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Connection and Disconnection: Value of the Analyst's Subjectivity in Elucidating Meaning in a Psychoanalytic Case Study.
- Source :
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Journal of Research Practice . 2012, Vol. 8 Issue 2, p1-13. 13p. - Publication Year :
- 2012
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Abstract
- This article reflects on pivotal concepts of psychoanalytic practice and theory, applied to a single case study to create new meanings. Drawing from the concepts of transference, countertransference, and projective identification, the author presents the notion that the researcher's subjective reactions are created and induced by the subject of study precisely because this is one, and sometimes the only way available to the subject to communicate something that is out of its full awareness. In essence, some unconscious material can be expressed nonverbally by the subject by means of provoking visceral and bodily reactions in the researcher, or in some cases, psychic imagery such as dreams or fantasies. The material can be meaningfully interpreted by the researcher by receiving, containing, and sorting through these inchoate emotional reactions within self. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1712851X
- Volume :
- 8
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Research Practice
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 89862769