Cinematic Techniques and Psychic Mechanisms - Psychoanalysis and Film

2011 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 366-378
Author(s):  
Bonnie S. Kaufman
Keyword(s):  
Psychic Mechanisms

Neural Mechanisms of Negative Symptoms

1989 ◽  
Vol 155 (S7) ◽  
pp. 93-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy C. Andreasen
Keyword(s):  
Frontal Cortex ◽  
Negative Symptoms ◽  
Neural Mechanism ◽  
Brain Regions ◽  
Brain Dysfunction ◽  
Neural Mechanisms ◽  
Dementia Praecox ◽  
Intellectual Abilities ◽  
The Brain ◽  
Psychic Mechanisms

When Kraepelin originally defined and described dementia praecox, he assumed that it was due to some type of neural mechanism. He hypothesised that abnormalities could occur in a variety of brain regions, including the prefrontal, auditory, and language regions of the cortex. Many members of his department, including Alzheimer and Nissl, were actively involved in the search for the neuropathological lesions that would characterise schizophrenia. Although Kraepelin did not use the term ‘negative symptoms', he describes them comprehensively and states explicitly that he believes the symptoms of schizophrenia can be explained in terms of brain dysfunction:“If it should be confirmed that the disease attacks by preference the frontal areas of the brain, the central convolutions and central lobes, this distribution would in a certain measure agree with our present views about the site of the psychic mechanisms which are principally injured by the disease. On various grounds, it is easy to believe that the frontal cortex, which is specially well developed in man, stands in closer relation to his higher intellectual abilities, and these are the faculties which in our patients invariably suffer profound loss in contrast to memory and acquired ability.” Kraepelin (1919, p. 219)

Writing the drives in Nancy Spero’s Codex Artaud

2018 ◽  
pp. 107-145
Author(s):  
Kimberly Lamm
Keyword(s):  
White Women ◽  
Western Culture ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Psychic Mechanisms

Chapter 3 is devoted to Nancy Spero’s Codex Artaud (1971–72), an epic artwork in which she orchestrated typewritten texts and painted images to seize the monstrosity attributed to white women if they do not stay within patriarchal constraints. The chapter analyses Codex Artaud as a feminist claim to women’s aggressive capacities and all they connect to: sexuality, disorder, insanity, and protest, but also the capacity to represent oneself as other. The reading focuses on Spero’s conflicted engagement with Antonin Artaud’s writings and the fact that though he was insane, he was able to command the patriarchal orders of language to create a mobile range of self-representations. Spero’s engagement with Artaud’s texts produced a form of writing that both emulates and critiques the masculine privileges that make such self-representations of otherness possible, thereby revealing the aggression from which women in western culture have been traditionally barred. To evoke the psychic mechanisms that enforce this exclusion, the chapter turns to Sigmund Freud’s definition of sexuality in Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (1905) and his articulation of the expectation that women should not indulge in the pleasures of aggression, but should instead create aesthetically pleasing images devoid of shame and disgust..

Conclusion

2019 ◽  
pp. 230-238
Author(s):  
Andrea Chiovenda
Keyword(s):  
Social Environment ◽  
Psychological Dynamics ◽  
The Many ◽  
Cultural World ◽  
Psychic Mechanisms ◽  
Psychic Reality

The conclusion to the book pulls together the many conceptual threads that emerged from the ethnographic material presented in the previous chapters. It argues for a human “shared psychic reality” that can only be expressed and operationalized through the meanings given to it by the cultural world in which each individual is immersed and lives. Thus, while psychic mechanisms have to be “primed” by the individual’s cultural and social environment in order to function meaningfully, so also cultural material, in order to be understood, has to be approached by investigating the subjectivities and psychological dynamics of those who utilize it and produce it. This is particularly true in the realm of conflict, in all its connotations, which is a constant presence in the pages of the book. Indeed, power is here considered to be constitutive of all relations of interdependence between individuals, and not simply as something that someone has and others have not, whether when producing harmony or conflict.

Enactments at the Edge: Transformational Moments in Psychoanalytically Influenced Couple Therapy

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ken Israelstam
Keyword(s):  
Couple Therapy ◽  
Psychoanalytic Theory ◽  
Projective Identification ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Dialectical Theory ◽  
Couple Interactions ◽  
Psychic Mechanisms

Enactments in psychoanalytic theory and practice have been well described as a dynamic that is co-created between analyst and patient. This article explores this concept in analytic couple therapy, focusing particularly on how it is played out in the context of the three-person dynamics of the couple–therapist system. The author considers that only couple interactions that involve mutually coercive projective identification can be truly described as enactments. By invoking dialectical theory and the notion of the dialectical edge, the author attempts to provide an understanding of the psychic mechanisms involved in the transformational moments relating to enactments that occur at times of heightened tension and ambiguity.

Psychic Mechanisms and Social Radicalism

Social Forces ◽  
1923 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-40
Author(s):  
E. F. Reed
Keyword(s):  
Psychic Mechanisms

scholarly journals Digital Social Engineering Threatens Cybersecurity

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 4016-4025
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Cyber Security ◽  
Survey Methodology ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Social Engineering ◽  
Data Collection Tool ◽  
Psychic Mechanisms

This study aims to explore the role of social engineering in threatening cyber security by clarifying the concepts related to social engineering and its seriousness due to unlink to devices and equipment in general and its dependence on addressing the human psychic mechanisms known for curiosity. The study is based on the descriptive analysis studies that were based on the survey methodology using the questionnaire as a data collection tool, which was distributed to 98 respondents. The study found that the majority of the respondents had no idea about social engineering, and many of the females were rapidly clicking the links.. The study found that m these links can be attractive. The study found that there are significant differences between digital social engineering and hacking of phones and computers..

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