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"What is meant by (psychic) integration in psychoanalysis? How important is psychic integration to psychic health?"
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Julia Mueller PL(550): Psychoanalysis, Ethics & Mind Dr. Edward Harcourt "What is meant by (psychic) integration in psychoanalysis? How important is psychic integration to psychic health?" In colloquial terms, integration is a mental procedure that people use to make sense of their past and present emotional reactions to experiences in the external world. Beyond identifying the nature and causes of these emotions, this process is also used to organize and rationalize these responses in accordance with a pre-created hierarchy of ends. In other words, through integration, people seek to harmonise their instinctual drives and emotions with courses of action that enable the fulfilment of rationally determined ends. Although fairly general, this definition encounters some problems when trying to account for rationally chosen courses of action that go against predetermined goals. This point, as explored by Jay Wallace, helps in highlighting the ways in which effective integration does not guarantee full psychic health or continuous...
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