The Relational Unconscious: Commentary on Papers by Michael Eigen and James Grotstein
- Freudian, Lacanian, and Kohutian approaches to the subject of seeing another and being seen by the other are reviewed and critiqued. The mirroring metaphor, so often invoked in psychoanalysis, is brought under scrutiny and concluded to be naive to the complexity of interaction actually occurring when one is seeing oneself being seen. Utilizing infant research findings and currents in Continental philosophy, a case is made for a reading of Winnicott's mirroring conception as a relational event: embodied and embedded in an intersubjective matrix of prereflective immediacy. Breaking with analytic rigidity emphasizing opacity and abnegation, Winnicott embraced the visual rather than inherently mistrusting it, advancing the dark analyses of vision beyond their pessimistic appraisals of the impossibility of an encounter with alterity.
MetadatenAuthor: | Bruce E. Reis |
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Parent Title (English): | Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Vol. 14 (2004), pp. 349-371. |
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Document Type: | Articles |
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Language: | English |
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Year of first Publication: | 2004 |
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Release Date: | 2017/11/20 |
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Format: | xerox upon request / Fotokopie auf Anfrage |
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IdNo: | Reis_B_E_2004 |
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Erich Fromm's Library and Erich Fromm Archive: | Articles / Artikel |
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