The art of the subject : between necessary illusion and speakable desire in the analytic encounter

Clinical theory, to be effective, must provide psychoanalytic practitioners with a framework and a mental space that takes into account the "disturbance in the analytic field" that neccesarily occur during the work in progress. Since Freud there has been no psychoanalytic school of thought that has been able to address the realm of illusion, images,and bodily sensations together with the conditions that open the field of speakable desire. The Art of the Subject provides this unique theoretical space by weaving together, for the first time, Winnicott's (British School) focus on the necessity of illusion and Lacan's (French School) emphasis on the limit that makes subjectivity possible. And as is true of the process of psychoanalysis itself, the one plus one of Winnicott and Lacan yields here a potentiating "third" from which fresh and vibrant aspects of the analytic matrix emerge and are voiced. Cover......Page 1 Table of Contents......Page 8 Acknowledgments......Page 10 1 Making Waves: The Analyst as Disturbance in the Clinical Field......Page 12 2 A Parallactic Space of Analytic Practice......Page 22 3 Refractions of the Mother-Infant Discourse: The Symbolic Third and the Link to Analyzing Primitive Mental States......Page 36 4 Symbol, Eros/Sexuality, and Aggression: The Bermuda Triangle of Human Subjectivity......Page 56 5 When a Body Stutters: The Girl with Two Names......Page 92 6 Art-Making in Adult Psychoanalysis: When Graphic Language Becomes an Analytic Third Bringing Body to Speech......Page 116 7 Art-Making in Psychoanalytic Supervision: Drawing Links to Language and Speech......Page 146 8 Considering the Dilemmas of Training, Formation, and Authority in the Making of an Analyst......Page 176 9 Tracing the Limits of Symbolization in Psychoanalysis......Page 192 Afterword......Page 222 References......Page 228 Index......Page 242 "Clinical theory, to be effective, must provide psychoanalytic practioners with a framework and a mental space that takes into account the "disturbances in the analytic field" that necessarily occur during the work in progress. Since Freud, there has been no psychoanalytic school of thought that has been able to address the realm of illusion, images, and bodily sensations together with the conditions that open the field of speakable desire." "The Art of the Subject provides this unique theoretical space by weaving together, for the first time, Winnicott's (British School) focus on the necessity of illusion and Lacan's (French School) emphasis on the limit that makes subjectivity possible. And as is true of the process of psychoanalysis itself, the one plus one of Winnicott and Lacan yields here a potentiating "third" from which fresh and vibrant aspects of the analytic matrix emerge and are voiced." "The reader will discover an interlacing of strands pulled from Winnicortian and Lacanian theory - ideas that are different and complementary occupying the arc of tension between the psychic realm, e.g., image, fantasy, and necessary illusion versus the psychic field of language, speech, and desire: as well as ideas that are supplementary to one another, such as the notion of what is "Real" within the psychoanalytic discourse."--BOOK JACKET Cover 1 Table of Contents 8 Acknowledgments 10 1 Making Waves: The Analyst as Disturbance in the Clinical Field 12 2 A Parallactic Space of Analytic Practice 22 3 Refractions of the Mother-Infant Discourse: The Symbolic Third and the Link to Analyzing Primitive Mental States 36 4 Symbol, Eros/Sexuality, and Aggression: The Bermuda Triangle of Human Subjectivity 56 5 When a Body Stutters: The Girl with Two Names 92 6 Art-Making in Adult Psychoanalysis: When Graphic Language Becomes an Analytic Third Bringing Body to Speech 116 7 Art-Making in Psychoanalytic Supervision: Drawing Links to Language and Speech 146 8 Considering the Dilemmas of Training, Formation, and Authority in the Making of an Analyst 176 9 Tracing the Limits of Symbolization in Psychoanalysis 192 Afterword 222 References 228 Index 242 159051033X,9781590510339 159051033X 9781590510339

A practicing psychoanalyst and clinical psychologist based in Berkeley, California, Ireland (New College of California) launches a theoretical and clinical engagement between two fields of psychoanalysis represented by Donald Winnicott and Jacques Lacan. The two approaches are generally considered incompatible, but she explores how they can complement and supplement each other to broaden the space within which therapists work. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR