Pdf this essay investigates the relation between play and labour within high performance culture, proposing the notion of anperformativity as. Loewalds inquiry leads him to reexamine and revise basic psychoanalytic theory relating to instincts. Loewald s attractiveness as a theoretician is due, in no small part, to his rigor and synthetic reach. Hans loewald is a comprehensive and original theorist on a par with any major postfreudian thinker, yet neither his ideas nor his person have become the. On the therapeutic action of psychoanalysis i the institute of. Pdf my paper sets out to do a rereading of the oedipus complex. Pdf a rereading of the oedipus complex in the light of ogdens re. In this paper, i use comparisons of freud, loewald, and plato to. D advances in our understanding of the therapeutic action of. Internalization, separation, mourning, and the superego. His father, who died shortly after his birth, was a jewish physician with an interest in dermatology and psychiatry, his mother a gifted musician, who played the piano. Loewalds emphasis on integration also challenged ego psychologys dualistic. Hans loewald s understanding of sublimation differs radically from freuds use of this term.
In this framework, the individuals highest aspiration is to merge his destiny with the masorah community and to become himself. Loewald was born in 1906 in the alsatian town of colmar. By foreclosing the possibility of the regressive solu tion, that is, of merger with the original. Loewald here offers a provocative new examination of sublimation. While apparently a traditional freudian, loewald in his thinking is both. A letter to hans loewald, the psychoanalytic quarterly. Transcendence, renewal, and reconciliation in ronald laing and. Loewalds reconceptualization of freuds oedipus complex is a fresh. It is the work of hans loewald and nancy chodorow who in particular have informed my.
Whereas freud saw sublimation as a change of aim, elevating drivebased desire to a higher level of art, for loewald, sublimation is a process of linking two experiences of reality. The title of this paper relates to a 1959 article by david rapaport and merton gill, entitled the points of view and assumptions of metapsychology. After serving a medical internship in berlin, loewald left his native germany. Hans loewald was a germanamerican psychoanalyst and theorist. His father, who died shortly after his birth, was a jewish physician. While apparently a traditional freudian, loewald in his thinking is both elegant and quietly revisionist a radical conservatist. The third part of the chapter discusses laings ideas in relation to aspects of hans loewalds psychoanalytic theories.
Ogden,1 to be presented in absentia at the 25th annual interdisciplinary conference of the international forum for psychoanalytic education ifpe. Hans loewald 19061993 was a psychoanalyst and theorist, born in colmar, then germany. In order to elaborate upon and combine these three points, in this chapter i will connect theoretical. Repetition, hans loewald cites the anthropologist mircea eliade on what the. Pdf hans loewald, psychoanalysis, and the project of autonomy. Joseph soloveitchik and the drive toward the ethical william kolbrener. Loewalds inquiry leads him to reexamine and revise basic psychoanalytic theory relating to instincts, symbolism, motivation, ego development, and various emotional processes. Indeed, loewald s work contains an integrative vision that is unusual in todays fragmented psychoanalytic world. Pdf hans loewald, psychoanalysis, and the project of. Hans loewald 19061993 was a germanamerican psychoanalyst and theorist. Through his work loewald helped to integrate and transform psychoanalytic theory. Download file academic commons columbia university. He received his medical degree from the university of rome in 1934 and practiced psychiatry in padua until 1939, after which he moved to the united states. Whether youve loved the book or not, if you give your honest and detailed thoughts then people will find new books that are right for them.
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