Is our western world affected by new modes of psychic functioning and transformations of the social dynamics?
The hypothesis that schizophrenia (SZ) is a condition characterized by abnormal brain integration can be traced back to Bleuler, who emphasized that a splitting of the psychic functions ('loosening of associations') is a core problem in SZ [1].
Just what the nature of this pull is, and how it has come to condition our understanding of ourselves and our psychic functioning, is what I wish to unpick.
This leads this system to give a central role to the appraisal of the juvenile delinquents' personality, that is to say to their psychic functioning; any judicial response has then to give a central space to educational and protective concerns assuming that there are no delinquent conducts that are not the expression of an educational and a psychic difficulty.
Bodily Pain may be considered to represent a measure of the discomfort induced by repeated pain and Mental Health as the inability to feel that one has a healthy psychic functioning.
And the diagnosis should be made on a high professional level, the so-called expert level: it should include severity of the disease, whether the patient has some mental defects, how much his psychic functioning reduced and so on.
As the national narrative shifts from the war on terror to the specter of decline, the uniform performs another psychic function.
"The psychic and symbolic functions of the horse might be very different for the two sexes," said one artist, Deborah Bright.
For Freud, the I is one of the three instances that constitute the psychic apparatus- Id, ego, superego- which is basically ruled by the Principle of Reality and the functioning of secondary processes (perception, thought, language).
It is assumed that the only mission of a psychodynamic agent is to seek pleasure for itself, where pleasure is the discharge of a psychic tension that is a function of sensory/memory patterns.
