The riddle of anxiety: Between the familiar and the unfamiliar

Perelberg, Rosine Jozef

doi:10.1080/00207578.2018.1452571

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“…These all combined with the pressure from COVID‐19, the lack of preparedness or safety and his diminished functioning. ‘Anxiety emerges as a marker of the uniquely human relation to temporality … the signal refers to a danger already experienced in the past – the catastrophe that has already happened and is about to happen again’ (Perelberg 2018 , p. 811). Such trauma in the individual and collective conscious and unconscious are passed from generation to generation in an unending spiral, forming a present reality of ideas, beliefs, memories, feelings and images.…”

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“…This inability became a protective mechanism like an emotional retreat, indicating the annihilating effects of anxiety and the folding‐in on oneself. Because ‘Anxiety represents the encounter with negativity, nothingness and lack of object’ (Perelberg 2018 , p. 821), Ronald could not face the insecurities experienced at a basic level of existence, so his focus remained on survival, while attempts to find identity and individuate seemed dangerous. Because there was little certainty, he could not accept uncertainty.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The anxiety related to his losses was pervasive, personally and collectively. It represented a separation from ‘a loved object, loss of its love, loss of the mother (here also the father) as an object’ (Perelberg 2018 , p. 822). When unattached from others and general society, without sufficient holding and containing qualities, one becomes vulnerable to repressed fears and insecurities.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Symbols are also impersonal metaphors, sharing meaning from convention, myth and cultural artifacts, and a medium of communication revealing our inherent inter‐subjectivity. ‘The analytic process gives actual shape to something that had never before reached representation’ (Perelberg 2018 , p. 824). The different layers of the work unfold and emerge progressively for understanding the psyche and transforming the emptiness and absence.…”

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“…Even prior to COVID‐19 this man had become alienated from his history. Now he cannot escape the impress of anxiety ‘moving between present and past, here and now and there and then.… The signal refers to a danger experienced in the past’ (Perelberg 2018 , p. 811). Ronald is an example of the isolation, death, loss, grief and bewilderment aroused by COVID‐19, affecting depth psychological work for both analyst and analysand.…”

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COVID‐19, precarity and loneliness

Schwartz¹

2021

J Analytical Psychology

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In this paper I discuss Jungian psychological work of the trauma and loss experienced in reaction to COVID‐19 with a man who represents a clinical composite. The issues of precarity, a concept used by the philosopher Judith Butler, are combined with the notions of lack and absence of French psychoanalyst André Green. The psychological and societal situation of precarity aroused the man’s childhood issues that were long repressed. The loneliness, isolation and death from COVID‐19 mirrored his personal and the collective responses to the disaster from this global pandemic. He felt on the edge of collapse as what he knew of his world crashed and he found himself unable to cope. The subsequent Jungian work taking place through the virtual computer screen was taxing and restorative simultaneously for both analyst and analysand.

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COVID‐19, precarity and loneliness

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2021

J Analytical Psychology

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The empty couch: Love and mourning in times of confinement

Perelberg

2021

The International Journal of Psychoanalysis

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Cultural reflexivity and the referral problem: A discourse analysis of three initial sessions of intercultural couple therapy

Cadenhead¹,

Fellin

2023

Journal of Family Therapy

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Using a combination of macro-and micro-analytic approaches in discourse analysis, this article examines transcripts from three initial sessions of DVD-recorded conjoint couple therapy with an intercultural couple.We analyse the strategies of power employed by therapy participants to promote their preferred construction of the referral problem. Focusing on the intersections of gender, psychopathology and culture, we explore how wider sociocultural discourses play out in the microcontext of participants' discursive exchanges. We also consider how the therapist's interventions privilege and marginalise client discourses in both strategic and unintended ways. This article offers some clinical techniques to address the dilemmas and difficulties identified in our analysis. We conclude by underscoring the value of reviewing recordings and transcripts of therapy dialogues to enhance cultural reflexivity.

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The riddle of anxiety: Between the familiar and the unfamiliar

Cited by 4 publications

References 11 publications

COVID‐19, precarity and loneliness

COVID‐19, precarity and loneliness

The empty couch: Love and mourning in times of confinement

Cultural reflexivity and the referral problem: A discourse analysis of three initial sessions of intercultural couple therapy

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