Abstract:In this study the author attempts to widen our understanding of language and thought construction by using Chinese ideograms as a model. This allows us to understand how concrete internal objects can coalesce to form abstract internal objects, e.g. concepts, ideas, symbols, and metaphors. One can establish a pictorial language that antedates verbal language. This is the case in the dream work that we routinely study. Thus, this study delves into the physiology of the alpha function. To this end the author not … Show more
“…In fact, the projected elements invade the patient's mind and become persecutors. Avzaradel (2011), in the work cited above, describes something similar:…”
Section: Pmentioning
confidence: 91%
“…I believe that the use of tattoos as an expression of affects shows that Peter possessed severe difficulties in symbolization and, at this time could only express his affects through concrete action. Avzaradel () also describes something similar:Matters of clinical importance become paramount because in the case of patients with severe pathologies their thought is clearly prejudiced. It is concrete, with no symbolic content.…”
Section: Case Reportmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…It was necessary to work on the way the patient felt and related to me and to others, in this way trying to establish a setting and trust that would allow advancing in the psychoanalytic work. I also started not to make long interpretations, being more precise and also dosing transferential interpretations, a model proposed by Avzaradel ().…”
Section: Case Reportmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In fact, the projected elements invade the patient's mind and become persecutors. Avzaradel (), in the work cited above, describes something similar:When mothers project their alpha elements they do it holding their babies in their arms, sheltering them, making them feel peaceful, loved, calm. All of this favors their babies’ healthy development.…”
Section: Case Reportmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Reverie means everything that goes on in the mind of the analyst during the session. Avzaradel () citing Ogden (, ): Ogden emphasizes the role of reverie which he considers to be everything that goes on in the analyst's mind during sessions. He includes all kinds of daydreams and fantasies, not just those that seem to be related to the patient's material.…”
In this paper I intend to describe the work of recuperation of the psychic apparatus of a patient as a way of achieving the elaboration of psychotic parts and of making possible the development of the capacity of thinking and feeling. This recovery, which was actually almost the construction of a psychic apparatus, allowed the development of the capacity to think symbolically and to establish object relations. I will report a case maintaining what is pertinent in relation to the issue addressed, leaving out other elements present in the analytic process.I will try within the scope of this Congress to stick to the use of the psychoanalytic tools that we have today, when in the 21st century we are faced with the challenges brought by patients who cannot even inform what they feel or think. These patients live in a world where action prevails and conflict is not experienced and where few relations are established which makes it necessary to help them build a psychic apparatus capable of symbolizing and consequently thinking and establishing relations. In this case these features are radicalized by the psychotic state presented.Freud differed from the psychiatrists of his time being able to listen to what his hysterical patients said and revealed enabling him with this listening to see beyond what was said and known. Listening allowed contact with a whole world of feelings and emotions that until then were not understood. I believe that nowadays we have to take this lesson of Freud as an example of listening to patients who came to us with various complaints or even without knowing what they complain about or feel. Psychoanalytic listening remains a major psychoanalytic instrument.Bion (1962a) called alpha function the transformation of rudimentary emotions into alpha elements. That is, the function that the object has of containing rudimentary emotions and experiences that are projected by the subject so that they can be slowly digested psychically and thought by the object. In his model container/contained Bion (1962a) calls our attention to the object that receives the projections of the baby, metabolizes them and returns them to the baby giving a different meaning to the projected. In this model the baby introjects an object that receives and understands its anxieties. These experiences, common to humans, form a pattern of object *As per the agreement between the IJP, the IPA and Wiley, copyright for this article is retained by the contributors. This article forms part of a collection from the keynote speakers at the 49th IPA Congress in Boston, USA: "Changing World: The shape and use of psychoanalytic tools today", scheduled for 22-25 July 2015. Registration is available via the IPA website: www.ipa.org.uk/congress. Int J Psychoanal (2015) 96:521-533
“…In fact, the projected elements invade the patient's mind and become persecutors. Avzaradel (2011), in the work cited above, describes something similar:…”
Section: Pmentioning
confidence: 91%
“…I believe that the use of tattoos as an expression of affects shows that Peter possessed severe difficulties in symbolization and, at this time could only express his affects through concrete action. Avzaradel () also describes something similar:Matters of clinical importance become paramount because in the case of patients with severe pathologies their thought is clearly prejudiced. It is concrete, with no symbolic content.…”
Section: Case Reportmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…It was necessary to work on the way the patient felt and related to me and to others, in this way trying to establish a setting and trust that would allow advancing in the psychoanalytic work. I also started not to make long interpretations, being more precise and also dosing transferential interpretations, a model proposed by Avzaradel ().…”
Section: Case Reportmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In fact, the projected elements invade the patient's mind and become persecutors. Avzaradel (), in the work cited above, describes something similar:When mothers project their alpha elements they do it holding their babies in their arms, sheltering them, making them feel peaceful, loved, calm. All of this favors their babies’ healthy development.…”
Section: Case Reportmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Reverie means everything that goes on in the mind of the analyst during the session. Avzaradel () citing Ogden (, ): Ogden emphasizes the role of reverie which he considers to be everything that goes on in the analyst's mind during sessions. He includes all kinds of daydreams and fantasies, not just those that seem to be related to the patient's material.…”
In this paper I intend to describe the work of recuperation of the psychic apparatus of a patient as a way of achieving the elaboration of psychotic parts and of making possible the development of the capacity of thinking and feeling. This recovery, which was actually almost the construction of a psychic apparatus, allowed the development of the capacity to think symbolically and to establish object relations. I will report a case maintaining what is pertinent in relation to the issue addressed, leaving out other elements present in the analytic process.I will try within the scope of this Congress to stick to the use of the psychoanalytic tools that we have today, when in the 21st century we are faced with the challenges brought by patients who cannot even inform what they feel or think. These patients live in a world where action prevails and conflict is not experienced and where few relations are established which makes it necessary to help them build a psychic apparatus capable of symbolizing and consequently thinking and establishing relations. In this case these features are radicalized by the psychotic state presented.Freud differed from the psychiatrists of his time being able to listen to what his hysterical patients said and revealed enabling him with this listening to see beyond what was said and known. Listening allowed contact with a whole world of feelings and emotions that until then were not understood. I believe that nowadays we have to take this lesson of Freud as an example of listening to patients who came to us with various complaints or even without knowing what they complain about or feel. Psychoanalytic listening remains a major psychoanalytic instrument.Bion (1962a) called alpha function the transformation of rudimentary emotions into alpha elements. That is, the function that the object has of containing rudimentary emotions and experiences that are projected by the subject so that they can be slowly digested psychically and thought by the object. In his model container/contained Bion (1962a) calls our attention to the object that receives the projections of the baby, metabolizes them and returns them to the baby giving a different meaning to the projected. In this model the baby introjects an object that receives and understands its anxieties. These experiences, common to humans, form a pattern of object *As per the agreement between the IJP, the IPA and Wiley, copyright for this article is retained by the contributors. This article forms part of a collection from the keynote speakers at the 49th IPA Congress in Boston, USA: "Changing World: The shape and use of psychoanalytic tools today", scheduled for 22-25 July 2015. Registration is available via the IPA website: www.ipa.org.uk/congress. Int J Psychoanal (2015) 96:521-533
This paper highlights the role of music in psychic change through a clinical case. A patient, who was initially distant and cold, started to talk about music. An enactment around the analyst's comment about a famous conductor, started an exchange of music ''notes'' that changed the course of treatment. For the analyst, it brought old memories and musical reveries. For the patient, music allowed him to be in touch with undiscovered parts of himself and losses that had not been mourned. There was a mutual personal transformation and expanding awareness of self and other for both participants.
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