Psychoanalytic Investigations in Philosophy: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Current Existential Challenges

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Prologue: "As If I Could See the Darkness": What Does It Mean to Investigate Psychoanalysis from a Wittgensteinian Point of View?
Chapter 1: Rollo May and R. Joseph Soloveitchik: Psychotherapy and Philosophy
	On the Method
		Existence
		Channels of Influence
	Loneliness
		Being Misunderstood as a Reason for Loneliness
		Loneliness in a Social Setting
		Alienation from Nature
		Loneliness as Singularity
	Existence
		Fact and Action
		Personal and Collective Existence
		Repression
	Love
		Privacy
		Love of God
	Summing Up
Chapter 2: From Fear to Creativity: Melanie Klein's Interpretation of Literary Fiction as Conceptual Investigations
	Introduction: Wittgenstein on Conceptual Investigation and Its Relevance for Understanding Melanie Klein's Concepts
	The First Article: The Empty Space of Infantile Anxiety
	The Second Article: If I Were You - Projective Identification and the Wish to Be Another Person
	Klein's Interpretation of the Work
	The Third Article: Suffering, Depression, Guilt, and the Function of the Superego
	Conclusion
Chapter 3: Psychoanalysis and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Wittgensteinian-Existential Perspective
	Chronology of an Impasse
	"A Picture Held Us Captive"
	The Augustinian Picture
	The Paradox of Rules
	In Search of the Unconscious
	"The Real Discovery"
	Truth and Commitment
	"A Way of Living Life"
	Bibliography
Chapter 4: "Look into the Depths within Yourself and Find the Outside World": The Contribution of Rudolf Steiner's Monistic Philosophy to Psychoanalytic Conceptualization
	Rudolf Steiner's Philosophy of Unity
		Objective Idealism
		Monism of Thought
		The "I" in Steiner's Unitive Approach
	A Dialogue between Psychoanalytic Thinking and Steiner's Thinking
		On the History of the Relationship between Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Spiritual Doctrines
		The Unique Encounter between Psychoanalytic Thinking and Steiner's Thinking
		Steiner's Monism of Thought as a Foundation for Psychoanalytic Conceptualization
			Monism of Thought and Projective Identification
			Monism of Thought and the Transitional Space
			Between Monism of Thought and "Self-Object" and "Selfobject"
	Summary
Chapter 5: Malfunctions in the Symbolic Space: A Psychoanalytic-Semiotic View
	Symbolic Malfunctions in Psychoanalysis
		Malfunction as Difficulty in Creating Defense
		Malfunction as Destruction of the Connection
	The Contribution of Semiotics for Understanding Symbolization
	Symbolic Malfunctions: A Psychoanalytic-Semiotic Integrative Model
		Iconic Malfunction - Symbolic Equation
		Rejecting the Connection between Sign and Object
		Indexical Malfunction
		Confusing Levels of Symbolization
		Empty Sign or Pseudo-Sign
		Symbol Externalization Malfunction
	Applying the Model to Clinical Work
	Summary
Chapter 6: "Bring Words back from their Metaphysical to their Everyday Use" - Meaning in Life through Ordinary Language Use
	Introduction
	Meaning through Language - the Limits of the Inquiry
	Meaning in Ordinary Language Use
	Meaning as Choice - Methodological Application in Ordinary Language
	Bibliography
Chapter 7: Language Game and Separations: A Psychoanalytic-Philosophical View about the Infinity of the Separation Experience
	Change and Permanency - the River of Life
	The Use of Language and the Connection to Separations
	Separations and Separateness in the Psychoanalytic Theories of Freud, Klein, and Winnicott
	Wittgenstein's Contribution to Understanding Separation and Separateness Processes
		Language Games and the "Dawning" of an Aspect
	Lifetime Changes Compared to Object Relations
	Case Studies from Literature and Clinic
	"The Lying Life of Adults"
		Italian and Dialect - Different Language Apparel
		The "Dawning" of an Aspect - Loss of Innocent
	A Case Study - Shira
		Hide and Seek: A Game of Parting and Connection
		The Fear of Growing up - an Encounter with Reality
	Conclusion
Chapter 8: Unhappy-Certainty
	Freud: Repetition Compulsion
	Repetition Compulsion from the Standpoint of Contemporary Theories
	Hegel: The Subject's Unhappiness
	The Lord and Slave in the Shadow of the Unhappy Consciousness
	Wittgenstein - the Limits of My Unhappiness Means the Limits of My Language
	Unhappy-Certainty and the Paradox of Repetition Compulsion
	Repetition Compulsion and the Transparent Prison of Language
	Psychoanalysis: To Extricate Oneself from the Entanglement of Unhappiness
	Summary
	Bibliography
Chapter 9: "Tragic Knots" Following Acquired Chronic Medical Conditions: A Relational Perspective in Psychotherapy in Medical Settings
	Introduction
		Overview
		Self-Dissolution Following Acquired Medical Conditions
	Self-Illness Narrative Model
	Complementarity and Tragic Knots following Acquired Chronic Medical Conditions
		Acquired Chronic Medical Conditions and Relational Complementarities
		Complementarities and Tragic Knots
		Tragic Knot I: Being Victimized vs. Gaining a Sense of Agency
		Tragic Knot II: Maintaining Privacy vs. Belonging and Dependency
		Interpreting Tragic Knots Interaction in Therapy - Case Example
		Freeing the Dyad from a Tragic Knot Complementarity
	Discussion
		The Role of the other in Self-Illness Narratives
		Future Directions
	Bibliography
Chapter 10: Language Games and Private Language, Wizards and Witches: How a Child with Autism Builds their Emotional World - A Psychoanalytic, Philosophical, and Literary View
	"To Imagine a Language Means to Imagine a Form of Life" - Ludwig Wittgenstein's Contribution to Understanding the World of a Non-speaking Child with Autism
	Rule and Use
	Little Mermaid and Peter Pan, Mowgli and Sleeping Beauty - How does the Child with Autism Construct their Emotional World Using Fairy Tales?
	Summary
Chapter 11: Self-Constructive vs. Self-Destructive Mechanisms in the Writings of Anorexics
	Anorexia Nervosa as a Disorder of the Self: Psychoanalytic Perspectives
	Anorexia Nervosa: Self-Destruction or Self-Construction?
		Physical Habits and the Anorexic Self
		The Anorexic Social Self
	Writing, Self-Understanding, and Self-Construction among Anorexics
	The Narrative Self: Autobiographies and Self-Construction among Anorexics
	Self-Construction of the Anorexic in Poetry: The Poems of Anne Sexton and Louise Glück
	The Anorexic on the Internet
		Anorexia as Self-Destruction: "Pro-Ana"
		Separation from Ana and Self-Construction
	Conclusion
Chapter 12: The Land of Shadows and Intuition: Bion's and Wittgenstein's Return to Plato's Cave
	Plato's Cave and Theory of forms - the Epistemological Quest
	Bion's Epistemology of the Psyche - the Grid and the Divided Line
	Plato's Later Dialogs and Wittgenstein's Rule-Following Paradox
	But what have we Forgotten in the Cave? Bion on Intuition and "O"
	None of This is Possible Without Kant
	Returning to the Cave - Embryonic Sight
	Afterthought - Parmenides' Prologue
Chapter 13: Shades of Loneliness: A Psychoanalytic Study of Samuel Beckett's Rockaby
	Introduction
	Loneliness From a Psychoanalytic Point of View
	The Phenomenology of Loneliness - A Study of Samuel Beckett's Rockaby
Index