TY - JOUR A1 - Priel, Beatriz T1 - Beyond Neutrality and Embeddedness: A Psychoanalytic Reading of Detective Fiction JF - The Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 26 (1998), pp. 443-456. Y1 - 1998 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Priel, Beatriz T1 - Postmodern epistemology: The problem of validation and the retreat from therapeutics in psychoanalysis JF - Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 09 (1999), pp. 487-503. N2 - This paper develops a Bakhtinian dialogical perspective on the psychoanalytic discourse in general and on the concepts of true and false selves (Winnicott, 1960b) in particular. Bakhtin's assumptions about the origins of dialogicality in children's development are compared to Winnicott's ideas about the origins of true- and false-self processes. This comparison leads to a characterization of the false and true selves as different genres of the narrated self – the epic and the novel – each with its specific configurations of experience and temporality. Moreover, psychoanalysis is conceived as a unique phenomenon that centers on the internal and most of the time simultaneous dialogues that take place in each of the two participants. This perspective underscores the impact of the analyst's subjectivity on the analytic process as well as the multiplicity of the patient's and the analyst's selves. In this context, therapeutic change can be seen most of the time as a transformation of genre and not necessarily as a modification of contents. Free association allows for the transgression of the basic rules of narrativity, thus facilitating a generic shift. A dialogical relation between the openness of free association and narrativity's coherence is suggested. Life by its very nature is dialogic. To live means to participate in dialogue [Bakhtin, 1963, p. 293]. A word like >self< naturally knows more than we do [Winnicott, 1960a, p. 158]. Y1 - 1999 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Priel, Beatriz T1 - Incognito or not – the patient's subjective experience of the analyst's private life JF - Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 07 (1997), pp. 431-450. N2 - This paper develops the idea that the human experience of time is not a creation of an isolated mind, but emerges within the earliest intersubjective experiences. Following Winnicott's main theoretical assumptions about the role of the environment and the processes of ego integration, the paper focuses on the sense and the concept of time as stemming from within a self-with-other context and constituting an emergent property of self – other differentiations. These processes are viewed also from the perspective of the dialogical character of early mother-infant interactions as evidenced by recent infant developmental research. The dialogical structure of these interactions includes important aspects of synchrony and accommodation, as well as asynchrony and transformations, which play a basic role in the emergence of self-differentiation. Moreover, the temporal characteristics of mother – infant exchanges constitute a basic vehicle through which interpersonal meanings unfold. The evolution of the sense of time is seen as a continuous process of construction of meaning in an intersubjective framework. Four basic aspects/phases of this evolution are proposed. These underscore basic features of the experience of time and self-object differentiation, including timelessness or a time of togetherness, the containment of absence or time of separation, narrative time related to the configuration and refiguration of a self in time, and the renunciation of immortality and the >use< of time. Y1 - 1997 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Priel, Beatriz T1 - Infant-parent interactions, phantasies, and an >internal two-person psychology<: Reply to commentaries JF - Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 07 (1997), pp. 459-463. Y1 - 1997 ER -