Knowing, Not-Knowing and Sort-Of-Knowing: Psychoanalysis and the Experience of Uncertainty

ISBN-13: 9781855756571 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 384 str.

Jean Petrucelli

Opis

Knowing, Not-Knowing and Sort-of-Knowing: Psychoanalysis and the Experience of Uncertainty is a contemporary, wide-ranging exploration of one of the most provocative topics currently under psychoanalytic investigation: the relationship of dissociation to varieties of knowing and unknowing. As editor Jean Petrucelli writes in her introductory overview of the anthology, -Although dissociation theory has existed side by side with the concept of repression in the history of psychoanalytic thought, for many years it was less examined, treated as if it belonged only to trauma theory.- Today, however, through the influence of relational models of psychoanalysis, spearheaded by Bromberg's self-state theory, dissociation is becoming more widely appreciated as a central psychic mechanism pervading both normal and pathological functioning. This anthology is certain to contribute further to our appreciation of its importance.

The twenty-eight essays collected here invite readers to reflect upon the ways the mind is structured around and through knowing, not-knowing, and sort-of-knowing or uncertainty. The authors explore the ramifications of being up against the limits of what they can know as through their clinical practice and theoretical considerations, they simultaneously attempt to open up psychic and physical experience. How, they ask, do we tolerate ambiguity and blind spots as we try to know? And how do we make all of this useful to our patients and ourselves?

The authors approach these and similar epistemological questions through an impressively wide variety of clinical dilemmas (e.g., the impact of new technologies upon the analytic dyad) and theoretical specialties (e.g., neurobiology). Some of the numerous issues under examination here include important and, in some instances, under-theorized topics in psychoanalysis such as uncanny communication as the next frontier of intersubjectivity, secrets, criminal violence, the relationship of the body to knowing, disclosure of the analyst's joy, dissociative identity disorder, pornography and sex workers.

Contributing Authors: Edgar A. Levenson, Philip M. Bromberg, Arnold H. Modell, Abby Stein, Sheldon Itzkowitz, Elizabeth Howell, Elizabeth Hegeman, Peter Lessem, Jean Petrucelli, Mark J. Blechner, Adam Phillips, Allan N. Schore, Wilma S. Bucci, James L. Fosshage, Richard Chefetz, Sandra G. Herschberg, Jessica Zucker, Katie Gentile, Janet Tintner, Jill Bressler, Barry Cohen, Caryn Gorden, Susan Klebanoff, Joseph Canarelli, Rachel Newcombe, Karen Weisbard, and Sandra Buechler.

Spis treści

Introduction , Stalking the Elusive Mutative Experience , The enigma of the transference , The Keynote Addresses , The nearness of you 1 : Navigating selfhood, otherness, and uncertainty 2 , The unconscious as a knowledge processing centre , Dissociation—Clinical, Diagnostic, and Conceptual Perspectives ... from Murder through Abuse to Masochism , Shooting in the spaces: Violent crime as dissociated enactment 1 , Dissociative identity disorder: The abused child and the spurned diagnosis , Dissociation and dissociative disorders: Commentary and context , Multiple personality disorder and spirit possession: Alike, yet not alike , Masochistic relating, dissociation, and the wish to rescue the loved one: A view from multiple self-state theory , When Experience Has a Mind of Its Own , Things that go bump in the night: Secrets after dark , Psychoanalytic treatment of panic attacks 1 , On getting away with it: On the experiences we don't have , How Do We Know and How Does It Change? The Role of Implicit and Explicit Mind/Brain/Body Processes , The right brain implicit self: A central mechanism of the psychotherapy change process , The uncertainty principle in the psychoanalytic process , Implicit and explicit pathways to psychoanalytic change , Life as performance art: Right and left brain function, implicit knowing, and felt coherence , Bridging neurobiology, cognitive science and psychoanalysis: Recent contributions to theories of therapeutic action , How Bodies Are Theorized, Exhibited and Struggled with and against: Gender, Embodiment, and the Analyst's Physical Self , Lights, camera, attachment: Female embodiment as seen through the lens of pornography , Purging as embodiment 1 , The incredible shrinking shrink , I Know Something about You: Working with Extra-Analytic Knowledge in the Analytic Dyad in the Twenty-First Century , I know something about you , Double exposure ... Sightings of the analyst outside the consultation room , Who's afraid of Google? , Six degrees of separation ... When real worlds collide in treatment , Omissions of Joy , Instances of joy in psychoanalysis: Some reflections , The underbelly of joy , The intersubjectivity of joy , The healing power of joy

O autorze

Jean Petrucelli