Consumerism and identity: Some psychoanalytical considerations

Univ. Prof. em. Siegfried Zepf, MD, is former director of the Institute of Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatic Medicine, University of Saarland (Germany) and a training analyst in the DPG and DGPT. He has published numerous works on epistemological, psychosomatic, sociopsychological, and psychoanalytic topics. The most recent of these are: Allgemeine psychoanalytische Neurosenlehre, Psychosomatik und Sozialpsychologie. Gießen: Psychosozial-Verlag (2006); Attachment theory and psychoanalysis – some remarks from an epistemological and from a Freudian viewpoint. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 87, 1529–48 (2006); Freud's concept of psychical reality reconsidered, Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis, 14, 197–211 (2006); The relationship of the unconscious and consciousness – a similarity between psychoanalysis and historical materialism. Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, 12, 105–23 (2007); Naturalistic studies of psychoanalytical treatments: some epistemological and methodological remarks. Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review, 31, 50–60 (2008); Autism in infancy: The psychodynamics from a Freudian viewpoint. Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis, 16, 194–222 (2008, co-author: Zepf, F.D.). Some thoughts on empathy and countertransference. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 56, 741–68 (2008, co-author: Hartmann, S.); Trauma and traumatic neurosis – Freud's concepts revisited. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 89, 331–53 (2008, co-author: Zepf, F. D.); The concept of functional pleasure – should it be abandoned? International Forum of Psychoanalysis, 17, 148–57 (2008, co-author: Zepf, F.D.); Pop concerts – a symbol and an instrumentalization of inexpressible experiences? Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, 13, 279–98 (2008).