Listening and interpreting—how relational analysts kill time between disclosures and enactments: Commentary on papers by Bromberg and by Greenberg

Spezzano, Charles

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“…I regret that. I have been an admirer of Spezzano's psychoanalytic writings (see, for example, Spezzano 1993Spezzano , 1995Spezzano , 1998Spezzano , 2004 for as long as he has been writing in this field and I have recommended his popular book (1992), "What to do Between Birth and Death," to myriad patients and colleagues. Unfortunately, I did not recognize my paper in Spezzano's discussion, except in a peripheral way that, I believe, misstates important aspects of the clinical material and misunderstands the fundamental issue I was addressing.…”

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Touching BecomesTouching: Mind, Body, and Sexuality in a New Relational Psychoanalysis—Reply to Discussions

Slavin¹

2013

Psychoanalytic Perspectives

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Section: Mind Over Memorymentioning

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Touching BecomesTouching: Mind, Body, and Sexuality in a New Relational Psychoanalysis—Reply to Discussions

Slavin¹

2013

Psychoanalytic Perspectives

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“…) have avoided dealing directly with the motivational issue, the relational model runs the risk of proposing a clinical approach in which the multiplicity of perspectives is not anchored to a broader theoreticalmotivational frame. Briefly, it runs the risk of designing a space between the self and the object not completely empty, but with muddled boundaries (Spezzano, 1998).…”

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Attachment and Relational Psychoanalysis: Bowlby According to Mitchell

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Dazzi

2014

Psychoanalytic Dialogues

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“…In some respects this view of the ‘here and now’ resonated with that of interpersonalists such as Sullivan (Hoffman, 1996, p. 34; Gill, 1983). It was also considered particularly helpful by ego psychologists such as Gedo or Kernberg who felt that, with specific patient groups (such as adolescents or borderlines), it was at times important to limit the depth or extent of transference interpretation (Gedo, 1964, p. 533; Kernberg, 1968); and it was very strongly adopted by American Relational psychoanalysts, who in their enthusiasm for this notion of the ‘here and now’ seem, at times, not to recognize that it is, as Smith implies, very incongruent with the Kleinian notion (Spezzano, 1998, p. 379).…”

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On the immediacy of unconscious truth: Understanding Betty Joseph’s ‘here and now’ through comparison with alternative views of it outside of and within Kleinian thinking

Blass¹

2011

The International Journal of Psychoanalysis

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Psychoanalysis emphasizes that in discovering psychic truth what is needed is not abstract or distant knowledge of this truth but rather an immediate encounter with it. In this paper the author examines the meaning of this immediacy through the study of Betty Joseph's notion of 'here and now,' which in recent years has been most directly associated with it. The author shows how Joseph's notion of 'here and now' continues a legacy beginning in Freud and taken up by Klein regarding the immediacy of unconscious truth that differs from other available analytic formulations of the term. To highlight the uniqueness of Joseph's contribution the author goes on to examine what distinguishes it within the kleinian framework. She does this in part through comparison with the clinical approach of Hanna Segal, whose focus on unconscious phantasy adheres to the same foundational legacy. The author points to the differences between Joseph and Segal and their significance, which have not been sufficiently elaborated in the analytic literature. She argues that viewing these differences within the context of a shared perspective on the role of unconscious truth in the analytic process and task enriches our understanding of the complexity of kleinian thinking and the meaning of truth in psychoanalysis. This understanding is also furthered by the recognition that many uses of the term 'here and now' in the analytic literature refer to something very different from what Joseph refers to and are based on a perspective that is fundamentally opposed to hers.

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Listening and interpreting—how relational analysts kill time between disclosures and enactments: Commentary on papers by Bromberg and by Greenberg

Cited by 15 publications

References 4 publications

Touching BecomesTouching: Mind, Body, and Sexuality in a New Relational Psychoanalysis—Reply to Discussions

Touching BecomesTouching: Mind, Body, and Sexuality in a New Relational Psychoanalysis—Reply to Discussions

Attachment and Relational Psychoanalysis: Bowlby According to Mitchell

On the immediacy of unconscious truth: Understanding Betty Joseph’s ‘here and now’ through comparison with alternative views of it outside of and within Kleinian thinking

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