TY - JOUR A1 - Kennedy, Roger T1 - Interpretation as expression of the analyst's subjectivity JF - Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 07 (1997), pp. 553-581. N2 - This essay puts forward for discussion a >subject relations< theory of psychoanalysis. It is argued that the term subject captures a basic aspect of the human situation, that we are both subject >of and subject >to< various phenomena. It is argued that psychoanalytic subjectivity implies being in several different positions or viewpoints in relation to others. The subject moves between positions within the subjective organization. The paper tackles such basic issues as the way such subjective organizations both arise and are sustained, how unity is maintained but also undermined. The essential role of social structure in the subjective organization is discussed. The role of objects in a subject relations theory is considered. In addition, various transference states are described that could reflect particular subjective organizations. Lastly, there is a brief consideration of the role of the analyst's subjectivity in the analytic relationship. Y1 - 1997 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kennedy, Roger T1 - Review Charles Taylor: Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity JF - Free Association, No. 26 (1992), pp. 297-305. Y1 - 1992 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kennedy, Roger T1 - Encounters with Omnipotence in the Psychoanalysis of Substance Users JF - Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 06 (1996), pp. 073-096. N2 - This paper discusses some aspects of consciousness from a psychoanalytical viewpoint, based on a reading of Freud's relevant texts and also incorporating some recent developments in neurophysi-ology and philosophy. Its aim is to put forward a >fuller< concept of consciousness than that often used in analytic theory. Rather than, for example, confining it to a sense organ, or to a receiver of one stream of inner or outer perceptions, the author suggests that consciousness has many streams or >voices,< with perhaps little sense of unity and that, partly because of this, consciousness has an important role to play in channelling the expression of the unconscious, as well as in helping to create a picture of the world, in addition to its familiar censoring and protective functions. The author also questions the notion of >mental representations< which has influenced what we mean by mental life, and discusses an alternative, >nonrepresentational< framework. Much of what the author writes is speculative but still based on the psychoanalytic encounter, for he believes that our model of consciousness does influence how we view clinical material. He presents a clinical session to illustrate some of the themes of the paper. Y1 - 1996 ER -