Transference neurosis and psychoanalytic experience : perspectives on contemporary clinical practice

268 Pages·1994·21.185 MB·English

by  Gail S. Reed

PERSPECTIVES ON CONTEMPORARY CLINICAL PRACTICE
A N S F E R E N C E
NEUROSIS AND
PsYCHOANALYTIC
EXPERIENC
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Perspectives on Contemporary
Clinical Pract1ce
Th1s book provides extraordinary 1ns1ght 1nto
the subtleties and divers1t1es of contemporary
clinical practice by explonng the problematiC
and ambiguous concept of the transference
neurOSIS. Gail S Reed makes use of a crucial
but mostly 1gnored aspect of psychoanalytic
discourse. 1ts oral trad1t1on. St1e reproduces
extensive port1ons of 1nterv1e\·1s \'JIItl t\'Jenty
two psychoanalysts to investigate the \·1ay they
understand and use transference neuros1s and
transference. comments on thw viev1s. and
draws on her ovm clin1cal work The mtervie\'IS
detail not only the Internal struggles analysts
undergo in order to help the1r pat1ents but also
the effect of analysts personal struggles on
the1r immensely varied understanding.
Reed d1scusses the development of the trans
ference neurosis from Freud's 1n1t1al formula
tion of an artificial illness in the patient to the
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Transference Neurosis and Psychoanalytic Experience
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GAIL S. REED
Transference Neurosis and Psychoanalytic Experience
Perspectives on Contemporary Clinical Practice
Yale University Press New Haven and London
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Portions of this text incorporate work that originally appeared in
the following journals and is reproduced with their pennission:
"Scientific and Polemical Aspects of the Term 'Transfer
ence Neurosis' in Psychoanalysis." Psychoanalytic Inquiry
(1987): 7:465-484.
"The Transference Neurosis in Freud's Writings." Journal
of the American Psychoanalytic Association (1990):
38:423-450.
"A Reconsideration of the Concept of Tranference
Neurosis." International Journal of Psychoanalysis (1990):
71:205-217.
Copyright© 1994 by Yale University.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Reed, Gail S.
Transference neurosis and psychoanalytic experience :
perspectives on contemporary clinical practice I Gail S. Reed.
p. c.m.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-300-05957-4
1. Transference (Psychology) 2. Psychoanalysts
Interviews. I. Title.
RC489.T73R44 1994
616.89'17-dc20 94-1406
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To my mother and my father
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Contents
Acknowledgments ix
ONE
Transference Neurosis and Psychoanalytic Experience
TWO
Some Historical Origins 24
THREE
Working Free: Two Evolutions 57
FOUR
The Central Psychoanalytic Experience 82
FIVE
Toward a Clarification of the Concept 97
SIX
The Relation to Character Structure 131
SEVEN
Transference Perversion and Transference Psychosis 149
EIGHT
Enactment and Actualization 186
NINE
Remembering, Reconstruction, and Resolution 205
TEN
Recapitulation:
Transference Neurosis and Psychoanalytic Process 227
References 239
Index 247
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