Reply to Louis A. Sass

  • In this brief. Reply to Bollas's commentary on our paper about his work, the cycles of intersubjective dialogue endlessly sustaining should be apparent. We begin with an example of the form – content distinction and attempt to use it as a springboard for further disentangling some of the nuances of Bollas's intersubjective theorizing. Bollas's emphasis on form over content as a means of conceptualizing the analyst's contribution to the analytic process is indeed compelling. We all know from both sides of the couch the profoundly different meanings and messages that an analyst's mien invites: whether she's abrupt, verbose, meditative, tranquil. Yes, the medium is the message, and, thus, whether the analyst conveys a message through the effects of form that Bollas points out, such as >We have all the time you need for the nuances of unconscious figuring< versus >This is hot – we hafta figure it out now< surely does have an effect on the psychic material produced in the analytic process. We go on to add to Bollas's discussion of form by considering the particularities of form and how these too affect the analytic process.

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Author:Julie Gerhardt, Annie Sweetnam
Parent Title (English):Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 11 (2001), pp. 107-114.
Document Type:Articles
Language:English
Year of first Publication:2001
Release Date:2017/11/20
Format:xerox upon request / Fotokopie auf Anfrage
IdNo:Gerhardt_J_Sweetnam_A_2001a
Erich Fromm's Library and Erich Fromm Archive:Articles / Artikel
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