metapsychology

It is true, the multiplicity of metapsychological points of view befuddles us.

Practice therefore relies on a good grasp of pathophysiology, experience in interview technics, and psychopathological formulation, rather than a thorough knowledge in exclusively biological or metapsychological theories.

Metapsychological and clinical aspects of regression within the psycho-analytical set-up.

In effect, if one agrees to use the term "reality" (in its metapsychological sense) for everything that acts on the psychic system so as to bring about a topographical alteration--whether through "endogenous" or "exogenous" constraint--one can reserve the term "fantasy" for any representation, belief, or body state working to the opposite effect, that is, toward maintenace of the topographical status quo.

In more recent, metapsychological reflections, Hartman acknowledges how what is inanimate, or "animate yet non-human" gives rise to thoughts of supernatural presences or "unknown modes of being." The poetic mind refuses to leave behind something deeply relational, even when the muteness of nature is associated more with suffering than tranquility ("Wordsworth and Metapsychology," 198).

Wrong because despite his expressed aversion, Freud was nonetheless familiar with many philosophical works fairly early on in his career, which of course influenced the development of his own metapsychological theory, in particular his concept of the 'inaccessible'.

(38) As a 'metapsychological fact', according to Abraham, the phantom owes its emergence to 'the gap produced in us by the concealment of some part of a love object's life' (39) and consequently, one is haunted by 'the gaps left within us by the secrets of others'.