Paradox and process

  • In this paper I am tracing the history of countertransference and how it has informed the current debate about self-disclosure as a pivotal instrument of analytic work. Now that the analyst's >subjective factor< has been understood as a central influence on the analysand and as a vital source of information about the analysand's intrapsychic life, I argue that certain currents in the relational school of psychoanalysis confuse the analyst's subjectivity with his personality. While becoming more >real< with a patient may enliven a stale analytic dialogue, it ought not be confused with, or take the place of, an analysis of unconscious desires and phantasies. I claim that a two-person psychology can exist only within a tripartite structure in which the analyst does not lose sight of his complex function of being the carrier, observer, and conveyor of the unconscious currents holding both participants in check.

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Author:Jeanne Wolff Bernstein
Parent Title (English):Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 09 (1999), pp. 275-299.
Document Type:Articles
Language:English
Year of first Publication:1999
Release Date:2017/11/20
Format:xerox upon request / Fotokopie auf Anfrage
IdNo:Wolff-Bernstein_W_1999
Erich Fromm's Library and Erich Fromm Archive:Articles / Artikel
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