We imagine, invent, create, and transcend beyond the material world toward a world of potentialities. All civilized societies require that persons conform to the standards, rules, and expectations that are necessary to live cooperatively.
This integrity requires us to respect our diversity in many forms, such as ethnic, religious, sexual, etc. Psychoanalytic therapies have kept theseexistential considerations central to the mission of advancing human understanding and promoting personal growth. Tolerating frustration involves the ability to delay gratification, self-containment of tension states, inhibiting reflexive action, and the ability to engage in thoughtful, reflective planning.
Lacking in this capacity, one is prone toward impulsive and potentially addictive lifestyles. No wonder, then, that these addictive and impulsive styles have historically been seen as characteristic of adolescence, where mature brain development has not yet been achieved.
If, however, needs and demands can be satisfied in nanoseconds, there is little motivation to cultivate self-containment. Psychoanalytic therapies are not quick fixes, intentionally, so as to allow for the facilitation of the maturing processes to unfold. So, while some might call this old-fashioned, it is actually a principle aligned with how nature works. September Access through your institution.
Add or change institution. Save Preferences. Privacy Policy Terms of Use. Access your subscriptions. Free access to newly published articles. Conversely, however, the contribution made by the social sciences to psychoanalysis is often ignored or minimized. Indeed, psychoanalysts now pay little if no attention to this. And yet both Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan alike were inspired by the social theories of their time, such as social evolutionism or structuralism.
In both cases, the element that encouraged not only dialogue but also misunderstanding was the borderline category of the unconscious to be revealed. Social Science in Psychoanalysis The writings of both Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan reveal constant references to the historians and anthropologists of their time. Firstly, in founding his theories on the prohibition of incest or the murder of the father, Freud borrowed from works by social evolutionists such as Lewis H.
Morgan or Sir James Frazer: the universal nature of the Oedipus complex depended upon these. Freud then imported anthropological concepts such as ambivalence or taboo in order to enrich his theory of neuroses in which he postulated the equivalence between child, savage and neurotic. Finally, he contributed to the cultural criticism of his time by pronouncing himself against religion and war, and by formulating a diagnosis of civilization and its discontents during his time. This last point is often underplayed and yet it is of paramount importance to understanding the very institutionalization of psychoanalysis and its cultural authority in France and in the United States, particularly during the s.
These three aspects can also be found in the work of Jacques Lacan in France. The neurobiological underpinnings of psychoanalytic theory and therapy. Front Behav Neurosci. Redmond J, Shulman M. Access to psychoanalytic ideas in American undergraduate institutions.
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Susan Krauss Whitbourne, PhD Using the criteria established for evidence-based treatment, traditional psychoanalysis alone does not, in fact, pass muster as a method of therapy for the large majority of psychological disorders.
Freud's Contributions to Psychology. Susan Krauss Whitbourne, PhD Psychologists today talk about the psychodynamic , not the psychoanalytic perspective. Was this page helpful? Thanks for your feedback!
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