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Lacanian Psychoanalysis & Psychosis – 3. Manic – Depressive Psychosis

Helen Koumidi Psychologist – Psychotherapist www.elenikoumidi.gr   «Lacanian Psychoanalysis & Psychosis – 3. Manic – Depressive Psychosis» ‘The bag or the life?’ (Λακάν Ζ., 1964): Through this question that Lacan poses as an example, he gives us the exact picture of the structural alienation of the human being. Man either chooses the bag [bag without […]

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Lacanian Psychoanalysis & Psychosis – 2. Paranoia

Helen Koumidi Psychologist – Psychotherapist www.elenikoumidi.gr «Lacanian Psychoanalysis & Psychosis – 2. Paranoia» «You talkin’ to me?»: Actor Robert De Niro in the film “Taxi Driver” (1976) amazingly interprets the phrase “Are you talking to me?” signaling the onset of a paranoid delusion.  1.Lacanian Interpretation of Paranoia Note: For the description of Psychosis (definition, causes, […]

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Lacanian Psychoanalysis & Psychosis – 1. Schizophrenia

Helen Koumidi Psychologist – Psychotherapist www.elenikoumidi.gr «Lacanian Psychoanalysis & Psychosis – 1. Schizophrenia» «To be a psychoanalyst is simply to open your eyes to the evident fact that nothing malfunctions more than human reality. If you believe that you have a well-adapted, reasonable ego, which knows its way around, how to recognize what is to […]

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