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Denford, John

doi:10.1080/03060497.2004.11083811

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“…Through such dissociating he avoids the mourning, remorse and depressive anxieties which would otherwise be aroused and intensified by the migration, especially if it was undertaken voluntarily. (Grinberg & Grinberg, 1989, p. 8) Denford (1981) offers a rather more positive psychoanalytic perspective on the issue of exile. Relying mainly upon Winnicott's terminology, he views exile as one expression of the human capacity for mobility.…”

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An Exile in the Room: A Clinical Illustration and a Literary Footnote

Alfandary

2014

Psychoanalytic Social Work

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In this article, I describe the case of Dan, an Israeli citizen in his late thirties, born and bred in Argentina. I focus upon some psychological effects of exile as played out and repeated in the transference, leading to an instance of an articulation of his human idiom (Bollas, 1989). During the course of his therapy, through the working of elements in the transference paradigm, it became possible that Dan's existential gloom and despair, accompanied by various physical symptoms, were the traces of the imprints of his exile from Argentine. Those traces were linked to the articulation of deeply buried sensations and once recognized allowed him to explore instances of unresolved mourning. The mourning process thus resumed and allowed him to regain his positive outlook. In conjunction with this, I describe the impact that Julio Cortázar's (1914Cortázar's ( -1984 posthumously published book, Diary of Andrés Fava (2005), had upon him. The reading of that book served Dan and me as an unconscious object. This object could be represented by Ogden's (2004) term The Analytical Third, and was a part of the therapeutic relationship where he was able to discover, express, and elaborate upon his unique idiomatic sense of self.

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An Exile in the Room: A Clinical Illustration and a Literary Footnote

Alfandary

2014

Psychoanalytic Social Work

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“…There are a number of psychoanalytic writers who initially explored issues of migration and how they affect identity. Amongst them, Akhtar (), Denford (), Gray (), Ginberg and Grinberg (), Kurilloff (). They began to challenge culture‐free psychoanalysis as irrelevant because there are no patients who are culture free.…”

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Migration as an Unconscious Search for Identity: Some Reflections on Language, Difference and Belonging

Czubinska¹

2017

Brit J Psychotherapy

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The author addresses some issues regarding patients who relocate and who struggle with adaptation to a new reality. She argues that emigration is a complex psychological phenomenon that requires a therapist to pay special attention to the issue of language, difference and identity, and suggests that the issues of different culture and language in analytic psychotherapy need to be considered as part of a wider cultural context to which we all belong, rather than a specialized area of interest. The paper illustrates, through the clinical example of an East European male patient, that the psychic work of emigration can be understood as a process of integrating splits between pre-and post-migration selves. The author concludes that the analyst needs to let herself be involved as a 'real person' to reach the non-interpretative aspects of the patient's psyche through a mutuality of shared experience to promote a change.

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“… 4 Psychoanalysis has generally held that interest in animals, things, and nature at large constitutes a displacement from this or that curiosity about human bodies and human object relations (Freud 1927; Winnicott 1953; Volkan 1981). Only a few analysts (e.g., Searles 1960; Denford 1981; Bollas 1992; Akhtar 2003, 2005) have allowed the possibility of psychic relations with the inanimate world being independent and not always symbolic of human-to-human relatedness. …”

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Open-mouthed and Wide-eyed: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Curiosity

Akhtar¹

2017

J Am Psychoanal Assoc

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Going away

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An Exile in the Room: A Clinical Illustration and a Literary Footnote

An Exile in the Room: A Clinical Illustration and a Literary Footnote

Migration as an Unconscious Search for Identity: Some Reflections on Language, Difference and Belonging

Open-mouthed and Wide-eyed: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Curiosity

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