The Dynamic Self in Psychoanalysis: Neuroscientific Foundations and Clinical Cases by Rosa Spagnolo and Georg Northoff, New York: Routledge Press, 2022

摘要

This book is about the self in psychoanalysis. The self in psychoanalysis has been extensively addressed in the field of psychoanalysis (Kohut, 1971; Goldberg, 1999; Wolf, 1998; Lichtenberg, 1989; Cohler, 1982; Gedo, 1993; Stern - to name just a few), as well as the field of affective neuroscience (Panksepp and Northoff, 2009; Damasio, 2010), and in neuropsychoanalysis (Solms & Turnbull, 2002, chapter 9). It is noteworthy to recognize that Freud used terminology for his tripartite model of the mind that translates in English (as opposed to Latin) to the "I" (the ego), the "it" (the id), and the "over-l" (the superego). While these were translated into Latin terms by Strachey, perhaps to appease the positivistic approach of American medicine at that time, and while Freud's language doesn't involve "self," nonetheless, "the I" has a feel that is much closer to "self" than the Latin words that Strachey used.