Psychoanalysis and the Linguistic Turn

Frie, Roger

doi:10.1080/00107530.1999.10746408

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“…According to him, it is intellectually fashionable to view subjectivity as simply and entirely a reflection of language. In contrast to this view, and in a move that would seem to resonate with Gadamer, Frie believes that “it is precisely our prelinguistic and prepropositional experience of the world that is crucial to our ability to use language” (Frie, 1999, p. 679). However, Frie's understanding of language is different from Gadamer's.…”

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“…In a recent article, Roger Frie (1999) tackles many of the important issues related to language and psychoanalysis. According to him, it is intellectually fashionable to view subjectivity as simply and entirely a reflection of language.…”

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“…He maintains that in the analytic process nonverbal communication, much of which expresses unconscious emotion, is equivalent in importance to verbal communication. To decipher and then respond meaningfully and therapeutically to the patient's nonverbal communications, he suggests that it is necessary “to move beyond a restrictive linguistic framework for interpreting and understanding human experience” (Frie, 1999, p. 684). Language for Frie is equivalent to the spoken word.…”

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More than just words: A hermeneutic view of language in psychoanalysis.

Zeddies

2002

Psychoanalytic Psychology

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Contemporary psychoanalysis does not have a consistent view on language. Some view language as the bedrock of all communication, whereas others argue that the nonverbal is constitutive of human experience. These divergent points of view are given voice in a recent exchange in this journal between two prominent post-Freudian analysts, Doris Silverman and Stephen Mitchell. The present article suggests that a broader conceptualization of language is needed. The author endorses the hermeneutic view that language is the primary and fundamental medium through which culture, tradition, and custom are transmitted down through history. He reviews the work of psychoanalytic writers who reflect a hermeneutic sensibility and then offers a view of language for psychoanalysis based in hermeneutic principles.A tension exists within psychoanalysis about the role of language within human experience. Some writers (e.g., Loewald, 1980;Ogden, 1997aOgden, , 1997bStern, 1997) insist that language is fluid and creative, forming a

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More than just words: A hermeneutic view of language in psychoanalysis.

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2002

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“…The loss of relatedness described by Binswanger is also closely associated with Jacques Lacan's (1977) conception of "the Real," in which psychotic experience is characterized by the loss of meaningful speech. Like Lacan, who suggests that the psychotic still resides within language even if the ability to communicate is temporarily lost, Binswanger maintains that the psychotic continues to exist as being-in-the-world, however delusionally distorted that world may be (Frie, 1998;1999b). In a similar sense, Sullivan (1953a) considers the loss of relatedness that, as he says, "actually menaces one's survival" the core of psychotic symptom formation.…”

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The Existential and the Interpersonal: Ludwig Binswanger and Harry Stack Sullivan

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2000

Journal of Humanistic Psychology

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The Swiss psychiatrist Ludwig Binswanger is commonly known as the founder of "existential analysis." The purpose of this article is to introduce the larger scope and relevance of Binswanger's work by drawing, above, all on untranslated texts. The author shows how Binswanger developed a contemporary perspective on self-other interaction with important clinical implications for our understanding of the therapeutic process. The article examines the interaction between the psychotherapist and patient that forms the therapeutic matrix, and argues that Binswanger used elements of Martin Heidegger's thought and Martin Buber's dialogical philosophy to develop an original approach to psychotherapy that has considerable parallels with the work of Harry Stack Sullivan and more recent interpersonal and relational theory.The Swiss psychiatrist, Ludwig Binswanger, is known as the founder of "existential analysis," yet his work is not commonly studied today. Binswanger was introduced to English-speaking

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“…However, it is important to stress that language is always much more than the words we speak. In contrast to the reductionism of the linguistic turn in some recent philosophy and psychoanalysis (Frie, 1999), I view language as an expression of our social, cultural, and biological embeddedness. Without an appreciation of the fundamental interdependence of these different levels of experience, language would be an empty shell; and psychoanalysis, so often dependent on the spoken word, would be devoid of meaning.…”

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Irreducible Cultural Contexts: German–Jewish Experience, Identity, and Trauma in a Bilingual Analysis

Psych.

2011

International Journal of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology

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This article addresses the themes of culture, identity, and trauma in a bilingual analysis between a German-speaking second-generation Holocaust survivor and an analyst of German descent. By paying attention to the shifts between German and English over the course of the therapy, it becomes possible to see how deeply language is intertwined with culture, history, and traumatic memory in the German-Jewish experience. Both patient and analyst are embedded in multiple cultural contexts and participate in language shifts that shape the process of negotiating and revealing identity. The article suggests that identity is neither fixed nor stable, but linked to the fluid and dynamic shifts of our experiences in the presence of the other person, and of language and culture in general. By focusing on the therapeutic interaction between the patient and analyst, the case demonstrates the degree to which the burden of history, struggle with trauma, and legacy of shame are all embedded in and determined by culture and history across contexts and generations.

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Psychoanalysis and the Linguistic Turn

Cited by 9 publications

References 11 publications

More than just words: A hermeneutic view of language in psychoanalysis.

More than just words: A hermeneutic view of language in psychoanalysis.

The Existential and the Interpersonal: Ludwig Binswanger and Harry Stack Sullivan

Irreducible Cultural Contexts: German–Jewish Experience, Identity, and Trauma in a Bilingual Analysis

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