Musical elements in the psychoanalytic process
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Music, Psychanalytic process, PsychoanalysisAbstract
Why should psychoanalysis have anything in common with music? We cannot simply assume that music and psychoanalysis are compatible. Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, made only a few comments on music. He felt that he himself was almost incapable of enjoying music. As a "rational" man, he was unwilling to be influenced by music because he was wary about its emotional affect on him (1914, p. 172). Nevertheless, Eissler (1974, p. 93, cited by Nitzschke (2005, p.310) doubted Freud's self-assessment. He felt that this reflected Freud`s reaction to a disappointing adolescent experience with love. Nitzschke (1984 (repr.2006) interpreted Freud´s reticent attitude towards music as reflecting an unfortunate pre-verbal experience with his mother. Consequently, Freud considered psychoanalysis a “talking cure” in which words are used to express emotions and thoughts. He felt that psychoanalysis should promote an “advance in intellectuality” (Freud 1939, p. 110). In “Moses and Monotheism”, which deals with the Mosaic commandment forbidding any image of God, Freud considered psychoanalysis as part of a social development in which the matriarchal social order is abandoned for a paternal order. [...]
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