The Analytical Process: Journeys and Pathways

325 Pages·2017·16.232 MB·English

by  Thierry Bokanowski

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CHAPTERTITLE I
THE ANALYTICAL PROCESS
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PSYCHOANALYTIC IDEAS AND APPLICATIONS SERIES
IPA Publications Committee
Gennaro Saragnano (Rome), Chair and General Editor; Leticia Glocer
Fiorini (Buenos Aires), Consultant; Samuel Arbiser (Buenos Aires); Paulo
Cesar Sandler (São Paulo); Christian Seulin (Lyon); Mary Kay O’Neil
(Montreal); Gail S. Reed (New York); Catalina Bronstein (London); Rhoda
Bawdekar (London), Ex-officio as Publications Officer; Paul Crake
(London): IPA Executive Director (ex-officio)
Recent titles in the Series include
(for a full listing, please visit www.karnacbooks.com)
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Death and Identity: Being and the Psycho-Sexual Drama
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Unpresented States and the Construction of Meaning: Clinical and
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The Ethical Seduction of the Analytic Situation: The Feminine–Maternal
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Time for Change: Tracking Transformations in Psychoanalysis—
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Hostile and Malignant Prejudice: Psychoanalytic Approaches
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Freud and Culture
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THE ANALYTICAL
PROCESS
Journeys and Pathways
Thierry Bokanowski
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Originally published in French as
Le processus analytique(Series “Le fil rouge”, 2015)
Excerpt from The Infinite Conversationby Maurice Blanchot reproduced by
kind permission of Editions Gallimard.
First published in English in 2017 by
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CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ix
ABOUT THE AUTHOR xi
SERIES EDITOR’S FOREWORD xiii
INTRODUCTION xv
CHAPTER ONE
Some preliminary observations 1
CHAPTER TWO
Apprehending psychoanalytic treatment 11
and processes
CHAPTER THREE
Representing the psychoanalytic process 27
CHAPTER FOUR
Contributions by certain authors 41
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CHAPTER FIVE
Initial encounters 67
CHAPTER SIX
Movements and changes 77
CHAPTER SEVEN
The nature of defence mechanisms and anxieties 83
CHAPTER EIGHT
The heterogeneous nature of psychic functioning 89
CHAPTER NINE
Transferences 99
CHAPTER TEN
Sándor Ferenczi: a negative transference somewhere 115
between transference love and love for psychoanalysis
CHAPTER ELEVEN
Esther, or a transference love which dare not 131
speak its name
CHAPTER TWELVE
Psychic homosexuality and transference 137
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
Negativising transference 153
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
A historical example of negativising transference: 167
the “young Russian” known as “the Wolf Man”
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
Narcissism and the psychoanalytic process 181
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
Different levels of listening 195
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
Mr E 211
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CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
The process as a combination of suffering, pain, and pleasure 227
CHAPTER NINETEEN
The analytic process and the question of trauma 237
CONCLUSION 255
NOTES 265
REFERENCES 271
INDEX 291
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To Émilie and Agathe
To my patients, who have taught me so much
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I wish to express my particular gratitude to colleagues with whom I
have had the opportunity to discuss analytical issues in depth, espe-
cially Dominique Arnoux, Bernard Chervet, Françoise Coblence,
Catherine Couvreur, Paul Denis, Florence Guignard, Monica Horovitz,
Albert Louppe, Gérard Lucas, Olivier Pariset, and Christian Seulin.
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