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Revolution in Mind:: The Creation of Psychoanalysis

The document summarizes George J. Makari's book "Revolution in Mind: The Creation of Psychoanalysis". The book examines how psychoanalysis emerged as a new intellectual force through the establishment of interpretative communities and negotiation of boundaries. It uses two models to understand psychoanalysis' development: Thomas Kuhn's model of scientific revolutions, and the concept of "interpretative communities" from literary criticism. Makari identifies three rules that shaped psychoanalytic communities - commitment to boundaries, varying levels of interpretative variance, and shared objects of inquiry. The book provides insight into how psychoanalysis was established in Central and Western Europe before being forced into exile.

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Revolution in Mind:: The Creation of Psychoanalysis

The document summarizes George J. Makari's book "Revolution in Mind: The Creation of Psychoanalysis". The book examines how psychoanalysis emerged as a new intellectual force through the establishment of interpretative communities and negotiation of boundaries. It uses two models to understand psychoanalysis' development: Thomas Kuhn's model of scientific revolutions, and the concept of "interpretative communities" from literary criticism. Makari identifies three rules that shaped psychoanalytic communities - commitment to boundaries, varying levels of interpretative variance, and shared objects of inquiry. The book provides insight into how psychoanalysis was established in Central and Western Europe before being forced into exile.

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REVOLUTION IN

MIND:
THE CREATION OF
PSYCHOANALYSIS

Group 3

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GEORGE JACK MAKARI
Historian and psychiatrist and is the author of the
widely acclaimed Revolution in Mind: The Creation of
Psychoanalysis, which received the Gradiva Prize and
the Hartmann Award, and was called the best history of
its kind by Harold Bloom. The book has received over
eighty reviews worldwide and has been the focus of
seven international conferences. It has been published
in German, Spanish, and Greek, and is in translation in
Russian, Korean, and Japanese.

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A. What was the article all about?

The article is the summary of the 600-page book


Revolution in Mind written by George J. Makari. It
tackles about what are the boundaries of psychoanalysis
and how do we decide. Also, how this ideas come
together to create new intellectual force.

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A. What was the article all about?

Makari’s ideas were based on two models:


A. Notion of Scientific Revolution (Thomas Kuhn)
Scientific revolution is driven from the idea of normal science,
predicated on a community sharing the same assumptions and
the same paradigm, until anomalies increase resulting to
paradigm shift. Makari found out that Kuhn’s model was
attached to the hard sciences, astronomy and physics so he
thought that this model would prevent possibilities.

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A. What was the article all about?

Makari’s ideas were based on two models:

B. Literary Criticism “Interpretative Communities“


Makari used the idea of how different communities create
themselves in psychoanalysis and how they create order and
boundaries.

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A. What was the article all about?

Makari’s three basic rules found in historical analysis of what


happened when psychoanalysis was created, re-grouped and was
crushed in Central and Western Europe and shipped into exile.
1. Border Commitment
There is always a commitment at the border, that when you said
you agree with this you are in; if you do not, you are out.

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A. What was the article all about?

2. Degree of Interpretative Variance


Once you were in some of psychoanalytic communities, there
were various degree of interpretative variance wherein, some
interpretation was highly regulated while others have different
degrees of autonomy.

3. Shared Object of Inquiry


There was always a shared object of inquiry.
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B. What concepts from the article will you never forget?

 The history of psychoanalysis is dominated and powerful synthesis which


concentrates on the method of biography and science of subjectivity.
 The creation of therapeutic profession aimed at resolving mental conflict in
which it is the first aspect of the psychoanalysis - the revolution of mind
which deals about mind and its function.
 Sigmund Freud's interpretation of Dreams and Sexology asserts that dreams
come from conscious experience and pieces of memory based on what we
have already experienced.

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C. What realizations did you have after reading the
article?

Before reading the article we thought …


• the topic will simply revolve around the concepts concerning psychology
and is simply on the study of the mind, how psychoanalysis had been
introduced, how it was created.
• we assume the article will expound the underlying concepts involving
psychoanalysis since the knowledge we have is limited only to certain
concepts like the levels of consciousness, awareness on certain feelings and
thoughts and the influence of mind in one’s own personality and behavior.

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C. What realizations did you have after reading the
article?

Before reading the article we thought …


• knowing Sigmund Freud’s Psychoanalytic Theory, we thought that it was
simply all about the levels of mind that made processes on how people think
and react.

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C. What realizations did you have after reading the
article?

However, after reading, we can now say that we learned …


• Psychoanalysis is too crucial, too important, and too complex to understand
just like galaxies. Though this article resolves some questions about
psychoanalysis, some things remains unclear.
• Psychoanalysis is considered as a biography, as we see a mirror imagery on
how a person lived, how they thought and analyzed things through it.
• The first attempt of Sigmund Freud to build the model of mind give sense to
psychic defense drawn out from biophysics book.

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C. What realizations did you have after reading the
article?

However, after reading, we can now say that we learned …


• According to Sigmund Freud, there are three different functions of neurons,
namely, sensory and motor neurons, perception neuron or memory neuron,
and a consciousness neuron. It is quite interesting for it was systematized and
an organized way of analyzing the underlying processes in our minds and
inner lives.

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D. What three things are still unclear after reading the
article?

Thereafter reading the whole article, we still find some


obscure things and concepts that lingers in our mind. First,
the term psychoanalysis is a broad-ranging concept, thus it is
impossible to explain and to be understood it so easily. It was
even mentioned in the summary part of the article that
psychoanalysis was a powerful synthesis and a lot of
question remains until today.

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D. What three things are still unclear after reading the
article?

Another, what roles did the four powerful psychoanalytic


communities – London, Berlin, Budapest, and Vienna played
in the creation of psychoanalysis? How these communities
created themselves in psychoanalysis, how they created their
boundaries and what were their contributions?

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D. What three things are still unclear after reading the
article?

Lastly, what are the differences between psychophysics and


biophysics and how do they contribute to psychoanalysis?

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THANK
YOU!

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GROUP 3 MEMBERS

Jessa Dollaga Asman


Maria Elena L. Baslot
Razel E. Camero
Josephena F. Castro
Christian Lloyd De Guzman
Janry Mart De Leon
Mary Joy V. Flores
Jozarel Mirador
Joanna Mae R. Necesito
April Grace C. Pagud
Chrisjohn Pula
Charest B. Pulido
Deorina Joy Ranches
Trixie Belle Tadena
Daisy Joy E. Ventura ALPINE SKI HOUSE 17

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