Language and Psychoanalysis Volume 4 Issue 2 (2015) (original) (raw)
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.
Language and Psychoanalysis Volume 6 Issue 2 (2017)
The journal of Language and Psychoanalysis is a fully peer reviewed online journal that publishes twice a year. It is the only interdisciplinary journal with a strong focus on the qualitative and quantitative analysis of language and psychoanalysis. The journal is also inclusive and not narrowly confined to the Freudian psychoanalytic theory.
Language and Psychoanalysis Volume 7 Issue 2 (2018)
Language and Psychoanalysis, 2018
Following detailed presentation of the Core Conflictual Relationship Theme (CCRT), there is the objective of relevant methods for what has been described as verbalization and visualization of data. Such is also termed data mining and text mining, and knowledge discovery in data. The Correspondence Analysis methodology, also termed Geometric Data Analysis, is shown in a case study to be comprehensive and revealing. Quite innovative here is how the analysis process is structured. For both illustrative and revealing aspects of the case study here, relatively extensive dream reports are used. The dream reports are from an open source repository of dream reports, and the current study proposes a possible framework for the analysis of dream report narratives, and further, how such an analysis could be relevant within the psychotherapeutic context. This Geometric Data Analysis here confirms the validity of CCRT method.
Psychoanalysis uses language and words, words that operate on memory, through memory. The process of remembering that develops during treatment in the transferential space allows the regaining of the active traces, which have been forgotten, deformed, or transformed through the eff ects of history, time, imagination, and narration. The words we pronounce, the speech that we deliver to tell our story, to talk about our subjective state of mind, make each of us what we are. We can view the psychoanalytical enterprise as a historiographical anamnesis, within the movement of interpretation and appropriation. It weaves and remodels the envelope of memory that assures the feeling of the continuity of the self in time, of the sense of identity, and permits feeling the diff erence while projecting ourselves into the future. Analysis deals with the most secret passions, the " craziest " sexual fantasies, and fantasies about aggression and sadism. The psychoanalyst's demand for truth requires him to hear everything – both what troubles him and what pleases him. He is not supposed to enter the narcissistic 4975 Transference and Countertransference.indb 150 4975 Transference and Countertransference.indb 150
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
Countertransference and Oedipal Love, 2021
In this essay, the author will explore the use of countertransference in the therapeutic process, with particular emphasis on Oedipal love. We begin with countertransference as conceptualized by interpersonal psychoanalytic theorists, who immediately pointed out the technical relevance of the therapist as a person, and the importance of the use of the therapist's feelings, thoughts, life experiences, and states of mind in the therapeutic relationship. Just as dreams, slips of the tongue, peripheral thoughts, and physical gestures are useful in reading the patient's unconscious experience, accepting, examining, and exploring countertransference become useful in reading the analyst's unconscious experience. The author will then identify a more radical and contemporary conception of countertransference as representative of the analyst's unconscious receptivity to the patient within the enactments in which transference and countertransference reciprocally affect each other. Finally, the author will concentrate on the Oedipal feelings experienced by the therapist and their importance in treatment. A clinical case will illustrate the clinical ramifications of these hypotheses.
A Clinical Approach to Violence: Psychoanalytical Research
2002
Violence has recently come to the attention of sociologists, anthropologists, educators and psychologists as a “social fact,” even as a “news item.” In these studies and inquiries, it seems that violence is mainly (if not exclusively) envisaged as a discordant phenomenon that should be prevented, treated, and eradicated, or like a symptom, but seen as the sign of a social pathology. The present study does not attempt to pass judgment on violence, but rather to try to consider it as an issue for psychoanalysis, and point out its specificity as concerns related categories (aggressiveness, aggression drive, destructive drive, death drive), its symbolic and imaginary coordinates, the jouissances it serves, and especially its function(s) for the subject and the social bond. A clinical approach is adopted to evidence the forms of violence and its modalities in the contemporary social bond. Our study shows that violence is aimed at the “Child,” the “Woman” or the “Foreigner” (in the city);...
Language and Psychoanalysis Volume 8 Issue 2 (2019)
2019
In the paper the parallels between the emblematic "mechanisms" of signification and the psychoanalytic theory of Sigmund Freud as well as Carl Gustav Jung have been studied. The Viennese founder of psychoanalysis has discovered template schemes that become a visual delineation, the blueprint for developing his scientific vocabulary, methodology, classification of psycho-emotional behavioral types in mythological plots. The Eros and Thanatos images handling, the exploitation of mythical tales about Oedipus and Electra, Prometheus, Narcissus, and many other ones to specify the behavioral complexes denote the presence of "emblematic methodology" in the formation of psychoanalytic conceptions and categories. His interpretations of famous mythological plots are boiled down to emblematic reduction.
Language and Psychoanalysis Volume 8 Issue 1 (2019)
2019
Nowadays mindfulness has become a constituent element in various forms of psychotherapy, including psychoanalysis. This essay is my attempt to think about psychoanalysis and mindfulness together, from the starting point of Freud's recommendation of "evenly hovering attention" as the essential psychoanalytic stance. I will look at how mindfulness and psychoanalysis could enrich each other, with a view to placing them within a framework of listening practice that might contribute to our understanding of psychotherapy.
Conversation analysis and psychoanalysis: Interpretation, affect, and intersubjectivity
In this chapter, 1 I will use conversation analysis to explore some themes that are central in the clinical theory and practice of psychoanalysis. These themes include interpretation (which is a central theme in classical psychoanalytic theory), and affect and intersubjectivity (which are central themes in some contemporary psychoanalytic discussions). I will discuss these themes using two kinds of empirical material: clinical notes arising from my own psychoanalytic practice, and transcribed materials coming from a corpus of fifty-eight tape recorded psychoanalytic sessions collected by Sanna Vehviläinen and myself. Clinical notes involve the traditional method of representing interaction in psychoanalysis. The aim of the chapter is to show how the conversation analysis of tape recorded material can radically expand our understanding of the key practices of psychoanalysis. In theoretical and methodological terms, this chapter draws upon the idea of " professional stocks of interactional knowledge " (SIKs). We (Peräkylä & Vehviläinen, 2003) have proposed that professions dealing with clients have their specific stocks of knowledge which describe and prescribe the professional interactions. We suggested that conversation analysis should enter into dialogue with such SIKs; this chapter is one effort towards such a dialogue (see also Forrester & Reason, 2006).
Psychoanalysis and the Question of Violence: From Masochism to Shame
American Imago, 2012
The problem of how psychoanalysis addresses itself to the trauma of violence is arguably one of the most crucial questions facing the discipline at this historical moment. This essay will contend that the critical task of historicizing our ideas about violence holds a key to future theory and therapy. Offering a sustained historical emphasis, this essay reveals the extent to which the ideas that we-as citizens and therapists-hold about suffering and violence inflect the culture in which we live, and vice versa. by tracing the historical genealogies of two focal concepts-masochism and shame-and by examining how they play out culturally, psychoanalysis puts itself in an optimal position to rethink the relation of these culturally significant concepts to the problem of cruelty and violence. an approach to violence is here framed within an approach to masochism, precisely because, as we will see, the latter supplanted the former within a historical and cultural context of american shame in the postwar period, a shame tied to the mediated experience of the Holocaust. The historical account presented here builds to a discussion of the remedies, at once psychotherapeutic and social, required for healing in the aftermath of violence and violation. 1 This essay begins the project of examining the production of moral and social consciousness in the american postwar period with special attention to the two decades following the Second World War, a period in which the threshold of shame declined enough to allow the formation of two predominant modes of its expression and analysis, both of which share an interest in reading culture's stake in internalizing and libidinalizing shame. These modes, coming from complementary, if competing, angles are (1) analytic theory-especially combat psychiatry from the Second World War-as it developed to
A. Ávila (2014). The intersubjective: A core concept for psychoanalysis
International Forum of Psychoanalysis , 2014
The history of psychoanalysis has developed along two main routes: metapsychological (drive theory) and relational. So-called “relational psychoanalysis” derives from the convergence of several traditions – interpersonal and sociocultural (Sullivan, Fromm), object relations theory (Fairbairn), self psychology (Hokut), and intersubjective systems theory (Stolorow, Atwood, Orange) – enriched along many decades by a variety of strong contributions from Ferenczi to independent thinkers such as Bion, Winnicott, Bowlby, Pichon Rivière, W. and M. Baranger, J. Sandler, Ogden, and Bollas, among many others. Facing its main controversies in terms of theory, present psychoanalysis evolves between heuristic versus hermeneutic, intrapsychic versus intersubjective, fantasy versus trauma, conflict versus deficit, and drives versus motivational systems. Controversies in technique have also evolved from a neutrality and abstinence model to an optimal provision and frustration model experienced in mutuality but ethically balanced. This paper displays the main concepts of the relational perspective, in which intersubjectivity is both a constitutive frame for human beings and the essential way for change. Developments from infant research and neuroscience – and the deep social and cultural changes facing twenty-first century societies – promote a new scene for today’s psychoanalysis in convergence with these relational proposals.