Adventures of the dialectic reply to commentaries

Reis, Bruce

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“…Thus in Bion's conception of beta elements as atomistic sense data, meaningless elements that serve as the building blocks of complex internal perceptions constituted by the faculty of understanding, we find an approach that is both abstract and dualistic – abstract because our representations are taken to be endlessly derivative experiences of an unknowable reality; dualistic because bodily sensation is split from the mental operations that are thought to yield experience and representation. It is also possible to ground the intersubjective conceptions discussed here within the frame of a non‐representational phenomenology (Reis, ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ) that would contain different assumptions regarding minds, bodies and knowledge.…”

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Monsters, dreams and madness: Commentary on ‘The arms of the chimeras’

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2016

The International Journal of Psychoanalysis

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Considering Freudian and Post-Freudian approaches to the intersubjective Beatrice Ithier puts the work of Michel de M'Uzan and Thomas Ogden in comparison. To this comparison I add a consideration of the work of Christopher Bollas. The highly creative clinical approaches these three theorists take is shown to be informed by their elaborations of the Freudian notion of unconscious communication and by new approaches to the issue of identity. Attention is paid to differentiating traumatic from fanciful chimeras; and to the experience of the analyst undergoing the sorts of transformations requisite to entering this psychic space marked by fluid exchanges of being and becoming, wherein analyst becomes patient, new subjects are created through shared dreams, and through which monsters appear.

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