Related Experiment Video
Updated: Oct 1, 2026

The (Spatial) Memory Game: Testing the Relationship Between Spatial Language, Object Knowledge, and Spatial Cognition
Published on: February 19, 2018
Balint after Lacan ... and after
1Société de Psychanalyse Freudienne, Paris.
Abstract:
This paper examines Balint and Lacan's views about regression and symbolism, language, and transference. The author points out their similarities, their differences, and then proposes a synthesis through his approach of history, genealogy, trauma, and crisis. Freud's notions of masochism, of fixation (innate or phylogenetic) may thus be renewed, leading to the analyst's capacity to cope with deep regression and borderline (Balint) psychosis and perversion (Lacan) or to psychosomatics, including epilepsy.
Related Concept Videos
Psychosexual Stages of Personality: Latency
The latency period is not considered...
Jung's Analytical Theory
Lateralization
Freudian Psychology
Freud's Psychoanalytic Theory
Freud's concept of psychic determinism asserts that...
Language and Cognition

