On January 8, 2014 our honorary member Jorge Silva died in Tlalpan, Mexico, at the age of 94, after he suffered a heart attack. The Mexican Psychoanalytic Institute owes him […]
Author: Rainer Funk
personality
By personality I understand the totality of inherited and acquired psychic qualities which are characteristic of one individual and which make the individual unique. The difference between inherited and acquired […]
relatedness (relation); relation (relatedness)
What is the source of energy from which we live? Well, you might say there is one source of energy that is purely physical, which is rooted in the chemistry […]
mother fixation; fixation on mother
Behind the boy’s tie to the mother on the genital level exists a much deeper and more irrational tie. The infant―boy or girl―is tied to mother as the life-giving, all-helping, […]
matriarchy vs. patrarchy; patrarchy vs. matriarchy
Whether a matriarchal or patriarchal system is better is hard to say. In fact, I think the question in this form is wrong because you might say that the matriarchal […]