment of his creation. Drawing upon Kohutian theory, the paper argues that Victor’s grandiose ambitions and subsequent rejection of his creation constitute a profound failure of selfobject responsiveness, leading to …
Empathy
This paper elaborates on the implications of Heinz Kohut's radical revision of the concepts of introspection and empathy for psychoanalytic practice and therapeutics. I focus on three of Kohut's papers: “Introspection, Empathy, and Psychoanalysis,” published in 1959, and its follow-up, “On Empathy”, and “Introspection, Empathy, and the Semi-Circle of Mental Health,” both published in 1981. Specifically, I address the importance of the analysand's…
Self-Agency
In this paper, I argue that awareness of and the capacity for personal agency is at the heart of self-experience, and I explore how this agentic self emerges from social interactions, especially selfobject experience. I then illustrate ways in which self-agency can be derailed, disrupted, and even usurped. Finally, I examine the implications of these findings for clinical psychoanalytic practice. There is a paradox at the heart of my thesis – eve…
Between Mind and Brain
Mended by the Muse
MENDED BY THE MUSE: CREATIVE TRANSFORMATIONS OF TRAUMA. By Sophia Richman. New York/Sussex, England: Routledge/Taylor and Francis, 2014. 256 pp.Mended by the Muse: Creative Transformations of Traum
Medea
On Ugliness
Ugliness results from the emergence into consciousness of certain fantasies that alter the person’s aesthetic sense in such a way that the formal qualities of the experience, the shape, texture, and color, appear to become the sources of our most disturbing and repulsive feelings. This paper reviews the psychoanalytic writings concerning the problem of ugliness and offers a psychoanalytic model of this universal phenomenon. Clinical vignettes ill…
The Sense of Beauty
This paper proposes an integrative psychoanalytic model of the sense of beauty. The following definition is used: beauty is an aspect of the experience of idealisation in which an object(s), sound(s) or concept(s) is believed to possess qualities of formal perfection. The psychoanalytic literature regarding beauty is explored in depth and fundamental similarities are stressed. The author goes on to discuss the following topics: (1) beauty as subl…
The Analyst's Relation to the Good
The Role of the other in Mourning
Mourning is a highly social process. This paper's thesis is that surviving objects play a crucial role in the accomplishment of a number of the major psychological tasks of mourning. To illustrate the thesis, the psychoanalytic treatment of a man suffering the aftermath of parental loss in adolescence is presented. The failure of the social surround to assist with mourning is identified and explored, and the treatment implications of the role of …
Bereavement and Neurosis
The psychoanalytic model of mourning is necessary but not sufficient for the analysis of many disorders resulting from bereavement. A set of definitions is offered to differentiate bereavement (a set of traumatic events that are psychologically elaborated) from mourning (the resolution of the psychological attachment to the dead). This article argues that the traditional approach to bereavement, solely in terms of disturbances of mourning, has be…
The Sense of Beauty
This paper proposes an integrative psychoanalytic model of the sense of beauty. The following definition is used: beauty is an aspect of the experience of idealisation in which an object(s), sound(s) or concept(s) is believed to possess qualities of formal perfection. The psychoanalytic literature regarding beauty is explored in depth and fundamental similarities are stressed. The author goes on to discuss the following topics: (1) beauty as subl…
The Role of the other in Mourning
Mourning is a highly social process. This paper's thesis is that surviving objects play a crucial role in the accomplishment of a number of the major psychological tasks of mourning. To illustrate the thesis, the psychoanalytic treatment of a man suffering the aftermath of parental loss in adolescence is presented. The failure of the social surround to assist with mourning is identified and explored, and the treatment implications of the role of …
Bereavement and Neurosis
The psychoanalytic model of mourning is necessary but not sufficient for the analysis of many disorders resulting from bereavement. A set of definitions is offered to differentiate bereavement (a set of traumatic events that are psychologically elaborated) from mourning (the resolution of the psychological attachment to the dead). This article argues that the traditional approach to bereavement, solely in terms of disturbances of mourning, has be…
The Role of the other in Mourning
Mourning is a highly social process. This paper's thesis is that surviving objects play a crucial role in the accomplishment of a number of the major psychological tasks of mourning. To illustrate the thesis, the psychoanalytic treatment of a man suffering the aftermath of parental loss in adolescence is presented. The failure of the social surround to assist with mourning is identified and explored, and the treatment implications of the role of …
The Analyst's Relation to the Good
The Sense of Beauty
This paper proposes an integrative psychoanalytic model of the sense of beauty. The following definition is used: beauty is an aspect of the experience of idealisation in which an object(s), sound(s) or concept(s) is believed to possess qualities of formal perfection. The psychoanalytic literature regarding beauty is explored in depth and fundamental similarities are stressed. The author goes on to discuss the following topics: (1) beauty as subl…
On Ugliness
Ugliness results from the emergence into consciousness of certain fantasies that alter the person’s aesthetic sense in such a way that the formal qualities of the experience, the shape, texture, and color, appear to become the sources of our most disturbing and repulsive feelings. This paper reviews the psychoanalytic writings concerning the problem of ugliness and offers a psychoanalytic model of this universal phenomenon. Clinical vignettes ill…
Mended by the Muse
MENDED BY THE MUSE: CREATIVE TRANSFORMATIONS OF TRAUMA. By Sophia Richman. New York/Sussex, England: Routledge/Taylor and Francis, 2014. 256 pp.Mended by the Muse: Creative Transformations of Traum
Medea
Between Mind and Brain
Self-Agency
In this paper, I argue that awareness of and the capacity for personal agency is at the heart of self-experience, and I explore how this agentic self emerges from social interactions, especially selfobject experience. I then illustrate ways in which self-agency can be derailed, disrupted, and even usurped. Finally, I examine the implications of these findings for clinical psychoanalytic practice. There is a paradox at the heart of my thesis – eve…
Empathy
This paper elaborates on the implications of Heinz Kohut's radical revision of the concepts of introspection and empathy for psychoanalytic practice and therapeutics. I focus on three of Kohut's papers: “Introspection, Empathy, and Psychoanalysis,” published in 1959, and its follow-up, “On Empathy”, and “Introspection, Empathy, and the Semi-Circle of Mental Health,” both published in 1981. Specifically, I address the importance of the analysand's…
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
This essay is a self psychological discussion of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. It explores the narcissistic dynamics underlying Victor Frankenstein’s creation of the man he brings to life and the catastrophic consequences of the abandonment of his creation. Drawing upon Kohutian theory, the paper argues that Victor’s grandiose ambitions and subsequent rejection of his creation constitute a profound failure of selfobject responsiveness, leading to …
Psychology (8 works) · Psychoanalysis (7 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Psychoanalytic theory (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (2 works) · Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics (2 works)