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Comments on Yasuhiko Taketomo's and Mildred C. Broffman's Paper: An Ostracism in Modern Society
(1977)
The author develops the thesis that transference can only be properly understood as representing a transferred burden. Wherever the burden, by means of the symptoms it causes, succeeds in finding readiness in a fellow human being to share the predicament, therapy ensues in form of exceptional vicarious solidarity. Thus transfer is transformed into transference. Therapy, then, amounts to a second, a dialogical reception. This means reconnection of the ties, once lost, with a common human responsibility with regard to the challenges and potentialities of individual and social life contained in the burden. This constitutes the human ground, and the only ground, on which any methodical skills and theory formations carry real human weight.
The title contains the thesis of the paper. Hubris is here: the godlike position of knowing good and evid. The mythical story about man's self-estrangement, as it is told in the biblical canon about three thousand years ago, depicts more a rise than a fall, as it entails a seizure of the throne of the one and absolute >Thou<. On good grounds that myth can be regarded as a particularly universal instance of man's selfand existence interpretation. In any case it seems obvious that the basic rule, as it implies giving voting right to everything announcing itself in man, even and especially to all that is defying his >already-knowing<, his open or latent judgements, is of crucial value on his way towards an authentic wholeness as a person. Consequences for the conception of not only therapeutic knowledge but knowledge in general, are discussed. How the myth of man's fall throws essential light upon deep depression, especially as met in psychoanalytic therapy, is demonstrated by means of two case histories.