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Psychoanalyst, a member of Psike Istanbul, conducts psychoanalytic supervision studies in educational institutions, wrote an addendum (its title is “The Couch and Psychoanalysis, The Place of the Couch in Adolescent Psychoanalysis) to Bianca Lechevalier’s book Psychoanalytic Mother-Child Treatment (2018), a member of the editorial boards for Psychoanalysis Notebooks and The Language of Psychoanalysis.
Abstract
WHERE AND HOW DOES THE PSYCHIC-MENTAL ENTITY SETTLE?
Every person exists not only within the objective external world from the beginning to the end of their life but also within a subjective inner world known as the psychic realm, where they also have to struggle. Why and how has this dimension of existence called psychic, which is also called the inner world, developed in our species? First of all, how should we define the psychic-mental realm? What does this term correspond to?
How did the universe come into being? How and when did humans make their appearance on this planet? What kind of evolutionary process have we undergone? Alongside questions like these that we (as sensible beings) seek to ask and find answers to, there is an important question that the sciences concerned with humans and their psychic have not addressed yet: The Psychic Evolution of Human? This question remains unanswered because the following question, which precedes it, has not been clearly asked thus far: Under which conditions and how did the human species have to develop the quality, the capability called the psychic, in the first place? However, a question has been asked regarding our capability of intelligence, which is another quality of ours that is closely related but never exactly same with the psychic: Why did we develop it evolutionarily?
In my presentation, starting from a narrative that explains how the psychic-mental realm emerged in our evolutionary process, I will attempt to articulate that although it has enabled the biological existence of our species to establish and settle on Earth, our this quality itself has created a new level of existence, and subsequently left its subjects facing the problem of settling and establishing themselves in a psychic-mental space. The effects of language, passionate and prolonged parenting, the formation of small communities called family and our advanced pain-pleasure physiology have perhaps been more influential than anything else in the emergence of the psychic-mental realm. Ultimately, how can we describe the function of the psychic we have developed?
I will attempt to answer one more question: Despite being a species that needs to maintain relationships with one another, why do we often leave the places we settle in and go elsewhere for various reasons? What is the place of this in our psychic economy?