Heijn Cornelis
Tufts University School of Medicine, USA.
Psychoanal Study Child. 2005;60:312-34. doi: 10.1080/00797308.2005.11800756.
Examples of our interest in the future are drawn from poetry, religion, general medicine, and from the aims of psychoanalysis. The concept of foresight is taken as a focus for questions regarding the relative inattention to a psychology of the future in psychoanalytic thought. This inquiry leads to consideration of the varying constraints and potentials that are determined by the formal properties of verbal language and mental images, which are briefly compared and contrasted in regard to their usefulness in understanding complex dynamic systems such as psychoanalysis. The paper concludes with questions regarding the qualities of conscious and unconscious, and secondary and primary process thought, and with comments on technique.
我们对未来的兴趣示例源自诗歌、宗教、普通医学以及精神分析的目标。预见的概念被视为一个焦点，用以探讨精神分析思想中相对忽视未来心理学的相关问题。这一探究促使我们思考由言语语言和心理意象的形式属性所决定的不同限制与潜力，本文简要比较并对比了它们在理解诸如精神分析这样的复杂动态系统时的效用。本文最后提出了关于意识与无意识、次级与初级过程思维的特质的问题，以及对技术的评论。
