Language and Psychoanalysis Volume 4 Issue 2 (2015) (original) (raw)

From Id to Intersubjectivity: Talking about the Talking Cure with Master Clinicians

FOREWORD In this book Dianna Kenny sets out to discover what remains of Freud in contemporary psychoanalytic practice. To do this, she engages us in an intensive dialogue with four eminent practitioners. While no four people can be said to be representative of an entire community of practitioners they are each distinctive and different with respect to their theoretical framework and the cultural milieu within which they operate. After the interviews, she lets them loose on a therapy transcript, which acts as a kind of Rorschach inkblot onto which they project their fantasies about the patient and the therapist. Before we meet the four clinicians, Professor Kenny sets the scene with an unusually lucid exposition of the core ideas of Freud and post-Freudian psychoanalysis. This is an heroic task to accomplish in two chapters but she achieves it with remarkable fluency. Inevitably some detail is missing but the core ideas are so clearly enunciated that these chapters alone will prove t...

Language and Psychoanalysis Volume 6 Issue 1 (2017)

Robert D. Stolorow, Ph.D. & George E. Atwood, Ph.D. The Phenomenology of Language and the Metaphysicalizing of the Real Fernanda Carrá-Salsberg, Ph.D. A Psychoanalytic Look into The Effects of Childhood and Adolescent Migration in Eva Hoffman’s Lost in Translation David Hafner, Ph.D. An Introduction to the Transference Unconscious Rina Stah. Freedman, Ph.D. Cross-Cultural Treatment Issues in Psychoanalysis Giuseppe Iurato, Ph.D. Book Review. Reading Italian Psychoanalysis Anonymous Author, M.A. Book Review. Language Disorders in Children and Adolescents

Communicative Violence In Psychotherapy

After some theoretical reflections on communicative violence based on the concept of the " double body " (Sybille Krämer) which explains why words can heal or hurt, we show excerpts from therapeutic session using conversation analysis as methodological tool to make subtle forms of violence visible. The problem of violence is not one-sided from therapist to patient but the inverse direction should be included, too. We detect that it is sometimes the " good will " of therapists to help a patient " overcome " a (supposed) " inhibition " to continue talk that contributes to symmetrical escalations in conversation causing trouble in turn-taking. Sometimes it is an up-to-now undescribed practice of patients, which we call " empathy blinder ". A mild and a more complex form of this pattern are described. Further examples are analyzed hoping to direct some attention to the problem of communicative violence. In general, we do not yet present solutions, more expositions of a problem widely under taboo.