Articles about Psychoanalysis

Psychoanalyst Jean-Luc Vannier answers our questions.

Pubertal nightmares of a teen facing the discovery of his sexual difference

A time and place for everything.

A reconsideration of the Oedipus complex and its culture-specific and variable nature.

Healthy emotional development can only happen if the child has enough of certain important types of experience.

Hate, and its derivatives in latent and manifest aggression, is, in its purest form, nothing more nor less than a mechanism of restoration.

How do we dress up the unpalatable nakedness of our nature?

What is conscious and what is unconscious? Cognitive neuroscience casts a modern light on what Freud called mental ‘topography’.

В данной статье я решила позволить себе поразмышлять как символдрама (Кататимно-иммагинативная психотерапия) и аналитическая психология (Комплексная психология, Юнгианств...

What are the driving forces behind emotional life? Freud thought there were two drives but there are actually many more…

Our patients suffer mainly from feelings. It turns out that feelings provide the most reliable guide as to how we can help.

The interaction between Symboldrama and Analytical Psychology in psychoanalytic space: Possible zones of enrichment, conflicts and opposition.