@article{WolffBernstein, author = {Wolff Bernstein, Jeanne}, title = {Reply to Orange}, series = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 11 (2001), pp. 127-130.}, journal = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 11 (2001), pp. 127-130.}, abstract = {This. Reply elucidates the ideas originally presented in >Countertransference: Our New Royal Road to the Unconscious< (PD 9/3, 1999) in acknowledgment of Irwin Hirsch's commentary (this issue). It refutes Hirsch's erroneous conception that my paper suggested that the personality of the analyst could be extricated from the interactional matrix of the psychoanalytic relationship and that persons could be separated from their minds. By drawing these false dichotomies, Hirsch only polemicizes rather than clarifies the complex relationship existing between an analyst's subjectivity and his or her personality.}, language = {en} } @article{WolffBernstein, author = {Wolff Bernstein, Jeanne}, title = {The immediate is not unmediated. Commentary on paper by Annie Sweetnam}, series = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 13 (2003), pp. 501-511.}, journal = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 13 (2003), pp. 501-511.}, abstract = {The author underscores the importance of Slochower's and Grand's papers on the misdemeanors and crimes committed by psychoanalysts during their clinical work. Both authors are described as being courageous in exploring the realm of analysts' secrets, small misdemeanors, and crimes as a valuable source of collecting and processing countertransference material. Instead of looking at every self-involved activity as a theft from the patient, the author suggests that an analyst may have to retreat to self-enclosed activities in order to be fully present for the patient. At the same time, the kind of activity in which an analyst is engaged while listening to a patient may encapsulate and foreshadow crucial aspects of the transference-countertransference dynamic.}, language = {en} } @article{WolffBernstein, author = {Wolff Bernstein, Jeanne}, title = {Paradox and process}, series = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 09 (1999), pp. 275-299.}, journal = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 09 (1999), pp. 275-299.}, abstract = {In this paper I am tracing the history of countertransference and how it has informed the current debate about self-disclosure as a pivotal instrument of analytic work. Now that the analyst's >subjective factor< has been understood as a central influence on the analysand and as a vital source of information about the analysand's intrapsychic life, I argue that certain currents in the relational school of psychoanalysis confuse the analyst's subjectivity with his personality. While becoming more >real< with a patient may enliven a stale analytic dialogue, it ought not be confused with, or take the place of, an analysis of unconscious desires and phantasies. I claim that a two-person psychology can exist only within a tripartite structure in which the analyst does not lose sight of his complex function of being the carrier, observer, and conveyor of the unconscious currents holding both participants in check.}, language = {en} }