Psychodynamics of terrorism

Mats Winther

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Jun 11, 2007, 1:32:40 AM6/11/07

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The psychodynamics of terrorism

Abstract: Drawing on notions from comparative religion, and also
Freud's discussion of the death drive, light is shed on the psychodynamic
principles behind terrorism, and the bottomless evil of mankind, in
general. Terrorism is not foremostly a political problem, or a problem
deriving from poverty. Nor is it an evil that derives from unshackled
instinctual forces. Terrorism, and the even greater problem of bullying
and victimization of our peers, derive from an archaic psychic economy
of sin transference. Following St Paul, people can be vaccinated against
this evil, by forsaking ideological grandiose ideals; by giving up the
search for the perfect, blissful, condition of outer life, and instead
learn
that 'the kingdom is within.'

Keywords: terrorism, theocracy, human sacrifice, transfer of sin, Khidr,
The Green Man, St Paul, death drive, genocide.

http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/terror.htm

Mats Winther

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Jun 11, 2007, 1:35:49 AM6/11/07

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The ongoing self-destruction of psychoanalysis

Abstract

The article discusses the current 'theoretical chaos' in psychology and
argues that this ruinous situation is predicated on an insufficient metaphysical
groundwork. Any empirical scientific work must be buttressed by a metaphysical
foundation, otherwise the empirical findings are beyond the grasp of a
comprehensive understanding and the result will be confusion. So it remains
for psychological theorists to delineate a system of metaphysical principles,
including ethical principles. The term 'metaphysical' is understood as "the
system of principles underlying a particular study or subject"
(Webster's dictionary).

Keywords: psychoanalysis, metaphysic, Oedipus, Proteus, empiricism,
rational neurosis, psychological monomorphism, pluripotent unconscious,
projective transidentification.

http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/destruc.htm

Mats Winther

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Jun 11, 2007, 1:37:39 AM6/11/07

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Psychoanalysis at the crossroad

Abstract

It is argued that psychoanalysis* in the future can be sanctioned in academia,
and find acceptance in the health business, only if metapsychological concepts
become common knowledge. Psychoanalysis, and neighbouring branches,
suffer from conceptual isolation. A knowledge of the unconscious belongs in
public consciousness. Empirical research must be on firm theoretical ground,
which is not the case today. For this reason, neither research nor a clinical
approach can give direction to psychoanalysis. The answer lies in a theoretical
perspective, a clarifying of metaphysical and metapsychological assumptions.

Keywords: dialectics, interiority, metapsychology, empiricism, physicalism,
cognitive-behavioral

http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/psychemp.htm

Mats Winther

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Jun 11, 2007, 12:27:06 PM6/11/07

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Critique of Intersubjectivity

Abstract

The article investigates the philosophical/psychological notion of
intersubjectivity and argues that our subjective involvement in each
other, especially the psychoanalytic relation between analyst and
analysand, ought to be regarded as an involvement on the unconscious
level. The different notions of a joint conscious creation, or joint
narrative, also implying a relative merger of our conscious personalities,
could be harmful and are not likely to evoke a wholesome form of
subjective engagement.

Keywords: intersubjectivity, Ogden, relational field, the analytic third, narrative.

Mats Winther

http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/intersubj.htm

Mats Winther

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Jun 11, 2007, 12:30:01 PM6/11/07

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I here present to you an extensive excerpt from the antiquarian book
Misinterpretation of Man (1947) by the splendid philosopher Paul Roubiczek.
The book criticizes the thinking of our time, still under the spell of the 19th
century brother-pair of philosophy: Materialism and Romanticism. You will
also find that Roubiczek's criticism applies to the phenomenologism which
has surfaced among Jungian theorists since the seventies and which has
tragically distorted Jungian psychology. The premises of "archetypal
psychology" et al. are surprisingly identical to those of the Romantic movement
of the 19th century. The whole of this very fine book concerns this treacherous
thoughtway. This very chapter is not even the best chapter, but it highlights the
crucial points of the criticism.

Mats Winther

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Jun 11, 2007, 12:31:32 PM6/11/07

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Winnicott's Dream: A Critique of Winnicott's Thought as a Form of
Mystical Narcissism

Abstract

British psychoanalyst D. W. Winnicott (1896-1971) developed an original
theory involving controversial ideas such as the destruction of the patient
and the merger of the subjective and objective worlds into a whole. He
argued that C.G. Jung suffered from a severe pathology that had moulded
his theoretical outlook. This article argues to the contrary: it seems like
Winnicott's own theory displays a narcissistic kind of structure. His dream
appears to be an unconscious reaction against his unsupportable conscious
attitude. Winnicott is much concerned with how to defend against patients
and their invasive pathology. It becomes a system of defence for
psychologically weak therapists, and this is very harmful to patients. The
article contributes to the understanding of narcissism.

Keywords: narcissism, negative mother complex, potential space,
relational field, suicide-cult, purity, unit personality.

http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/winni.htm

Mats Winther

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Jun 12, 2007, 12:51:04 AM6/12/07

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Critique of Archetypal Psychology

Abstract

Today there is a strong tendency towards making Jungian psychology a
generic name for a diversity of systems that, although they at the first glance
look related, because of similar terminology, their kernels and ideals are
completely different from Jung's ideas. One of these theories is Hillman's
"archetypal psychology," which radically reinterprets Jung's concept of the
archetype, dismisses the important Jungian notion of the self, renounces
the process of individuation, devaluates the Jungian method of introversion,
opposes Jung's notion of the moral obligation of grasping the unconscious
and replaces this with the amoral, aesthetic, attitude of the puer aeternus
(eternal youth). Despite this gross repudiation of Jungian psychology,
Hillman is embraced by Jungian publishers as a "Jungian" or "post-Jungian"
psychologist. But a correct denomination would be "anti-Jungian."

http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/hillmcrit.htm

Mats Winther

samvaknin

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Jun 12, 2007, 7:42:07 AM6/12/07

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Hi,

Narcissism and terrorism - click on these links:

http://malignantselflove.tripod.com/12.html

http://malignantselflove.tripod.com/terrorism.html

More about narcissistic cultures and societies - click on these links:

http://malignantselflove.tripod.com/14.html

http://malignantselflove.tripod.com/journal87.html

http://malignantselflove.tripod.com/lasch.html

http://malignantselflove.tripod.com/journal62.html

http://malignantselflove.tripod.com/journal63.html

http://malignantselflove.tripod.com/faq47.html

http://malignantselflove.tripod.com/15.html

Take care.

Sam

Mats Winther

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Jun 13, 2007, 12:58:35 AM6/13/07

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A constructive critique of the structural model in psychoanalysis

Abstract: This article illustrates how the theory of complex psychology is
highly relevant to the ongoing discussion within the psychoanalytic community.
Critique is directed against Freud's structural model of the psyche that
generalises an oedipal psychodynamics. The obsolete operationalism that
still lingers in the psychological community must once and for all be abandoned.
Psychology ought to cease devoting itself to half-baked empirical investigations
and allow more room for rigorous theorists.

Keywords: Oedipus, operationalism, autonomous complex, transference,
rational neurosis, structural model, complex psychology, Freud.

http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/compstruc.htm

Mats Winther

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Jun 13, 2007, 1:10:11 AM6/13/07

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