@article{CooperLevit, author = {Cooper, Steven H. and Levit, David B.}, title = {Mother - infant interaction structures and presymbolic self- and object representations}, series = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 08 (1998), pp. 603-624.}, journal = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 08 (1998), pp. 603-624.}, abstract = {In this paper we explore a few points emphasized by both Fairbairn and American Relational Theory related to conceptualizations of the new and old object and the implications for working in the analytic situation. Underlying much of our discussion is the belief that there are useful tensions between, on the one hand, Fairbairn's emphasis on our attachment to bad and old objects and refractory clinging to these bad objects in the face of receiving something new, and, on the other, a construal of a push or willingness toward integrating externality and newness of objects (e.g., Winnicott, 1969 Benjamin, 1988). American Relational models which explore complexities of interaction augment an understanding of Fairbairn's formulations of why we hold on to old objects. Fairbairn's theory also offers ways of understanding aspects of repetition, even, and sometimes especially, in trying to provide new experience.}, language = {en} } @article{Cooper, author = {Cooper, Steven H.}, title = {The social politics of psychoanalysis. Commentary on Neil Altman's >psychoanalysis and the urban poor<}, series = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Vol. 14 (2004), pp. 527-551.}, journal = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Vol. 14 (2004), pp. 527-551.}, abstract = {Until recently, most psychoanalytic conceptualizations of the analyst as a new object have tended to equate newness with good experience and safety. Recent papers in the relational literature have explored not only the therapeutic value, but also the inevitability of the patient's experience of the analyst as bad, as well as the analyst's participation in this experience. This author examines the multifarious nature of hope, goodness, and badness in the clinical situation. The patient gets to know not only elements of his or her own self that are held by the analyst, but also ways in which the patient holds elements related to the particulars of the analyst's person in the analytic situation. Shifts in American psychoanalysis regarding conceptualizations of the analyst as a new object are examined. Limitations of a bifurcated approach to goodness and badness in clinical conceptualizations are also explored.}, language = {en} } @article{Cooper, author = {Cooper, Steven H.}, title = {The Clinton Impeachment: A View from France}, series = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 13 (2003), pp. 029-039.}, journal = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 13 (2003), pp. 029-039.}, abstract = {The author examines several types of therapeutic action intrinsic to Davies's clinical work. Among these actions was Davies's eventual and careful willingness to ask her patient to hold affective states that the patient had previously been unable to hold to discover a way to speak to her patient about her own struggles with the patient while risking, and actually knowing, that, inevitably, some of the patient's discovery of what the analyst feels will resonate with painful past experience to create another countertransference space in which Davies found a way to become a different kind of bad or disappointing object to the patient than the patient's earlier disappointment with parental figures, though one that proved much more helpful and bearable than her previous experience and eventually, though implicitly, to accept the aggressive and harsh ways in which the patient was already experiencing newness in the context of repetitive disappointment. In each of these types of action, the opportunity for mourning figures prominently.}, language = {en} } @article{Cooper, author = {Cooper, Steven H.}, title = {Reexamining Change Commentary on Paper by Jeremy Safran}, series = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 10 (2000), pp. 169-194.}, journal = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 10 (2000), pp. 169-194.}, abstract = {The patient's containment of the analyst's affect occurs in a broad range of situations that extend far beyond the more visible instances when the analyst is directly expressive of his or her own affects. This paper begins to explore how patients help analysts contain various kinds of affects within the analytic process, particularly more routine and less heroic types of containment. Although this containment is generally a far less prominent feature of analytic work than is the containment provided by the analyst for the patient, it is omnipresent. Routine elements of containment that the patient provides for the analyst involve working with the knowledge of the limits of the other - including the possibility that in a long-term treatment the patient will often get to know quite well some of the quotidian aspects of the analyst's personality and its relation to the patient's conflicts. Mutual aspects of containment are extremely important in the expression and titration of anger and disappointment, desire, hope, humor, and the negotiation of psychic possibility within the analytic dyad.}, language = {en} } @article{Cooper, author = {Cooper, Steven H.}, title = {New Windows on Understanding Addictive Vulnerability: Commentary on Papers by Lisa Director and Noelle Burton}, series = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 08 (1998), pp. 767-779.}, journal = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 08 (1998), pp. 767-779.}, language = {en} } @article{Cooper, author = {Cooper, Steven H.}, title = {Happy Play: Reply to Commentaries}, series = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 06 (1996), pp. 895-901.}, journal = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 06 (1996), pp. 895-901.}, language = {en} } @article{Cooper, author = {Cooper, Steven H.}, title = {From Melancholia to Meaning How to Live the Past in the Present}, series = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 06 (1996), pp. 647-669.}, journal = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 06 (1996), pp. 647-669.}, language = {en} } @article{Cooper, author = {Cooper, Steven H.}, title = {Apparitions in the Fog. Commentary on Paper by Adrienne Harris and Barbara H. Gold}, series = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 03 (1993), pp. 169-176.}, journal = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 03 (1993), pp. 169-176.}, language = {en} }