The Portal: Framing and Neutrality in the Age of Virtual Treatment

Colombo, Daria

doi:10.1080/00332828.2022.2089519

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“…Elsewhere (Colombo 2022) I have used Bleger's model to conceptualize neutrality as a compromise, asymptotically striven for, between our ongoing framing activity and the "institutional" container of the human, desiring, condition. As analysts, we too deposit primitive aspects into the frame, and the ideologies (and the desires they specify) that silently underlie and inform our framing represent what Bion (1970) attempts to disrupt when he exhorts us to analyze "without memory or desire."…”

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“…Elsewhere (Colombo 2022) I have used Bleger’s model to conceptualize neutrality as a compromise, asymptotically striven for, between our ongoing framing activity and the “institutional” container of the human, desiring, condition. As analysts, we too deposit primitive aspects into the frame, and the ideologies (and the desires they specify) that silently underlie and inform our framing represent what Bion (1970) attempts to disrupt when he exhorts us to analyze “without memory or desire.” Attention to the limits of neutrality and the push from our own ideologies and our own bodies complement and extend Bleger’s ideas about the non-process frame and help us elaborate the relational approach to neutrality without needing to abandon the body or drive emphasis of more classically Freudian models.…”

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“… 1 These ideas have been developed in my paper “The Portal: Framing and Neutrality in the Age of Virtual Treatment” (Colombo 2022). …”

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Autotheory: Toward the Embodying of Analytic Framing

Colombo¹

2023

J Am Psychoanal Assoc

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Autotheory is an emerging idea in feminist theory that emphasizes the inevitability of the subjective and embodied personal within any development, understanding, or application of theory. Autotheory offers a way to bring the sexed and gendered body of the analyst back into view in clinical practice and is a possible route to relibidinizing psychoanalytic theory. The embodied part of the “personal” contribution of the analyst will be examined through conceptions of framing and the frame, extending and further conceptualizing ideas prominently addressed within relational and intersubjective theories. Framing activity as a developmental goal for psychoanalytic process is considered in relation to the ways in which autotheoretical texts enact or depict the unceasing interplay of relational experience and theory that forms subjectivity. A clinical vignette describes the experience of framing activity during remote videoconference therapy.

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Autotheory: Toward the Embodying of Analytic Framing

Colombo¹

2023

J Am Psychoanal Assoc

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“…Our clinical theory is evolving to take account of these changes in practice, as is often the case. Analysts such as Columbo (2022), González (2020), and Goldberg (2023) have each emphasized the portability of the analytic frame by locating its functions and efficacy within the analyst herself. “Framing activity” is work the analyst does in an ongoing, iterative way independent of material location, the concrete effects of which take a back seat to the centrality of this work.…”

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“… 7 While I tend to believe that the role of meeting in person conditioned the dream I just described, certainly each analytic engagement is unique, including its physical features, and as I said earlier in the paper, remote sessions offers their own rewards, including the possibility of meaningful work on framing issues. See especially Abbasi (2019) and Columbo (2022) as thoughtful examples. …”

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Property, Materiality, Proximity: The Analytic Frame and In-Person Work

Wilson

2024

J Am Psychoanal Assoc

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In-person meeting offers psychologically usable material—signifiers that serve as day’s residue—that cannot be duplicated or substituted for in remote ways of working. Questions of materiality, the history and specificity of location, and bodily proximity all are key aspects of the psychoanalytic frame, as Bleger’s classic formulations attest. The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the choreography of engagement between analyst and patient: the ghostly dust in the frame enters the room. As Bleger says, with ghosts so rustled, nonprocess has a chance to become process. Two clinical examples highlight these points about materiality and in-person working. The final section of the paper extends Bleger’s description to tackle the perplexing situation of patients who hesitate to return to the office. Issues of “ghosting,” vanishing, disappearing are discussed, and linked to the constitutive absence that grounds any meaningfully structured presence. This constitutive absence is evoked by the prospect of the return to in-person analytic work. A final clinical example is used to illustrate this disturbing and irreducible fact about human interaction when two bodies are together in a room to discuss, over time, the life of one of the participants.

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What We Do, What We Say, What We Don’t Say: Confidentiality In The Publication Of Clinical Writing

Lafarge

2024

The Psychoanalytic Quarterly

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The Portal: Framing and Neutrality in the Age of Virtual Treatment

Cited by 3 publications

References 23 publications

Autotheory: Toward the Embodying of Analytic Framing

Autotheory: Toward the Embodying of Analytic Framing

Property, Materiality, Proximity: The Analytic Frame and In-Person Work

What We Do, What We Say, What We Don’t Say: Confidentiality In The Publication Of Clinical Writing

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