>Dirty,< >Clean,< and In-Between – Rolling with Uncertainty in Homoerotic Countertransference. Reply to Commentaries
- The psychoanalytic situation provides many opportunities for people to observe their analysts closely. These observations are inevitably woven into the fabric of patients’ transference experience. Because the observations can be uncomfortable for the analyst, there is a constant temptation to ignore or deny the plausibility of patients’ perceptions. They can be, and often are, quickly reinterpreted as derivatives of sexual or aggressive urges. Psychoanalytic drive theory, with its emphasis on impulse rather than observation as the force behind transference experience, can encourage counter-transferential disclaimers and lead to blind spots. Some technical suggestions are offered to avoid this tendency and are based on a relational understanding of the nature of transference.
MetadatenAuthor: | Jay R. Greenberg |
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Parent Title (English): | Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 01 (1991), pp. 052-073. |
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Document Type: | Articles |
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Language: | English |
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Year of first Publication: | 1991 |
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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: | Greenberg_J_R_1991 |
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Erich Fromm's Library and Erich Fromm Archive: | Articles / Artikel |
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Licence (German): | |
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