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- Title
הסובייקט האינטרסובייקטיבי הוויניקוטיאני כמטפורה: לדיאלקטיקות של טיפול אנליטיהפן החווייתי של תאוריה פסיכואנליטית
- Authors
חננאל, דיצה
- Abstract
Psychoanalytical theory has two aspects: theoretical and experiential. I will suggest that the experiential aspect is created in the therapeutic process when the theory is used by the therapist as a metaphor that constructs a therapist- patient relationship. In so saying, I espouse the view that the therapist-patient relationship is not a given. The theory of the Winnicottian intersubjective subject, as described by Thomas H. Ogden, is analyzed as a metaphor for the dialectics of analytic therapy. The first dialectic, what Donald W. Winnicott called Primary Maternal Preoccupation, is a metaphor for the change that occurs in the patient's self experience in the presence of an empathic therapist. The therapist's interventions are experienced as part of the patient's dialogue with himself. Consequently, the patient experiences his self as existing both in the inside and outside. The second dialectic, referred to by Ogden as the Mirroring Mother – a concept that essentially includes or becomes the dialectic of the mirroring relationship – is a metaphor for reflective thought that is offered by the therapist. The third dialectic is Transitional Object Relatedness. As the patient learns to identify his influence on the therapist's subjectivity, he also learns to identify a new sense of intersubjectivity that has been created in the space between the two partners. The patient also learns to identify the empathic processes shared by the two partners that made transformation possible. The fourth dialectic, the Creative Destruction of the Object, is a metaphor for the patient's experience (sometimes it is a discovery) of the therapist as a subject who is not influenced by the patient, and has a freedom of choice in his response. It should be noted that the dialectics can appear simultaneously, not necessarily diachronically. I conclude that we can assume that therapists choose a theory, show a great devotion to it, and consider it as a “good" theory when it proves that it can be effectively used as a metaphor of the living experience of the partners in the therapeutic relationship.
- Publication
Ma'arag: Israeli Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2010, Vol 1, p135
- ISSN
2413-290X
- Publication type
Article