The introduction to a series of posts based on the book Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
Category: Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis and its Great Contents – Freud and Beyond Part 7
The final post in the Freud and Beyond series - praising the critical role psychoanalysis has in helping people and illuminating the true nature of humankind
Symbolic, Imaginary, Language and Lacan – Freud and Beyond Part 6
The sixth instalment of this series explores a variety of themes based on the work of Jacques Lacan and others around language, illusion and the unconscious
Subjectivity, Narcissism and Self Psychology – Freud and Beyond Part 5
Part 5 of the Freud and Beyond series explores ideas around narcissism and self psychology in more detail - particularly the work of Winnicott and Kohut
Connections, Libido, Genuinity and Fairbairn – Freud and Beyond Part 4
This post is all about the connections we make to sustain life - and the importance of that compassionate, life-affirming essence of one’s true self, Genuinity
Integration, Annihilation, Reparation and Klein – Freud and Beyond Part 3
This post explores ideas influenced by the work of developmental psychologist Melanie Klein - in particular the ambivalent good and bad feelings at the core of every human being
Love, Anxiety, Self and Sullivan – Freud and Beyond Part 2
This post explores a variety of ideas linked to the notion that human beings are better off together
Conflict, Fantasy and Ego – Freud and Beyond Part 1
The first blog in a seven-part series illuminating a variety of psychoanalytic ideas inspired by the book Freud and Beyond
Repression, Depression and Obsessive Compulsion – Fleabag and Philosophy
Being & Niceness runs the rule over hit BBC comedy Fleabag, exploring some of the philosophical themes that underpin the show’s dynamics
Synchronicity: Map of the Soul – A Selected Collection of Jungian Elaborations Part 5
The final post in the Map of the Soul series - exploring Jung’s Synchronicity theory and the possibility of a cosmological order underlying existence