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Sigmund Freud and Life-story
Čermák, Ivo
Contribution of Sigmund Freud to the development of narrative modus of knowledge in psychology and psychoanalysis, which is visible in his archeological metaphor and his approach to construction/reconstruction in psychoanalytic therapy, is explored. Both his ideas are compared with the concepts of historical and narrative truth. Primary narrative structures in Freud’s psychoanalysis are identified and several amplifications of Oedipus myth are offered. Some of recent psychoanalytic narrative approaches are introduced (D. Spence, R, Schafer).
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Narrative Memory
Čermák, Ivo
The paper is focused on relations between an autobiographical memory and a narrative self. The author explains how narrative reasoning configures and refigures our incoherent experience, how it constructs language and order of the story, how this kind of reasoning helps to create meaning of the life-story events. He tentatatively conceptualizes a narrative memory and narrative memories which form and content enables this memories to be retrieved as a story or its sequences. The story-telling is conceived as an act of imagination, which is necessarily involved in the process of personal identity construction. Autobiographical and narrative memory is precondition of this process. The study is also an attempt to differ narrative and autobiographical memory.
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Narrative therapy: polyphonic choir
Čermák, Ivo
Narrative therapy is shortly characterised and reasons explaining its existence are mentioned. Psychodynamic, cognitive-constructivist, and social constructionist versions of narrative therapy are introduced. Theoretical sources such as approaches to the life-story and some representations of these three versions are also discussed. It is argued that the individual life-story brings closer different therapeutic approaches. It is concluded that each psychotherapy is a process of the three overlapping phases: Life-story telling, life-story reading and life-story re-telling.
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The psychologist and art: Josef Viewegh´s contribution to the Czech and Slovak psychology
Čermák, Ivo
Work of Josef Viewegh and its contribution to the Czech and Slovak psychology is analysed. J. Viewegh, one of the few Czech psychologists, was inspired by German Geisteswisenschafte psychology. He focused on the art as a source of knowledge about its author. He believed that psychology must be considered as an interdisciplinary branch of knowledge. His researches on diaries and creativity of writers, who commited suicide, support his opinion. He argued that authentic subjective experience is most valid means of understanding the individual. Viewegh´s psyhological analyses of aphorism and his theory of imagination and creativity are also mentioned.
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