W W Meissner
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3787909 |
|---|---|
| NOME | W W Meissner |
| PRENOMES | W W |
| SOBRENOME | Meissner |
| ASSINATURA | MEISSNER W W |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Boston College |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 74 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 142 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 74 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1958 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2010 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Some Notes on the Epistemology of Empathy
The nature of the knowledge base in empathy is explored. The presumption is that empathic responses are active in both analyst and analysand. The variety of meanings of empathic experience is reviewed and aspects of its implementation discussed. Reservations regarding the accuracy, certainty, and limitations of empathy are considered. The subsequent analysis focuses on empathic affective attunement. The role of underlying mechanisms, both neuroph…
The Question of Drive VS. Motive in Psychoanalysis
This essay explores the possibility of an alternative hypothesis to the prevailing psychoanalytic instinctual drive theory whose theoretical and clinical validity has been variously critiqued and challenged. Arguments are suggested in support of the concept of motive as a viable alternative theory to the drive theory and as a replacement for the traditional instinctual drive model. Issues discussed include the understanding of the mind—body relat…
The God question in psychoanalysis
Volition and Will in Psychoanalysis
To clarify the role and function of the will in psychoanalytic theory and praxis, the use and meaning of the concept of will are traced in the philosophical tradition influencing Freud, in Freud’s own view of will, and in the subsequent history of psychoanalysis. Functions of the will relevant to psychoanalysis are described in terms of intellective preference and executive functioning. Operations of will as an executive function of the ego-self …
Toward a Neuropsychological Reconstruction of Projective Identification
The meaning of the concept of projective identification (PI) is examined in an effort to determine the mechanisms involved in its operation. Formulations of the concept are reviewed conceiving of the process of PI as a form of unconscious affective communication. Difficulties and ambiguities of the concept are discussed, including the lack of a satisfactory explanation for unconscious communication. Possible mechanisms and processes that might co…
Response To Rangell
The role of language in the development of the self I
How anti-gay bias compromised a treatment
Screen time
The role of language in the development of the self II
The role of language in the development of the self III
Narcissism as Motive
This essay proposes replacing the traditional concept of narcissism as derived from the theory of drives with a concept of narcissism that is concerned with motives and their correlative meanings-specifically, motives connected to self-organization, self-preservation, self-cohesion, self-valuation, and self-esteem. The reasons for and the metapsychological underpinnings of a motivationally based theory are discussed. This revised motivational vie…
A Note on the Use of the Concept of the Soul in Psychoanalytic Discourse
(2008). A Note on the Use of the Concept of the Soul in Psychoanalytic Discourse. The Psychoanalytic Quarterly: Vol. 77, No. 1, pp. 327-340
Mind, brain, and self in psychoanalysis
Therapeutic alliance
What If There Is an Ethical Dimension in Psychoanalysis
The implications of an ethical dimension in psychoanalysis are explored, together with the questions whether and in what sense analysis has anything to contribute to ethical reflection, and whether and in what sense ethical considerations can play a role in analytic theory and process. As regards theory, analytic construction of an ethical agent would require a refocusing of structural and dynamic considerations in order to provide an integrative…
Time, self, and psychoanalysis
Time on my hands
Prospects for psychoanalysis in the 21st century
On Putting a Cloud in a Bottle
This essay addresses the psychoanalytic understanding of mystical phenomena and mystical ecstatic states. The study of mystical phenomena is a core area of interest in the ongoing dialogue between psychoanalysis and religion. Mystical phenomena and states are discussed in this essay, with particular reference to descriptions found in an anonymous medieval tract, The Cloud of Unknowing. Some common psychoanalytic views of mystical phenomena are di…
Ignatius and Screwtape on Discernment
This article brings together the Rules for Discernment of Spirits from the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola and the avuncular, if diabolical, advice given by C.S Lewis’ shrewd and experienced devil, Screwtape, to his fledgling nephew, Wormwood, who is still learning his satanic craft. The juxtaposition of Ignatius’ cautions regarding the wiles of the evil spirit with the counterpoise of the recommendations of the crafty old Screwtape for…
The Problem of Self-Disclosure in Psychoanalysis
The problem of self-disclosure is explored in relation to currently shifting paradigms of the nature of the analytic relation and analytic interaction. Relational and intersubjective perspectives emphasize the role of self-disclosure as not merely allowable, but as an essential facilitating aspect of the analytic dialogue, in keeping with the role of the analyst as a contributing partner in the process. At the opposite extreme, advocates of class…
Psychic Reality in the Psychoanalytic Process
The case is made for regarding psychic reality as synonymous with subjective (conscious) experience, which is inherently open to, but not reducible to, unconscious determinants. Both analyst and analysand engage in the analytic relation and interaction from the perspective of their respective psychic realities.Thus, components of the analytic relation—transference/countertransference, alliance, and real relation— are forms of psychic reality. The…
The many faces of analytic interaction.
The many faces of analytic interaction
Neutrality, Abstinence, and the Therapeutic Alliance
Concepts of neutrality and abstinence are discussed in terms of the variant opinions about them, pro and con, with particular reference to efforts to dispense with them based on the unavoidable role of the analyst's personal influence and subjectivity in the analytic process. Stereotypes of both neutrality and abstinence are examined, and the therapeutic alliance established as the most appropriate context within which to articulate the essential…
Notes on Identification
Notes on Identification
Notes on Identification
The Problem of Self-Disclosure in Psychoanalysis
The problem of self-disclosure is explored in relation to currently shifting paradigms of the nature of the analytic relation and analytic interaction. Relational and intersubjective perspectives emphasize the role of self-disclosure as not merely allowable, but as an essential facilitating aspect of the analytic dialogue, in keeping with the role of the analyst as a contributing partner in the process. At the opposite extreme, advocates of class…
Metapsychology—Who Needs it
Identification And Learning
Internalization and Object Relations
A Note On Projective Identification
On Analytic Listening
Multiple dimensions of the listening process as implemented in the analytic process are discussed. Listening is not the same as hearing; it is done with the mind rather than just the ears. Listening seeks meaning, specifically the meaning in the mind of the patient. The meaning of words is often obscure, ambiguous, and uncertain, and their deeper implications can only be approached over time through uncovering associative linkages. Listening take…
The Concept of the Therapeutic Alliance
Certain conceptual aspects of the therapeutic alliance are considered. Although therapeutic alliance, transference, and the real relation are intermingled and intertwined in the actuality of the analytic relationship, they remain distinguishable and open to differentiating analysis. The distinctions between the therapeutic alliance and transference, and between alliance and the real relation, are explored and their differences clarified, includin…
Can Psychoanalysis Find its Self
There is a place for the theory of the self in psychoanalysis. To justify that claim, I return to an era in the development of psychoanalytic thinking about the self that preceded Kohut's formulations and that has set itself on a course of evoluing a concept of the serf more congruent with extant structural theory: I try to articulate the potential role of such a self-concept in connection with the issues of personal agency and subjectivity, comp…
Methodological Critique of the Action Language in Psychoanalysis
A Note on Internalization as Process
To the view of internalization as fantasy, there is counterposed the view of internalization as process. The philosophical roots and basic argument of the "fantasy" view are evaluated, particularly in reference to the position of metaphorical terms in psychoanalytic theory. Especially confusing is the literal interpretation of metaphors of spatialization distinguishing the inner dimensions of psychic experience from external referents. The persis…
Freud's Methodology
Volition and Will in Psychoanalysis
To clarify the role and function of the will in psychoanalytic theory and praxis, the use and meaning of the concept of will are traced in the philosophical tradition influencing Freud, in Freud’s own view of will, and in the subsequent history of psychoanalysis. Functions of the will relevant to psychoanalysis are described in terms of intellective preference and executive functioning. Operations of will as an executive function of the ego-self …
A Note on Narcissism
The connection of the concept of narcissism with the concept of the self is re-examined in the light of Hartmann's formulation of narcissism as cathexis of the self. While the formula is valid, its converse remains open to question. Implications for a psychology of the self independent of (but not divorced from) the dynamics of narcissism are suggested in regard to the understanding of perversions, development, narcissistic object relations, and …
Theoretical Assumptions of Concepts of The Borderline Personality
The Operational Principle and Meaning in Psychoanalysis
Toward a Neuropsychological Reconstruction of Projective Identification
The meaning of the concept of projective identification (PI) is examined in an effort to determine the mechanisms involved in its operation. Formulations of the concept are reviewed conceiving of the process of PI as a form of unconscious affective communication. Difficulties and ambiguities of the concept are discussed, including the lack of a satisfactory explanation for unconscious communication. Possible mechanisms and processes that might co…
Art and Religion
Foundations of Psychoanalysis Reconsidered
Grünbaum's approach to psychoanalysis suffers from several difficulties. It imposes a standard of logical reductionism and methodological purity that not only violates the nature of psychoanalytic knowledge, but imposes an invalid standard of verification and scientific confirmation. It utilizes a brand of dichotomous reasoning that forces psychoanalytic propositions into artificial positions that do not reflect the actuality of analytic practice…
A View of Aggression in Phobic States
This article attempts to apply a theory of aggression as motivation to overcome obstacles to the understanding of phobic states and their formation. The role of aggression in the genesis of phobic conditions is discussed, and the traditional analytic view of aggression as instinctual drive is contrasted with a motivational approach. The motivational view offers the advantage of a clearer understanding of the stimulus contexts, representational co…
Narcissism as Motive
This essay proposes replacing the traditional concept of narcissism as derived from the theory of drives with a concept of narcissism that is concerned with motives and their correlative meanings-specifically, motives connected to self-organization, self-preservation, self-cohesion, self-valuation, and self-esteem. The reasons for and the metapsychological underpinnings of a motivationally based theory are discussed. This revised motivational vie…
What If There Is an Ethical Dimension in Psychoanalysis
The implications of an ethical dimension in psychoanalysis are explored, together with the questions whether and in what sense analysis has anything to contribute to ethical reflection, and whether and in what sense ethical considerations can play a role in analytic theory and process. As regards theory, analytic construction of an ethical agent would require a refocusing of structural and dynamic considerations in order to provide an integrative…
A Historical Note on Retention
Affective response to psychoanalytic death symbols
Some Anxiety Indications in the Adolescent Boy
The Problem of Psychophysics
Prolegomena to a psychology of grace
Functional and adaptive aspects of cellular regulatory mechanisms
The Implications of Experience for Psychological Theory
The Operational Principle and Meaning in Psychoanalysis
Group Dynamics in the Religious Life
Notes on Monotheism the argument
Notes on Monotheism Origins
Notes on monotheism
Notes on the psychology of faith
Since its initial description, Neoraistrickia loganensis (Winslow, 1962) Coleman and Clayton, 1987 has been reported from Mississipian (Lower Carboniferous) strata of various Euramerican and Gondawanan regions. Numerous specimens of this species, described and illustrated herein from the Amazonas Basin (northern Brazil), affirm the morphological variability of this acavate, apiculate, trilete miospore and its vertical restriction to two Lower Mis…
Notes toward a theory of values
Notes toward a theory of values
Notes on Identification
Notes toward a theory of values
Toward a theology of human aggression
Notes on Identification
Freud's Methodology
Sleep and Dreaming
Notes on Identification
Notes on the psychology of hope
Identification And Learning
Alienation
Psychology (70 obras) · Psychoanalysis (54 obras) · Philosophy (30 obras) · Psychoanalytic theory (27 obras) · Epistemology (25 obras) · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (25 obras) · Psychotherapist (24 obras) · Social Psychology (17 obras) · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (14 obras) · Computer Science (14 obras)