Therapeutic impasses in contemporary psychoanalytic treatment: Revisiting the double bind hypothesis
- This commentary focuses on how psychoanalysts may theorize the therapeutic action of reading and hearing poetry. It is argued that poetic action is a densely layered one- and two-person process that achieves its psychological effects by potentiating the mental space that is >thirdness,< in Jessica Benjamin's (2004) lexicon. Beginning with ideas about how poetry works on a single subjectivity, Goldner then considers the complex intersubjective and mutative processes that are set in motion when an analyst reads a poem to a patient. Building on Bollas's (1987) construct, the >transformational object< and on Ogden's (1998, 1999) and Akhtar's (2000) theories of poetic action, the author proposes that poetry can be usefully understood as a >transformational third.<
Author: | Virginia Goldner |
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Parent Title (English): | Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Vol. 15 (2005), pp. 105-117. |
Document Type: | Articles |
Language: | English |
Year of first Publication: | 2005 |
Release Date: | 2017/11/20 |
Format: | xerox upon request / Fotokopie auf Anfrage |
IdNo: | Goldner_V_2005 |
Erich Fromm's Library and Erich Fromm Archive: | Articles / Artikel |
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