NOODYNAMICS AND NOOGENETIC NEUROSIS THROUGH THE PRISM OF KLEIN'S PSYCHOANALYSIS: ALPHA FUNCTION, SELF-REGULATION AND CRISIS OF MEANING
Abstract
The purpose of this article is to reconstruct the logotherapeutic concept of noodynamics and noogenetic symptoms using the theoretical achievements of the Klein school of psychoanalysis in the context of cognitive processes and sensemaking. The subject of the study is noodynamics and symptoms of noogenetic neurosis, as they are presented in the existential analysis of V. Frankl, and the object is the structural organization of those driving forces that determine the dynamics of the life of the mind/individual sensemaking, as presented in the theoretical apparatus of the representatives of the Klein school (M. Klein, W. Bion, R. Laing). The concept of noodynamics in the context of individual self-regulation is analyzed. Klein's concept of anxiety containment is researched in the context of the individual's ability to conscious self-regulation and sensemaking. The role that M. Klein assigns to gratitude in the context of the internal ability to produce and maintain holistic meanings and the formation of connections with the world, as well as thinking itself, is considered. The dichotomy of the depressive/schizoid position in Klein's psychoanalysis is analyzed in the context of the individual's ability to form and maintain holistic meanings, and accordingly, his ability to noodynamics. The idea of R. Laing's ontological security/insecurity is researched in the context of Klein's depressive/schizoid position. The concept of Bion's alpha function in the context of the possibility of thinking and self-reflection in connection with the individual's ability to conscious self-regulation is analyzed. The idea of Bion's beta elements is explored in the context of the existential (S. Kierkegaard, P. Tillich, I. Yalom) and logotherapeutic (Frankl) ideas about anxiety - that is, the ontological indispensability of the opposition of the internal conceptual apparatus of sense-making of the individual to the noogenetic urgency of death anxiety. The connection of gratitude and thinking in Arendt's philosophy is analyzed in the context of the structural role of gratitude in a depressive position.
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