The Play Within the Play: The Enacted Dimension of Psychoanalytic Process (Relational Perspectives Book Series)

In __The Play within the Play: The Enacted Dimension of Psychoanalytic Process__ Gil Katz presents and illustrates the "enacted dimension of psychoanalytic process." He clarifies that enactment is not simply an overt event but an unconscious, continuously evolving, dynamically meaningful process. Using clinical examples, including several extended case reports, Gil Katz demonstrates how in all treatments, a new version of the patient’s early conflicts, traumas, and formative object relationships is inevitably created, without awareness or intent, in the here-and-now of the analytic dyad. Within the enacted dimension, repressed or dissociated aspects of the patient’s past are not just remembered, they are re-lived. Katz shows how, when the enacted dimension becomes conscious, it forms the basis for genuine and transforming experiential insight. Cover 1 Title Page 10 Copyright Page 11 Dedication 12 Table of Contents 14 Acknowledgments 16 Introduction 20 PART I Theoretical Evolution 24 1 In the Beginning: The Talking Cure and the Problem of Action 26 2 Forerunners: The Transference–Countertransference Matrix 36 3 Enactment: The Emergence of a New Concept 46 PART II The Enacted Dimension of Analytic Process 58 4 Where the Action Is: The Second Dimension of Analytic Process 60 5 Clinical Illustrations I: Reliving Preverbal and Unformulated Experience in the Enacted Dimension 66 6 Clinical Illustrations II: An Enacted Process Within an Enacted Process 72 7 Interaction in Psychoanalysis: Across and Through the Interpsychic “Cat-Flap” 80 8 Enactment and Analytic Technique: What We Can Learn from John Lennon and Microwave Ovens 88 9 Enactment and Actualization in a 13-Year Treatment 94 10 The Enacted Dimension of Analytic Supervision: The Parallel Process Phenomenon 114 PART III Trauma and the Enacted Dimension 124 11 Dissociative Identity Disorder and the Enacted Dimension 126 12 Object Loss and Mourning in the Enacted Dimension 140 13 Transgenerational Transmission of the Holocaust Trauma in the Enacted Dimension 156 PART IV Frequently Asked Questions (and Answers) 176 References 188 Index 200 This book presents the enacted dimension of psychoanalytic process. He clarifies that enactment is not simply an overt event but an unconscious, continuously evolving, dynamically meaningful process. Using clinical examples, including several extended case reports, Gil Katz demonstrates how in all treatments, a new version of the patient's early conflicts, traumas, and formative object relationships is inevitably created, without awareness or intent, in the here-and-now of the analytic dyad. Within the enacted dimension, repressed or dissociated aspects of the patient's past are not just remembered, they are re-lived. Katz shows how, when the enacted dimension becomes conscious, it forms the basis for genuine and transforming experiential insight This book introduces and illustrates the "enacted dimension of psychoanalytic process" which forms the continuous background of the work of analysis.