The indissociable unity of psyche and soma
A view from the Paris Psychosomatic School
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8972883 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marilia Aisenstein (72 rue d'AssasF‐75006 ParisFrance, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 87 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 667-680 |
| Publication date | 2006-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The International Journal of Psychoanalysis (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-7578 • E-ISSN: 1745-8315 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1516/0vbx-1hgy-t86r-p5cb |
| PMID | 16854732 |
| OpenAlex | W2032054497 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 26 |
Depending on whether or not psyche/soma is seen as singular or dual, one may construct different systems explaining man and the world, life and death. In the author's view, the discoveries of psychoanalysis offer a perfectly cogent and unique solution to the famous mind/body problem. In transferring the duality psyche/soma on to the duality of drives, psychoanalysis places the origin of the thought process in the body. In Beyond the pleasure principle, Freud discusses the drastic effect of a painful somatic illness on the distribution and modalities of the libido. He provides a starting point for the Paris Psychosomatic School's psychoanalytical approach to patients afflicted with somatic illnesses. To illustrate the technical implications of this theory the author relates two clinical cases
Psyche · Psychoanalysis · Soma · Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies · Neuroscience · Philosophy · Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
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Georg Groddeck
Somatization and symbolization
Commentary on Pierre Marty’s The narcissistic difficulties presented to the observer by the psychosomatic problem
Surviving in Absence—On the Preservative and Death Drives and Their Clinical Utility
Discussion of Sander M. Abend’s “Freud, Transference, and Therapeutic Action”
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On a Soma-Psychotic Part of the Personality
Three papers on splitting
Psychoanalytic psychosomatics
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Letter from Paris
Searching for the analyst’s reveries
Understanding alexithymia within a psychoanalytical framework
The body in the analytic session
Repetition and the compulsion to repeat, a French perspective
The colourless canvas
Metapsychological and clinical issues in psychosomatics research
Conceptual framework from the Paris Psychosomatic School
Through the Eye of the Needle
Return of the Repressed
The Innate Capacity for Representing Subjective Experience
Body and mind
O Adoecimento Somático em Ferenczi, Groddeck e Winnicott
| Unique citing works | 26 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,3 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2024 (19) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 26 |