From Freud to Our Days
Deservedly, Sigmund Freud received the name of “father of the psychoanalysis”, thanks to his specific discoveries, his contributions about the psychological and psychopathological phenomenon. The psychoanalysis was born almost a century ago, its beginnings were stormy and questioned.
We will take some of the psychoanalysis contributions as a referral comparing them to the present day’s methodologies to board the human conflicts. A patient doesn’t get sick because it wants, but because its pathology is covering a deep fear, getting sometimes to the alteration of the self, with limitating and conflictive attitudes that affect negatively the every day life, putting the person through traumatic situations, internal and external anguishes the person can’t control, which makes it live this as an exterior danger and a real threat. These symptoms come from the unconscious, which content is not present in the conscious plane.
The unconscious is formed by repressed contents that have been denied to the conscious system by being repressed. The repression occurs because the subject tries to reject or keep in the unconscious representations such as thoughts, images or memories which satisfaction would generate certain danger for the conscious. The repression is always present in the mental disorders and the normal psychology.
It can be considered a universal psychic process. The contents of the unconscious have a very little chance to emerge to the conscious. One of the ways it may appear is through dreams, where the barrier of the preconscious is down, but its content appears deformed and displaced. In the dream there is always a childhood memory or and unsolved present situation that is a desire and a remain of the day.
The dream answers to the subject’s psyquic reality, and it is nothing more than the repressed unconscious desire, similar to the material reality. What is repressed can be or become a trauma, which is the inability to adequately answer to life’s events, many times accompanied by lasting pathological disorders without the opportunity to control and elaborate the trauma.
How do we get to the nucleus of the trauma, from the psychoanalysis? Through interpretation, that is a deduction achieved through an analytic investigation of the latent contents, the verbal manifestations and the behavior of the subject, showing the conflicts and the desire covered by the unconscious. The analyst interprets this way the contents that lead to the cure.
In Freud’s time, patients had sessions six times a week for a six month or a year long period, to treat cases of phobias, hysteria, obsessive neurosis, etc. Getting to this point, the question is: Is it possible nowadays to sustain a treatment of these characteristics? The patient freely associated and the analyst interprets.
How much time would it take for a patient to discover and solve, in the XXI century, all of its traumas and conditionings? We know of the great social and financial present changes, where there is an urgency to answer to the present time’s demands.
Here appears a paradigm change in science in general and specially in the human conflicts. Between them is a new way to board old conflicts, the sweeping and reprogramming of the cellular memory, it could be considered a quantum therapy, where past, present and future are all in the same dimension. A situation that occurred at the beginning of life is present in the today in the form of writing in the neurological system, as an eternal present. As Freud would say, this modality of facing the human conflict allows us to reach and board the deepest nucleus, even the inherited information, in a dynamic way, in a cellular dialog between the patient and the therapist, erasing from the conscience the suffering that has brought the patient to consult.
Comparing, an analytic treatment can take years or an entire life time. In psychoanalysis a single dream can take up to 4 years of interpretation. We will see how a single process of cellular memory happened related to a recurrent dream that appeared in the neurochemicals of a patient.
“I am locked up, chocking, I feel like pressed. A man locks up a woman in a dream I had, it was the year 1800, the room was full of clothes, antique, with green drawings, she wears a white hoop skirt, and she is about 32 years old… She is afraid, he can destroy her, and he locks her up because he is afraid of losing her…"
Talking, she tells me that just like her mother and her grandmother had, she has to make a decision. Either she gets married and depends on her husband, or she becomes a successful woman, she earns her own money, doesn’t depend on her husband and abandons him. This is her ancestral information. After that, she remembers that when she was little, she heard her mother saying “I almost divorce one year after getting married, but I wasn’t able to support myself”. Her grandmother lived a very similar situation, and now she was living it. Before getting married, she had a job and she earned a good amount of money, but now she depends on her husband.
Her unconscious works like this: either she earns her own money and she leaves her husband, or she depends on her husband and doesn’t leave him. Considering she loves him, she chooses the second option. The next question is nothing more than a thought that doesn’t need an answer. Can’t this work modality, where all that matters is the efficiency and the urgency, in only one session synthesize a conflict which resolution through the traditional method would take years or an entire life time?
Dr. Isabel Kambourian – Facilitator – Authorized Professor
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