id and Neurotic-Disorders

Topics: Consciousness; Ego; Humans; Id; Identification, Psychological; Libido; Memory; Narcissism; Neurotic Disorders; Physician-Patient Relations; Psychoanalytic Theory; Psychoanalytic Therapy; Regression, Psychology; Repression, Psychology; Transference, Psychology; Unconscious, Psychology

Topics: Adaptation, Psychological; Adult; Culture; Dreams; Economics; Ego; Fantasy; Female; Genetics, Behavioral; Humans; Id; Illusions; Mental Processes; Neurotic Disorders; Psychoanalytic Theory; Psychosexual Development; Religion and Psychology; Social Adjustment; Superego; Transference, Psychology; Unconscious, Psychology

Topics: Adult; Clinical Trials as Topic; Defense Mechanisms; Diazepam; Ego; Evaluation Studies as Topic; Female; Humans; Id; Neurotic Disorders; Placebos; Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; Psychoanalytic Therapy; Schizophrenia; Superego

I discuss the concept of the 'dual aspect' of the transference, by which I mean considering the analyst as simultaneously the receiver of the analysand's projections, and as different from these projections. I use detailed clinical material to illustrate the theme of the paper from a patient who gradually began to understand this dual aspect of the transference after many initial difficulties. I suggest that the difficulties experienced by this patient are common to many patients.

Topics: Adult; Ego; Female; Humans; Id; Neurotic Disorders; Object Attachment; Professional-Patient Relations; Projection; Psychoanalytic Therapy; Transference, Psychology; Unconscious, Psychology

The practice of psychoanalysis of neurotic conflict has not--to the extent that might be expected--evolved a consistent use in technique of available knowledge of the ego's mechanisms of defense. This is primarily related to a general resistance that can usefully be regarded as a "developmental lag." The evidence for this, particularly in Freud's writings, is reviewed as are the observations of others who have made note of this phenomenon. Some of the reasons that have contributed to this resistance among analysts are discussed.

Topics: Conflict, Psychological; Defense Mechanisms; Ego; Freudian Theory; Humans; Id; Neurotic Disorders; Psychoanalytic Therapy; Reality Testing

Units within the self-representation provide the quality for ego activity. The ego selects and cathects the appropriate unit of the self-representation. Oedipal identifications internalize the ego capacity to maintain the self-representation and its stability. Conflict can promote instability within the self-representation requiring special defenses to deal with the narcissistic stress. Such narcissistic conflict can arise at all levels of maturity.

Topics: Acting Out; Aggression; Ego; Humans; Id; Male; Narcissism; Neurotic Disorders; Object Attachment; Oedipus Complex; Psychoanalytic Therapy; Superego; Transference, Psychology

Freud's theory of repetition compulsion is complicated by his reliance on a "death instinct" which has been justly rejected by most subsequent analysts on theoretical grounds. An alternate theory based on traumatic neurosis as a model is proposed here which does away with the death instinct concept, ordering the data instead in terms of levels of organization of structure. It is argued that repetition complusion functioning is qualitatively different from wish-fulfillment (pleasure-principle) functioning. The differences are clinically detectable and are explainable theoretically in terms of differences in organization of memory, drive, and affect. Psychic trauma interferes with the satisfactory linking of drive with experience, and thus with the attainment of the organization of mentation we designate as the pleasure-unpleasure principle. Under analytic influence the progressive structuration of memory, drive, and affect results in the conversion of repetition compulsion functioning into pleasure principle functioning, a process of importance in a wide variety of psychopathological conditions. These considerations lead to a revised theory of the structure of the id, and of the development of psychic structure in general. Primary process organization develops through experience, rather than being a given. The ideal of "unstructured energy" in the id is replaced by a scheme of levels of organization of drive-representatives.

Topics: Death; Ego; Female; Freudian Theory; Humans; Id; Instinct; Male; Neurotic Disorders; Psychoanalytic Theory; Psychoanalytic Therapy

Topics: Adult; Defense Mechanisms; Dreams; Female; Humans; Id; Male; Neurotic Disorders; Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder; Phobic Disorders; Psychoanalytic Interpretation

Topics: Adult; Conflict, Psychological; Ego; Fantasy; Female; Freudian Theory; Humans; Id; Infant; Infant, Newborn; Instinct; Male; Narcissism; Neurotic Disorders; Object Attachment; Psychoanalytic Theory; Repression, Psychology; Schizophrenia; Schizophrenic Psychology; Transference, Psychology

Topics: Drive; Ego; History of Medicine; Humans; Id; Interpersonal Relations; Neurotic Disorders; Psychoanalytic Theory; Socialization; Symbolism

The Ego and the Id has served as an organizing model which has advanced psychoanalysis as a science and as a therapy. The paradigm offered by the structural formulations provided a framework for many developmental and clinical studies as well as an approach to a general psychology of human behavior. Therapeutic advances have been made, but the art of therapy has not kept pace with the scientific advances. Dissatisfaction with psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic theory is discussed. Theories have become too far removed from their clinical base; a changing sociologic climate that has reduced the impact of the rational attitude offered by psychoanalysis and the failure of psychoanalytic therapy to cure all ills have contributed to the dissatisfaction.

Topics: Ego; Freudian Theory; Humans; Id; Models, Psychological; Narcissism; Neurotic Disorders; Object Attachment; Psychoanalytic Therapy

In psychoanalytic literature anxiety, guilt-feelings and unconscious hostility are assumed to be the most common causes of spleeplessness. The author attempts to ascribe these emotions to conflicts between the instances of the psychoanalytic personality model as a structure-theoretical classification of sleep-disturbances. Three large groups emerge: Neurotic disturbances of sleep with internalized conflicts (these correspond essentially to what are generally understood to be neurotic sleep-disturbances), neurotic disturbances of sleep with externalized conflicts (these are more common in childhood) and non-neurotic sleep disturbances. Within these groups the relative parts of effectiveness of the instances of the psychoanalytic personality-model - ego, super-ego, id and reality - are discussed.

Topics: Aggression; Conflict, Psychological; Dreams; Drive; Ego; Guilt; Humans; Id; Neurotic Disorders; Psychoanalytic Interpretation; Sleep; Sleep Wake Disorders; Superego

Topics: Cognition; Conflict, Psychological; Ego; Humans; Id; Metaphysics; Neurotic Disorders; Psychoanalytic Theory; Psychophysiology; Repression, Psychology; Superego; Unconscious, Psychology

Topics: Austria; Combat Disorders; Conflict, Psychological; Ego; History, 19th Century; Humans; Id; Instinct; Libido; Neurotic Disorders; Psychoanalytic Theory; Psychosexual Development; Psychotic Disorders; Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic

Topics: Adult; Defense Mechanisms; Ego; Erectile Dysfunction; Fantasy; Humans; Id; Male; Middle Aged; Neurotic Disorders; Paraphilic Disorders; Psychoanalytic Theory; Superego