Self-analysis

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Self-analysis is a psychoanalytic procedure developed by Sigmund Freud (1856–1939), which, however, has a precursor in the history of psychiatry . It was practiced by him relatively early - between 1900 and 1916 - and mainly related to the interpretation of his own dreams and his own free association . The term “analysis” is intended to indicate the intention to uncover unconscious material while dreaming or to clarify motives, for example in the case of phenomena of forgetting. In this respect, self-analysis is conceptually different from self-confidence .

Well-known example

A well-known example of Freud's self-analysis is the analysis of forgetting the name “ Signorelli ”. Numerous other examples are contained in Freud's work "The Interpretation of Dreams". The Interpretation of Dreams was for Sigmund Freud also a means of self-knowledge and self-discovery and personal experience social exclusion determined.

Beginnings

The beginnings of self-analysis can be seen - in terms of psychiatric relevance - in England and were practiced by George Cheyne (1671–1743). Reference is also made to Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) and his work The Confessions (1782). Rousseau knew the English model and therefore made an "English trip" to Montpellier in 1737.

Methods

Among the methods of self-analysis is one of the empathy in the context of self-observation , observing the subjectivity , abstracting into account their ethnic, cultural and sociological roles and personality factors as the ethnopsychoanalysis teaches and waiving any existing illusion of size fantasies as by institutional and societal factors are often favored. The rather involuntary renunciation of these moments was compensated in the case of Freud by his strong self-confidence. Freud knew how to withstand this pressure and how to endure it in spite of the many social ostracisms of his teaching. It was precisely through this that he discovered the unconscious and the mechanisms of its repression .

Psychoanalysts of the following generations of Freud took up the concept of self-analysis, as described by Mario Erdheim , among others, in his book The Societal Production of Unconsciousness in 1984 . It reached its fourth edition by 1992. The Israeli psychoanalyst Rivka Eifermann applied this method to herself in connection with the question of what traces the Holocaust had left in her mental life and recommended that her German colleagues use this concept not only, but also on this topic.

Relativization of self-analysis

Just as self- observation is in opposition to dialogical introspection , self-analysis is also in opposition to the technique of transference . This has Karl Abraham (1877-1925) worked out in the 1919th

literature

  • Rivka R. Eifermann: 'Germany' and 'the Germans'. Acting out fantasies and their discovery in self-analysis . In: Yearbook of Psychoanalysis . tape 20 , 1987, ISSN  0075-2363 , pp. 165-206 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Peters, Uwe Henrik : Dictionary of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology . Urban & Schwarzenberg, Munich 3 1984; Lexicon-Stw. "Self-analysis": page 513.
  2. ↑ Freud, Sigmund : On the psychopathology of everyday life . (1904) Collected Works, Volume IV, S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt / M 3 1953; the following page references from: paperback edition of the Fischer library, Nov. 1954, pages 13-18.
  3. ↑ Freud, Sigmund: The Interpretation of Dreams . (1899) Collected Works, Volume II / III, S. Fischer, 1953 Frankfurt / M, paperback edition of the Fischer library, Aug. 1966.
  4. ^ A b Mario Erdheim : The social production of unconsciousness. An introduction to the ethno-psychoanalytical process. 2nd Edition. suhrkamp pocket book science 456, Frankfurt / Main, 1988, ISBN 3-518-28065-1 ; (a) on social exclusion (or “social death”): pages 25, 75 f., 82, 84, 92, 102, 404; (b) Regarding self-analysis: pages 9 f., 20, 22 ff., 27 ff., 78, 82, 84, 86 ff., 99, 101, 136, 137, 142, 155, 158 f., 160 , 161, 173 f., 183, 212 f., 371 ff., 387.
  5. ^ A b Dörner, Klaus : Citizens and Irre . On the social history and sociology of science in psychiatry. (1969) Fischer Taschenbuch, Bücher des Wissens, Frankfurt / M 1975, ISBN 3-436-02101-6 ; (a) England and the reception of the model in other countries: pages 39, 51, 98, 131; (b) Jean Jacques Rousseau: pages 125-132.
  6. ↑ Rivka R. Eifermann: 'Germany' and 'the Germans'. Acting out fantasies and their discovery in self-analysis . In: Yearbook of Psychoanalysis . tape 20 , 1987, ISSN  0075-2363 , pp. 165-206 .