La psicosis: un acercamiento desde la teoría de Wilfred Bion

Este texto pretende hacer un acercamiento a la definición de la psicosis a partir de la revisión de la obra de Wilfred Bion. Para esto es necesario abarcar algunos conceptos de los psicoanalistas Sigmund Freud y Melanie Klein, como los son el yo y algunos mecanismos de defensa como la identificación proyectiva y la escisión. Se presentaran las conceptualizaciones pertinentes, para ser integradas a la teoría del pensamiento con el fin de lograr una definición de la psicosis a la luz de los planteamientos de Bion. También se ilustrarán los elementos definidos y la integración de los mismos, a través de viñetas de casos clínicos seleccionados para este fin. Finalmente se corroborará la pertinencia de la teoría bioniana en la clínica contemporánea

Appreciation of humor sense in college students

Appreciation of humor includes several cognitive and social processes. None can say that two communities will laugh at the same jokes and find funny the same humorous content. This study worked differences in humor appreciation of university students and comparisons were made between sex and age of participants. To assess the appreciation of humor was built an instrument with 15 written jokes. This instrument was presented to a total sample of 81 students, divided into 3 groups of different age. Participants had to evaluate two aspects: the playfulness and the difficulty of each stimulus or humorous vignette. The jokes that showed significant differences in jocularity have a particular structure marked for a disqualifying content to men, indicating, as noted the literature, that men have more fun with sexual humor and prefers this kind of jokes as well as content related to aggressive or hostile, while women have more fun with humorous vignettes when the man is the victim and reject more when the victim is a woman. In terms of age and the appreciation of humor, there are differences in the type of situations and social contexts valued in the jokes, involving relationship between situational and social aspects of humor.