The complete list of psychoanalysis full papers by Antti Talvitie.
Consciousness, Instincts, and Life (2026)
About
four and half billion years ago, Earth formed – in the same epoch as the Sun – and
became hospitable to life forms and began biological evolution. The hypothesis
in the paper is that the fifth force – the Life-Death Force – became decohered
from the primordial coherent state of the unified force at the Big Bang and
subsequently re-cohered, in some presently unknown process, when life emerged. Life
became the necessary and later the sufficient condition for consciousness.
The Robber Synod (2026)
This paper explores the issue of the Catholic dogma of a unitary deity on the Catholic-dominated US Supreme Court’s apparent misunderstanding of the unitary authority of the Executive.
Enigma of the Nirvana Principle (2025)
Freud introduced the ‘Nirvana principle' as evidence of the existence of death instincts. Its effects are explored in the paper, especially the puzzlement about why so many act against self-interest and ruin the prospects which open out to him and how they are acted out in the real world.
Troika: Trump, Putin, Xi (2023)
The paper is an application of psychoanalytic theory to examine the psychology, traumas, and psychopathology of these three globally important leaders. It proposes that they have fallen prey to a persistent asymptomatic psychosis from conflicts between the external world (Trump), the super-ego (Putin), and the Id (Xi) that are now acted out in the real world. Their rise to power could not have happened without the support of the surrounding ‘cultural community’
Trump’s Etiology and His Herd (2021)
The first part of the paper is a diagnosis of Mr. Trump’s psyche based on publicly available material and informed by psychoanalytic theory and case studies. The paper asserts that endogenous and exogenous events in Trump’s infancy have caused non-correctable mental disorders.
Freud as a Lamarckian (2021)
Memories, the writings of Freud, concepts about transgenerational heritance, neurobiology and (epi)genetics, and their therapeutic uses motivated this paper. After reviewing the relevant theory and observational evidence., it is concluded that Freud was a Lamarckian, as Ferenczi and Freud recognized in the 1910s, and others did later.
Rail factor and realism of the unconscious (2020)
The paper reviews and challenges the spoken but unknown behavioral ‘rail factor’ that may bias travel forecasts toward rail, or favor investments in urban rail, foster economic development, or add to satisfaction of travel.
Freud, the Big Bang, and the Origin of Life (2016)
In 1924, Freud thought that the “the theory of the instincts is the most important but…the least complete portion of psycho-analysis”. A hypothesis is then made that Life's origin is in the "Big Bang" and that Freud’s constructs of life and death instincts are real, a viable fifth force, and absent from the present standard model of physics.
Observed Differences in Corruption between Asia and Africa: The Industrial Organization of Corruptionand Its Cure (2016)
The paper seeks to explain why, despite pervasive corruption, economies in Asia achieved remarkable economic growth. The leaders are implicated as enablers of corruption. Corruption is an emotional disorder and the main economic difference between the two regions is that corruption is part of the fixed cost in Asia and the variable costs in Africa and therefore had less distortionary effect on economic growth in Asia. The paper outlines group psychoanalytic process to good enough governance.
Theoryless Planning (2009)
The paper begins with doubts about the scientific basis of (transport) planning and then offers a scientific approach to planning that is experiential rather than positivist. Theoryless planning model recasts and expands on my paper International Experiences in Restructuring the Road Sector (1997) with the unconscious as its starting point, and patterns it as a psychoanalytic group process and technique.
Things planners believe in, and things they deny (1997)
The paper examines the economic theory of consumer behavior from the Modern Psychoanalytic point of view with a metaphor of (transport) planning as a backdrop.
Images: Christ Pantokrator, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, Sigmund Freud: Wikimedia Commons
