The role of >real< experience in psychopathology and treatment

  • Can Love Last? The Fate of Romance Over Time by Stephen A. Mitchell (New York, NY: W.W. Norton, 2002, 224 pp.) - This article reflects on the importance of Mitchell's work in the United Kingdom, where notions of intimacy sit uneasily with psychoanalytic practice. The author argues that a reluctance to take up intimacy in the consulting room has a deleterious effect on intimate relations outside it. Drawing on her work with women, in particular, she posits that the erotic is still an undertheorized area of relational analysis. Although most orthodox theory has been jettisoned, new theory is necessary for an understanding of what the author observes to be a >false< erotic in many of her patients in whom the erotic is temporarily available but is unreliable as a desire and as a source of identity.

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Author:Susie Orbach
Parent Title (English):Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Vol. 14 (2004), pp. 397-404.
Document Type:Articles
Language:English
Year of first Publication:2004
Release Date:2017/11/20
Format:xerox upon request / Fotokopie auf Anfrage
IdNo:Orbach_S_2004
Erich Fromm's Library and Erich Fromm Archive:Articles / Artikel
Licence (German):
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