Psychoanalysis and Anxiety: From Knowing to Being

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Notes

1 See: (1) Holzhey-Kunz, A. (2014). Daseinanalysis. London: Free Association Books; and (2) Holzhey-Kunz, A. (2016). Why the distinction between ontic and ontological trauma matters for existential therapists? Existential Analysis, 27:16-27.

2 Bion, W. R. (1970). Attention and Interpretation. New York: Basic Books.

3 Freud, S. (1894). Draft E: How anxiety originates. S. E., 1; Freud, S. (1895). Project for a scientific psychology. S. E., 1.

4 See Winnicott, D. W. (1974). Fear of breakdown. Int. Rev. Psychoanal., 1:103–107. See also Bion’s nameless dread (1970; footnote 2).

5 See Money-Kyrle, R. (1968). Cognitive development. Int. J. Psychoanal., 49:691-698.

6 Heisenberg, W. (1958). Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution In Modern Science. New York: Harper.

7 Heidegger, M. (2001). Being and Time. Oxford, UK: Blackwell.

8 Levine, H. B., Reed, G. & Scarfone, D., eds. (2013). Unrepresented States and the Construction of Meaning. London: Karnac.

9 Heidegger uses the term ontic, often in contrast to the term ontological, when he gives descriptive characteristics of a particular thing and the “plain facts” of its existence. In psychoanalysis, what is represented in the unconscious—e.g., wishes, object relational phantasies, etc.—may be thought of as ontic, as opposed to what relates to the ontological, is uncontained, and is before or beyond psychic representation—e.g., annihilation anxiety, catastrophic dread.

10 Grotstein, J. (2011). Personal communication.