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Elements of reparation : truth, faith, and transformation in the works of Heidegger, Bion, and beyond
Damage and reparation are central themes of human existence. Melanie Klein, among other pivotal discoveries, noted our capacity for destructiveness towards others and ourselves. More importantly, she accented the centrality of reparation for mental health. Acceptance of the truth, 'inner' and 'outer', is essential to this process.The author goes on to explain the phenomenon of reparation around the themes of truth (aletheia), faith (pistis) and repentance/transformation (metanoia), especially as they appear in the philosophical works of Martin Heidegger and the psychoanalyst Wilfred Bion.He then continues following the phenomenon of metanoia, tracing the phenomenon sequentially in the works of Melanie Klein, Wilfred Bion, Martin Heidegger, C.G. Jung and R.D. Laing. These thinkers have a surprisingly high degree of reflection upon and import into common, everyday lived experience.Brent Potter's work concludes with a critique of psychiatry, cognitive-behavioral and manualised approaches to psychological distress. He then presents modalities and programs, utilizing a metanoia perspective, that are rising to replace them.The purpose of this book is to reach back, to seek the meaning and ground of the phenomenon of reparation and to understand the elements uncovered in the light of our present-day ways of knowing and being in the world. --Goodreads.com
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Psychology and the Natural Law of Reparation
Are there universal values of right and wrong, good and bad, shared by virtually every human? The tradition of natural law argues that there is. Drawing on the work of psychoanalyst Melanie Klein, whose analyses have touched upon issues related to original sin, trespass, guilt, and salvation through reparation, in this 2006 book C. Fred Alford adds an extra dimension to this argument: we know natural law to be true because we have hated before we have loved and have wished to destroy before we have wanted to create. Natural law is built upon the desire to make reparation for the goodness we have destroyed, or have longed to destroy. Through reparation, we earn salvation from the most hateful part of ourselves, that which would destroy what we know to be good.
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Trauma, guilt and reparation : the path from impasse to development
\"Trauma, Guilt and Reparation identifies the emotional barriers faced by people who have experienced severe trauma, as well as the emergence of reparative processes which pave the way from impasse to development. The book explores the issue of trauma with particular reference to issues of reparation and guilt. Referencing the original work of Klein and others, it examines how feelings of persistent guilt work to foil attempts at reparation, locking trauma deep within the psyche. It provides a theoretical understanding of the interplay between of feelings of neediness with those of fear, wrath, shame and guilt, and offers a route for patients to experience the mourning and forgiveness necessary to come to terms with their own trauma. The book includes a Foreword by John Steiner. Illustrated by clinical examples throughout, it is written by an author whose empathy and experience make him an expert in the field. The book will be of great interest to psychotherapists, social workers and any professional working with traumatized individuals\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Aborigines and Australian Apologetics
SO-CALLED INDIGENOUS peoples have become a risingpower in modern politics. They are reported to number about 250 million, and the United Nations is working on a draft declaration of their rights. They are widely scattered over the globe, and constitute a highly miscellaneous set of people, but perhapsthe main thing to say about them is that they are tribally organised.
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Delusion and reparation
This paper looks at the reparative quality of delusional systems. The Author explores and expands Freud's notion of delusion as an 'attempt at reparation'. Even if a delusion is mostly the consequence of hatred of reality and an omnipotent idealized construction to protect the ego from persecutory anxiety stemming from a destructive superego, its content and function show greater complexity. The function of a delusion is not just to protect the ego but also to protect the object (the analyst in the session) from the patient's violence. In order to show the coexistence in delusional systems of manic defensive aspects with proper depressive reparative ones, the Author presents detailed clinical material from the analysis of an adolescent patient who suffered from intense persecuting voices that negated her right to be alive. The paper proposes that understanding the fluctuation and manifestation of reparative unconscious phantasies, the recognition of their depressive aspects and of their specific function as they are lived out in the transference relationship is central to the development of psychic change in psychotic processes.
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Repairing the damage: wishful, defensive, or restorative?
Damage, physically and to the psyche is inevitable. This is whether it is caused unconsciously, through consciously malicious intent, thoughtlessness, as collateral or just through a hostile environment or the warring of internal forces. At the group or social level, the last few years have seen much damage in terms of economic recession, climate change, racial inequalities, and domestic violence. The desire to repair follows such damage. The psychoanalytic focus on reparation sees the process as an attempt by a person to repair perceived damage to another or, more precisely, to an internal image of the other-a loved other. Large groups such as organisations and societies also do damage and sometimes acknowledge this and make attempts to repair-perhaps defensively, simply to restore their own reputation, but perhaps from guilt and remorse. This article will invite readers to think about reparation in terms of either fantasied wishfulness, or defensiveness, or its possible restorative capacity. My exploration rests on the premise that damage is always to the system and that both that which damages and that which is damaged suffer. It is in system restoration that hope re-emerges.
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Naming Argentina: The Subject of Torture and the Ethics of Psychoanalysis
The concurrent diffusion of Lacanian psychoanalysis in Argentina and the state’s deployment of torture and disappearance during the most recent military dictatorship have led many critics to interpret the turn to Lacan as a cerebral substitute for political protest after the coup d’état. This essay examines how the ruling junta’s specific forms of violence provoked a crisis in the relationship between psychoanalysis and humanism, erupting in the literary field through the figure of the desaparecida . In tension with human rights discourses prevailing in the 1980s, Luisa Valenzuela’s experimental fiction explores the subject’s fragmentation under conditions of state terror and the ethical ambivalence of humanitarian efforts to repair the ego in the wake of torture.
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A river with several different tributary streams: Reflections on the repetition compulsion
This paper examines the repetition compulsion as a composite structure and explores the elements that are involved in it. After examining the difference between playful repetition, which promotes psychic development, and the repetition compulsion, which obstructs psychic change, the author discusses Freud's models of the repetition compulsion (as the return of the repressed vs an expression of the death drive). Further elements that contribute to the repetition compulsion include the role of a primitive, punitive superego, the persistence of raw, unsymbolized elements, obsessional doubt, the retreat into timeless states of mind as well as a re-entry mechanism in certain psychotic patients. Finally, the failure of reparative processes seems to be a central mechanism in sustaining the repetition compulsion. Brief clinical vignettes illustrate the author's arguments.
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The struggle for a psychoanalytic research institute: The evolution of Frankfurt's Sigmund Freud Institute
After the foundation of psychoanalytic institutes in Berlin (1920), Vienna (1922), and London (1925), the Frankfurt Psychoanalytic Institute (1929-1933) was among the first European institutes. Its closure in 1933 at the hands of the National Socialists, along with the transformation of the Berlin Institute into a state-governed psychotherapeutic institute, obliterated for a long time all memory of psychoanalysis in Germany. In West Germany, Alexander Mitscherlich was able to found a new \"Institute and Training Centre for Psychoanalysis and Psychosomatic Medicine\" in Frankfurt in 1960, which was renamed the \"Sigmund-Freud-Institute\" (SFI) in 1964. The German Federal State of Hessen financed this foundation as an act of reparation for psychoanalysis. From 1995 onwards, the institute mainly focused on research and the training branch was given to the newly founded Frankfurt Psychoanalytic Institute (FPI). The SFI was now defined as a purely psychoanalytic research institute and remains the only state-supported institute devoted solely to psychoanalytic research up to the present. Due to the changes in the scientific world, it had to be structured in new ways over the last 15 years. The SFI is now an internationally and interdisciplinary well-known and productive psychoanalytic research institute.
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Research as Reparation. Studying to Soothe
In my experience of supervising doctoral theses in recent years, I, like many of my colleagues, have observed cases in which writing a doctoral thesis appears to serve as a form of'reparation', in the psychoanalytical sense of the term (Klein, 1975): this may involve an attempt to correct social wrongs, or a response to questions encountered in life. In the field of academic research, the underlying force at work appears to be not so much a form of guilt but rather a sense of shame or injustice: the painful memory of past failures, traumatic experiences and shame derived from past actions. [...]the source of this injustice is not to be found in the actions of those who seek to atone for it, as Klein's analysis of children suggests: on the contrary, those who seek to make reparation often perceive themselves as the victims, in a sense not far removed from the legal definition of that term Figures of reparation In the literary and artistic sphere, the link between traumatic experience and artistic creation is a common theme Schauder analyses the different reactions of Paul and Camille Claudel to the respective romantic dramas they experienced in 1905, when Paul split with Rosalie Vetch and Camille with Rodin. Similar connections between initial suffering and reparation through research can be found in numerous autobiographical works by researchers, invoking various forms of suffering: childhood hardships, the suffering of women in a male-dominated world and the suffering of survivors (Bouilloud, 2009).There are thus different degrees of reparation, connected to the diverse forms and varying intensity of the problems inspired by initial experiences.
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