Future Psychoanalysis by Ahmed Fayek

Author:Ahmed Fayek
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-07-29T16:00:00+00:00

The absence of distinction between affect and feeling could seem inconsequential if it is not put in its proper perspective. As affect is the antecedent of feelings and the chain of subsequent representations, it should be emphasized that the origin of affect is not a matter of theoretical preference or choice. The origin is Trieb: the human version of the natural urge to react to internal stimuli, which is transformed spontaneously—in humans—into a psychical condition of a mental potential. There is no other mechanism known to us psychologists that explains that process. Trieb is a peculiar conception in psychoanalysis, because it was the least significant concept to most of the old generation analysts, including some of Freud’s contemporaries. Most ardently orthodox analysts could disregard it without any obvious signs of deviating from orthodoxy. Yet, Freud considered Trieb “the most important part but at the same time the least complete of the psychoanalytic theory” (1905d; 1924f, 168). Every time Freud came to a new understanding of clinical material or had a theoretical insight which required revision of the theory, he went back to Trieb and modified it to tally the new modifications. The best example is the period between the introduction of narcissism (1914c) and the conception of the repetition compulsion (1920g). During that time Freud paid attention to the vicissitudes of the instincts (1915c) and came to grips with the significance of the aggressive component in melancholia (1917e), and unexpectedly he replaced the conception of fixation with that of repetition compulsion. As a result, the theory of Trieb changed radically to fit in the new discoveries. The sexual versus self-preservation duality was replaced with the quality of life and death

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