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The addicted subject caught between the ego and the drive : the post-Freudian reduction and simplification of a complex clinical problem
(Psychoanalytische Perspectieven, 2000)Texts by Abraham, Rado, Glover and Gross are explored in order to investigate post-Freudian literature on the question of addiction. The reduction of the Freudian field is analysed in order to produce new foundation stones ... -
'Per via di porre', 'per via di levare', 'per via di tagli' : contemporary symptoms and the art of interpretation
(Association of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in Ireland, 2010)In Du Discours Psychanalytique Lacan seems to argue that the discourse of the master produces the discourse of the capitalist, or at least, he implies that the discourse of the capitalist is produced by a warping of the ... -
The subject of addiction
(The School of Psychotherapy at SVUH, 2002)The earliest evidence of psychoactive drug use and knowledge of hallucinogenic plants dates back some 13,000 years. Most early forms of religion used drugs in an attempt to gain divine knowledge. Drugs and drug use are an ... -
A case of hysteria ?
(The School of Psychotherapy at SVUH, 1995)In 1896 Freud proposed the theory that hysterical obsessive neurosis was caused by an actual sexual encounter between father and child. The first hint of a movement away from the seduction theory came on 8 February, 1897 ... -
Analytical discourse and scientific discourse : a difference in responsibility
(The School of Psychotherapy at SVUH, 1994)What is worth knowing has a special place in the discourse of analysis and it is something that is difficult to transmit. In psychoanalysis, knowledge, S2, is related to truth; it occupies the place of truth in its discourse ... -
Toxicomania and psychoanalytic treatment: double trouble
(JCFAR, 1997)In Jokes and their Relation to the Unconscious Freud analyses the technique of a joke about a dipsomaniac tutor. The joke goes as follows: ‘A man who had taken to the drink supported himself by tutoring in a small town. ... -
Forging a new template : proposing a more effective way of working with drug users
(Kilbarrack Coast Community Programme (KCCP), 2007)Addiction is characterised by a sense of urgency or immediacy and it concerns a need to feel good, to be without pain or even to acquire an ideal state of feeling. But are these needs not something that most people can ... -
Lacan for beginners
(The School of Psychotherapy at SVUH, 1998)Is it misguided to write a 'beginners book' on a thinker as complex, obscure, fluid and rich as Lacan? It depends perhaps, on to whom the book is addressed. In the opening to the French edition of the Ecrits, Lacan states ... -
Libido and toxic substance
(The School of Psychotherapy at SVUH, 1996)Despite Freud's tendency to deny this, there can be little doubt that the Cocaine Episode was an important part of his scientific and therapeutic work. Elsewhere we have proposed a reading of Freud's Cocaine Papers which ... -
A review of Freud's early remarks on addiction : introduction from an ideal to masturbation
(The School of Psychotherapy at SVUH, 1998)It is a remarkable fact that there is no real substantial psychoanalytic theory of addiction, especially given that Freud had clinical experience of working with addicts. This fact is even more remarkable when you know ...