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Breaking through Schizophrenia

Lacan and Hegel for Talk Therapy

By: Wilfried Ver Eecke

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Breaking through Schizophrenia

Lacan and Hegel for Talk Therapy

By: Wilfried Ver Eecke

Breaking through Schizophrenia builds on the ideas of Jacques Lacan who argued that schizophrenia is a deficient relationship to language, in particular the difficulty to master the metaphoric dimension of language, which children acquire by the Oedipal restructuring of the psyche. This book is thus a countercultural move to present a less damaging view and a more efficient treatment method for schizophrenic persons. Through a collection of published and unpublished articles, Ver Eecke traces the path of Lacanian thought. He discusses the importance of language for the development of human beings and examines the effectiveness of talk therapy through case studies with schizophrenic persons.

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Denial, Negation, and the Forces of the Negative

Freud, Hegel, Lacan, Spitz, and Sophocles

By: Wilfried Ver Eecke

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Denial, Negation, and the Forces of the Negative

Freud, Hegel, Lacan, Spitz, and Sophocles

By: Wilfried Ver Eecke

Finalist for the 2006 Goethe Award for Psychoanalytic Scholarship presented by the Section on Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Psychology of the Canadian Psychological Association It is often the case that painful truths emerge first in the form of denial; one needs to create distance from what is painful. In Denial, Negation, and the Forces of the Negative Wilfried Ver Eecke constructs a comprehensive, lucid account of denial's psychological and philosophical dimensions while using Freud, Hegel, Lacan, Spitz, and Sophocles to help us understand this unavoidable aspect of human existence. Ver Eecke acknowledges Hegel's claim that the road to truth is not a path of doubt, but a highway of despair, and argues, via Hegel's ontology of the person, that denial can be understood as a desiring being's defense against despair. By examining the role of no-saying in children, Freud's claims about freedom of the will and its necessary prerequisites, and Sophocles' Oedipus, Ver Eecke demonstrates the idea that denial is connected with situations in which the self-image of a person is threatened. He concludes with a colleague's autobiography to highlight the deep, tragic experiences that denial covers, and the enormous psychic work required to overcome profound denial, with the ultimate reward of experiencing oneself as the fulfillment of the promise of life.

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0791482596

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Denial, Negation, and the Forces of the Negative

Freud, Hegel, Lacan, Spitz, and Sophocles

By: Wilfried Ver Eecke

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Freud, Hegel, Lacan, Spitz, and Sophocles

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Ethical Reflections on the Financial Crisis 2007/2008

Making Use of Smith, Musgrave and Rajan

By: Wilfried Ver Eecke

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Ethical Reflections on the Financial Crisis 2007/2008

Making Use of Smith, Musgrave and Rajan

By: Wilfried Ver Eecke

In this book the author reflects on the philosophical and ethical bases of the financial crisis 2007-08 and the subsequent recession. He finds in Adam Smith solid arguments for the new free market economy, capitalism, but also arguments for a role for the government in the case of public goods (roads) and of merit goods (education, control of banking). Where the provision of public goods requires that the government respect consumer sovereignty there the provision of merit goods legitimizes the violation of that principle. By making use of the history of economic thought (e.g., the neo-liberal tradition) the author demonstrates that Musgrave’s idea of merit goods can be expanded to eleven domains in which the government has an important function. He legitimizes that move by using the Kantian argument that we must accept the possibility conditions for what we want. The author demonstrates that Rajan, Reich and Reinhart & Rogoff make use of seven of his eleven categories of merit goods in order to explain the financial crisis 2007-08 and the subsequent recession. The author thereby provides a philosophical and ethical analysis of the government's failures at the basis of the financial crisis.

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3642350917

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Phenomenology and Lacan on Schizophrenia

After the Decade of the Brain

By: Alphonse de Waelhens,Wilfried Ver Eecke

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After the Decade of the Brain

By: Alphonse de Waelhens,Wilfried Ver Eecke

In Phenomenology and Lacan on Schizophrenia, Alphonse De Waelhens provides a clear summary of Lacan's theory of schizophrenia, as Lacan derived it from his commentary of Freud's study of the Memoirs of Schreber. De Waelhens also shows how Lacan's understanding of the schizophrenic as having a defective relation to language can also explain four other characteristics of schizophrenic behavior: the fragmented body image; lack of realistic evaluation of the world; so-called bisexuality; and confusion of birth and death. Third, De Waelhens gives a Hegelian interpretation of the pre-Oedipal experience of the child. He makes use of Freud's study on his grand-child using a bobbin and later the words fort-da (away-here), to demonstrate that a transitional object allows the child to take distance from its attachment to the mother so that it can start to separate itself from the mother. Taking distance is, according to De Waelhens, introducing the Hegelian negative, which is the birth of the subject. Fourth, De Waelhens gives a dialectic reading of the history of German and French psychiatry. He shows the epistemological contradictions in the work of some of the great nineteenth century psychiatrists relying too exclusively on a biological model of schizophrenia.In his contribution to this volume, Wilfried Ver Eecke draws several lessons from evaluating the literature on schizophrenia. He argues that epistemologically neither a biological nor a psychological method of reasoning can capture all the factors that can play a role in the creation of schizophrenia. He relies heavily, but not exclusively, on the Finnish studies of Tienari, Myrhman, and Wahlberg and their colleagues to provide statistical evidence that non-biological factors also play an important role in causing schizophrenia. He relies heavily, but again not exclusively, on the study by Karon and VandenBos to demonstrate statistically the efficiency of psychodynamically inspired therapy of schizophrenics.Ver Eecke also addresses an apparent inconsistency in De Waelhens' presentation of Lacan's theory of schizophrenia. Where De Waelhens seemed to argue at one time that the mother figure was the crucial figure to explain schizophrenia (leading to a defective relation to the body) and at another time that it was the role of the father which was crucial (leading to a defective relation to language and the symbolic), there Ver Eecke argues that the defective function of each influences the function of the other. He then draws a conclusion for the therapy of schizophrenics: to be helpful a therapist will have to address both deficiencies. The problem for treating schizophrenics is that correcting an unconscious deficiency to the body-a deficiency in the imaginary-requires a totally different kind of intervention than an attempt to correct a symbolic deficiency-a deficiency in the paternal function. A correction of the imaginary requires a kind of maternal mirroring; a correction of the symbolic requires making a distinction or a prohibition stick. One further difficulty arises. Psychotherapy uses language in its treatment. However, language in schizophrenics is deficient. We can therefore expect that language will be inefficient. This is so unless the therapist uses language, first, to make a repair at the imaginary level and only thereafter makes an attempt to make a correction in the symbolic. In analyzing successful therapeutic techniques reported by several therapists Ver Eecke discovers that all of them first try to repair the imaginary before they attempt to make corrections to the symbolic.

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Leuven University Press

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9058671607

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Breaking through Schizophrenia

Lacan and Hegel for Talk Therapy

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Ethical Dimensions of the Economy

Making Use of Hegel and the Concepts of Public and Merit Goods

By: Wilfried Ver Eecke

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Making Use of Hegel and the Concepts of Public and Merit Goods

By: Wilfried Ver Eecke

Overview This book is a philosophical reflection (using mainly Hegel, in addition to 1 Adam Smith, Kant, Marx and Catholic Social Thought) about the soc- political dimension of economics. In it I both agree and disagree with the slogan that “the least government is the best government. ” I agree with the slogan, in particular as it applies to the economic domain. Adam Smith taught us that rational and self-interested individuals, left by themselves, create a more efficient and reliable economic system than one in which the government has a heavy role as was the case in his time with the merc- tile system (Smith, 14, 651). Ludwig von Mises demonstrated the same idea for the communist command economy (Hayek 1935, 87–130). I d- agree with the above mentioned slogan if it is interpreted as suggesting that we can best forget about the role of the government for a good functioning economy. Instead, I will argue that the government has an important fu- tion in creating the proper regulations and the wise institutional arran- ments which will allow the economy to flourish in a more efficient, fair and humane way. This book is interdisciplinary in nature. It is a philosophical and ethical reflection on economics. Hence, I make use of philosophical ideas, often but not exclusively those of Hegel. I reflect philosophically on economic concepts.

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Denial, Negation, and the Forces of the Negative

Freud, Hegel, Lacan, Spitz, and Sophocles

By: Wilfried Ver Eecke

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Freud, Hegel, Lacan, Spitz, and Sophocles

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A comprehensive account of denial viewed not only psychoanalytically but also philosophically.

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Ethical Reflections on the Financial Crisis 2007/2008

Making Use of Smith, Musgrave and Rajan

By: Wilfried Ver Eecke

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Phenomenology and Lacan on Schizophrenia

After the Decade of the Brain

By: Alphonse de Waelhens,Wilfried Ver Eecke

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After the Decade of the Brain

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Ethical Dimensions of the Economy

Making Use of Hegel and the Concepts of Public and Merit Goods

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Breaking through Schizophrenia

Breaking through Schizophrenia

Denial, Negation, and the Forces of the Negative

Denial, Negation, and the Forces of the Negative

Denial, Negation, and the Forces of the Negative

Denial, Negation, and the Forces of the Negative

Ethical Reflections on the Financial Crisis 2007/2008

Ethical Reflections on the Financial Crisis 2007/2008

Phenomenology and Lacan on Schizophrenia

Phenomenology and Lacan on Schizophrenia

Breaking through Schizophrenia

Breaking through Schizophrenia

Ethical Dimensions of the Economy

Ethical Dimensions of the Economy

Denial, Negation, and the Forces of the Negative

Denial, Negation, and the Forces of the Negative

Ethical Reflections on the Financial Crisis 2007/2008

Ethical Reflections on the Financial Crisis 2007/2008

Phenomenology and Lacan on Schizophrenia

Phenomenology and Lacan on Schizophrenia

Ethical Dimensions of the Economy

Ethical Dimensions of the Economy

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