Who Is the Dreamer, Who Dreams the Dream?

Grotstein, James S.

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“…Klein refers to the mechanism of projection as a way to externalize internal conflict. The external object then becomes identified with the projected attributes (Grotstein 2000(Grotstein , 2005Hinshelwood 1991;Klein 1940). In couple dynamics, however, the other is not just a container but an active participant who simultaneously projects.…”

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The Tango of Loving Hate: Couple Dynamics in High-Conflict Divorce

Levite¹,

Cohen

2011

Clin Soc Work J

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This article explores the dynamics of couples embroiled in high-conflict divorce through the theoretical prism of British object relations theory. Such couples are often characterized by primitive object relations, and use splitting and projection as a way of ''being in the world.'' The fear of the ex-spouse's retaliation is accompanied by fear of their own destructiveness and a desire to make reparation; however, attempts at reparation at this level of relational functioning rarely achieve reconciliation. In fact, such dynamics create a cycle of terror, retaliation, and failed reparation attempts that in turn leads to further terror, splitting and projection, with the resulting outcome often a high-conflict divorce.

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Section: Projectionmentioning

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The Tango of Loving Hate: Couple Dynamics in High-Conflict Divorce

Levite¹,

Cohen

2011

Clin Soc Work J

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“…We internalize the world as it is given, accommodating to these demands while also rebelling against them. As Grotstein (2000) notes, perception may be better defined as apperception, and when there is too much stumbling because of the ways in which we make meaning from our experience, we tend to shut down. Given overwhelming obstacles, both agency and desire may be inhibited.…”

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Klein and Lacan Meet 21st Century Schizoid Man: Fairy Stories for the Modern Era

Charles¹

2014

Am J Psychoanal

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Melanie Klein invited us into the phenomenology of the schizoid dilemma through her depictions of the paranoid-schizoid position. By inserting his recursive arrows, Bion extended this conceptualization, showing us the folly of believing that we can ever entirely move beyond the frightening fantasies and realities of social exclusion and isolation. The 21st century has brought, along with the explosion of technology, an expulsion from the social order of many children who have found refuge from isolation and humiliation in the more accessible and less terrifying world of media and technological invention. What may look like narcissism can mask a terrible underlying schizoid failure to enter into the human race. This is the realm of fantasy run amok, where desire becomes alien and alienated such that one is haunted and hunted down by its very possibility. In this universe, conceptualizations from Klein, Bion, and Lacan help us to locate the individual who has become caught in a massive psychic retreat such that there is no subject because there are no objects. To illustrate, I describe my work with a young man who is living in a terrible "zombie zone" where people are not real and therefore are incomprehensible and terribly dangerous. The poignancy of his dilemma is heartbreaking. Perhaps that is one lesson we can still take from our old fairy tales: when one's heart can be broken by another's plight, then comes the possibility of a healing, an entry through that piercing of what had been impenetrable.

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“…However, one important way that psychoanalysis might assist in this search of the miraculous is doing what it knows so well to do-remove resistances. From the spiritually sensitive point of view, as Grotstein (2000) wrote, everything that Freud put under "psychoneurosis" "ultimately constitute effective and plausible substitutions or screens for the experience of O" (p. 283). To id, ego, and superego resistances, Eigen (1998b) suggested, we need to add "O-resistance," which explains why even though people want nothing more than what is real-something or someone real-they also fear nothing more than what is real (see Buber, 1923Buber, /1970.…”

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“…To the two classic Kleinian positions, the paranoid-schizoid and the depressive, Grotstein (2000) asked to add a third: transcendent position, which man can attain and in which he can be in O. This position describes, according to Grotstein, the "state of serenity that accompanies one who finally, after traversing the nightmares of the paranoid-schizoid position and the black holes and mournful inner cathedrals of the depressive position, is able to become reconciled to the experience of pure, unadulterated Being and Happening" (p. 282).…”

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Morality, Selflessness, Transcendence: On Treatment Goals of a Spiritually Sensitive Psychoanalysis

Lev¹

2015

Contemporary Psychoanalysis

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Who Is the Dreamer, Who Dreams the Dream?

Cited by 35 publications

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The Tango of Loving Hate: Couple Dynamics in High-Conflict Divorce

The Tango of Loving Hate: Couple Dynamics in High-Conflict Divorce

Klein and Lacan Meet 21st Century Schizoid Man: Fairy Stories for the Modern Era

Morality, Selflessness, Transcendence: On Treatment Goals of a Spiritually Sensitive Psychoanalysis

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