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- Title
בין פיסול לציורמטרות הטיפול של הפסיכואנליזה האמריקנית בשנות החמישיםובשנות התשעים של המאה העשרים, בראייה חברתית–תרבותית
- Authors
לב, גדעון
- Abstract
In this paper I examine several differences in the ways in which American psychoanalysts in the 1950s and 1990s formulated the goals of analytic treatment, in the attempt to understand these differences in a wider context than that of the analytic field alone. During the time span under discussion, psychoanalysis went through far-reaching changes in theory, technique, and practice, and, as a consequence, in the manner in which it formulated the goals of treatment. This essay outlines these changes and argues that they do not stem solely from clinical discoveries or theoretical developments, but from outside influences as well. Certain cultural, socio-economic, and political changes that took place in the second half of the 20th century influenced the ways in which society as a whole, and therefore also psychoanalysts in specific, perceived ‟normalcy" and defined the notion of “a life worth living." This process inevitably brought about major changes in the perception of the goals of analysis: a transition from an emphasis on process goals to a focus on life goals; from understanding the analytic treatment as a general science, to adjusting the treatment personally to each patient; from a dominant, singular perception of normality to understanding normalcy as individually determined; from objective perception to a subjective one; from aspiring to completely solve all the patient's conflicts to a more realistic and modest stance; from a social to a personal perception; and from trying to retrieve in the patient a natural state that had been lost, to an attempt to create wholly new states of experience. The distance between these positions, and the shift in perception I believe they entail, can be captured by Da Vinci's distinction, later utilized by Freud, between the techniques of sculpting and painting (per via di levareand per via di porre)
- Publication
Ma'arag: Israeli Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2010, Vol 1, p151
- ISSN
2413-290X
- Publication type
Article