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Zivilisation und Barbarei
(1995)
Editorial
(1995)
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(1995)
El Fromm de mis recuerdos
(1995)
Cagdas nasirali yahya
(1995)
An important critique has been developing that questions the ways in which psychoanalytic theories have conceptualized gender and sexuality. Contemporary (postmodern) feminist theories and the work of gay and lesbian theorists have challenged the traditional psychoanalytic view of gender as formed primarily through fixed, unitary identifications. This paper reviews the classical concept of the primal scene and the Kleinian concept of the combined parent figure and recontextualizes these ideas within contemporary relational theory. The revised metaphor of an internalized primal scene challenges traditional notions of a unitary gender identity and lends support to the postmodern critique of the notion of a core or unified identity. This paper develops the idea that we need both a notion of gender identity and a notion of gender multiplicity more broadly, we need an emphasis on people both as unified, stable, cohesive subjects and as multiple, fragmented, and different from moment to moment. In line with the postmodern emphasis on deconstructing dichotomies, the paper emphasizes the deconstruction, or rather the psychoanalysis, of such polarized concepts as male-female, masculine – feminine, heterosexual – homosexual, father – mother, genital – pregenital, oedipal – preoedipal, identity – multiplicity, paranoid-schizoid-depressive position, drive theory – relational theory, and even patient – analyst.
This essay identifies Kohut's major contribution as methodological: that psychoanalytic inquiry entails the sustained empathic immersion in the patient's psychological experience. Kohut's consistent employment of this method enabled him to discover that it was not instinctual drive derivatives but selfobject needs that were central to all psychological relationships. This discovery was the basis for the transformation of analysts’ approach to the >narcissistic< aspects of a wide variety of disorders – a transformation whose theoretical and therapeutic importance rivals the revolutionary approach taken by Freud to the vicissitudes of psychosexuality and its disturbances. The author describes the major areas of progress in self psychology – much of which centers on the growing recognition that the health and vitality of the self depend on complex relational, or intersubjective, selfobject experiences. He indicates how this recognition is changing our perspectives on transference and countertransference and is improving our ability to respond optimally to our patients. He describes how optimal responsiveness constitutes the guiding principle for therapeutic work, and how it may both constitute, and be different from, >being empathic.<
Mutuality – sine qua non. An attempt to continue analyzing unilaterally. Emotionality disappeared analysis insipid. Relationship – distant. Once mutuality has been attempted, one sided analysis then is no longer possible – not productive. Now the question: must every case be mutual- – and to what extent- [Dupont, 1988, p. 213].
On Analyzing Colleagues
(1995)