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What Is Psychoanalysis?
Psychoanalysis designates concomitantly three things:
In short, psychoanalysis is a specific technique for the exploration of the mind and a therapy inspired by this technique. We would put the therapy on the forefront to make it even clearer
that psychoanalysis is nothing speculative, that it binds more to psychology and less to philosophy,
The science of psychoanalysis that we were mentioning at the third point comes to light from Freud's famous studies such as the book Totem and Taboo, in which he is launching in social and anthropological analysis based on the scientific knowledge based on the results of psychoanalytic approach of psyche. Whoever wants to know more about applied psychoanalysis needs to read this book. The Spread of Psychoanalysis Psychoanalysis has become extremely familiar today - to the general public (in the West) - after a long time being either rejected or glorified. But the success of the 5th decade of the 20th century, especially in Europe, has paradoxically estranged it from its essence. Psychoanalysis has spread everywhere not only because of the
interest generated by psychoanalytic therapy. We could even say that the therapy was eclipsed by the virtues of applied psychoanalysis. The psychoanalysis applied in literature, sociology,
anthropology and ethnology, in religion and mythology has prompted the interest of an audience who had no calling to the clinical sphere. Finally, psychoanalysis has also been highlighted by media
coverage on the most common channels: radio, TV or cinema. Famous movies brought to the forefront famous psychoanalysts like Sigmund Freud or Carl Jung.
Several documentaries have been dedicated to Freud's life and work, and even a TV series that has amazed by the accuracy of the information provided. The multitude and diversity of the sources of data on
psychoanalysis today signal a major problem: psychoanalysis is no longer clearly defined in the eyes of the general public. No one knows today exactly what the psychoanalysis is.
Unfortunately, there is no effort to clarify this. That is why we need to clarify first of all what psychoanalysis is. Then we will follow the other steps to enter the mystery of this strange discipline.
Main Facts
Freud lived most of his life in Vienna and died in London in 1939. He discovered psychoanalysis by synthesizing ideas and information from different theoretical and clinical directions. A great contribution to the birth of psychoanalysis was the self-analysis that Freud himself subjected himself to.Freud was a Jewish neurophatologist and attempted to create a psychoanalytic movement with the help of non-Jewish specialists to give his orientation more credibility. In this context, he collaborated with outstanding personalities such as Carl Jung, Alfred Adler, Sandor Ferenczi, Wilhelm Reich and more.The psychoanalytic movement initiated by Freud has experienced many ideological breaks and difficulties. Today, it is inherited by a number of national or international societies that disputed their primacy. The Theory The best known is the theory concerning the structure of the mind (the topic).
Thus, the mind is made up of three instances: the self, the ego, the superego. -> Therapy Psychoanalysis states that the mind disorders of the adult person are reminiscent of some psychic traumas located in the early childhood.
These traumas are repressed - that is, inaccessible to the ego-consciousness by normal means - and transformed into symptoms such as anxiety or psychophysical manifestations
such as vertigo, arrhythmia's, paralysis, hearing loss or even blindness.
These symptoms, which copy those determined by organic affections, do not have organic but psychic causes.
Therapy, therefore, consists in trying to make conscious the unconscious causes of symptoms in such a way that the mind understands their meaning and thus obtains remission. Actuality of Psychoanalysis
Despite the criticisms and attacks against psychoanalysis and Sigmund Freud, psychoanalysis has remained the best method of exploring the unconscious and treating mental disorders.
And what is more important is that psychoanalytic treatment does not appeal to medication. -> Read the psychoanalytic therapy Read also:
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