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- Title
The Sanctuary of Empathy and the Invitation of Engagement: Psychic Retreat, Kafka's 'A Hunger Artist,' and the Psychoanalytic Process.
- Authors
Karbelnig, Alan Michael
- Abstract
As part of a broader scholarly and political effort to unify clinical psychoanalysis, the author argues that psychoanalysts' presence, engagement, and framing constitute the three overarching features of their work. Additionally, patients' propensity to turn inward, alternatively known as psychic retreat or narcissistic withdrawal, provides a similarly unifying way to view psychoanalytic patients. Narrowing the investigation to a phenomenological one, the author tapers the exploration further by studying the psychoanalytic process as it unfolds in real time. After addressing the problems of diffusion in professional identity and psychoanalytic theory that have plagued psychoanalysis from the start, the author presents three case examples into which he integrates Kafka's short story 'A Hunger Artist.' These vehicles are utilized to demonstrate how such nomenclature provides the basis for a more cohesive understanding of how psychoanalysts work.
- Subjects
EMPATHY; PSYCHOANALYSIS; NARCISSISTS; INTERPERSONAL relations; PROFESSIONAL identity; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Psychoanalytic Review, 2014, Vol 101, Issue 6, p895
- ISSN
0033-2836
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1521/prev.2014.101.6.895