Psychoanalysis: A General Theory of Psychical Structure Formation and Pathogenesis by Peter Zagermann

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“The theory is, in many instances, the microscope without which we could not grasp certain clinical states at all and assess their meaning. For this reason it is a question of life and death for psychoanalysis as a science, to develop a theory of structural ontogenesis which can be taken as a binding basic concept and reference system. Without such basic theory psychoanalysis will suffocate from its own theoretical entropy.

The crucial phenomenon, in any case, is the one that the brain is giving itself a representational basic structure, which directly results from the system properties of the representation-bound perception and thus experience. This form of perception which is tied to representation is, in its turn, the precipitate of the morphological properties and structure of the brain. Each and every study of brain function must reckon with this autonomous basic structure which is the structural frame within which mental functioning occurs and consciousness originates. This representational world is the field of psychoanalysis.”

Peter Zagermann Ph.D. is an IPA child, adolescent and adult psychoanalyst living and working in Munich/Germany