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Tragic knots in psychoanalysis : new papers on by Roy Schafer

By Roy Schafer

This can be a choice of released and unpublished papers on medical, theoretical and utilized points of psychoanalysis that absorb a variety of features of subconscious psychological procedures and conflicts and their expression within the medical transference and countertransference. those expressions are evidenced in frustration, gratitude and benevolence, competing emotions of being cared for and coerced, disturbed and expanded  Read more...

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We imply that it is no longer persons who do the wishing or who narrate subjective experiences as torn, burdened, and so on; instead, it is as though these subjects are dealing with animated material entities or spaces in their minds, hearts, spirits, guts, spines, and so on. We are thereby referring to all those actions that we feel to be urgent, desirable, dangerous, and so forth as autonomous agents within the self, each propelling us in one direction or another. We are not presenting ourselves as human beings performing actions: wishing for this and that, setting and maintaining certain goals, striving to meet treasured ideals, and choosing courses of action.

Additionally, they are confronted with the fact of the analyst’s independence of mind. Some analysands take these shifts as blocking their effort to maintain dyadic possession and control of the analyst. Independence of mind raises the specter of oedipal triangulation, Others fear that were they to shift with the analyst, they would henceforth be expected to maintain themselves on that “high and distant level” forever; all they can expect on that level is more of the neglect and ultimate deadness they experienced in their childhoods.

The second supplement has two branches, the first being that we use unconscious splitting and projection to make of our quarrels with ourselves quarrels with others; the second branch specifies that we use internalization to transform our quarrels with others into quarrels with ourselves. This extended insight guides our clinical approach to all major quarrels: in analysis, we consider all of them condensations of quarrels with ourselves and others. Thus, we do not take for granted the conventional boundaries our analysands draw between self and other, just as we do not take for granted sharp boundaries between 6005TS_SCHAFER-TRAGIC KNOTS_BOOK23 23 8/6/09 3:45:34 PM 24 T R AG I C K N OT S I N P S Y C H OA N A LY S I S reality and fantasy.

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