Language, life praxis and scenic understanding in psychoanalytic therapy

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ID9056264
AuthorsAlfred Lorenzer (GTx (United States), corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume97
Issue5
Pages1399-1414
Publication date2016-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe International Journal of Psychoanalysis (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0020-7578 • E-ISSN: 1745-8315
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1745-8315.12601
PMID27761904
OpenAlexW2538322098
LanguageEN
Citations received6

Freud held that the repressed unconscious arose from the separation of thing-presentations from word-presentations. The author divests these terms of the implication that they are objectively existing entities by citing some of Freud's other texts. Thing-presentations are memory-traces of (as yet) non-language-based interactions - that is, precipitates of actions that have been experienced and models of future actions. Scenic understanding, which, on the basis of participation by the therapist in the patient's play, treats all material presented by the patient by an approach analogous to the interpretation of dreams, is therefore the royal road to the unconscious

Epistemology · Interpretation (philosophy) · Linguistics · Praxis · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Psychotherapist · Unconscious mind · Philosophy · Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research · Psychology

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