A New History of Psychoanalysis From Freud to Donna Orange: The Discovery of Ethics as the Foundation of Human Personality Vladimir Nemet Introduction Psychoanalysis has two histories: one that we know well and another that we have yet to tell....
Martin Heidegger – Did He Forget Ethics? Vladimir Nemet Introduction: Western civilization today resembles a traveler who has lost his compass but continues to quicken his pace, convinced that speed will save him from the abyss. As discontent grows in...
Donald Winnicott – The Capacity for Concern Ethics as the Foundation of Metamodern Psychoanalysis Vladimir Nemet Introduction: Trauma as an Unspeakable Ethical Disappointment Psychological problems are often understood as the consequences of psychological trauma. Following a traumatic experience a person...
Curo, Ergo Sum — I Care, Therefore I Am Vladimir Nemet Introduction: The Problem of Human Self-Determination Human beings have always sought to understand themselves and discover the foundations of their own humanity. The question of how to experience oneself...
Mourning as an Ethical Transformation: From Physical Omnipotence to Ethical Perfection Vladimir Nemet 1. Why Psychotherapy Must Rediscover the Ideal Psychoanalysis has long recognized that children do not experience their parents as they actually are. They experience them as beings...
Wim Wenders, The Cure for Deconstruction Vladimir Nemet 1. From The Name of the Rose to Pulp Fiction There is a point in the history of Western culture when doubt displaced truth, and the method of deconstruction became more important...
Steve Reich and Philip Glass: The Sound of Transcendence Vladimir Nemet On the Secular Sacred in Music Every now and then, not very often, something happens in a concert hall that is difficult to explain. Listening to music, one suddenly...
Ferdinand Kulmer and the Psychology of Metamodernism Vladimir Nemet From the Autonomous I to the Great Thou Ferdinand Kulmer occupies an unusual place in Croatian painting of the second half of the twentieth century. Croatian art history rightly describes him...
The Death of the Sacred Vladimir Nemet The Sacred That Cannot Be Named Something strange has happened to modern man: he can speak about almost everything – except the sacred. He can speak about identity, trauma, sexuality, power, desire, ideology,...
Neurosis and Psychosis as an Inability to Tolerate Paradox Vladimir Nemet Toward Metamodern Psychoanalysis One of the fundamental problems of psychoanalysis is the question of what connects different forms of psychopathology. In other words, is there a common underlying cause...
How Postmodernism Killed Art: When Nothing Is Greater Than Me Vladimir Nemet The crisis of contemporary art is often described as a crisis of form, institutions, the market, or criteria of aesthetic value. However, a more radical question can be...
Beyond the Integrated Self: Toward Parallel Identities Vladimir Nemet 1. Introduction: The Illusion of a Single Center The history of psychoanalysis can be understood as a long search for a fundamental principle from which human personality might be derived. Freud...
Mourning from a Metamodern Perspective Vladimir Nemet Mourning: Renunciation of the Ideal or Its Preservation? One of the most enduring assumptions of psychoanalysis is that mourning is a process in which the subject gradually becomes disillusioned with the idealized object....
Postmodernism, Antisemitism, and the Crisis of Verticality: From Deconstruction to Metamodernism Vladimir Nemet Introduction: The Paradox of Contemporary Antisemitism In recent years, we have witnessed a remarkable paradox. Within some of the most prestigious Western universities—institutions that have for decades...
Metamodern Psychoanalysis – The Return of the Eye of God Vladimir Nemet 1. Introduction: The Evolution of Human Suffering Through the History of the Soul Human suffering never arises in a vacuum. It is born in an intense dialogue between...
Psihoterapija kroz povijest Vladimir Nemet I. Uvod: Čovjek i potraga za Drugosti Kako bi najbolje opisali povijest ljudskog roda? Je li to povijest stjecanja znanja, povijest religije, tehnologije ili društvenih normi? Možda na prvi pogled izgleda tako. No ispod svih...
Metamodern Psychoanalysis and Parallel Identities Vladimir Nemet 1. Introduction Today I am once again trying to connect the theory of parallel identities with contemporary philosophy. So I ask myself: to which philosophical direction does my theory of parallel identities actually...