Psychoanalytic Training: The Absence of Thirdness: A Review of<i>Impossible Training: A Relational View of Psychoanalytic Education</i>by Emanuel Berman

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“…In this sense transferences transform into enactments by their very nature and capture the mind and relational space of both parties, perhaps not unlike the way the bird artist captured her audience. In this version of the transference-enactment story, things can change if the therapist, because of some effort, some insight, some interpretive creativity-mediated by her role, by being partly outside, by relying on a function of "thirdness" (Benjamin, 2004;J. Slavin, 2007b)-can disembed herself from the grim and relentless experience that is being created.…”

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“The Legitimate Guiding Forces of One’s Behavior in the World”¹: Discussion of “Generative Enactment: Memories From the Future” by Aron and Atlas

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Rahmani²

2015

Psychoanalytic Dialogues

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This paper takes up the issue raised by Aron and Atlas of the transformation of fate into destiny and the reacquisition of a sense of agency in one's future. The paper suggests that past and future need not be framed as binary and examines the way in which struggles, traumas, and impasses of the past can also represent "legitimate guiding forces," as Freud put it, for envisioning a different future. The paper illustrates this perspective with a clinical vignette. THE FUTURE BEGAN LAST WEEKFollowing an initial consultation with Mark, a married young professional with two children, his therapist was looking forward to her first treatment session with him. As in any new treatment, there was much to learn, but as far as she had determined, it seemed that he came from a solid, intact family albeit with high and rigid expectations of their children. There wasn't a lot of play in the system on many levels. In part this was due to the family's historical background-they had come from difficult circumstances-but also to the personal idiosyncrasies of the parents. Mother was noted as particularly concrete and exacting. Mark was expected to be-and was-a good boy, a good man, a good father, a good spouse, and now he hoped to be a good patient.Mark did not show up for his first therapy appointment. He was the last person his therapist imagined would not come. About midway through the time, she called him. Mark said, "Oh, I'm about to leave." It seems he had gotten the hour wrong. They scheduled to meet the next week. Mark came. He felt humiliated. He had been really looking forward to the session. He hadn't understood how he had messed up. Now, he figured it out. He had looked at his schedule the evening before, saw the ending time, and had mistaken it for the starting time. And he was pleased to see that, for once, he could sleep a little later. As the session unfolded, Mark talked 1

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“The Legitimate Guiding Forces of One’s Behavior in the World”¹: Discussion of “Generative Enactment: Memories From the Future” by Aron and Atlas

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Rahmani²

2015

Psychoanalytic Dialogues

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“…This involves tolerating uncertainty. One could call the absence of thirdness 'a corollary of the individual's inability to maintain a sense of potential space in their experience of themselves and the world' (Slavin 2007). Without this potential space one is stuck in a world that is fixed and concrete.…”

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“…All of us who have been in the academic world know its drawbacks. However 'at their best [the university] represents the pinnacle of Western, humanistic endeavors, the broad quest for the advancement of human knowledge regardless of disciplinary boundaries and at the risk of challenging the comfortable and the known' (Slavin 2007).…”

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Teaching ‘origins of depth psychology’: overview and candidate‐members' experience

Hinton

2008

J Analytical Psychology

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In 2002 the North Pacific Institute inaugurated a new seminar series on the 'origins of depth psychology' for incoming candidate-members. This approach emphasized the historical and cultural embeddedness of analytic theory, practice and institutions. The seminar was experienced as enlightening and freeing, as well as sometimes painfully disillusioning. The overall feedback indicated that it fostered an opening of creative space for their education as analysts. This paper describes the structure, and some of the rationale and process of the seminar. It includes firsthand expressions of the candidate-members' experiences.

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Crastnopol¹

2009

Contemporary Psychoanalysis

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Psychoanalytic Training: The Absence of Thirdness: A Review ofImpossible Training: A Relational View of Psychoanalytic Educationby Emanuel Berman

Cited by 8 publications

References 22 publications

“The Legitimate Guiding Forces of One’s Behavior in the World”¹: Discussion of “Generative Enactment: Memories From the Future” by Aron and Atlas

“The Legitimate Guiding Forces of One’s Behavior in the World”¹: Discussion of “Generative Enactment: Memories From the Future” by Aron and Atlas

Teaching ‘origins of depth psychology’: overview and candidate‐members' experience

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Psychoanalytic Training: The Absence of Thirdness: A Review ofImpossible Training: A Relational View of Psychoanalytic Educationby Emanuel Berman

Cited by 8 publications

References 22 publications

“The Legitimate Guiding Forces of One’s Behavior in the World”1: Discussion of “Generative Enactment: Memories From the Future” by Aron and Atlas

“The Legitimate Guiding Forces of One’s Behavior in the World”1: Discussion of “Generative Enactment: Memories From the Future” by Aron and Atlas

Teaching ‘origins of depth psychology’: overview and candidate‐members' experience

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“The Legitimate Guiding Forces of One’s Behavior in the World”¹: Discussion of “Generative Enactment: Memories From the Future” by Aron and Atlas

“The Legitimate Guiding Forces of One’s Behavior in the World”¹: Discussion of “Generative Enactment: Memories From the Future” by Aron and Atlas