The Dwelling Places of Self-Experience

The Impact of Absence and the Ineffable Quality of Protocol

“…Crastnopol (2002) suggested that the “phenomenologic domain, which comprises fairly raw feelings, sensations, cognitions, and images, includes a person’s unformulated lived interior experience” (p. 267). Berne (1961) wrote this about phenomenological diagnosis: “The diagnosis is validated if the individual can finally re-experience in full intensity, with little weathering, the moment or epoch when he assimilated the parental ego state” (p. 76).…”

“…I have pulled this together with readings on phenomenology and diagnosis of ego states to propose that clients who experience what is felt to be a shameful absence of a reliable other at the level of primal protocol have difficulty in finding and articulating their phenomenological experience. Crastnopol (2002) suggested that the ''phenomenologic domain, which comprises fairly raw feelings, sensations, cognitions, and images, includes a person's unformulated lived interior experience'' (p. 267). Berne (1961) wrote this about phenomenological diagnosis: ''The diagnosis is validated if the individual can finally re-experience in full intensity, with little weathering, the moment or epoch when he assimilated the parental ego state'' (p. 76).…”

Sobre la subjetividad de los estados eróticos de la mente

“…Estas diferencias reflejan anhelos y defensas así como variaciones caracterológicas más generales entre diferentes individuos que tienen repercusiones para encontrar la compatibilidad de los selfs eróticos cuando se encuentran el uno con el otro. Crastnopol (2002) conceptualiza "los lugares donde habitan las experiencias del self", una imagen que ayuda a captar esos aspectos diversos en la experiencia erótica (o lujuriosa). La lujuria experimentada en los lugares más privados del self incluye un foco sobre la representación psíquica de experiencias físicas: sensaciones corporales, imágenes, sonidos, ritmos; con frecuencia parecidos a aspectos inefables de la experiencia privada.…”

Honesty, Unconsciousness, and Intentionality: Commentary on Owen Renik's Paper

“…Renik illustrates what Lawrence Joseph (1995) calls the fallacy of "naive realism," wherein analysts treat their countertransference response as a veridical indicator of the emotional factors at play in a given treatment moment. Margaret Crastnopol's (2002) writing on the importance of the analyst's personality supports Renik's emphasis on the role of the individual analyst's psychology in shaping his or her responses to each patient.…”