By Jonathan Sklar
During this very important new choice of essays, Jonathan Sklar argues that the founding pressure among Freud's dedication to interpretation and Ferenczi's additional parameter of 'being within the adventure' has a relevant place/key position to play in modern psychoanalytic debate, and that this stress can most sensible be understood by way of returning to where of trauma in psychoanalysis. Taking this debate into the guts of the Read more...
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In this context, an analyst too preoccupied with himself, with having an effect or being able to get in touch with his patient, may well be perceived as being narcissistic and selfish. Many writings on Kleinian technique describe the analyst “showing the patient” such and such a fact (Joseph 1989). Some analysts have described in detail how the patient often attempts to draw them into forms of enactment that function as complex defensive organizations to preserve or restore a form of psychic equilibrium that protects the analysand from anxiety.
The analyst has to make an interpretation in such a way as to lower the patient’s resistance, through an understanding of the conflict in the patient’s mind. Yet this seemingly simple idea can be undertaken in different ways. A great deal of the analytic work is expected, by both parties, to be accomplished in words—the patient telling his story through free association and the analyst speaking heris interpretation to make the unconscious conscious. What the patient cannot say, he brings by way 29 30 L A N D S CA P E S O F T H E DA R K of enactment, in what he does during his life in analysis, in the analytic hour, as well as the enactment of the dream in the session.
At its most extreme, the mind becomes overvalued as the target organ for some analysts. The analytic understanding of psyche-soma can become an ordinary, but also fundamental, way of understanding and approaching the roots of an individual’s character or self. After all, attendance for a session can only happen by the body bringing itself to the analyst. Freud’s paper Neurosis and Psychosis (1924) is seminal for the way it allows us to understand not just the notion of a gap in the ego, but the struggle by the unconscious to make good the gap and to attempt repair: “In regard to the genesis of delusions”, writes Freud, “a fair number of analyses have taught us that the delusion is found applied like a patch over the place where originally a rent had appeared in the ego’s relation to the external world” (Freud 1924, p.