Volume 26, Issue 4
NAMAH Journal Volume 26, Issue 4
Articles in this Issue
The autonomy of experience and the unborn Idea — Freud, Sartre and beyond
By Soumitra Basu - Jan 15, 2019
Classically, psychoanalysis considers that all experiences are rooted in the past. Psychological problems are viewed to arise from unresolved developmental issues or past traumas. The quality of a relationship between two individuals is always regarded in reference to some earlier relationship — a sort of primal absolute, though forgotten. This would mean that no entirely novel, autonomous or irreducible experience would be possible. We would always belong to the past!
Dealing with broken love
By Soumitra Basu - Jan 15, 2019
A broken love is an important issue in counselling. Its genesis lies in the severance of oneness and is experienced vitally as depression or aggression leading to vengeance. Instead of an analytical approach, the passion and anguish of love can be shifted to a new poise of consciousness or a higher paradigm of love.