Siegfried Zepf
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4126202 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Siegfried Zepf |
| PRENOMES | Siegfried |
| SOBRENOME | Zepf |
| ASSINATURA | ZEPF S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Russian State Agrarian Correspondence University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 30 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2001 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Metaphors in psychoanalytic theory – Do we need them
The author questions Wallerstein’s conviction that psychoanalytic concepts are “scientific metaphors.” If one were to adopt his view, psychoanalysis would fall into line with Lakoff and Johnson′s thesis that the conceptual system of our thoughts and actions is basically metaphorically structured. The author rejects both their views by demonstrating how the system inherent in our conceptual structure works, and disproving Lakoff and Johnson’s thes…
Psychoanalysis and political economy
The authors examine the influence that psychoanalysts’ economic situation has on the current state of psychoanalysis, particularly focusing on the situation in Germany and employing a perspective afforded by Marxian commodity analysis. Their analysis brings them to conclude that, in psychoanalysis, the suspension of truth value, the tolerance shown towards contradictory concepts, the lack of conceptual criticism, and the exclusion of sociocritica…
Handbuch psychoanalytischer Grundbegriffe
Dieses Handbuch, verfasst von rund 140 Wissenschaftlern, erläutert nach einem einheitlichen Schema die grundlegenden Begriffe der Psychoanalyse. Neben ihrer Definition, ihrer klassischen Auffassung und ihrem ideengeschichtlichen Hintergrund wird die Weiterentwicklung der klassischen Psychoanalyse in den einzelnen Schulrichtungen detailliert beschrieben. Zugleich knüpft das Handbuch an den interdisziplinären Diskurs an, indem es in einen Dialog mi…
Little Hans and the “Enigmatic Messages” of His Parents
The authors discuss the psychoanalytic treatment of Little Hans, drawing on the perspective offered by Laplanche's concept of “enigmatic messages,” which they believe can contribute to a better understanding of this case history. They conclude that Little Hans's positive Oedipus complex conceals his negative Oedipus complex in which he represents his parents’ oedipal problems in a distorted fashion. They demonstrate the way his parents project as…
Psychoanalytic treatments and empirical research on their efficacy
The author summarizes the problems inherent in nomological approaches examining the efficacy of psychoanalysis as a form of treatment. He argues that nomologically oriented research operates with assumptions lacking empirical foundation and, moreover, that studies of this type merely give the impression of the effectiveness of psychoanalytic therapies while overlooking the specificity of the psychoanalytic method. He suggests that research into p…
Do under-3s think of day-care centers as “home from home”
The authors note a contradiction between empirical findings and the dismissive conclusion of the German Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth (FMFASWY) that the treatment of children in early day care will not affect their relationship to their mother or entail any serious damage for their future. They use this contradiction as an opportunity to discuss the social function of early childhood socialization in day ca…
Oedipus and the Oedipus complex
The authors consider whether those aspects of the Oedipus myths that have been ignored by Freud could improve our knowledge of how the Oedipus complex develops. They conclude that the myths can provide an answer to Freud's question posed on the 25 February 1914 (Nunberg and Federn, 1975, p. 234) concerning "the extent to which the Oedipus complex is a reflection of the sexual behavior of the parents" with Fenichel's (1931, p. 421) view that the "…
Language and the unconscious
Oedipus and the Oedipus Complex
Some notes on Freud's concept of conversion
The author investigates conversion, the process by which psychic contents are transformed into bodily symptoms. The author concludes that this process cannot be explained by libido theory or by assuming the existence of a psychic energy. He argues that although Freud was convinced that “the leap from a mental process to a somatic innervation ... can never be fully comprehensible to us,” this process is, nonetheless, comprehensible in terms of Fre…
Thoughts about psychosomatic symptom formation
The author argues that if one intends to reconstruct in a theoretically adequate manner the empirically observable interaction of somatic and psychological data on the so-called “psychosomatic diseases in the strict sense”, there is a need for meta-theoretical mediation of area-specific theories. Furthermore, the author presents a concept of symptom formation of these diseases on the basis of Felix Deutsch’s understanding of conversion in which t…
Commentary on Kernberg’s “Suicide Prevention for Psychoanalytic Institutes and Societies”
A note on the application of the term “disavowal” in psychoanalysis
The author questions whether disavowal is to be understood as a defence mechanism in its own right. After discussing the different understandings of disavowal as a defence mechanism, as the outcome of defence mechanisms and as a synonym for defence in general, he recapitulates Freud's use of disavowal and confronts it with Freud's concept of defence mechanisms. He concludes that in Freud's conceptual framework, disavowal does not qualify as such …
Do we need the concept of “splitting” to understand borderline structures
The author questions whether Kernberg's suggestion that the interaction between splitting and other defence mechanisms—such as primitive idealization, omnipotence, devaluation and denial [disavowal]—gives an adequate psychodynamic explanation of borderline personality structures. The author shows that the assumption of a splitting mechanism provokes contradictions and that primitive idealization, omnipotence, devaluation and disavowal cannot be s…
About rationalization and intellectualization
Within the framework of Freud's understanding of defence, I focus on the question of whether rationalization and intellectualization should be regarded as separate mechanisms of defense. It is argued that both of these mechanisms represent a specific handling of specific substitutive formations that are produced by other mechanisms of defense. Rationalization refers to the usage of substitutive formations as a reason for action. In the guise of t…
The relations between language, consciousness, the preconscious, and the unconscious
The author critically discusses Freud's conceptualization of the relations of consciousness, the preconscious, and the unconscious and demonstrates that the generation of consciousness cannot be explained by the mere addition of words and mental representations. He concludes that consciousness arises from the linkage of words and concepts in conceptual realms which yield specific content and meaning to what is experienced, whereas “preconscious” …
Consumerism and identity
The author examines the role that the buying of commodities plays in the identity formation of the individual. He concludes that it is nowadays no longer the instrumental utility value but a psychical utility value that influences the decision to buy a commodity and that the psychical utility value can have different functions for consumers. In neurotically structured individuals, normal consuming can end in an identity extension where the indivi…
The psychoanalytic process and Freud’s concepts of transference and transference neurosis
The author investigates the concept of psychoanalytic process as it relates to the capability for defining the specificity of psychoanalytic treatments. The concept is traced back to its origin in Freud’s understanding of transference and transference neurosis. The author suggests that this process
Wilhelm Reich – A blind seer
Modes of Identification
The author examines Freud's conceptualizations of identification, Melanie Klein's projective identification, and Anna Freud's identification with the aggressor and altruistic surrender of one's own instinctual impulses. After demonstrating that Freud's concept primary identification refers not to a process but to the state of being identified, he suggests the substitution of it with Sandler's term “oneness”. He notes that hysterical identificatio…
Naturalistic studies of psychoanalytic treatments
The author discusses the extent to which psychoanalytic treatments can be tested nomologically. He concludes that nomologically oriented research operates from assumptions for which no empiricalfoundation is possible. He further claims that findings of naturalistic studies obtained with the nomological conception of science merely suggest that psychoanalytic treatments are effective and that the specificity of these treatments is overlooked in su…
Trauma and traumatic neurosis
The authors examine Freud 's concepts of 'trauma', 'protective shield against stimuli ' and 'traumatic neurosis' in the light of recent findings. 'Protective shield against stimuli' is regarded as a biological concept which appears in mental life as the striving to avoid unpleasant affects. 'Trauma' is a twofold concept in that it relates to mental experience and links an external event with the specific after-effects on an individual 's psychic …
Response to Gallese
Some Thoughts on Empathy and Countertransference
Two aspects of countertransference—namely, the countertransference reaction and empathic understanding—must be distinguished. The term countertransference should be reserved exclusively for the conscious reactions of the analyst emerging from the preconscious by virtue of the patient's current transferences; the term empathy should be used to denote a perspective whereby the analyst employs current countertransference reactions for an understandi…
Pop Concerts – a Symbol and an Instrumentalization of Inexpressible Experiences
Trauma and traumatic neurosis
The authors examine Freud 's concepts of 'trauma', 'protective shield against stimuli ' and 'traumatic neurosis' in the light of recent findings. 'Protective shield against stimuli' is regarded as a biological concept which appears in mental life as the striving to avoid unpleasant affects. 'Trauma' is a twofold concept in that it relates to mental experience and links an external event with the specific after-effects on an individual 's psychic …
Attachment theory and psychoanalysis Some remarks from an epistemological and from a Freudian viewpoint1
The author examines Bowlby's attachment theory and more recent versions of it from an epistemological viewpoint and subjects it to questioning on whether they are in line with central concepts of Freudian psychoanalysis. He argues that Bowlby's basic tenets regarding attachment theory, which later attachment theorists never seriously questioned, do not conform to scientific standards, and that psychoanalytic issues such as the dynamic unconscious…
Oedipus and the Oedipus complex
The authors consider whether those aspects of the Oedipus myths that have been ignored by Freud could improve our knowledge of how the Oedipus complex develops. They conclude that the myths can provide an answer to Freud's question posed on the 25 February 1914 (Nunberg and Federn, 1975, p. 234) concerning "the extent to which the Oedipus complex is a reflection of the sexual behavior of the parents" with Fenichel's (1931, p. 421) view that the "…
Some Thoughts on Empathy and Countertransference
Two aspects of countertransference—namely, the countertransference reaction and empathic understanding—must be distinguished. The term countertransference should be reserved exclusively for the conscious reactions of the analyst emerging from the preconscious by virtue of the patient's current transferences; the term empathy should be used to denote a perspective whereby the analyst employs current countertransference reactions for an understandi…
The Relationship Between the Unconscious and Consciousness – A Comparison of Psychoanalysis and Historical Materialism
Freud's concepts of transference and transference neurosis
The authors investigate Freud's concepts of transference, transference neurosis and their mutual relationships. They discuss the current criticism made on the concept of transference neurosis and pose the question of why patients accept the analyst's interpretation. They suggest understanding transference neurosis in the sense of conscious transference manifestations, referring to the analyst, which are the outcome of his successive interpretatio…
Incentives for a Reconsideration of the Debate on Metapsychology
With a view to establishing an area of metapsychological common ground, the author examines the attempts made by G. S. Klein, Gill and Brenner to interpret Freud's conception of metapsychology. Quoting liberally from the correspondence with Fliess and from works composed at all stages of Freud's career, the author shows that the versions put forward by Klein and Gill do not stand up to scrutiny; the economic aspect on which Freud himself insisted…
The relations between language, consciousness, the preconscious, and the unconscious
The author critically discusses Freud's conceptualization of the relations of consciousness, the preconscious, and the unconscious and demonstrates that the generation of consciousness cannot be explained by the mere addition of words and mental representations. He concludes that consciousness arises from the linkage of words and concepts in conceptual realms which yield specific content and meaning to what is experienced, whereas “preconscious” …
Modes of Identification
The author examines Freud's conceptualizations of identification, Melanie Klein's projective identification, and Anna Freud's identification with the aggressor and altruistic surrender of one's own instinctual impulses. After demonstrating that Freud's concept primary identification refers not to a process but to the state of being identified, he suggests the substitution of it with Sandler's term “oneness”. He notes that hysterical identificatio…
Naturalistic studies of psychoanalytic treatments
The author discusses the extent to which psychoanalytic treatments can be tested nomologically. He concludes that nomologically oriented research operates from assumptions for which no empiricalfoundation is possible. He further claims that findings of naturalistic studies obtained with the nomological conception of science merely suggest that psychoanalytic treatments are effective and that the specificity of these treatments is overlooked in su…
Incentives for a Reconsideration of the Debate on Metapsychology
With a view to establishing an area of metapsychological common ground, the author examines the attempts made by G. S. Klein, Gill and Brenner to interpret Freud's conception of metapsychology. Quoting liberally from the correspondence with Fliess and from works composed at all stages of Freud's career, the author shows that the versions put forward by Klein and Gill do not stand up to scrutiny; the economic aspect on which Freud himself insisted…
Freud's concepts of transference and transference neurosis
The authors investigate Freud's concepts of transference, transference neurosis and their mutual relationships. They discuss the current criticism made on the concept of transference neurosis and pose the question of why patients accept the analyst's interpretation. They suggest understanding transference neurosis in the sense of conscious transference manifestations, referring to the analyst, which are the outcome of his successive interpretatio…
The Analyst's “Blind Spot” and some of its consequences—seen from a Freudian viewpoint
The authors inquire as to how far psychoanalysis uses its inherent capabilities to decipher the inner structure of subjectivity in present-day psychoanalytic practice and thinking. They maintain that in psychoanalytic practice, the analyst's unresolved neurotic conflicts cause him to create conscious mystifications of his own unconscious situation, thus distorting his understanding of the patient's unconscious in a systematic manner
Attachment theory and psychoanalysis Some remarks from an epistemological and from a Freudian viewpoint1
The author examines Bowlby's attachment theory and more recent versions of it from an epistemological viewpoint and subjects it to questioning on whether they are in line with central concepts of Freudian psychoanalysis. He argues that Bowlby's basic tenets regarding attachment theory, which later attachment theorists never seriously questioned, do not conform to scientific standards, and that psychoanalytic issues such as the dynamic unconscious…
The Relationship Between the Unconscious and Consciousness – A Comparison of Psychoanalysis and Historical Materialism
Naturalistic studies of psychoanalytic treatments
The author discusses the extent to which psychoanalytic treatments can be tested nomologically. He concludes that nomologically oriented research operates from assumptions for which no empiricalfoundation is possible. He further claims that findings of naturalistic studies obtained with the nomological conception of science merely suggest that psychoanalytic treatments are effective and that the specificity of these treatments is overlooked in su…
Trauma and traumatic neurosis
The authors examine Freud 's concepts of 'trauma', 'protective shield against stimuli ' and 'traumatic neurosis' in the light of recent findings. 'Protective shield against stimuli' is regarded as a biological concept which appears in mental life as the striving to avoid unpleasant affects. 'Trauma' is a twofold concept in that it relates to mental experience and links an external event with the specific after-effects on an individual 's psychic …
Response to Gallese
Some Thoughts on Empathy and Countertransference
Two aspects of countertransference—namely, the countertransference reaction and empathic understanding—must be distinguished. The term countertransference should be reserved exclusively for the conscious reactions of the analyst emerging from the preconscious by virtue of the patient's current transferences; the term empathy should be used to denote a perspective whereby the analyst employs current countertransference reactions for an understandi…
Pop Concerts – a Symbol and an Instrumentalization of Inexpressible Experiences
Modes of Identification
The author examines Freud's conceptualizations of identification, Melanie Klein's projective identification, and Anna Freud's identification with the aggressor and altruistic surrender of one's own instinctual impulses. After demonstrating that Freud's concept primary identification refers not to a process but to the state of being identified, he suggests the substitution of it with Sandler's term “oneness”. He notes that hysterical identificatio…
Consumerism and identity
The author examines the role that the buying of commodities plays in the identity formation of the individual. He concludes that it is nowadays no longer the instrumental utility value but a psychical utility value that influences the decision to buy a commodity and that the psychical utility value can have different functions for consumers. In neurotically structured individuals, normal consuming can end in an identity extension where the indivi…
The psychoanalytic process and Freud’s concepts of transference and transference neurosis
The author investigates the concept of psychoanalytic process as it relates to the capability for defining the specificity of psychoanalytic treatments. The concept is traced back to its origin in Freud’s understanding of transference and transference neurosis. The author suggests that this process
Wilhelm Reich – A blind seer
About rationalization and intellectualization
Within the framework of Freud's understanding of defence, I focus on the question of whether rationalization and intellectualization should be regarded as separate mechanisms of defense. It is argued that both of these mechanisms represent a specific handling of specific substitutive formations that are produced by other mechanisms of defense. Rationalization refers to the usage of substitutive formations as a reason for action. In the guise of t…
The relations between language, consciousness, the preconscious, and the unconscious
The author critically discusses Freud's conceptualization of the relations of consciousness, the preconscious, and the unconscious and demonstrates that the generation of consciousness cannot be explained by the mere addition of words and mental representations. He concludes that consciousness arises from the linkage of words and concepts in conceptual realms which yield specific content and meaning to what is experienced, whereas “preconscious” …
Do we need the concept of “splitting” to understand borderline structures
The author questions whether Kernberg's suggestion that the interaction between splitting and other defence mechanisms—such as primitive idealization, omnipotence, devaluation and denial [disavowal]—gives an adequate psychodynamic explanation of borderline personality structures. The author shows that the assumption of a splitting mechanism provokes contradictions and that primitive idealization, omnipotence, devaluation and disavowal cannot be s…
Commentary on Kernberg’s “Suicide Prevention for Psychoanalytic Institutes and Societies”
A note on the application of the term “disavowal” in psychoanalysis
The author questions whether disavowal is to be understood as a defence mechanism in its own right. After discussing the different understandings of disavowal as a defence mechanism, as the outcome of defence mechanisms and as a synonym for defence in general, he recapitulates Freud's use of disavowal and confronts it with Freud's concept of defence mechanisms. He concludes that in Freud's conceptual framework, disavowal does not qualify as such …
Thoughts about psychosomatic symptom formation
The author argues that if one intends to reconstruct in a theoretically adequate manner the empirically observable interaction of somatic and psychological data on the so-called “psychosomatic diseases in the strict sense”, there is a need for meta-theoretical mediation of area-specific theories. Furthermore, the author presents a concept of symptom formation of these diseases on the basis of Felix Deutsch’s understanding of conversion in which t…
Some notes on Freud's concept of conversion
The author investigates conversion, the process by which psychic contents are transformed into bodily symptoms. The author concludes that this process cannot be explained by libido theory or by assuming the existence of a psychic energy. He argues that although Freud was convinced that “the leap from a mental process to a somatic innervation ... can never be fully comprehensible to us,” this process is, nonetheless, comprehensible in terms of Fre…
Oedipus and the Oedipus complex
The authors consider whether those aspects of the Oedipus myths that have been ignored by Freud could improve our knowledge of how the Oedipus complex develops. They conclude that the myths can provide an answer to Freud's question posed on the 25 February 1914 (Nunberg and Federn, 1975, p. 234) concerning "the extent to which the Oedipus complex is a reflection of the sexual behavior of the parents" with Fenichel's (1931, p. 421) view that the "…
Language and the unconscious
Oedipus and the Oedipus Complex
Do under-3s think of day-care centers as “home from home”
The authors note a contradiction between empirical findings and the dismissive conclusion of the German Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth (FMFASWY) that the treatment of children in early day care will not affect their relationship to their mother or entail any serious damage for their future. They use this contradiction as an opportunity to discuss the social function of early childhood socialization in day ca…
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