TY - JOUR A1 - Grand, Sue T1 - Insight and experience. Commentary on Morris Eagle's >enactments, transference, and symptomatic cure< JF - Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 07 (1997), pp. 465-490. N2 - This paper attempts to develop a phenomenology of the perpetrator's conviction of innocence in a condition of actual guilt. This phenomenology is developed through the investigation of dissociative states in a certain type of incestuous perpetrator: one who is herself a survivor of sexual abuse, physical abuse, or both. Clinical material suggests that certain types of schizoid perpetrators can genuinely experience the incestuous act as not really real not really sex, not really mine. This clinical phenomenon is examined from the perspective of two contemporary theoretical trends: the new view of the self as multiple (Bromberg, 1993 Mitchell, 1993), and the neo-Kleinian formulation of >adhesive< (Mitrani, 1994) or >autistic-contiguous< (Ogden, 1989, 1990) modes of pseudo-object relatedness. Incestuous acts are conceived as occurring within a prelinguistic modality, and are therefore not encoded in discursive, autobiographical memory. The coexistence of dissociated, multiple self states and modalities accounts for the contradictory levels of object relatedness, memory, and concern frequently encountered in perpetrators of incest. Y1 - 1997 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Grand, Sue T1 - The case of Ronald oedipal issues in the treatment of a seven-year-old boy JF - Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 12 (2002), pp. 959-970. N2 - In this discussion, I nest Howell's work in a broader psychoanalytic look at trauma and dissociation. I approach Howell's paper as a trauma narrative situated in the context of emergent relational theory and practice. A critique is offered that focuses on the way trauma is vocalized and inscribed in psychoanalytic writing and reading. In particular, I examine the problematic aspects of that inscription and suggest that trauma resists psychoanalytic articulation in both writing and reading. I suggest that, as an alternative model, psychoanalytic reading must become psychoanalytic witnessing. Such witnessing is demonstrated in the analysis of style and content in Howell's work. In this context, contemporary definitions of trauma and dissociation are challenged, insofar as they occlude the traumatic history they attempt to elucidate. Y1 - 2002 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Grand, Sue T1 - The hermeneutic turn soft science or loyal opposition? JF - Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 13 (2003), pp. 471-500. N2 - Discussing an intensive case study of female sexual dysfunction, this paper studies mutual deregulation and disintegration as it unfolds in the transference–countertransference dyad. I propose that ethical transgressions are potentiated in analytic dyads in which the analyst's hope for either solitude or mutuality is foreclosed. This hope can be foreclosed by the particulars of the therapeutic interaction as well as by the theoretical and clinical aspects of analytic training. The deregulation that both precipitates and follows such transgression can be healed (in the analyst, in the analysis) only by the restitution of the therapist's agency, the reduction of paranoid-schizoid guilt and shame, and the location (in the analyst) of depressive, >I-Thou< remorse. Y1 - 2003 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Grand, Sue T1 - The Interplay of Subsymbolic and Symbolic Processess in Psychoanalytic Treatment: Commentary on Paper by Steven H. Knoblauch JF - Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 13 (2003), pp. 527-531. N2 - In this response to commentaries by Bernstein and Frankel, I suggest that there has been a shift in the psychoanalytic Zeitgeist with regard to ethical transgressions. At the time my case transpired, analysts' authenticity was prohibited, and >misdemeanors< were met with overzealous judgment. Contemporary theory and practice has come to appreciate the analyst's subjectivity, and the mutual press of the >impossible profession.< But in doing so, it has begun to occupy another polarized position. Instead of imposing moralistic judgment, we are tending to overcontextualize the analyst's acts and displace the analyst's agency onto the patient. Another position is suggested here. Y1 - 2003 ER -