Subjectivity, Infantile Oedipus, and Symbolization in Melanie Klein and Jacques Lacan

Keylor, Rheta G.

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“…Often stress and pressures lead them to neglect their own emotional and physical needs, and such cases allude to a 'poverty of close sustaining relationships' which usually precedes the increasingly awful loneliness of their chemical dependency (p. 323). Keylor (2003) refers back to Klein's case of 'Dick' to note that in this boy 'poverty of object relations' had resulted in an inhibition of symbol formation. Blevis and Feher-Gurewich (2003) allude to a certain 'poverty of signifiers' in the way they link to the intractable nature of fantasy.…”

Section: Prominent Usages Of 'Poverty' In Psychoanalyticmentioning

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The Poverty in Psychoanalysis: ‘Poverty’ of Psychoanalysis?

Kumar

2012

Psychology and Developing Societies

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The article reviews psychoanalytic scholarship on the themes of poverty and deprivation available on the Psychoanalytic Electronic Publications (PEP-web). The article evaluates select definitions and explanations of poverty as illustrated in the scientific papers published in the PEP-web from 1933 to 2003 (covering 70 years) and finds that psychoanalytic scholarship has very little to say about poverty or the poor. In spite of references to the poverty of dreams, poverty of affect, poverty of intellect, there is in reality little engagement with 'real' poverty. The reasons and effects of this neglect are firstly traced to the attitudinal biases and beliefs held by the psychoanalytic authors which prevents them from acknowledging poor and deprived as worthy of their attention. The review also points out to great confusions, oversimplifications and neglect shown in the use of poverty and related terminologies. Absence of fuller appreciation of poverty is then traced to some philosophical quandaries in psychoanalytic epistemology such as the place of real versus psychic, culture versus individual and need versus value to cite a few. A third reason for this neglect may be attributed to the uneven spread, reception and development of psychoanalysis in different geopolitzical locations, and the neglect in addressing these cultural differences could be behind these social inequalities remaining unaddressed in the literature.

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Section: Prominent Usages Of 'Poverty' In Psychoanalyticmentioning

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The Poverty in Psychoanalysis: ‘Poverty’ of Psychoanalysis?

Kumar

2012

Psychology and Developing Societies

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“…Put another way, dissociation, as a psychological defense, involves cognitive processes that leave experiences unformulated or un-symbolized and, thus, outside of consciousness. Keylor (2003) argued that the primary motivation for keeping experience unformulated is annihilation anxiety. That is, the person is "organizing his mind in a way that protects the good self and other from persecution and dread of annihilation" (p. 219).…”

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What Hope Is There: The Enthrallment of Empire Stories

LaMothe

2008

Pastoral Psychol

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In this article, I argue that many U.S. citizens are held captive by expansionist narratives and ideologies. Our enthrallment is explained, in part, by shared weak dissociation, rationalization, moralization, and denial. Theologically, I understand the ongoing presence of these narratives and ideologies in U.S. society as a manifestation of idolatry and a refusal to mourn. Furthermore, I argue that expansionist narratives signify the presence of fate and the distortion of hope, in particular, Christian hope.

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“…As Meares (2000) noted, dissociation entails ‘a contraction of the field of consciousness’ (p. 45). While dissociation represents unformulated experience that escapes consciousness and symbolization, it is important to point out that the person is ‘organizing his mind in a way that protects the good self and other from persecution and dread of annihilation’ (Keylor, 2003, p. 219). It is, therefore, not uncommon to see dissociation in patients who have suffered traumatic experiences, using this defense to keep horrific (unformulated) experiences from becoming conscious.…”

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The Willie Lomans of a Market Society: Addressing Political-Economic Sources of Suffering in Pastoral Counseling

LaMothe

2015

J Pastoral Care Counsel

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This article focuses on the culture of state-corporate capitalism as a source of psychological suffering for some people who seek the aid of pastoral counselors. An underlying premise of this article and, more particularly, the work of pastoral counseling comes from Frantz Fanon's view that the aims of psychotherapy are (a) 'to 'consciousnessize' [the patient's] unconscious, to no longer be tempted by a hallucinatory lactification', and (b) 'to enable [the patient] to choose an action with respect to the real source of the conflict, i.e., the social structure'. An aim of pastoral counseling, then, is to facilitate recognition of a person's sources of suffering so that s/he can decide how to respond. By contrast, it is argued that a pastoral counselor, in leaving a client unaware that his/her suffering is partially the result of a capitalistic culture, fosters hermeneutical mystification, and the patient is not able to choose an action directed toward a major source of his/her depression.

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Subjectivity, Infantile Oedipus, and Symbolization in Melanie Klein and Jacques Lacan

Cited by 8 publications

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The Poverty in Psychoanalysis: ‘Poverty’ of Psychoanalysis?

The Poverty in Psychoanalysis: ‘Poverty’ of Psychoanalysis?

What Hope Is There: The Enthrallment of Empire Stories

The Willie Lomans of a Market Society: Addressing Political-Economic Sources of Suffering in Pastoral Counseling

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