In Process... May 4th, 2012...dgb
A/ A Brief Synopsis of The Evolution of Freudian Psychoanalysis and The Understanding of Neurosis
Let's all remember that before Freud became a legend, he was basically a radical, underground, shocking psychological therapist and theorist.
From hypnosis to 'persuasion therapy' to free association to all his various shocking sexual theories, one could easily conclude -- and have good transference grounds upon which to base this conclusion -- that Freud enjoyed shocking and amazing people, and he spent most of his professional lifetime doing it.
So, for those of you who are reading this essay who may be orthodox Freudian psychoanalysts, or simply used to a standard pattern of Freudian thought development, I ask you to open your mind a bit more -- to get used to switching and synthesizing different schools of psychoanalytic and non-psychoanalytic thought -- as I basically 'freelance' all across the board, in and out of most of the different sub-schools of Psychoanalysis, Adlerian Theory, Gestalt Theory, Jungian Theory, Transactional Analysis, Primal Theory, Cognitive-Semantic Theory, Frommian Theory and Other Schools of Humanistic-Existential Theory, Self-Esteem Theory....
If you don't catch them all here, you will probably run into them later, assuming you are motivated enough to stay with me -- which I certainly hope that you will be -- and I have enough time, energy, and health to write the wide assortment of essays that are every day go through my mind. For the short term, the only thing slowing me down, is the fact that I am investing 60 hours a week into another line of business that pays my bills...Hopefully, that will change in the not too distant future. But for now, it is as it is.
If you are a Psychoanalytic theorist and/or therapist these days, you probably already have good practice doing what I do, as you individually and collectively toss around the scientific seminar room different elements of Freudian Theory, Object Relations, Self-Psychology, Bionian Theory, Lacanian Theory, Traumacy Theory, Attachment Theory, Gaze Theory, Oedipal Theory...and probably the main one missing -- Memory Theory. Maybe we should call that one 'Massonian Theory'. Or Freud's -- 'Oops, I Forgot Where I Came From' Theory....(I will say no more on this subject matter, at least at this point in time, because people seem to get the impression that I am critizising Contemporary Psychoanalysis when I criticize Freud for his most 'bone-headed' historical, theoretical, and therapeutic mistakes. I'm not. I'm criticizing Freud -- even though I think that he was one of the most creatively brilliant men of his time -- because a couple of the mistakes he made were ethically apalling (like mixing cocaine and medicine when almost all other doctors had left this scene), and some of his worst theoretical mistakes were just plain -- well, 'bone-headed'.
Is there any psychoanalyst today that seriously does not believe that Freud's traumacy theory and his fantasy theory should be integrated into one over-riding -- or under-riding -- theory?
That's what I am here for.
Let's start with a synopsis of Freudian 'Classical' Theory -- after 1895 -- after he had abandoned most of his 'Memory-Reality-Traumacy-Seduction Theory'....which I consider to be an essential foundational base of my 'Post-Classical Modification, Integration, and Extension of Freudian Psychoanalysis'.
About 1896, Freud's co-theorist, Joseph Breuer bowed out once Freud started to focus more and more on the sexual etiological factor -- his main criticism of Freud being that he was overgeneralizing (and he was right) -- but that didn't stop Freud, nor did the Vienna Psychiatry and Neurology Society stop Freud -- from going to where Freud wanted to go, which was deeper and deeper into 1. a sexual traumacy etiology of neurosis (up to, let's say the end of April, 1896); and then, 2. a sexual drive and fantasy etiology of neurosis (let's say, after the end of April, 1896). Both sexual theories of neurosis -- i.e., his sexual traumacy theory, and then his sexual drive and fantasy theory, required a second major co-factor -- the psychology of ego-defense (defending against unbearable ideas) -- to complete the second half of the equation of his general, overall theory of neurosis.
Up until about 1895, a Freudian set of distinctions could be made between: 1. hysteria; 2. the anxiety neuroses; 3. the obsessional neuroses; 4. paranoia; and 5. the psychoses.
In 1905, you could add 'fetishism and the sexual perversions' (which could be viewed as different types of 'obsessional neurosis' or even 'transference neurosis' (depending on how 'liberally/loosely' or 'conservatively/tightly' you define 'transference neurosis').
Around 1914, things changed as Freud started to officially develop his theory of narcissism. Freud believed that all the other neuroses were subject to the clinical phenomenon of 'transference' -- except for 'the narcissistic neuroses' which weren't (because the client was too 'self-absorbed' to hardly know that his or her analyst even existed).
In 1915 , Freud wrote about 'mourning and melacholia' (depression) and could be added to Freud's list of 'neuroses'.
In 1920, 'sex' and 'aggression' faced off against each other when Freud created the 'life' and 'death instinct'.
In 1923, Freud created his classic 'triadic' model of the personality consisting of 1. 'the id', 2. 'the ego', and 3. 'the superego'.
In 1938, a year before he died, Freud wrote a curious paper called 'Splitting of The Ego in The Process of Defense' and followed this right afterwards with 'An Outline of Psychoanalysis' -- the two papers probably opening up the sub-school of 'Object Relations' (Klein, Fairbairn, Winnicott, Guntrip...) and then 'Self Psychology' (Kohut).
Grunberger, Kohut, and Kernberg also opened up the subject area of 'narcissistic transferences' in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s (which probably Freud would have 'expelled' them from Psychoanalysis for, if he had caught them doing it when he was alive. To repeat, Freud thought that 'narcissism' and 'transference' were two mutually exclusive phenomena).
That brief synopsis of the Freudian evolution of Psychoanalysis should give us a brief point of comparison and contrast to my work as it has evolved to this point in time...
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B/ GAP-DGB Post-Freudian, Humanistic-Existential Philosophy-Psychology
The simplest way to divide the study of DGB Quantum Psychoanalysis is into these main different divisions:
1. DGB Object Relations and Self-Object Theory;
2. DGB Central Ego Theory;
3. DGB Dream and Fantasy Theory;
4. DGB Art, Mythology, Archetype, and Romantic Spirituality (Pantheism) Theory;
5. DGB Memory, Reality, Traumacy, Fantasy, and Transference Theory;
6. DGB 'Shadow-Id-Ego' and Narcissistic Theory (The Pleasure Immediately Principle vs. The Reality (Suppression or Delay of Gratification) Principle;
7. DGB Gaze and Attachment Theory;
8. DGB 'Oral' (Dionsysian) and 'Anal' (Apollonian) Ego Development Theory;
9. DGB Oedipal Theory (Love and Hate Internal Transference Objects);
10. DGB Learning, Self-Esteem, 'Acting Out', and 'Ego-Defense' Theory (Association, Comparison, Displacement, Distinction, Contrast, Projection, Identification, Introjection, Sublimation, Fantasy, Obsessive-Compulsion ('Anal' vs. 'Oral' OCDs), Addiction and The Dionysian Personality, Transference, The Apollonian Ego Defense Positions...);
11. DGB Biological and Existential 'Need' Theory;
12. DGB Humanistic-Existential Theory;
a) The Genetic Potential Self and The Nietzschean Abyss;
b) The Genetic Potential Self and The Nietzschean Mountain Top;
c) Love, Romance, Creativity, and Spirituality;
d) Contact, Immediacy, 'Shadow-Talk', and Awareness;
e) Altruism and Giving Back To The Community;
f) Rootedness, Relatedness, Creative Transcendence, and Self-Esteem/Self-Love vs. Non-Rootedness, Non-Relatedness, Non-Creativity, Self-Alienation/Self-Estrangement/Self-Hate;
g) Meaning vs. Meaninglessness Moving Through Life...
