The Analytical Process: Journeys and Pathways

ISBN-13: 9781782204480 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 324 str.

Thierry Bokanowski

Opis

The term -psychoanalytical process-, though occurring but rarely in Freud's works, has become firmly established nowadays despite being hard to define, explain, or pin down in conceptual or in meta-psychological terms.

Although -psychoanalytic process- is often employed as equivalent to -psychoanalytic work-, currents of thought that draw on the idea display a certain ambivalence, for it can relate both to a theory of treatment (the practice of analysis) and to a theory of mind (a theory of psychic functioning).

Hence, after examining the conceptual developments in the work of Freud and certain subsequent thinkers, the author then bases his remarks on the observation that study of the heterogeneity of mental functioning has given rise to an attendant conceptual heterogeneity which is illustrative of the infinite complexity of the psychic issues involved in any analysis.

Before developing his own original perspectives about the consequences of the heterogeneity of psychic functioning, the author examines how various practitioners have approached this subject since Freud. He shows how each has shed useful new light on this issue, leading to a diversity of points of view, thereby justifying the idea of the -process- within psychoanalytic treatment.

Spis treści

Series Editor's Foreword , Introduction , Some preliminary observations , Apprehending psychoanalytic treatment and processes , Representing the psychoanalytic process , Contributions by certain authors , Initial encounters , Movements and changes , The nature of defence mechanisms and anxieties , The heterogenous nature of psychic functioning , Transferences , Sándor Ferenczi: a negative transference somewhere between transference love and love for psychoanalysis , Esther, or a transference love which dare not speak its name , Psychic homosexuality and transference , Negativising transference , A historical example of negativising transference: the “young Russian” known as “the Wolf Man” , Narcissism and the psychoanalytic process , Different levels of listening , Mr E , The process as a combination of suffering, pain, and pleasure , The analytic process and the question of trauma , Conclusion

O autorze

Thierry Bokanowski