@article{Knoblauch, author = {Knoblauch, Steven H.}, title = {Cultivating the Improvisational in Psychoanalytic Treatment}, series = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 05 (1995), pp. 151-155.}, journal = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 05 (1995), pp. 151-155.}, language = {en} } @article{Knoblauch, author = {Knoblauch, Steven H.}, title = {Integrating kleinian theory and intersubjective infant research observing projective identification}, series = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 07 (1997), pp. 491-516.}, journal = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 07 (1997), pp. 491-516.}, abstract = {The practice of psychoanalysis, traditionally, has privileged verbal communication. In relational theory the therapeutic significance of unconscious, semantically unformulated, but nonverbally encoded communications has been recognized. While patients are understood to generate significant nonverbal material for use in the treatment process, similar nonverbal productions from analysts rarely have been acknowledged as useful for treatment. In this paper, I demonstrate a way to recognize and use the nonverbal productions of analysts as well as of analysands within the analytic process. A brief review is offered of contemporary authors who have conceptualized the importance of the nonverbal realm for psychoanalytic treatment. An approach is then described that builds on process conceptualizations derived from the infant research literature. The model, illustrated with two clinical examples, provides a way of conceptualizing >process contours< on a nonverbal level of exchange between analyst and analysand that becomes the medium for catalyzing the transition from presymbolic interactions to symbolic language. Working on this level, analyst and analysand coconstruct scenes from both the dreaded past and the hoped-for present/future, which, when reflected on in a joint process of narrative construction, provide a new context for accessing previously dissociated affective experience.}, language = {en} } @article{Knoblauch, author = {Knoblauch, Steven H.}, title = {On making rules: Toward a reformation of the dynamics of transference in psychoanalytic treatment}, series = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 09 (1999), pp. 041-051.}, journal = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 09 (1999), pp. 041-051.}, language = {en} } @misc{Knoblauch, author = {Knoblauch, Steven H.}, title = {Review Essay: Constructivism, Dialectic, and Mortality}, series = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 11 (2001), pp. 785-795.}, journal = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 11 (2001), pp. 785-795.}, abstract = {In this commentary building on Philip Ringstrom's paper, I address how improvisation, an unpremeditated spontaneous activity emerging within an interactive context, can be analytic even when not shaped consciously by the analyst's reflective capacity and therapeutic judgment. A microanalysis of the nonverbal dimensions of the analytic exchanges that Ringstrom offers is used to illustrate how affective experience can be attended and coconstructed on a subsymbolic process register carried on kinesthetic, somatic, and acoustic dimensions that may or may not be transduced to symbolic expression for mutative analytic impact to have occurred. The metaphor of jazz is added to the metaphor of improvisational theater to help elaborate this view.}, language = {en} } @article{Knoblauch, author = {Knoblauch, Steven H.}, title = {To speak or not to speak? How and when is that the question? Commentary on papers by Davies and Gabbard}, series = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Vol. 15 (2005), pp. 203-209.}, journal = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Vol. 15 (2005), pp. 203-209.}, abstract = {Emmanuel Ghent, referred to with fondness as >Mannie,< is remembered for his capacity for sensitive attention. A brief moment shared listening to music serves as a point of departure for a series of reflections on Mannie's love of music and psychoanalysis, his commitment to change, and how his ideas about surrender shaped that commitment and continue to influence the analytic community. In his musings on Mannie's thesis concerning submission and surrender, the author considers how Federico Fellini's ideas about availability can add texture to Mannie's ideas about surrender. The essay closes with a return to the author's experience of the way in which Emmanuel Ghent embodied his credo.}, language = {en} } @article{Knoblauch, author = {Knoblauch, Steven H.}, title = {Wish, Need, Drive: Motive in the Light of Dynamic Systems Theory and Edelman's Selectionist Theory}, series = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Vol. 15 (2005), pp. 807-827.}, journal = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Vol. 15 (2005), pp. 807-827.}, abstract = {Limitations to the process of symbolization for communication in psychoanalytic work are considered as the basis for an expansion of clinical attention to include embodied experience as a source of unconscious meaning. The displacement effect of language and the futility that language meets, as description of lived experience, are key points recognized in the contributions of Daniel Stern and Jacques Lacan. Irwin Hoffman's critique of assumptions underlying Freud's technique for analytic work are reviewed as a point of departure for recommending a relational approach to analytic attention expanded with an emphasis on micromoment-embodied communication in addition to symbolized communication. A clinical narrative is offered, highlighting the rhythms of movement between embodied and verbally symbolized communication as a basis for constructing unconscious meaning. The implications of this approach are summarized for expanding analytic attention to include registers of communication in addition to the verbal symbolic.}, language = {en} } @article{Knoblauch, author = {Knoblauch, Steven H.}, title = {Working through the question of the phallus to the other side. Commentary on Bracha Lichtenberg-Ettinger's paper}, series = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Vol. 15 (2005), pp. 883-896.}, journal = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Vol. 15 (2005), pp. 883-896.}, abstract = {The thoughtful discussions of my paper by Alan Schore, Wilma Bucci, and James Fosshage raise important considerations about the relationship between theory, research, and the micromoment interactions constituting the activity of psychoanalysis. For the opportunity afforded by their contributions, and to Psychoanalytic Dialogues for publishing our exchanges, I express deep gratitude. I am initially impacted by the appreciation shown by my colleagues for the approach I am illustrating to clinical attention and its value for an expanded and, in certain ways, revised scope of psychoanalytic activity. In particular, I am appreciative of the ways that each commentator has taken up my emphasis on expanding psychoanalytic attention beyond symbolic pathways of exchange and has further contributed to understanding how this can occur. As part of a consideration of points of convergence and difference between us, I address how such convergences and differences shape both the values and pitfalls of comparisons across research, theory, and practice.}, language = {en} }