Quantum Physics and Psychoanalysis – Parallel Worlds as Parallel Identities Vladimir Nemet “Whoever destroys a single human life, it is as if they had destroyed an entire world; and whoever saves a single human life, it is as if they...
Borderline and Narcissism: Complementary Poles of Parallel Identities Vladimir Nemet “Empathy is the means by which the self experiences the other as significant and by which the other’s responsiveness is internalized into the self.”— Heinz Kohut Introduction: Two Fundamental Personality...
Parallel Identities and Temporal Regulation: Empirical Evidence from Dyadic Interaction Studies Vladimir Nemet “The attitude of man is twofold in accordance with the twofold nature of the primary words which he speaks. One basic word is the word pair I-Thou....
Shiva Nataraja and Postmodern Psychoanalysis: The Eternal Dance of I and You Vladimir Nemet “Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence — and are nothing in themselves.” Nāgārjuna (2nd–3rd century CE) Introduction: Dance Through Time and Consciousness The...
The Other as the All-Seeing Eye Vladimir Nemet “The artist is torn between the need to hide and the need to show himself.”– Donald W. Winnicott, Playing and Reality “It is a pleasure to hide, but a tragedy if one...
Stockholm Syndrome and Parallel Identities: The Dance of Matter and Antimatter Vladimir Nemet “Throughout his life a person will experience himself only as long as, at each stage in his life, he experiences certain representatives of his human surroundings as...
Heidegger and Zen Buddhism: From Pre-Reflective Presence to Reflective Awareness of I and Thou Vladimir Nemet “Has it returned, the snow we viewed together?” Matsuo Basho Introduction This article explores the transformation of human experience across three interrelated levels of...
Psychoanalytic Perspective on Embodiment: Anger, Grief and Being Moved Vladimir Nemet “To have a friend: to keep him. To follow him with your eyes. To see him still when he is no longer there, and to try to know him,...
Lacan, Kohut, and the Real You Vladimir Nemet “The Other is not what we encounter; it is the place from which the subject speaks, the locus of the signifier that structures desire.” — Jacques Lacan, Écrits (1966) 1. Introduction: Theory...
The Biological and Psychoanalytic Foundations of Human Connectedness Vladimir Nemet “My body is the visible form of my consciousness; it exists for me because it exists for others.”— Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception Introduction All of us carry within us...
How does analysis cure? Vladimir Nemet “The patient’s progress depends less on the clever interpretation than on the real human contact that confirms his existence and worth.” Sándor Ferenczi, Confusion of the Tongues Between the Adults and the Child,1949. Introduction...
Intersubjectivity: From Margaret Mahler and Heinz Kohut to Parallel Identities Vladimir Nemet “I have maintained a rather personal interest in one specific aspect of the rich heritage that Freud bestowed upon us, namely, his emphasis on the fact that a...
Trauma: the Death of Space and Time Vladimir Nemet “Man can no more survive psychologically in a psychological milieu that does not respond empathetically to him, than he can survive physically in an atmosphere that contains no oxygen.” H. Kohut,...
Psychoanalysis from metaphysics to postmodernism and parallel identities Vladimir Nemet Introduction “Western philosophy has most often been an ontology: a reduction of the Other to the Same by interposition of a middle and neutral term that ensures the comprehension of...