On my homepage there are several articles whose content are im****tant
to discuss. Not everything is perfectly brilliant, but the intellectual
level
is good enough. Below follow the abstracts of some of the articles.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/index.htm
----------------------
THE BLOOD SACRIFICE
remarks on the symbolism and psychology
by Mats Winther
Abstract: Victimization as a form of sacrificial ritual is discussed.
It is understood as an inferior and archaic method of ego
emancipation. By the destructive deed original wholeness is disrupted
and transfer of sin and guilt occurs. The blood sacrifice originates
as a defense against the fear of an overwhelming unconscious. Power
over life and death is imparted to the institution of consciousness.
By that means an identification with collective consciousness is
promoted and a weak consciousness strengthened. The regressive bond to
the unconscious is tem****arily severed, but the sacrifice must be
renewed. It is the real impetus behind Freud's death drive and also
the destructive narcissistic relation****p.
Keywords: rite of passage, self-mutilation, primal transgression, ego
wholeness, flagellants, amputation disorder, sin transference, St
Paul, Tezcatlipoca.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/bloodsac.htm
----------------------
THE INTRUSION OF MATRIARCHAL CONSCIOUSNESS
by Mats Winther
Abstract: It is argued that Western general consciousness, in parallel
with an ongoing cultural dissolution, risks moving in a "matriarchal"
direction. The phenomenon represents an inroad of matriarchal
consciousness into patriarchal culture, with forbidding consequences,
namely the formation of a neurotic culture at a lower level of
consciousness. This is unacceptable in the face of the advanced
challenges of the future. The distinctive character of a culture, in
terms of its cultural and psychological advancement, is a very
precious thing that can give the individual the right soil to grow in,
while it will suit his inborn constitution. The painful questions of
race and ethnicity can no longer be sidestepped. Historically,
delirious racial elitism has been counterpoised by an equally
unfounded homologous view of humanity. Guided by the latest findings
in human genetics, it is high time to arrive at a balanced view of
ethnic diversity.
Keywords: race, matriarchal, patriarchal, heroic, psychic gradient,
ethnic unconscious.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/matriarchal.htm
----------------------
THE PSYCHODYNAMICS OF TERRORISM
by Mats Winther
Abstract: Drawing on notions from comparative religion, and also
Freud's discussion of the death drive, light is shed on the
psychodynamic principles behind terrorism, and the bottomless evil of
mankind, in general. Terrorism is not foremostly a political problem,
or a problem deriving from poverty. Nor is it an evil that derives
from unshackled instinctual forces. Terrorism, and the even greater
problem of bullying and victimization of our peers, derive from an
archaic psychic economy of sin transference. Following St Paul, people
can be vaccinated against this evil, by forsaking ideological
grandiose ideals; by giving up the search for the perfect, blissful,
condition of outer life, and instead learn that 'the kingdom is
within.'
Keywords: terrorism, theocracy, human sacrifice, transfer of sin,
Khidr, The Green Man, St Paul, death drive, genocide.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/terror.htm
----------------------
PSYCHOANALYSIS AT THE CROSSROAD
by Mats Winther
Abstract: It is argued that psychoanalysis* in the future can be
sanctioned in academia, and find acceptance in the health business,
only if metapsychological concepts become common knowledge.
Psychoanalysis, and neighbouring branches, suffer from conceptual
isolation. A knowledge of the unconscious belongs in public
consciousness. Empirical research must be on firm theoretical ground,
which is not the case today. For this reason, neither research nor a
clinical approach can give direction to psychoanalysis. The answer
lies in a theoretical perspective, a clarifying of metaphysical and
metapsychological assumptions.
Keywords: dialectics, interiority, metapsychology, empiricism,
physicalism, cognitive-behavioral
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/psychemp.htm
----------------------
DEPENDENCY IN THE ANALYTIC RELATION****P
or
A Blind Spot in Jungian Thinking
by Mats Winther
Abstract: Three cases of dependency, in analysands of C.G. Jung, are
investigated. Their dreams, and personal understanding, are examined.
The article addresses difficulties in C.G. Jung's personal
convictions, which, it is argued, hampered his former analysands.
These convictions remain a quandary in the school of Analytical
Psychology.
Keywords: dependency, quaternarian, trinitarian, C.G. Jung, Joseph L.
Henderson, Marie-Louise von Franz, Wolfgang Pauli, Saint John of the
Cross, analytical psychology, individuation.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/dependency.htm
----------------------
A CONSTRUCTIVE CRITIQUE OF THE STRUCTURAL MODEL IN PSYCHOANALYSIS
by Mats Winther
Abstract: This article illustrates how the theory of complex
psychology is highly relevant to the ongoing discussion within the
psychoanalytic community. Critique is directed against Freud's
structural model of the psyche that generalises an oedipal
psychodynamics. The obsolete operationalism that still lingers in the
psychological community must once and for all be abandoned. Psychology
ought to cease devoting itself to half-baked empirical investigations
and allow more room for rigorous theorists.
Keywords: Oedipus, operationalism, autonomous complex, transference,
rational neurosis, structural model, complex psychology, Freud.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/compstruc.htm
----------------------
CRITIQUE OF CONFLICT THEORY
by Mats Winther
Abstract: 'Conflict theory' mirrors the chaotic configuration of the
borderline psyche. Brenner has effectively discarded the separate
psychic layers of conscious and unconscious. The stream of outer and
inner information is loosely connected, mirroring the instability and
contradictory nature of the borderline psyche, as opposed to the more
hierarchical and austere configuration of drives and perceptions among
normal people. Thus, it is an apt example of a "neurotic theory". It
will not function as a model of the normal psyche. Conflict theory
cannot be reconciled with neuroscience, or the findings of classical
psychoanalysis and analytical psychology.
Keywords: compromise formation, structural model, language philosophy,
indeterminacy, post-structuralism, Freud, Giegerich.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/brenner.htm
----------------------
CRITIQUE OF ARCHETYPAL PSYCHOLOGY
by Mats Winther
Abstract
Today there is a strong tendency towards making Jungian psychology a
generic name for a diversity of systems that, although they at the
first glance look related, because of similar terminology, their
kernels and ideals are completely different from Jung's ideas. One of
these theories is Hillman's "archetypal psychology," which radically
reinterprets Jung's concept of the archetype, dismisses the im****tant
Jungian notion of the self, renounces the process of individuation,
devaluates the Jungian method of introversion, opposes Jung's notion
of the moral obligation of grasping the unconscious and replaces this
with the amoral, aesthetic, attitude of the puer aeternus (eternal
youth). Despite this gross repudiation of Jungian psychology, Hillman
is embraced by Jungian publishers as a "Jungian" or "post-Jungian"
psychologist. But a correct denomination would be "anti-Jungian."
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/hillmcrit.htm
----------------------
EDINGER - THE EGO PROPHET
by Mats Winther
The American psychoanalyst and author Edward F. Edinger (1922-1998) is
the inventor of an exceptional worldview. According to him Jesus
Christ must "incarnate" in the self (the archetype of psychic
totality) whereupon the self "incarnates" in the ego. Thereby the
personal ego receives godlike status as it is transformed into an
"archetype". This implies that the personal ego attains eternal life
as it takes its abode in the Platonic sphere beyond time and space.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/edeng.htm
----------------------
WINNICOTT'S DREAM: A CRITIQUE OF WINNICOTT'S THOUGHT AS A FORM OF
MYSTICAL NARCISSISM
by Mats Winther
Abstract: British psychoanalyst D. W. Winnicott (1896-1971) developed
an original theory involving controversial ideas such as the
destruction of the patient and the merger of the subjective and
objective worlds into a whole. He argued that C.G. Jung suffered from
a severe pathology that had moulded his theoretical outlook. This
article argues to the contrary: it seems like Winnicott's own theory
displays a narcissistic kind of structure. His dream appears to be an
unconscious reaction against his unsup****table conscious attitude.
Winnicott is much concerned with how to defend against patients and
their invasive pathology. It becomes a system of defence for
psychologically weak therapists, and this is very harmful to patients.
The article contributes to the understanding of narcissism.
Keywords: narcissism, negative mother complex, potential space,
relational field, suicide-cult, purity, unit personality.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/winni.htm
----------------------
CRITIQUE OF INTERSUBJECTIVITY
by Mats Winther
Abstract: The article investigates the philosophical/psychological
notion of intersubjectivity and argues that our subjective involvement
in each other, especially the psychoanalytic relation between analyst
and analysand, ought to be regarded as an involvement on the
unconscious level. The different notions of a joint conscious
creation, or joint narrative, also implying a relative merger of our
conscious personalities, could be harmful and are not likely to evoke
a wholesome form of subjective engagement.
Keywords: intersubjectivity, Ogden, relational field, the analytic
third, narrative.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/intersubj.htm
----------------------
THE ONGOING SELF-DESTRUCTION OF PSYCHOANALYSIS
by Mats Winther
Abstract: The article discusses the current 'theoretical chaos' in
psychology and argues that this ruinous situation is predicated on an
insufficient metaphysical groundwork. Any empirical scientific work
must be buttressed by a metaphysical foundation, otherwise the
empirical findings are beyond the grasp of a comprehensive
understanding and the result will be confusion. So it remains for
psychological theorists to delineate a system of metaphysical
principles, including ethical principles. The term 'metaphysical' is
understood as "the system of principles underlying a particular study
or subject" (Webster's dictionary).
Keywords: psychoanalysis, metaphysic, Oedipus, Proteus, empiricism,
rational neurosis, psychological monomorphism, pluripotent
unconscious, projective transidentification.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/destruc.htm
----------------------
----------------------
THE BLOOD SACRIFICE
remarks on the symbolism and psychology
by Mats Winther
Abstract: Victimization as a form of sacrificial ritual is discussed.
It is understood as an inferior and archaic method of ego
emancipation. By the destructive deed original wholeness is disrupted
and transfer of sin and guilt occurs. The blood sacrifice originates
as a defense against the fear of an overwhelming unconscious. Power
over life and death is imparted to the institution of consciousness.
By that means an identification with collective consciousness is
promoted and a weak consciousness strengthened. The regressive bond to
the unconscious is tem****arily severed, but the sacrifice must be
renewed. It is the real impetus behind Freud's death drive and also
the destructive narcissistic relation****p.
Keywords: rite of passage, self-mutilation, primal transgression, ego
wholeness, flagellants, amputation disorder, sin transference, St
Paul, Tezcatlipoca.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/bloodsac.htm
----------------------
THE INTRUSION OF MATRIARCHAL CONSCIOUSNESS
by Mats Winther
Abstract: It is argued that Western general consciousness, in parallel
with an ongoing cultural dissolution, risks moving in a "matriarchal"
direction. The phenomenon represents an inroad of matriarchal
consciousness into patriarchal culture, with forbidding consequences,
namely the formation of a neurotic culture at a lower level of
consciousness. This is unacceptable in the face of the advanced
challenges of the future. The distinctive character of a culture, in
terms of its cultural and psychological advancement, is a very
precious thing that can give the individual the right soil to grow in,
while it will suit his inborn constitution. The painful questions of
race and ethnicity can no longer be sidestepped. Historically,
delirious racial elitism has been counterpoised by an equally
unfounded homologous view of humanity. Guided by the latest findings
in human genetics, it is high time to arrive at a balanced view of
ethnic diversity.
Keywords: race, matriarchal, patriarchal, heroic, psychic gradient,
ethnic unconscious.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/matriarchal.htm
----------------------
THE PSYCHODYNAMICS OF TERRORISM
by Mats Winther
Abstract: Drawing on notions from comparative religion, and also
Freud's discussion of the death drive, light is shed on the
psychodynamic principles behind terrorism, and the bottomless evil of
mankind, in general. Terrorism is not foremostly a political problem,
or a problem deriving from poverty. Nor is it an evil that derives
from unshackled instinctual forces. Terrorism, and the even greater
problem of bullying and victimization of our peers, derive from an
archaic psychic economy of sin transference. Following St Paul, people
can be vaccinated against this evil, by forsaking ideological
grandiose ideals; by giving up the search for the perfect, blissful,
condition of outer life, and instead learn that 'the kingdom is
within.'
Keywords: terrorism, theocracy, human sacrifice, transfer of sin,
Khidr, The Green Man, St Paul, death drive, genocide.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/terror.htm
----------------------
PSYCHOANALYSIS AT THE CROSSROAD
by Mats Winther
Abstract: It is argued that psychoanalysis* in the future can be
sanctioned in academia, and find acceptance in the health business,
only if metapsychological concepts become common knowledge.
Psychoanalysis, and neighbouring branches, suffer from conceptual
isolation. A knowledge of the unconscious belongs in public
consciousness. Empirical research must be on firm theoretical ground,
which is not the case today. For this reason, neither research nor a
clinical approach can give direction to psychoanalysis. The answer
lies in a theoretical perspective, a clarifying of metaphysical and
metapsychological assumptions.
Keywords: dialectics, interiority, metapsychology, empiricism,
physicalism, cognitive-behavioral
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/psychemp.htm
----------------------
DEPENDENCY IN THE ANALYTIC RELATION****P
or
A Blind Spot in Jungian Thinking
by Mats Winther
Abstract: Three cases of dependency, in analysands of C.G. Jung, are
investigated. Their dreams, and personal understanding, are examined.
The article addresses difficulties in C.G. Jung's personal
convictions, which, it is argued, hampered his former analysands.
These convictions remain a quandary in the school of Analytical
Psychology.
Keywords: dependency, quaternarian, trinitarian, C.G. Jung, Joseph L.
Henderson, Marie-Louise von Franz, Wolfgang Pauli, Saint John of the
Cross, analytical psychology, individuation.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/dependency.htm
----------------------
A CONSTRUCTIVE CRITIQUE OF THE STRUCTURAL MODEL IN PSYCHOANALYSIS
by Mats Winther
Abstract: This article illustrates how the theory of complex
psychology is highly relevant to the ongoing discussion within the
psychoanalytic community. Critique is directed against Freud's
structural model of the psyche that generalises an oedipal
psychodynamics. The obsolete operationalism that still lingers in the
psychological community must once and for all be abandoned. Psychology
ought to cease devoting itself to half-baked empirical investigations
and allow more room for rigorous theorists.
Keywords: Oedipus, operationalism, autonomous complex, transference,
rational neurosis, structural model, complex psychology, Freud.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/compstruc.htm
----------------------
CRITIQUE OF CONFLICT THEORY
by Mats Winther
Abstract: 'Conflict theory' mirrors the chaotic configuration of the
borderline psyche. Brenner has effectively discarded the separate
psychic layers of conscious and unconscious. The stream of outer and
inner information is loosely connected, mirroring the instability and
contradictory nature of the borderline psyche, as opposed to the more
hierarchical and austere configuration of drives and perceptions among
normal people. Thus, it is an apt example of a "neurotic theory". It
will not function as a model of the normal psyche. Conflict theory
cannot be reconciled with neuroscience, or the findings of classical
psychoanalysis and analytical psychology.
Keywords: compromise formation, structural model, language philosophy,
indeterminacy, post-structuralism, Freud, Giegerich.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/brenner.htm
----------------------
CRITIQUE OF ARCHETYPAL PSYCHOLOGY
by Mats Winther
Abstract
Today there is a strong tendency towards making Jungian psychology a
generic name for a diversity of systems that, although they at the
first glance look related, because of similar terminology, their
kernels and ideals are completely different from Jung's ideas. One of
these theories is Hillman's "archetypal psychology," which radically
reinterprets Jung's concept of the archetype, dismisses the im****tant
Jungian notion of the self, renounces the process of individuation,
devaluates the Jungian method of introversion, opposes Jung's notion
of the moral obligation of grasping the unconscious and replaces this
with the amoral, aesthetic, attitude of the puer aeternus (eternal
youth). Despite this gross repudiation of Jungian psychology, Hillman
is embraced by Jungian publishers as a "Jungian" or "post-Jungian"
psychologist. But a correct denomination would be "anti-Jungian."
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/hillmcrit.htm
----------------------
EDINGER - THE EGO PROPHET
by Mats Winther
The American psychoanalyst and author Edward F. Edinger (1922-1998) is
the inventor of an exceptional worldview. According to him Jesus
Christ must "incarnate" in the self (the archetype of psychic
totality) whereupon the self "incarnates" in the ego. Thereby the
personal ego receives godlike status as it is transformed into an
"archetype". This implies that the personal ego attains eternal life
as it takes its abode in the Platonic sphere beyond time and space.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/edeng.htm
----------------------
WINNICOTT'S DREAM: A CRITIQUE OF WINNICOTT'S THOUGHT AS A FORM OF
MYSTICAL NARCISSISM
by Mats Winther
Abstract: British psychoanalyst D. W. Winnicott (1896-1971) developed
an original theory involving controversial ideas such as the
destruction of the patient and the merger of the subjective and
objective worlds into a whole. He argued that C.G. Jung suffered from
a severe pathology that had moulded his theoretical outlook. This
article argues to the contrary: it seems like Winnicott's own theory
displays a narcissistic kind of structure. His dream appears to be an
unconscious reaction against his unsup****table conscious attitude.
Winnicott is much concerned with how to defend against patients and
their invasive pathology. It becomes a system of defence for
psychologically weak therapists, and this is very harmful to patients.
The article contributes to the understanding of narcissism.
Keywords: narcissism, negative mother complex, potential space,
relational field, suicide-cult, purity, unit personality.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/winni.htm
----------------------
CRITIQUE OF INTERSUBJECTIVITY
by Mats Winther
Abstract: The article investigates the philosophical/psychological
notion of intersubjectivity and argues that our subjective involvement
in each other, especially the psychoanalytic relation between analyst
and analysand, ought to be regarded as an involvement on the
unconscious level. The different notions of a joint conscious
creation, or joint narrative, also implying a relative merger of our
conscious personalities, could be harmful and are not likely to evoke
a wholesome form of subjective engagement.
Keywords: intersubjectivity, Ogden, relational field, the analytic
third, narrative.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/intersubj.htm
----------------------
THE ONGOING SELF-DESTRUCTION OF PSYCHOANALYSIS
by Mats Winther
Abstract: The article discusses the current 'theoretical chaos' in
psychology and argues that this ruinous situation is predicated on an
insufficient metaphysical groundwork. Any empirical scientific work
must be buttressed by a metaphysical foundation, otherwise the
empirical findings are beyond the grasp of a comprehensive
understanding and the result will be confusion. So it remains for
psychological theorists to delineate a system of metaphysical
principles, including ethical principles. The term 'metaphysical' is
understood as "the system of principles underlying a particular study
or subject" (Webster's dictionary).
Keywords: psychoanalysis, metaphysic, Oedipus, Proteus, empiricism,
rational neurosis, psychological monomorphism, pluripotent
unconscious, projective transidentification.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/destruc.htm
----------------------
----------------------
THE BLOOD SACRIFICE
remarks on the symbolism and psychology
by Mats Winther
Abstract: Victimization as a form of sacrificial ritual is discussed.
It is understood as an inferior and archaic method of ego
emancipation. By the destructive deed original wholeness is disrupted
and transfer of sin and guilt occurs. The blood sacrifice originates
as a defense against the fear of an overwhelming unconscious. Power
over life and death is imparted to the institution of consciousness.
By that means an identification with collective consciousness is
promoted and a weak consciousness strengthened. The regressive bond to
the unconscious is tem****arily severed, but the sacrifice must be
renewed. It is the real impetus behind Freud's death drive and also
the destructive narcissistic relation****p.
Keywords: rite of passage, self-mutilation, primal transgression, ego
wholeness, flagellants, amputation disorder, sin transference, St
Paul, Tezcatlipoca.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/bloodsac.htm
----------------------
THE INTRUSION OF MATRIARCHAL CONSCIOUSNESS
by Mats Winther
Abstract: It is argued that Western general consciousness, in parallel
with an ongoing cultural dissolution, risks moving in a "matriarchal"
direction. The phenomenon represents an inroad of matriarchal
consciousness into patriarchal culture, with forbidding consequences,
namely the formation of a neurotic culture at a lower level of
consciousness. This is unacceptable in the face of the advanced
challenges of the future. The distinctive character of a culture, in
terms of its cultural and psychological advancement, is a very
precious thing that can give the individual the right soil to grow in,
while it will suit his inborn constitution. The painful questions of
race and ethnicity can no longer be sidestepped. Historically,
delirious racial elitism has been counterpoised by an equally
unfounded homologous view of humanity. Guided by the latest findings
in human genetics, it is high time to arrive at a balanced view of
ethnic diversity.
Keywords: race, matriarchal, patriarchal, heroic, psychic gradient,
ethnic unconscious.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/matriarchal.htm
----------------------
THE PSYCHODYNAMICS OF TERRORISM
by Mats Winther
Abstract: Drawing on notions from comparative religion, and also
Freud's discussion of the death drive, light is shed on the
psychodynamic principles behind terrorism, and the bottomless evil of
mankind, in general. Terrorism is not foremostly a political problem,
or a problem deriving from poverty. Nor is it an evil that derives
from unshackled instinctual forces. Terrorism, and the even greater
problem of bullying and victimization of our peers, derive from an
archaic psychic economy of sin transference. Following St Paul, people
can be vaccinated against this evil, by forsaking ideological
grandiose ideals; by giving up the search for the perfect, blissful,
condition of outer life, and instead learn that 'the kingdom is
within.'
Keywords: terrorism, theocracy, human sacrifice, transfer of sin,
Khidr, The Green Man, St Paul, death drive, genocide.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/terror.htm
----------------------
PSYCHOANALYSIS AT THE CROSSROAD
by Mats Winther
Abstract: It is argued that psychoanalysis* in the future can be
sanctioned in academia, and find acceptance in the health business,
only if metapsychological concepts become common knowledge.
Psychoanalysis, and neighbouring branches, suffer from conceptual
isolation. A knowledge of the unconscious belongs in public
consciousness. Empirical research must be on firm theoretical ground,
which is not the case today. For this reason, neither research nor a
clinical approach can give direction to psychoanalysis. The answer
lies in a theoretical perspective, a clarifying of metaphysical and
metapsychological assumptions.
Keywords: dialectics, interiority, metapsychology, empiricism,
physicalism, cognitive-behavioral
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/psychemp.htm
----------------------
DEPENDENCY IN THE ANALYTIC RELATION****P
or
A Blind Spot in Jungian Thinking
by Mats Winther
Abstract: Three cases of dependency, in analysands of C.G. Jung, are
investigated. Their dreams, and personal understanding, are examined.
The article addresses difficulties in C.G. Jung's personal
convictions, which, it is argued, hampered his former analysands.
These convictions remain a quandary in the school of Analytical
Psychology.
Keywords: dependency, quaternarian, trinitarian, C.G. Jung, Joseph L.
Henderson, Marie-Louise von Franz, Wolfgang Pauli, Saint John of the
Cross, analytical psychology, individuation.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/dependency.htm
----------------------
A CONSTRUCTIVE CRITIQUE OF THE STRUCTURAL MODEL IN PSYCHOANALYSIS
by Mats Winther
Abstract: This article illustrates how the theory of complex
psychology is highly relevant to the ongoing discussion within the
psychoanalytic community. Critique is directed against Freud's
structural model of the psyche that generalises an oedipal
psychodynamics. The obsolete operationalism that still lingers in the
psychological community must once and for all be abandoned. Psychology
ought to cease devoting itself to half-baked empirical investigations
and allow more room for rigorous theorists.
Keywords: Oedipus, operationalism, autonomous complex, transference,
rational neurosis, structural model, complex psychology, Freud.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/compstruc.htm
----------------------
CRITIQUE OF CONFLICT THEORY
by Mats Winther
Abstract: 'Conflict theory' mirrors the chaotic configuration of the
borderline psyche. Brenner has effectively discarded the separate
psychic layers of conscious and unconscious. The stream of outer and
inner information is loosely connected, mirroring the instability and
contradictory nature of the borderline psyche, as opposed to the more
hierarchical and austere configuration of drives and perceptions among
normal people. Thus, it is an apt example of a "neurotic theory". It
will not function as a model of the normal psyche. Conflict theory
cannot be reconciled with neuroscience, or the findings of classical
psychoanalysis and analytical psychology.
Keywords: compromise formation, structural model, language philosophy,
indeterminacy, post-structuralism, Freud, Giegerich.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/brenner.htm
----------------------
CRITIQUE OF ARCHETYPAL PSYCHOLOGY
by Mats Winther
Abstract
Today there is a strong tendency towards making Jungian psychology a
generic name for a diversity of systems that, although they at the
first glance look related, because of similar terminology, their
kernels and ideals are completely different from Jung's ideas. One of
these theories is Hillman's "archetypal psychology," which radically
reinterprets Jung's concept of the archetype, dismisses the im****tant
Jungian notion of the self, renounces the process of individuation,
devaluates the Jungian method of introversion, opposes Jung's notion
of the moral obligation of grasping the unconscious and replaces this
with the amoral, aesthetic, attitude of the puer aeternus (eternal
youth). Despite this gross repudiation of Jungian psychology, Hillman
is embraced by Jungian publishers as a "Jungian" or "post-Jungian"
psychologist. But a correct denomination would be "anti-Jungian."
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/hillmcrit.htm
----------------------
EDINGER - THE EGO PROPHET
by Mats Winther
The American psychoanalyst and author Edward F. Edinger (1922-1998) is
the inventor of an exceptional worldview. According to him Jesus
Christ must "incarnate" in the self (the archetype of psychic
totality) whereupon the self "incarnates" in the ego. Thereby the
personal ego receives godlike status as it is transformed into an
"archetype". This implies that the personal ego attains eternal life
as it takes its abode in the Platonic sphere beyond time and space.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/edeng.htm
----------------------
WINNICOTT'S DREAM: A CRITIQUE OF WINNICOTT'S THOUGHT AS A FORM OF
MYSTICAL NARCISSISM
by Mats Winther
Abstract: British psychoanalyst D. W. Winnicott (1896-1971) developed
an original theory involving controversial ideas such as the
destruction of the patient and the merger of the subjective and
objective worlds into a whole. He argued that C.G. Jung suffered from
a severe pathology that had moulded his theoretical outlook. This
article argues to the contrary: it seems like Winnicott's own theory
displays a narcissistic kind of structure. His dream appears to be an
unconscious reaction against his unsup****table conscious attitude.
Winnicott is much concerned with how to defend against patients and
their invasive pathology. It becomes a system of defence for
psychologically weak therapists, and this is very harmful to patients.
The article contributes to the understanding of narcissism.
Keywords: narcissism, negative mother complex, potential space,
relational field, suicide-cult, purity, unit personality.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/winni.htm
----------------------
CRITIQUE OF INTERSUBJECTIVITY
by Mats Winther
Abstract: The article investigates the philosophical/psychological
notion of intersubjectivity and argues that our subjective involvement
in each other, especially the psychoanalytic relation between analyst
and analysand, ought to be regarded as an involvement on the
unconscious level. The different notions of a joint conscious
creation, or joint narrative, also implying a relative merger of our
conscious personalities, could be harmful and are not likely to evoke
a wholesome form of subjective engagement.
Keywords: intersubjectivity, Ogden, relational field, the analytic
third, narrative.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/intersubj.htm
----------------------
THE ONGOING SELF-DESTRUCTION OF PSYCHOANALYSIS
by Mats Winther
Abstract: The article discusses the current 'theoretical chaos' in
psychology and argues that this ruinous situation is predicated on an
insufficient metaphysical groundwork. Any empirical scientific work
must be buttressed by a metaphysical foundation, otherwise the
empirical findings are beyond the grasp of a comprehensive
understanding and the result will be confusion. So it remains for
psychological theorists to delineate a system of metaphysical
principles, including ethical principles. The term 'metaphysical' is
understood as "the system of principles underlying a particular study
or subject" (Webster's dictionary).
Keywords: psychoanalysis, metaphysic, Oedipus, Proteus, empiricism,
rational neurosis, psychological monomorphism, pluripotent
unconscious, projective transidentification.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/destruc.htm
----------------------
----------------------
THE BLOOD SACRIFICE
remarks on the symbolism and psychology
by Mats Winther
Abstract: Victimization as a form of sacrificial ritual is discussed.
It is understood as an inferior and archaic method of ego
emancipation. By the destructive deed original wholeness is disrupted
and transfer of sin and guilt occurs. The blood sacrifice originates
as a defense against the fear of an overwhelming unconscious. Power
over life and death is imparted to the institution of consciousness.
By that means an identification with collective consciousness is
promoted and a weak consciousness strengthened. The regressive bond to
the unconscious is tem****arily severed, but the sacrifice must be
renewed. It is the real impetus behind Freud's death drive and also
the destructive narcissistic relation****p.
Keywords: rite of passage, self-mutilation, primal transgression, ego
wholeness, flagellants, amputation disorder, sin transference, St
Paul, Tezcatlipoca.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/bloodsac.htm
----------------------
THE INTRUSION OF MATRIARCHAL CONSCIOUSNESS
by Mats Winther
Abstract: It is argued that Western general consciousness, in parallel
with an ongoing cultural dissolution, risks moving in a "matriarchal"
direction. The phenomenon represents an inroad of matriarchal
consciousness into patriarchal culture, with forbidding consequences,
namely the formation of a neurotic culture at a lower level of
consciousness. This is unacceptable in the face of the advanced
challenges of the future. The distinctive character of a culture, in
terms of its cultural and psychological advancement, is a very
precious thing that can give the individual the right soil to grow in,
while it will suit his inborn constitution. The painful questions of
race and ethnicity can no longer be sidestepped. Historically,
delirious racial elitism has been counterpoised by an equally
unfounded homologous view of humanity. Guided by the latest findings
in human genetics, it is high time to arrive at a balanced view of
ethnic diversity.
Keywords: race, matriarchal, patriarchal, heroic, psychic gradient,
ethnic unconscious.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/matriarchal.htm
----------------------
THE PSYCHODYNAMICS OF TERRORISM
by Mats Winther
Abstract: Drawing on notions from comparative religion, and also
Freud's discussion of the death drive, light is shed on the
psychodynamic principles behind terrorism, and the bottomless evil of
mankind, in general. Terrorism is not foremostly a political problem,
or a problem deriving from poverty. Nor is it an evil that derives
from unshackled instinctual forces. Terrorism, and the even greater
problem of bullying and victimization of our peers, derive from an
archaic psychic economy of sin transference. Following St Paul, people
can be vaccinated against this evil, by forsaking ideological
grandiose ideals; by giving up the search for the perfect, blissful,
condition of outer life, and instead learn that 'the kingdom is
within.'
Keywords: terrorism, theocracy, human sacrifice, transfer of sin,
Khidr, The Green Man, St Paul, death drive, genocide.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/terror.htm
----------------------
PSYCHOANALYSIS AT THE CROSSROAD
by Mats Winther
Abstract: It is argued that psychoanalysis* in the future can be
sanctioned in academia, and find acceptance in the health business,
only if metapsychological concepts become common knowledge.
Psychoanalysis, and neighbouring branches, suffer from conceptual
isolation. A knowledge of the unconscious belongs in public
consciousness. Empirical research must be on firm theoretical ground,
which is not the case today. For this reason, neither research nor a
clinical approach can give direction to psychoanalysis. The answer
lies in a theoretical perspective, a clarifying of metaphysical and
metapsychological assumptions.
Keywords: dialectics, interiority, metapsychology, empiricism,
physicalism, cognitive-behavioral
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/psychemp.htm
----------------------
DEPENDENCY IN THE ANALYTIC RELATION****P
or
A Blind Spot in Jungian Thinking
by Mats Winther
Abstract: Three cases of dependency, in analysands of C.G. Jung, are
investigated. Their dreams, and personal understanding, are examined.
The article addresses difficulties in C.G. Jung's personal
convictions, which, it is argued, hampered his former analysands.
These convictions remain a quandary in the school of Analytical
Psychology.
Keywords: dependency, quaternarian, trinitarian, C.G. Jung, Joseph L.
Henderson, Marie-Louise von Franz, Wolfgang Pauli, Saint John of the
Cross, analytical psychology, individuation.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/dependency.htm
----------------------
A CONSTRUCTIVE CRITIQUE OF THE STRUCTURAL MODEL IN PSYCHOANALYSIS
by Mats Winther
Abstract: This article illustrates how the theory of complex
psychology is highly relevant to the ongoing discussion within the
psychoanalytic community. Critique is directed against Freud's
structural model of the psyche that generalises an oedipal
psychodynamics. The obsolete operationalism that still lingers in the
psychological community must once and for all be abandoned. Psychology
ought to cease devoting itself to half-baked empirical investigations
and allow more room for rigorous theorists.
Keywords: Oedipus, operationalism, autonomous complex, transference,
rational neurosis, structural model, complex psychology, Freud.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/compstruc.htm
----------------------
CRITIQUE OF CONFLICT THEORY
by Mats Winther
Abstract: 'Conflict theory' mirrors the chaotic configuration of the
borderline psyche. Brenner has effectively discarded the separate
psychic layers of conscious and unconscious. The stream of outer and
inner information is loosely connected, mirroring the instability and
contradictory nature of the borderline psyche, as opposed to the more
hierarchical and austere configuration of drives and perceptions among
normal people. Thus, it is an apt example of a "neurotic theory". It
will not function as a model of the normal psyche. Conflict theory
cannot be reconciled with neuroscience, or the findings of classical
psychoanalysis and analytical psychology.
Keywords: compromise formation, structural model, language philosophy,
indeterminacy, post-structuralism, Freud, Giegerich.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/brenner.htm
----------------------
CRITIQUE OF ARCHETYPAL PSYCHOLOGY
by Mats Winther
Abstract
Today there is a strong tendency towards making Jungian psychology a
generic name for a diversity of systems that, although they at the
first glance look related, because of similar terminology, their
kernels and ideals are completely different from Jung's ideas. One of
these theories is Hillman's "archetypal psychology," which radically
reinterprets Jung's concept of the archetype, dismisses the im****tant
Jungian notion of the self, renounces the process of individuation,
devaluates the Jungian method of introversion, opposes Jung's notion
of the moral obligation of grasping the unconscious and replaces this
with the amoral, aesthetic, attitude of the puer aeternus (eternal
youth). Despite this gross repudiation of Jungian psychology, Hillman
is embraced by Jungian publishers as a "Jungian" or "post-Jungian"
psychologist. But a correct denomination would be "anti-Jungian."
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/hillmcrit.htm
----------------------
EDINGER - THE EGO PROPHET
by Mats Winther
The American psychoanalyst and author Edward F. Edinger (1922-1998) is
the inventor of an exceptional worldview. According to him Jesus
Christ must "incarnate" in the self (the archetype of psychic
totality) whereupon the self "incarnates" in the ego. Thereby the
personal ego receives godlike status as it is transformed into an
"archetype". This implies that the personal ego attains eternal life
as it takes its abode in the Platonic sphere beyond time and space.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/edeng.htm
----------------------
WINNICOTT'S DREAM: A CRITIQUE OF WINNICOTT'S THOUGHT AS A FORM OF
MYSTICAL NARCISSISM
by Mats Winther
Abstract: British psychoanalyst D. W. Winnicott (1896-1971) developed
an original theory involving controversial ideas such as the
destruction of the patient and the merger of the subjective and
objective worlds into a whole. He argued that C.G. Jung suffered from
a severe pathology that had moulded his theoretical outlook. This
article argues to the contrary: it seems like Winnicott's own theory
displays a narcissistic kind of structure. His dream appears to be an
unconscious reaction against his unsup****table conscious attitude.
Winnicott is much concerned with how to defend against patients and
their invasive pathology. It becomes a system of defence for
psychologically weak therapists, and this is very harmful to patients.
The article contributes to the understanding of narcissism.
Keywords: narcissism, negative mother complex, potential space,
relational field, suicide-cult, purity, unit personality.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/winni.htm
----------------------
CRITIQUE OF INTERSUBJECTIVITY
by Mats Winther
Abstract: The article investigates the philosophical/psychological
notion of intersubjectivity and argues that our subjective involvement
in each other, especially the psychoanalytic relation between analyst
and analysand, ought to be regarded as an involvement on the
unconscious level. The different notions of a joint conscious
creation, or joint narrative, also implying a relative merger of our
conscious personalities, could be harmful and are not likely to evoke
a wholesome form of subjective engagement.
Keywords: intersubjectivity, Ogden, relational field, the analytic
third, narrative.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/intersubj.htm
----------------------
THE ONGOING SELF-DESTRUCTION OF PSYCHOANALYSIS
by Mats Winther
Abstract: The article discusses the current 'theoretical chaos' in
psychology and argues that this ruinous situation is predicated on an
insufficient metaphysical groundwork. Any empirical scientific work
must be buttressed by a metaphysical foundation, otherwise the
empirical findings are beyond the grasp of a comprehensive
understanding and the result will be confusion. So it remains for
psychological theorists to delineate a system of metaphysical
principles, including ethical principles. The term 'metaphysical' is
understood as "the system of principles underlying a particular study
or subject" (Webster's dictionary).
Keywords: psychoanalysis, metaphysic, Oedipus, Proteus, empiricism,
rational neurosis, psychological monomorphism, pluripotent
unconscious, projective transidentification.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/destruc.htm
----------------------
----------------------
THE BLOOD SACRIFICE
remarks on the symbolism and psychology
by Mats Winther
Abstract: Victimization as a form of sacrificial ritual is discussed.
It is understood as an inferior and archaic method of ego
emancipation. By the destructive deed original wholeness is disrupted
and transfer of sin and guilt occurs. The blood sacrifice originates
as a defense against the fear of an overwhelming unconscious. Power
over life and death is imparted to the institution of consciousness.
By that means an identification with collective consciousness is
promoted and a weak consciousness strengthened. The regressive bond to
the unconscious is tem****arily severed, but the sacrifice must be
renewed. It is the real impetus behind Freud's death drive and also
the destructive narcissistic relation****p.
Keywords: rite of passage, self-mutilation, primal transgression, ego
wholeness, flagellants, amputation disorder, sin transference, St
Paul, Tezcatlipoca.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/bloodsac.htm
----------------------
THE INTRUSION OF MATRIARCHAL CONSCIOUSNESS
by Mats Winther
Abstract: It is argued that Western general consciousness, in parallel
with an ongoing cultural dissolution, risks moving in a "matriarchal"
direction. The phenomenon represents an inroad of matriarchal
consciousness into patriarchal culture, with forbidding consequences,
namely the formation of a neurotic culture at a lower level of
consciousness. This is unacceptable in the face of the advanced
challenges of the future. The distinctive character of a culture, in
terms of its cultural and psychological advancement, is a very
precious thing that can give the individual the right soil to grow in,
while it will suit his inborn constitution. The painful questions of
race and ethnicity can no longer be sidestepped. Historically,
delirious racial elitism has been counterpoised by an equally
unfounded homologous view of humanity. Guided by the latest findings
in human genetics, it is high time to arrive at a balanced view of
ethnic diversity.
Keywords: race, matriarchal, patriarchal, heroic, psychic gradient,
ethnic unconscious.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/matriarchal.htm
----------------------
THE PSYCHODYNAMICS OF TERRORISM
by Mats Winther
Abstract: Drawing on notions from comparative religion, and also
Freud's discussion of the death drive, light is shed on the
psychodynamic principles behind terrorism, and the bottomless evil of
mankind, in general. Terrorism is not foremostly a political problem,
or a problem deriving from poverty. Nor is it an evil that derives
from unshackled instinctual forces. Terrorism, and the even greater
problem of bullying and victimization of our peers, derive from an
archaic psychic economy of sin transference. Following St Paul, people
can be vaccinated against this evil, by forsaking ideological
grandiose ideals; by giving up the search for the perfect, blissful,
condition of outer life, and instead learn that 'the kingdom is
within.'
Keywords: terrorism, theocracy, human sacrifice, transfer of sin,
Khidr, The Green Man, St Paul, death drive, genocide.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/terror.htm
----------------------
PSYCHOANALYSIS AT THE CROSSROAD
by Mats Winther
Abstract: It is argued that psychoanalysis* in the future can be
sanctioned in academia, and find acceptance in the health business,
only if metapsychological concepts become common knowledge.
Psychoanalysis, and neighbouring branches, suffer from conceptual
isolation. A knowledge of the unconscious belongs in public
consciousness. Empirical research must be on firm theoretical ground,
which is not the case today. For this reason, neither research nor a
clinical approach can give direction to psychoanalysis. The answer
lies in a theoretical perspective, a clarifying of metaphysical and
metapsychological assumptions.
Keywords: dialectics, interiority, metapsychology, empiricism,
physicalism, cognitive-behavioral
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/psychemp.htm
----------------------
DEPENDENCY IN THE ANALYTIC RELATION****P
or
A Blind Spot in Jungian Thinking
by Mats Winther
Abstract: Three cases of dependency, in analysands of C.G. Jung, are
investigated. Their dreams, and personal understanding, are examined.
The article addresses difficulties in C.G. Jung's personal
convictions, which, it is argued, hampered his former analysands.
These convictions remain a quandary in the school of Analytical
Psychology.
Keywords: dependency, quaternarian, trinitarian, C.G. Jung, Joseph L.
Henderson, Marie-Louise von Franz, Wolfgang Pauli, Saint John of the
Cross, analytical psychology, individuation.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/dependency.htm
----------------------
A CONSTRUCTIVE CRITIQUE OF THE STRUCTURAL MODEL IN PSYCHOANALYSIS
by Mats Winther
Abstract: This article illustrates how the theory of complex
psychology is highly relevant to the ongoing discussion within the
psychoanalytic community. Critique is directed against Freud's
structural model of the psyche that generalises an oedipal
psychodynamics. The obsolete operationalism that still lingers in the
psychological community must once and for all be abandoned. Psychology
ought to cease devoting itself to half-baked empirical investigations
and allow more room for rigorous theorists.
Keywords: Oedipus, operationalism, autonomous complex, transference,
rational neurosis, structural model, complex psychology, Freud.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/compstruc.htm
----------------------
CRITIQUE OF CONFLICT THEORY
by Mats Winther
Abstract: 'Conflict theory' mirrors the chaotic configuration of the
borderline psyche. Brenner has effectively discarded the separate
psychic layers of conscious and unconscious. The stream of outer and
inner information is loosely connected, mirroring the instability and
contradictory nature of the borderline psyche, as opposed to the more
hierarchical and austere configuration of drives and perceptions among
normal people. Thus, it is an apt example of a "neurotic theory". It
will not function as a model of the normal psyche. Conflict theory
cannot be reconciled with neuroscience, or the findings of classical
psychoanalysis and analytical psychology.
Keywords: compromise formation, structural model, language philosophy,
indeterminacy, post-structuralism, Freud, Giegerich.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/brenner.htm
----------------------
CRITIQUE OF ARCHETYPAL PSYCHOLOGY
by Mats Winther
Abstract
Today there is a strong tendency towards making Jungian psychology a
generic name for a diversity of systems that, although they at the
first glance look related, because of similar terminology, their
kernels and ideals are completely different from Jung's ideas. One of
these theories is Hillman's "archetypal psychology," which radically
reinterprets Jung's concept of the archetype, dismisses the im****tant
Jungian notion of the self, renounces the process of individuation,
devaluates the Jungian method of introversion, opposes Jung's notion
of the moral obligation of grasping the unconscious and replaces this
with the amoral, aesthetic, attitude of the puer aeternus (eternal
youth). Despite this gross repudiation of Jungian psychology, Hillman
is embraced by Jungian publishers as a "Jungian" or "post-Jungian"
psychologist. But a correct denomination would be "anti-Jungian."
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/hillmcrit.htm
----------------------
EDINGER - THE EGO PROPHET
by Mats Winther
The American psychoanalyst and author Edward F. Edinger (1922-1998) is
the inventor of an exceptional worldview. According to him Jesus
Christ must "incarnate" in the self (the archetype of psychic
totality) whereupon the self "incarnates" in the ego. Thereby the
personal ego receives godlike status as it is transformed into an
"archetype". This implies that the personal ego attains eternal life
as it takes its abode in the Platonic sphere beyond time and space.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/edeng.htm
----------------------
WINNICOTT'S DREAM: A CRITIQUE OF WINNICOTT'S THOUGHT AS A FORM OF
MYSTICAL NARCISSISM
by Mats Winther
Abstract: British psychoanalyst D. W. Winnicott (1896-1971) developed
an original theory involving controversial ideas such as the
destruction of the patient and the merger of the subjective and
objective worlds into a whole. He argued that C.G. Jung suffered from
a severe pathology that had moulded his theoretical outlook. This
article argues to the contrary: it seems like Winnicott's own theory
displays a narcissistic kind of structure. His dream appears to be an
unconscious reaction against his unsup****table conscious attitude.
Winnicott is much concerned with how to defend against patients and
their invasive pathology. It becomes a system of defence for
psychologically weak therapists, and this is very harmful to patients.
The article contributes to the understanding of narcissism.
Keywords: narcissism, negative mother complex, potential space,
relational field, suicide-cult, purity, unit personality.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/winni.htm
----------------------
CRITIQUE OF INTERSUBJECTIVITY
by Mats Winther
Abstract: The article investigates the philosophical/psychological
notion of intersubjectivity and argues that our subjective involvement
in each other, especially the psychoanalytic relation between analyst
and analysand, ought to be regarded as an involvement on the
unconscious level. The different notions of a joint conscious
creation, or joint narrative, also implying a relative merger of our
conscious personalities, could be harmful and are not likely to evoke
a wholesome form of subjective engagement.
Keywords: intersubjectivity, Ogden, relational field, the analytic
third, narrative.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/intersubj.htm
----------------------
THE ONGOING SELF-DESTRUCTION OF PSYCHOANALYSIS
by Mats Winther
Abstract: The article discusses the current 'theoretical chaos' in
psychology and argues that this ruinous situation is predicated on an
insufficient metaphysical groundwork. Any empirical scientific work
must be buttressed by a metaphysical foundation, otherwise the
empirical findings are beyond the grasp of a comprehensive
understanding and the result will be confusion. So it remains for
psychological theorists to delineate a system of metaphysical
principles, including ethical principles. The term 'metaphysical' is
understood as "the system of principles underlying a particular study
or subject" (Webster's dictionary).
Keywords: psychoanalysis, metaphysic, Oedipus, Proteus, empiricism,
rational neurosis, psychological monomorphism, pluripotent
unconscious, projective transidentification.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/destruc.htm
----------------------
----------------------
THE BLOOD SACRIFICE
remarks on the symbolism and psychology
by Mats Winther
Abstract: Victimization as a form of sacrificial ritual is discussed.
It is understood as an inferior and archaic method of ego
emancipation. By the destructive deed original wholeness is disrupted
and transfer of sin and guilt occurs. The blood sacrifice originates
as a defense against the fear of an overwhelming unconscious. Power
over life and death is imparted to the institution of consciousness.
By that means an identification with collective consciousness is
promoted and a weak consciousness strengthened. The regressive bond to
the unconscious is tem****arily severed, but the sacrifice must be
renewed. It is the real impetus behind Freud's death drive and also
the destructive narcissistic relation****p.
Keywords: rite of passage, self-mutilation, primal transgression, ego
wholeness, flagellants, amputation disorder, sin transference, St
Paul, Tezcatlipoca.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/bloodsac.htm
----------------------
THE INTRUSION OF MATRIARCHAL CONSCIOUSNESS
by Mats Winther
Abstract: It is argued that Western general consciousness, in parallel
with an ongoing cultural dissolution, risks moving in a "matriarchal"
direction. The phenomenon represents an inroad of matriarchal
consciousness into patriarchal culture, with forbidding consequences,
namely the formation of a neurotic culture at a lower level of
consciousness. This is unacceptable in the face of the advanced
challenges of the future. The distinctive character of a culture, in
terms of its cultural and psychological advancement, is a very
precious thing that can give the individual the right soil to grow in,
while it will suit his inborn constitution. The painful questions of
race and ethnicity can no longer be sidestepped. Historically,
delirious racial elitism has been counterpoised by an equally
unfounded homologous view of humanity. Guided by the latest findings
in human genetics, it is high time to arrive at a balanced view of
ethnic diversity.
Keywords: race, matriarchal, patriarchal, heroic, psychic gradient,
ethnic unconscious.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/matriarchal.htm
----------------------
THE PSYCHODYNAMICS OF TERRORISM
by Mats Winther
Abstract: Drawing on notions from comparative religion, and also
Freud's discussion of the death drive, light is shed on the
psychodynamic principles behind terrorism, and the bottomless evil of
mankind, in general. Terrorism is not foremostly a political problem,
or a problem deriving from poverty. Nor is it an evil that derives
from unshackled instinctual forces. Terrorism, and the even greater
problem of bullying and victimization of our peers, derive from an
archaic psychic economy of sin transference. Following St Paul, people
can be vaccinated against this evil, by forsaking ideological
grandiose ideals; by giving up the search for the perfect, blissful,
condition of outer life, and instead learn that 'the kingdom is
within.'
Keywords: terrorism, theocracy, human sacrifice, transfer of sin,
Khidr, The Green Man, St Paul, death drive, genocide.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/terror.htm
----------------------
PSYCHOANALYSIS AT THE CROSSROAD
by Mats Winther
Abstract: It is argued that psychoanalysis* in the future can be
sanctioned in academia, and find acceptance in the health business,
only if metapsychological concepts become common knowledge.
Psychoanalysis, and neighbouring branches, suffer from conceptual
isolation. A knowledge of the unconscious belongs in public
consciousness. Empirical research must be on firm theoretical ground,
which is not the case today. For this reason, neither research nor a
clinical approach can give direction to psychoanalysis. The answer
lies in a theoretical perspective, a clarifying of metaphysical and
metapsychological assumptions.
Keywords: dialectics, interiority, metapsychology, empiricism,
physicalism, cognitive-behavioral
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/psychemp.htm
----------------------
DEPENDENCY IN THE ANALYTIC RELATION****P
or
A Blind Spot in Jungian Thinking
by Mats Winther
Abstract: Three cases of dependency, in analysands of C.G. Jung, are
investigated. Their dreams, and personal understanding, are examined.
The article addresses difficulties in C.G. Jung's personal
convictions, which, it is argued, hampered his former analysands.
These convictions remain a quandary in the school of Analytical
Psychology.
Keywords: dependency, quaternarian, trinitarian, C.G. Jung, Joseph L.
Henderson, Marie-Louise von Franz, Wolfgang Pauli, Saint John of the
Cross, analytical psychology, individuation.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/dependency.htm
----------------------
A CONSTRUCTIVE CRITIQUE OF THE STRUCTURAL MODEL IN PSYCHOANALYSIS
by Mats Winther
Abstract: This article illustrates how the theory of complex
psychology is highly relevant to the ongoing discussion within the
psychoanalytic community. Critique is directed against Freud's
structural model of the psyche that generalises an oedipal
psychodynamics. The obsolete operationalism that still lingers in the
psychological community must once and for all be abandoned. Psychology
ought to cease devoting itself to half-baked empirical investigations
and allow more room for rigorous theorists.
Keywords: Oedipus, operationalism, autonomous complex, transference,
rational neurosis, structural model, complex psychology, Freud.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/compstruc.htm
----------------------
CRITIQUE OF CONFLICT THEORY
by Mats Winther
Abstract: 'Conflict theory' mirrors the chaotic configuration of the
borderline psyche. Brenner has effectively discarded the separate
psychic layers of conscious and unconscious. The stream of outer and
inner information is loosely connected, mirroring the instability and
contradictory nature of the borderline psyche, as opposed to the more
hierarchical and austere configuration of drives and perceptions among
normal people. Thus, it is an apt example of a "neurotic theory". It
will not function as a model of the normal psyche. Conflict theory
cannot be reconciled with neuroscience, or the findings of classical
psychoanalysis and analytical psychology.
Keywords: compromise formation, structural model, language philosophy,
indeterminacy, post-structuralism, Freud, Giegerich.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/brenner.htm
----------------------
CRITIQUE OF ARCHETYPAL PSYCHOLOGY
by Mats Winther
Abstract
Today there is a strong tendency towards making Jungian psychology a
generic name for a diversity of systems that, although they at the
first glance look related, because of similar terminology, their
kernels and ideals are completely different from Jung's ideas. One of
these theories is Hillman's "archetypal psychology," which radically
reinterprets Jung's concept of the archetype, dismisses the im****tant
Jungian notion of the self, renounces the process of individuation,
devaluates the Jungian method of introversion, opposes Jung's notion
of the moral obligation of grasping the unconscious and replaces this
with the amoral, aesthetic, attitude of the puer aeternus (eternal
youth). Despite this gross repudiation of Jungian psychology, Hillman
is embraced by Jungian publishers as a "Jungian" or "post-Jungian"
psychologist. But a correct denomination would be "anti-Jungian."
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/hillmcrit.htm
----------------------
EDINGER - THE EGO PROPHET
by Mats Winther
The American psychoanalyst and author Edward F. Edinger (1922-1998) is
the inventor of an exceptional worldview. According to him Jesus
Christ must "incarnate" in the self (the archetype of psychic
totality) whereupon the self "incarnates" in the ego. Thereby the
personal ego receives godlike status as it is transformed into an
"archetype". This implies that the personal ego attains eternal life
as it takes its abode in the Platonic sphere beyond time and space.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/edeng.htm
----------------------
WINNICOTT'S DREAM: A CRITIQUE OF WINNICOTT'S THOUGHT AS A FORM OF
MYSTICAL NARCISSISM
by Mats Winther
Abstract: British psychoanalyst D. W. Winnicott (1896-1971) developed
an original theory involving controversial ideas such as the
destruction of the patient and the merger of the subjective and
objective worlds into a whole. He argued that C.G. Jung suffered from
a severe pathology that had moulded his theoretical outlook. This
article argues to the contrary: it seems like Winnicott's own theory
displays a narcissistic kind of structure. His dream appears to be an
unconscious reaction against his unsup****table conscious attitude.
Winnicott is much concerned with how to defend against patients and
their invasive pathology. It becomes a system of defence for
psychologically weak therapists, and this is very harmful to patients.
The article contributes to the understanding of narcissism.
Keywords: narcissism, negative mother complex, potential space,
relational field, suicide-cult, purity, unit personality.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/winni.htm
----------------------
CRITIQUE OF INTERSUBJECTIVITY
by Mats Winther
Abstract: The article investigates the philosophical/psychological
notion of intersubjectivity and argues that our subjective involvement
in each other, especially the psychoanalytic relation between analyst
and analysand, ought to be regarded as an involvement on the
unconscious level. The different notions of a joint conscious
creation, or joint narrative, also implying a relative merger of our
conscious personalities, could be harmful and are not likely to evoke
a wholesome form of subjective engagement.
Keywords: intersubjectivity, Ogden, relational field, the analytic
third, narrative.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/intersubj.htm
----------------------
THE ONGOING SELF-DESTRUCTION OF PSYCHOANALYSIS
by Mats Winther
Abstract: The article discusses the current 'theoretical chaos' in
psychology and argues that this ruinous situation is predicated on an
insufficient metaphysical groundwork. Any empirical scientific work
must be buttressed by a metaphysical foundation, otherwise the
empirical findings are beyond the grasp of a comprehensive
understanding and the result will be confusion. So it remains for
psychological theorists to delineate a system of metaphysical
principles, including ethical principles. The term 'metaphysical' is
understood as "the system of principles underlying a particular study
or subject" (Webster's dictionary).
Keywords: psychoanalysis, metaphysic, Oedipus, Proteus, empiricism,
rational neurosis, psychological monomorphism, pluripotent
unconscious, projective transidentification.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/destruc.htm
----------------------
----------------------
THE BLOOD SACRIFICE
remarks on the symbolism and psychology
by Mats Winther
Abstract: Victimization as a form of sacrificial ritual is discussed.
It is understood as an inferior and archaic method of ego
emancipation. By the destructive deed original wholeness is disrupted
and transfer of sin and guilt occurs. The blood sacrifice originates
as a defense against the fear of an overwhelming unconscious. Power
over life and death is imparted to the institution of consciousness.
By that means an identification with collective consciousness is
promoted and a weak consciousness strengthened. The regressive bond to
the unconscious is tem****arily severed, but the sacrifice must be
renewed. It is the real impetus behind Freud's death drive and also
the destructive narcissistic relation****p.
Keywords: rite of passage, self-mutilation, primal transgression, ego
wholeness, flagellants, amputation disorder, sin transference, St
Paul, Tezcatlipoca.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/bloodsac.htm
----------------------
THE INTRUSION OF MATRIARCHAL CONSCIOUSNESS
by Mats Winther
Abstract: It is argued that Western general consciousness, in parallel
with an ongoing cultural dissolution, risks moving in a "matriarchal"
direction. The phenomenon represents an inroad of matriarchal
consciousness into patriarchal culture, with forbidding consequences,
namely the formation of a neurotic culture at a lower level of
consciousness. This is unacceptable in the face of the advanced
challenges of the future. The distinctive character of a culture, in
terms of its cultural and psychological advancement, is a very
precious thing that can give the individual the right soil to grow in,
while it will suit his inborn constitution. The painful questions of
race and ethnicity can no longer be sidestepped. Historically,
delirious racial elitism has been counterpoised by an equally
unfounded homologous view of humanity. Guided by the latest findings
in human genetics, it is high time to arrive at a balanced view of
ethnic diversity.
Keywords: race, matriarchal, patriarchal, heroic, psychic gradient,
ethnic unconscious.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/matriarchal.htm
----------------------
THE PSYCHODYNAMICS OF TERRORISM
by Mats Winther
Abstract: Drawing on notions from comparative religion, and also
Freud's discussion of the death drive, light is shed on the
psychodynamic principles behind terrorism, and the bottomless evil of
mankind, in general. Terrorism is not foremostly a political problem,
or a problem deriving from poverty. Nor is it an evil that derives
from unshackled instinctual forces. Terrorism, and the even greater
problem of bullying and victimization of our peers, derive from an
archaic psychic economy of sin transference. Following St Paul, people
can be vaccinated against this evil, by forsaking ideological
grandiose ideals; by giving up the search for the perfect, blissful,
condition of outer life, and instead learn that 'the kingdom is
within.'
Keywords: terrorism, theocracy, human sacrifice, transfer of sin,
Khidr, The Green Man, St Paul, death drive, genocide.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/terror.htm
----------------------
PSYCHOANALYSIS AT THE CROSSROAD
by Mats Winther
Abstract: It is argued that psychoanalysis* in the future can be
sanctioned in academia, and find acceptance in the health business,
only if metapsychological concepts become common knowledge.
Psychoanalysis, and neighbouring branches, suffer from conceptual
isolation. A knowledge of the unconscious belongs in public
consciousness. Empirical research must be on firm theoretical ground,
which is not the case today. For this reason, neither research nor a
clinical approach can give direction to psychoanalysis. The answer
lies in a theoretical perspective, a clarifying of metaphysical and
metapsychological assumptions.
Keywords: dialectics, interiority, metapsychology, empiricism,
physicalism, cognitive-behavioral
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/psychemp.htm
----------------------
DEPENDENCY IN THE ANALYTIC RELATION****P
or
A Blind Spot in Jungian Thinking
by Mats Winther
Abstract: Three cases of dependency, in analysands of C.G. Jung, are
investigated. Their dreams, and personal understanding, are examined.
The article addresses difficulties in C.G. Jung's personal
convictions, which, it is argued, hampered his former analysands.
These convictions remain a quandary in the school of Analytical
Psychology.
Keywords: dependency, quaternarian, trinitarian, C.G. Jung, Joseph L.
Henderson, Marie-Louise von Franz, Wolfgang Pauli, Saint John of the
Cross, analytical psychology, individuation.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/dependency.htm
----------------------
A CONSTRUCTIVE CRITIQUE OF THE STRUCTURAL MODEL IN PSYCHOANALYSIS
by Mats Winther
Abstract: This article illustrates how the theory of complex
psychology is highly relevant to the ongoing discussion within the
psychoanalytic community. Critique is directed against Freud's
structural model of the psyche that generalises an oedipal
psychodynamics. The obsolete operationalism that still lingers in the
psychological community must once and for all be abandoned. Psychology
ought to cease devoting itself to half-baked empirical investigations
and allow more room for rigorous theorists.
Keywords: Oedipus, operationalism, autonomous complex, transference,
rational neurosis, structural model, complex psychology, Freud.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/compstruc.htm
----------------------
CRITIQUE OF CONFLICT THEORY
by Mats Winther
Abstract: 'Conflict theory' mirrors the chaotic configuration of the
borderline psyche. Brenner has effectively discarded the separate
psychic layers of conscious and unconscious. The stream of outer and
inner information is loosely connected, mirroring the instability and
contradictory nature of the borderline psyche, as opposed to the more
hierarchical and austere configuration of drives and perceptions among
normal people. Thus, it is an apt example of a "neurotic theory". It
will not function as a model of the normal psyche. Conflict theory
cannot be reconciled with neuroscience, or the findings of classical
psychoanalysis and analytical psychology.
Keywords: compromise formation, structural model, language philosophy,
indeterminacy, post-structuralism, Freud, Giegerich.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/brenner.htm
----------------------
CRITIQUE OF ARCHETYPAL PSYCHOLOGY
by Mats Winther
Abstract
Today there is a strong tendency towards making Jungian psychology a
generic name for a diversity of systems that, although they at the
first glance look related, because of similar terminology, their
kernels and ideals are completely different from Jung's ideas. One of
these theories is Hillman's "archetypal psychology," which radically
reinterprets Jung's concept of the archetype, dismisses the im****tant
Jungian notion of the self, renounces the process of individuation,
devaluates the Jungian method of introversion, opposes Jung's notion
of the moral obligation of grasping the unconscious and replaces this
with the amoral, aesthetic, attitude of the puer aeternus (eternal
youth). Despite this gross repudiation of Jungian psychology, Hillman
is embraced by Jungian publishers as a "Jungian" or "post-Jungian"
psychologist. But a correct denomination would be "anti-Jungian."
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/hillmcrit.htm
----------------------
EDINGER - THE EGO PROPHET
by Mats Winther
The American psychoanalyst and author Edward F. Edinger (1922-1998) is
the inventor of an exceptional worldview. According to him Jesus
Christ must "incarnate" in the self (the archetype of psychic
totality) whereupon the self "incarnates" in the ego. Thereby the
personal ego receives godlike status as it is transformed into an
"archetype". This implies that the personal ego attains eternal life
as it takes its abode in the Platonic sphere beyond time and space.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/edeng.htm
----------------------
WINNICOTT'S DREAM: A CRITIQUE OF WINNICOTT'S THOUGHT AS A FORM OF
MYSTICAL NARCISSISM
by Mats Winther
Abstract: British psychoanalyst D. W. Winnicott (1896-1971) developed
an original theory involving controversial ideas such as the
destruction of the patient and the merger of the subjective and
objective worlds into a whole. He argued that C.G. Jung suffered from
a severe pathology that had moulded his theoretical outlook. This
article argues to the contrary: it seems like Winnicott's own theory
displays a narcissistic kind of structure. His dream appears to be an
unconscious reaction against his unsup****table conscious attitude.
Winnicott is much concerned with how to defend against patients and
their invasive pathology. It becomes a system of defence for
psychologically weak therapists, and this is very harmful to patients.
The article contributes to the understanding of narcissism.
Keywords: narcissism, negative mother complex, potential space,
relational field, suicide-cult, purity, unit personality.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/winni.htm
----------------------
CRITIQUE OF INTERSUBJECTIVITY
by Mats Winther
Abstract: The article investigates the philosophical/psychological
notion of intersubjectivity and argues that our subjective involvement
in each other, especially the psychoanalytic relation between analyst
and analysand, ought to be regarded as an involvement on the
unconscious level. The different notions of a joint conscious
creation, or joint narrative, also implying a relative merger of our
conscious personalities, could be harmful and are not likely to evoke
a wholesome form of subjective engagement.
Keywords: intersubjectivity, Ogden, relational field, the analytic
third, narrative.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/intersubj.htm
----------------------
THE ONGOING SELF-DESTRUCTION OF PSYCHOANALYSIS
by Mats Winther
Abstract: The article discusses the current 'theoretical chaos' in
psychology and argues that this ruinous situation is predicated on an
insufficient metaphysical groundwork. Any empirical scientific work
must be buttressed by a metaphysical foundation, otherwise the
empirical findings are beyond the grasp of a comprehensive
understanding and the result will be confusion. So it remains for
psychological theorists to delineate a system of metaphysical
principles, including ethical principles. The term 'metaphysical' is
understood as "the system of principles underlying a particular study
or subject" (Webster's dictionary).
Keywords: psychoanalysis, metaphysic, Oedipus, Proteus, empiricism,
rational neurosis, psychological monomorphism, pluripotent
unconscious, projective transidentification.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/destruc.htm
----------------------
----------------------
THE BLOOD SACRIFICE
remarks on the symbolism and psychology
by Mats Winther
Abstract: Victimization as a form of sacrificial ritual is discussed.
It is understood as an inferior and archaic method of ego
emancipation. By the destructive deed original wholeness is disrupted
and transfer of sin and guilt occurs. The blood sacrifice originates
as a defense against the fear of an overwhelming unconscious. Power
over life and death is imparted to the institution of consciousness.
By that means an identification with collective consciousness is
promoted and a weak consciousness strengthened. The regressive bond to
the unconscious is tem****arily severed, but the sacrifice must be
renewed. It is the real impetus behind Freud's death drive and also
the destructive narcissistic relation****p.
Keywords: rite of passage, self-mutilation, primal transgression, ego
wholeness, flagellants, amputation disorder, sin transference, St
Paul, Tezcatlipoca.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/bloodsac.htm
----------------------
THE INTRUSION OF MATRIARCHAL CONSCIOUSNESS
by Mats Winther
Abstract: It is argued that Western general consciousness, in parallel
with an ongoing cultural dissolution, risks moving in a "matriarchal"
direction. The phenomenon represents an inroad of matriarchal
consciousness into patriarchal culture, with forbidding consequences,
namely the formation of a neurotic culture at a lower level of
consciousness. This is unacceptable in the face of the advanced
challenges of the future. The distinctive character of a culture, in
terms of its cultural and psychological advancement, is a very
precious thing that can give the individual the right soil to grow in,
while it will suit his inborn constitution. The painful questions of
race and ethnicity can no longer be sidestepped. Historically,
delirious racial elitism has been counterpoised by an equally
unfounded homologous view of humanity. Guided by the latest findings
in human genetics, it is high time to arrive at a balanced view of
ethnic diversity.
Keywords: race, matriarchal, patriarchal, heroic, psychic gradient,
ethnic unconscious.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/matriarchal.htm
----------------------
THE PSYCHODYNAMICS OF TERRORISM
by Mats Winther
Abstract: Drawing on notions from comparative religion, and also
Freud's discussion of the death drive, light is shed on the
psychodynamic principles behind terrorism, and the bottomless evil of
mankind, in general. Terrorism is not foremostly a political problem,
or a problem deriving from poverty. Nor is it an evil that derives
from unshackled instinctual forces. Terrorism, and the even greater
problem of bullying and victimization of our peers, derive from an
archaic psychic economy of sin transference. Following St Paul, people
can be vaccinated against this evil, by forsaking ideological
grandiose ideals; by giving up the search for the perfect, blissful,
condition of outer life, and instead learn that 'the kingdom is
within.'
Keywords: terrorism, theocracy, human sacrifice, transfer of sin,
Khidr, The Green Man, St Paul, death drive, genocide.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/terror.htm
----------------------
PSYCHOANALYSIS AT THE CROSSROAD
by Mats Winther
Abstract: It is argued that psychoanalysis* in the future can be
sanctioned in academia, and find acceptance in the health business,
only if metapsychological concepts become common knowledge.
Psychoanalysis, and neighbouring branches, suffer from conceptual
isolation. A knowledge of the unconscious belongs in public
consciousness. Empirical research must be on firm theoretical ground,
which is not the case today. For this reason, neither research nor a
clinical approach can give direction to psychoanalysis. The answer
lies in a theoretical perspective, a clarifying of metaphysical and
metapsychological assumptions.
Keywords: dialectics, interiority, metapsychology, empiricism,
physicalism, cognitive-behavioral
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/psychemp.htm
----------------------
DEPENDENCY IN THE ANALYTIC RELATION****P
or
A Blind Spot in Jungian Thinking
by Mats Winther
Abstract: Three cases of dependency, in analysands of C.G. Jung, are
investigated. Their dreams, and personal understanding, are examined.
The article addresses difficulties in C.G. Jung's personal
convictions, which, it is argued, hampered his former analysands.
These convictions remain a quandary in the school of Analytical
Psychology.
Keywords: dependency, quaternarian, trinitarian, C.G. Jung, Joseph L.
Henderson, Marie-Louise von Franz, Wolfgang Pauli, Saint John of the
Cross, analytical psychology, individuation.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/dependency.htm
----------------------
A CONSTRUCTIVE CRITIQUE OF THE STRUCTURAL MODEL IN PSYCHOANALYSIS
by Mats Winther
Abstract: This article illustrates how the theory of complex
psychology is highly relevant to the ongoing discussion within the
psychoanalytic community. Critique is directed against Freud's
structural model of the psyche that generalises an oedipal
psychodynamics. The obsolete operationalism that still lingers in the
psychological community must once and for all be abandoned. Psychology
ought to cease devoting itself to half-baked empirical investigations
and allow more room for rigorous theorists.
Keywords: Oedipus, operationalism, autonomous complex, transference,
rational neurosis, structural model, complex psychology, Freud.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/compstruc.htm
----------------------
CRITIQUE OF CONFLICT THEORY
by Mats Winther
Abstract: 'Conflict theory' mirrors the chaotic configuration of the
borderline psyche. Brenner has effectively discarded the separate
psychic layers of conscious and unconscious. The stream of outer and
inner information is loosely connected, mirroring the instability and
contradictory nature of the borderline psyche, as opposed to the more
hierarchical and austere configuration of drives and perceptions among
normal people. Thus, it is an apt example of a "neurotic theory". It
will not function as a model of the normal psyche. Conflict theory
cannot be reconciled with neuroscience, or the findings of classical
psychoanalysis and analytical psychology.
Keywords: compromise formation, structural model, language philosophy,
indeterminacy, post-structuralism, Freud, Giegerich.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/brenner.htm
----------------------
CRITIQUE OF ARCHETYPAL PSYCHOLOGY
by Mats Winther
Abstract
Today there is a strong tendency towards making Jungian psychology a
generic name for a diversity of systems that, although they at the
first glance look related, because of similar terminology, their
kernels and ideals are completely different from Jung's ideas. One of
these theories is Hillman's "archetypal psychology," which radically
reinterprets Jung's concept of the archetype, dismisses the im****tant
Jungian notion of the self, renounces the process of individuation,
devaluates the Jungian method of introversion, opposes Jung's notion
of the moral obligation of grasping the unconscious and replaces this
with the amoral, aesthetic, attitude of the puer aeternus (eternal
youth). Despite this gross repudiation of Jungian psychology, Hillman
is embraced by Jungian publishers as a "Jungian" or "post-Jungian"
psychologist. But a correct denomination would be "anti-Jungian."
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/hillmcrit.htm
----------------------
EDINGER - THE EGO PROPHET
by Mats Winther
The American psychoanalyst and author Edward F. Edinger (1922-1998) is
the inventor of an exceptional worldview. According to him Jesus
Christ must "incarnate" in the self (the archetype of psychic
totality) whereupon the self "incarnates" in the ego. Thereby the
personal ego receives godlike status as it is transformed into an
"archetype". This implies that the personal ego attains eternal life
as it takes its abode in the Platonic sphere beyond time and space.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/edeng.htm
----------------------
WINNICOTT'S DREAM: A CRITIQUE OF WINNICOTT'S THOUGHT AS A FORM OF
MYSTICAL NARCISSISM
by Mats Winther
Abstract: British psychoanalyst D. W. Winnicott (1896-1971) developed
an original theory involving controversial ideas such as the
destruction of the patient and the merger of the subjective and
objective worlds into a whole. He argued that C.G. Jung suffered from
a severe pathology that had moulded his theoretical outlook. This
article argues to the contrary: it seems like Winnicott's own theory
displays a narcissistic kind of structure. His dream appears to be an
unconscious reaction against his unsup****table conscious attitude.
Winnicott is much concerned with how to defend against patients and
their invasive pathology. It becomes a system of defence for
psychologically weak therapists, and this is very harmful to patients.
The article contributes to the understanding of narcissism.
Keywords: narcissism, negative mother complex, potential space,
relational field, suicide-cult, purity, unit personality.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/winni.htm
----------------------
CRITIQUE OF INTERSUBJECTIVITY
by Mats Winther
Abstract: The article investigates the philosophical/psychological
notion of intersubjectivity and argues that our subjective involvement
in each other, especially the psychoanalytic relation between analyst
and analysand, ought to be regarded as an involvement on the
unconscious level. The different notions of a joint conscious
creation, or joint narrative, also implying a relative merger of our
conscious personalities, could be harmful and are not likely to evoke
a wholesome form of subjective engagement.
Keywords: intersubjectivity, Ogden, relational field, the analytic
third, narrative.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/intersubj.htm
----------------------
THE ONGOING SELF-DESTRUCTION OF PSYCHOANALYSIS
by Mats Winther
Abstract: The article discusses the current 'theoretical chaos' in
psychology and argues that this ruinous situation is predicated on an
insufficient metaphysical groundwork. Any empirical scientific work
must be buttressed by a metaphysical foundation, otherwise the
empirical findings are beyond the grasp of a comprehensive
understanding and the result will be confusion. So it remains for
psychological theorists to delineate a system of metaphysical
principles, including ethical principles. The term 'metaphysical' is
understood as "the system of principles underlying a particular study
or subject" (Webster's dictionary).
Keywords: psychoanalysis, metaphysic, Oedipus, Proteus, empiricism,
rational neurosis, psychological monomorphism, pluripotent
unconscious, projective transidentification.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/destruc.htm
----------------------
----------------------
THE BLOOD SACRIFICE
remarks on the symbolism and psychology
by Mats Winther
Abstract: Victimization as a form of sacrificial ritual is discussed.
It is understood as an inferior and archaic method of ego
emancipation. By the destructive deed original wholeness is disrupted
and transfer of sin and guilt occurs. The blood sacrifice originates
as a defense against the fear of an overwhelming unconscious. Power
over life and death is imparted to the institution of consciousness.
By that means an identification with collective consciousness is
promoted and a weak consciousness strengthened. The regressive bond to
the unconscious is tem****arily severed, but the sacrifice must be
renewed. It is the real impetus behind Freud's death drive and also
the destructive narcissistic relation****p.
Keywords: rite of passage, self-mutilation, primal transgression, ego
wholeness, flagellants, amputation disorder, sin transference, St
Paul, Tezcatlipoca.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/bloodsac.htm
----------------------
THE INTRUSION OF MATRIARCHAL CONSCIOUSNESS
by Mats Winther
Abstract: It is argued that Western general consciousness, in parallel
with an ongoing cultural dissolution, risks moving in a "matriarchal"
direction. The phenomenon represents an inroad of matriarchal
consciousness into patriarchal culture, with forbidding consequences,
namely the formation of a neurotic culture at a lower level of
consciousness. This is unacceptable in the face of the advanced
challenges of the future. The distinctive character of a culture, in
terms of its cultural and psychological advancement, is a very
precious thing that can give the individual the right soil to grow in,
while it will suit his inborn constitution. The painful questions of
race and ethnicity can no longer be sidestepped. Historically,
delirious racial elitism has been counterpoised by an equally
unfounded homologous view of humanity. Guided by the latest findings
in human genetics, it is high time to arrive at a balanced view of
ethnic diversity.
Keywords: race, matriarchal, patriarchal, heroic, psychic gradient,
ethnic unconscious.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/matriarchal.htm
----------------------
THE PSYCHODYNAMICS OF TERRORISM
by Mats Winther
Abstract: Drawing on notions from comparative religion, and also
Freud's discussion of the death drive, light is shed on the
psychodynamic principles behind terrorism, and the bottomless evil of
mankind, in general. Terrorism is not foremostly a political problem,
or a problem deriving from poverty. Nor is it an evil that derives
from unshackled instinctual forces. Terrorism, and the even greater
problem of bullying and victimization of our peers, derive from an
archaic psychic economy of sin transference. Following St Paul, people
can be vaccinated against this evil, by forsaking ideological
grandiose ideals; by giving up the search for the perfect, blissful,
condition of outer life, and instead learn that 'the kingdom is
within.'
Keywords: terrorism, theocracy, human sacrifice, transfer of sin,
Khidr, The Green Man, St Paul, death drive, genocide.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/terror.htm
----------------------
PSYCHOANALYSIS AT THE CROSSROAD
by Mats Winther
Abstract: It is argued that psychoanalysis* in the future can be
sanctioned in academia, and find acceptance in the health business,
only if metapsychological concepts become common knowledge.
Psychoanalysis, and neighbouring branches, suffer from conceptual
isolation. A knowledge of the unconscious belongs in public
consciousness. Empirical research must be on firm theoretical ground,
which is not the case today. For this reason, neither research nor a
clinical approach can give direction to psychoanalysis. The answer
lies in a theoretical perspective, a clarifying of metaphysical and
metapsychological assumptions.
Keywords: dialectics, interiority, metapsychology, empiricism,
physicalism, cognitive-behavioral
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/psychemp.htm
----------------------
DEPENDENCY IN THE ANALYTIC RELATION****P
or
A Blind Spot in Jungian Thinking
by Mats Winther
Abstract: Three cases of dependency, in analysands of C.G. Jung, are
investigated. Their dreams, and personal understanding, are examined.
The article addresses difficulties in C.G. Jung's personal
convictions, which, it is argued, hampered his former analysands.
These convictions remain a quandary in the school of Analytical
Psychology.
Keywords: dependency, quaternarian, trinitarian, C.G. Jung, Joseph L.
Henderson, Marie-Louise von Franz, Wolfgang Pauli, Saint John of the
Cross, analytical psychology, individuation.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/dependency.htm
----------------------
A CONSTRUCTIVE CRITIQUE OF THE STRUCTURAL MODEL IN PSYCHOANALYSIS
by Mats Winther
Abstract: This article illustrates how the theory of complex
psychology is highly relevant to the ongoing discussion within the
psychoanalytic community. Critique is directed against Freud's
structural model of the psyche that generalises an oedipal
psychodynamics. The obsolete operationalism that still lingers in the
psychological community must once and for all be abandoned. Psychology
ought to cease devoting itself to half-baked empirical investigations
and allow more room for rigorous theorists.
Keywords: Oedipus, operationalism, autonomous complex, transference,
rational neurosis, structural model, complex psychology, Freud.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/compstruc.htm
----------------------
CRITIQUE OF CONFLICT THEORY
by Mats Winther
Abstract: 'Conflict theory' mirrors the chaotic configuration of the
borderline psyche. Brenner has effectively discarded the separate
psychic layers of conscious and unconscious. The stream of outer and
inner information is loosely connected, mirroring the instability and
contradictory nature of the borderline psyche, as opposed to the more
hierarchical and austere configuration of drives and perceptions among
normal people. Thus, it is an apt example of a "neurotic theory". It
will not function as a model of the normal psyche. Conflict theory
cannot be reconciled with neuroscience, or the findings of classical
psychoanalysis and analytical psychology.
Keywords: compromise formation, structural model, language philosophy,
indeterminacy, post-structuralism, Freud, Giegerich.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/brenner.htm
----------------------
CRITIQUE OF ARCHETYPAL PSYCHOLOGY
by Mats Winther
Abstract
Today there is a strong tendency towards making Jungian psychology a
generic name for a diversity of systems that, although they at the
first glance look related, because of similar terminology, their
kernels and ideals are completely different from Jung's ideas. One of
these theories is Hillman's "archetypal psychology," which radically
reinterprets Jung's concept of the archetype, dismisses the im****tant
Jungian notion of the self, renounces the process of individuation,
devaluates the Jungian method of introversion, opposes Jung's notion
of the moral obligation of grasping the unconscious and replaces this
with the amoral, aesthetic, attitude of the puer aeternus (eternal
youth). Despite this gross repudiation of Jungian psychology, Hillman
is embraced by Jungian publishers as a "Jungian" or "post-Jungian"
psychologist. But a correct denomination would be "anti-Jungian."
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/hillmcrit.htm
----------------------
EDINGER - THE EGO PROPHET
by Mats Winther
The American psychoanalyst and author Edward F. Edinger (1922-1998) is
the inventor of an exceptional worldview. According to him Jesus
Christ must "incarnate" in the self (the archetype of psychic
totality) whereupon the self "incarnates" in the ego. Thereby the
personal ego receives godlike status as it is transformed into an
"archetype". This implies that the personal ego attains eternal life
as it takes its abode in the Platonic sphere beyond time and space.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/edeng.htm
----------------------
WINNICOTT'S DREAM: A CRITIQUE OF WINNICOTT'S THOUGHT AS A FORM OF
MYSTICAL NARCISSISM
by Mats Winther
Abstract: British psychoanalyst D. W. Winnicott (1896-1971) developed
an original theory involving controversial ideas such as the
destruction of the patient and the merger of the subjective and
objective worlds into a whole. He argued that C.G. Jung suffered from
a severe pathology that had moulded his theoretical outlook. This
article argues to the contrary: it seems like Winnicott's own theory
displays a narcissistic kind of structure. His dream appears to be an
unconscious reaction against his unsup****table conscious attitude.
Winnicott is much concerned with how to defend against patients and
their invasive pathology. It becomes a system of defence for
psychologically weak therapists, and this is very harmful to patients.
The article contributes to the understanding of narcissism.
Keywords: narcissism, negative mother complex, potential space,
relational field, suicide-cult, purity, unit personality.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/winni.htm
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CRITIQUE OF INTERSUBJECTIVITY
by Mats Winther
Abstract: The article investigates the philosophical/psychological
notion of intersubjectivity and argues that our subjective involvement
in each other, especially the psychoanalytic relation between analyst
and analysand, ought to be regarded as an involvement on the
unconscious level. The different notions of a joint conscious
creation, or joint narrative, also implying a relative merger of our
conscious personalities, could be harmful and are not likely to evoke
a wholesome form of subjective engagement.
Keywords: intersubjectivity, Ogden, relational field, the analytic
third, narrative.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/intersubj.htm
----------------------
THE ONGOING SELF-DESTRUCTION OF PSYCHOANALYSIS
by Mats Winther
Abstract: The article discusses the current 'theoretical chaos' in
psychology and argues that this ruinous situation is predicated on an
insufficient metaphysical groundwork. Any empirical scientific work
must be buttressed by a metaphysical foundation, otherwise the
empirical findings are beyond the grasp of a comprehensive
understanding and the result will be confusion. So it remains for
psychological theorists to delineate a system of metaphysical
principles, including ethical principles. The term 'metaphysical' is
understood as "the system of principles underlying a particular study
or subject" (Webster's dictionary).
Keywords: psychoanalysis, metaphysic, Oedipus, Proteus, empiricism,
rational neurosis, psychological monomorphism, pluripotent
unconscious, projective transidentification.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/destruc.htm
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THE BLOOD SACRIFICE
remarks on the symbolism and psychology
by Mats Winther
Abstract: Victimization as a form of sacrificial ritual is discussed.
It is understood as an inferior and archaic method of ego
emancipation. By the destructive deed original wholeness is disrupted
and transfer of sin and guilt occurs. The blood sacrifice originates
as a defense against the fear of an overwhelming unconscious. Power
over life and death is imparted to the institution of consciousness.
By that means an identification with collective consciousness is
promoted and a weak consciousness strengthened. The regressive bond to
the unconscious is tem****arily severed, but the sacrifice must be
renewed. It is the real impetus behind Freud's death drive and also
the destructive narcissistic relation****p.
Keywords: rite of passage, self-mutilation, primal transgression, ego
wholeness, flagellants, amputation disorder, sin transference, St
Paul, Tezcatlipoca.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/bloodsac.htm
----------------------
THE INTRUSION OF MATRIARCHAL CONSCIOUSNESS
by Mats Winther
Abstract: It is argued that Western general consciousness, in parallel
with an ongoing cultural dissolution, risks moving in a "matriarchal"
direction. The phenomenon represents an inroad of matriarchal
consciousness into patriarchal culture, with forbidding consequences,
namely the formation of a neurotic culture at a lower level of
consciousness. This is unacceptable in the face of the advanced
challenges of the future. The distinctive character of a culture, in
terms of its cultural and psychological advancement, is a very
precious thing that can give the individual the right soil to grow in,
while it will suit his inborn constitution. The painful questions of
race and ethnicity can no longer be sidestepped. Historically,
delirious racial elitism has been counterpoised by an equally
unfounded homologous view of humanity. Guided by the latest findings
in human genetics, it is high time to arrive at a balanced view of
ethnic diversity.
Keywords: race, matriarchal, patriarchal, heroic, psychic gradient,
ethnic unconscious.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/matriarchal.htm
----------------------
THE PSYCHODYNAMICS OF TERRORISM
by Mats Winther
Abstract: Drawing on notions from comparative religion, and also
Freud's discussion of the death drive, light is shed on the
psychodynamic principles behind terrorism, and the bottomless evil of
mankind, in general. Terrorism is not foremostly a political problem,
or a problem deriving from poverty. Nor is it an evil that derives
from unshackled instinctual forces. Terrorism, and the even greater
problem of bullying and victimization of our peers, derive from an
archaic psychic economy of sin transference. Following St Paul, people
can be vaccinated against this evil, by forsaking ideological
grandiose ideals; by giving up the search for the perfect, blissful,
condition of outer life, and instead learn that 'the kingdom is
within.'
Keywords: terrorism, theocracy, human sacrifice, transfer of sin,
Khidr, The Green Man, St Paul, death drive, genocide.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/terror.htm
----------------------
PSYCHOANALYSIS AT THE CROSSROAD
by Mats Winther
Abstract: It is argued that psychoanalysis* in the future can be
sanctioned in academia, and find acceptance in the health business,
only if metapsychological concepts become common knowledge.
Psychoanalysis, and neighbouring branches, suffer from conceptual
isolation. A knowledge of the unconscious belongs in public
consciousness. Empirical research must be on firm theoretical ground,
which is not the case today. For this reason, neither research nor a
clinical approach can give direction to psychoanalysis. The answer
lies in a theoretical perspective, a clarifying of metaphysical and
metapsychological assumptions.
Keywords: dialectics, interiority, metapsychology, empiricism,
physicalism, cognitive-behavioral
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/psychemp.htm
----------------------
DEPENDENCY IN THE ANALYTIC RELATION****P
or
A Blind Spot in Jungian Thinking
by Mats Winther
Abstract: Three cases of dependency, in analysands of C.G. Jung, are
investigated. Their dreams, and personal understanding, are examined.
The article addresses difficulties in C.G. Jung's personal
convictions, which, it is argued, hampered his former analysands.
These convictions remain a quandary in the school of Analytical
Psychology.
Keywords: dependency, quaternarian, trinitarian, C.G. Jung, Joseph L.
Henderson, Marie-Louise von Franz, Wolfgang Pauli, Saint John of the
Cross, analytical psychology, individuation.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/dependency.htm
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A CONSTRUCTIVE CRITIQUE OF THE STRUCTURAL MODEL IN PSYCHOANALYSIS
by Mats Winther
Abstract: This article illustrates how the theory of complex
psychology is highly relevant to the ongoing discussion within the
psychoanalytic community. Critique is directed against Freud's
structural model of the psyche that generalises an oedipal
psychodynamics. The obsolete operationalism that still lingers in the
psychological community must once and for all be abandoned. Psychology
ought to cease devoting itself to half-baked empirical investigations
and allow more room for rigorous theorists.
Keywords: Oedipus, operationalism, autonomous complex, transference,
rational neurosis, structural model, complex psychology, Freud.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/compstruc.htm
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CRITIQUE OF CONFLICT THEORY
by Mats Winther
Abstract: 'Conflict theory' mirrors the chaotic configuration of the
borderline psyche. Brenner has effectively discarded the separate
psychic layers of conscious and unconscious. The stream of outer and
inner information is loosely connected, mirroring the instability and
contradictory nature of the borderline psyche, as opposed to the more
hierarchical and austere configuration of drives and perceptions among
normal people. Thus, it is an apt example of a "neurotic theory". It
will not function as a model of the normal psyche. Conflict theory
cannot be reconciled with neuroscience, or the findings of classical
psychoanalysis and analytical psychology.
Keywords: compromise formation, structural model, language philosophy,
indeterminacy, post-structuralism, Freud, Giegerich.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/brenner.htm
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CRITIQUE OF ARCHETYPAL PSYCHOLOGY
by Mats Winther
Abstract
Today there is a strong tendency towards making Jungian psychology a
generic name for a diversity of systems that, although they at the
first glance look related, because of similar terminology, their
kernels and ideals are completely different from Jung's ideas. One of
these theories is Hillman's "archetypal psychology," which radically
reinterprets Jung's concept of the archetype, dismisses the im****tant
Jungian notion of the self, renounces the process of individuation,
devaluates the Jungian method of introversion, opposes Jung's notion
of the moral obligation of grasping the unconscious and replaces this
with the amoral, aesthetic, attitude of the puer aeternus (eternal
youth). Despite this gross repudiation of Jungian psychology, Hillman
is embraced by Jungian publishers as a "Jungian" or "post-Jungian"
psychologist. But a correct denomination would be "anti-Jungian."
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/hillmcrit.htm
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EDINGER - THE EGO PROPHET
by Mats Winther
The American psychoanalyst and author Edward F. Edinger (1922-1998) is
the inventor of an exceptional worldview. According to him Jesus
Christ must "incarnate" in the self (the archetype of psychic
totality) whereupon the self "incarnates" in the ego. Thereby the
personal ego receives godlike status as it is transformed into an
"archetype". This implies that the personal ego attains eternal life
as it takes its abode in the Platonic sphere beyond time and space.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/edeng.htm
----------------------
WINNICOTT'S DREAM: A CRITIQUE OF WINNICOTT'S THOUGHT AS A FORM OF
MYSTICAL NARCISSISM
by Mats Winther
Abstract: British psychoanalyst D. W. Winnicott (1896-1971) developed
an original theory involving controversial ideas such as the
destruction of the patient and the merger of the subjective and
objective worlds into a whole. He argued that C.G. Jung suffered from
a severe pathology that had moulded his theoretical outlook. This
article argues to the contrary: it seems like Winnicott's own theory
displays a narcissistic kind of structure. His dream appears to be an
unconscious reaction against his unsup****table conscious attitude.
Winnicott is much concerned with how to defend against patients and
their invasive pathology. It becomes a system of defence for
psychologically weak therapists, and this is very harmful to patients.
The article contributes to the understanding of narcissism.
Keywords: narcissism, negative mother complex, potential space,
relational field, suicide-cult, purity, unit personality.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/winni.htm
----------------------
CRITIQUE OF INTERSUBJECTIVITY
by Mats Winther
Abstract: The article investigates the philosophical/psychological
notion of intersubjectivity and argues that our subjective involvement
in each other, especially the psychoanalytic relation between analyst
and analysand, ought to be regarded as an involvement on the
unconscious level. The different notions of a joint conscious
creation, or joint narrative, also implying a relative merger of our
conscious personalities, could be harmful and are not likely to evoke
a wholesome form of subjective engagement.
Keywords: intersubjectivity, Ogden, relational field, the analytic
third, narrative.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/intersubj.htm
----------------------
THE ONGOING SELF-DESTRUCTION OF PSYCHOANALYSIS
by Mats Winther
Abstract: The article discusses the current 'theoretical chaos' in
psychology and argues that this ruinous situation is predicated on an
insufficient metaphysical groundwork. Any empirical scientific work
must be buttressed by a metaphysical foundation, otherwise the
empirical findings are beyond the grasp of a comprehensive
understanding and the result will be confusion. So it remains for
psychological theorists to delineate a system of metaphysical
principles, including ethical principles. The term 'metaphysical' is
understood as "the system of principles underlying a particular study
or subject" (Webster's dictionary).
Keywords: psychoanalysis, metaphysic, Oedipus, Proteus, empiricism,
rational neurosis, psychological monomorphism, pluripotent
unconscious, projective transidentification.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/destruc.htm
----------------------
----------------------
THE BLOOD SACRIFICE
remarks on the symbolism and psychology
by Mats Winther
Abstract: Victimization as a form of sacrificial ritual is discussed.
It is understood as an inferior and archaic method of ego
emancipation. By the destructive deed original wholeness is disrupted
and transfer of sin and guilt occurs. The blood sacrifice originates
as a defense against the fear of an overwhelming unconscious. Power
over life and death is imparted to the institution of consciousness.
By that means an identification with collective consciousness is
promoted and a weak consciousness strengthened. The regressive bond to
the unconscious is tem****arily severed, but the sacrifice must be
renewed. It is the real impetus behind Freud's death drive and also
the destructive narcissistic relation****p.
Keywords: rite of passage, self-mutilation, primal transgression, ego
wholeness, flagellants, amputation disorder, sin transference, St
Paul, Tezcatlipoca.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/bloodsac.htm
----------------------
THE INTRUSION OF MATRIARCHAL CONSCIOUSNESS
by Mats Winther
Abstract: It is argued that Western general consciousness, in parallel
with an ongoing cultural dissolution, risks moving in a "matriarchal"
direction. The phenomenon represents an inroad of matriarchal
consciousness into patriarchal culture, with forbidding consequences,
namely the formation of a neurotic culture at a lower level of
consciousness. This is unacceptable in the face of the advanced
challenges of the future. The distinctive character of a culture, in
terms of its cultural and psychological advancement, is a very
precious thing that can give the individual the right soil to grow in,
while it will suit his inborn constitution. The painful questions of
race and ethnicity can no longer be sidestepped. Historically,
delirious racial elitism has been counterpoised by an equally
unfounded homologous view of humanity. Guided by the latest findings
in human genetics, it is high time to arrive at a balanced view of
ethnic diversity.
Keywords: race, matriarchal, patriarchal, heroic, psychic gradient,
ethnic unconscious.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/matriarchal.htm
----------------------
THE PSYCHODYNAMICS OF TERRORISM
by Mats Winther
Abstract: Drawing on notions from comparative religion, and also
Freud's discussion of the death drive, light is shed on the
psychodynamic principles behind terrorism, and the bottomless evil of
mankind, in general. Terrorism is not foremostly a political problem,
or a problem deriving from poverty. Nor is it an evil that derives
from unshackled instinctual forces. Terrorism, and the even greater
problem of bullying and victimization of our peers, derive from an
archaic psychic economy of sin transference. Following St Paul, people
can be vaccinated against this evil, by forsaking ideological
grandiose ideals; by giving up the search for the perfect, blissful,
condition of outer life, and instead learn that 'the kingdom is
within.'
Keywords: terrorism, theocracy, human sacrifice, transfer of sin,
Khidr, The Green Man, St Paul, death drive, genocide.
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/terror.htm
----------------------
PSYCHOANALYSIS AT THE CROSSROAD
by Mats Winther
Abstract: It is argued that psychoanalysis* in the future can be
sanctioned in academia, and find acceptance in the health business,
only if metapsychological concepts become common knowledge.
Psychoanalysis, and neighbouring branches, suffer from conceptual
isolation. A knowledge of the unconscious belongs in public
consciousness. Empirical research must be on firm theoretical ground,
which is not the case today. For this reason, neither research nor a
clinical approach can give direction to psychoanalysis. The answer
lies in a theoretical perspective, a clarifying of metaphysical and
metapsychological assumptions.
Keywords: dialectics, interiority, metapsychology, empiricism,
physicalism, cognitive-behavioral
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/psychemp.htm
----------------------
DEPENDENCY IN THE ANALYTIC RELATION****P
or
A Blind Spot in Jungian Thinking
by Mats Winther
Abstract: Three cases of dependency, in analysands of C.G. Jung, are
investigated. Their dreams, and personal understanding, a |
