Gail S Reed
Biographic Data
| ID | 4486387 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gail S Reed |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gail S |
| FAMILY NAME | Reed |
| SIGNATURE | REED G S |
| AFFILIATIONS | 1199 Park Avenue New York, NY 10128 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 72 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The Correspondence Between Sigmund Freud and Eugen Bleuler, 1904–1937
Unconscious fantasy in context
For Jacob A. Arlow, understanding unconscious fantasies was central to his clinical work. These fantasies are to be found at the core of those eruptions that break without warning into our ordinary lives, whether in the form of hysterical symptoms, daydreams or nightmares. What, however, could an unconscious fantasy be on a theoretical level, beyond a vehicle for discharge? Although partly unconscious, such fantasies are sometimes composed of fix…
Racamier's ‘On narcissistic perversion’
On Freud's Screen Memories
An Empty Mirror
André Green has proposed that when a failure occurs in the process of differentiating from, mourning, and symbolizing the primary object, that is, of representing it, a void is left in the place of a representation. The author considers how such a failure might manifest itself in clinical material and whether an understanding of this theoretical thinking might help us conduct our clinical work. Green's thinking on this subject is summarized, and …
In the Same Way a Poem Contains the Alphabet”
William I. Grossman's contributions to psychoanalysis have been insufficiently appreciated, perhaps because his writing is concentrated and his meaning consequently difficult to unpack. One of his most important contributions is a remarkable description of the systematic way Freud imagined, thought, and theorized, beginning long before he created psychoanalysis. This way of thinking exemplifies Freud's theories even as it organizes his thinking. …
The Analyst at Work
The Reader's lack
Conflict, Structure, and Absence
The authors understand the work of André Green as addressing unresolved and uncharted issues in Freud's views on the earliest phases of development, particularly as those issues concern the evolution of psychic structure, the development of drive components, and the internalization of object representations. The authors describe Green's conceptualization of primitive conflict and its most deleterious result, absence, or the failure to represent t…
Spatial Metaphors of the Mind
A case in which the author began to understand her patient as "collapsing the space between them," rather than as continuing only to free associate, is the occasion for a contemplation of the way psychoanalytic theory effects a transition between what is inner, or lived, and outer, or experienced. Metaphor is seen as the agent of this transition. The author discusses metaphor in relation to the case described, while also examining spatial metapho…
The Disregarded Analyst and the Transgressive Process
This paper describes the difficulty of working with patients who have adopted conflict solutions common to perversion. These analysands' rapid shifts from one discontinuous mental state to another draw the analyst into a regressive transference/countertransference engagement characterized by alternations of actualized self and object representations. The analyst's disengagement from this regressive interaction is crucial, but difficult. A detaile…
Shame / Contempt Interchanges
The Analyst's Interpretation as Fetish
This paper explores the transference dynamics and underlying fantasies of analysands whose characters have been shaped by conflict solutions common to perversion. Giving the impression of a serious engagement for therapeutic ends, these individuals live out in the treatment a sexualized enactment in which the analyst's interventions are transformed into a fetish. This enactment is designed to support a defensive effort to avoid external perceptio…
Clinical Truth and Contemporary Relativism
This paper proposes that clinical psychoanalysis requires distinctions for its practice that tend to be blurred by a less than careful importation of contemporary philosophical concepts. One such distinction is that between narration and the event narrated; another, that between meaning seen as absolutely relative and meaning understood as hierarchical. The first distinction identifies present experience as formed by a narrative strategy arrived …
On the Value of Explicit Reconstruction
Classical psychoanalysis provides a clinical method and a technique which enable us to help the patient undo primary process transformations of crucial organizing events and the fantasies about them, toward the end of understanding not only the original internal components of conflicts still persisting in the present, but the manner in which the patient originally constructed his or her unique pathogenic system of meaning. That technique involves…
The Transference Neurosis in Freud's Writings
This paper reviews the evolution of the concept of transference neurosis in Freud's writings. It suggests that the language in which the concept of the transference neurosis is originally expressed by Freud includes an idea of the analyst as aggressively pursuing the analytic cure by waging a solitary battle against the patient's disease. With the representation of the death drive and the larger role accorded to sadism as its external manifestati…
Rules of Clinical Understanding in Classical Psychoanalysis and in Self Psychology
This paper compares the rules that govern clinical understanding in classical psychoanalysis and in self psychology. The rules of understanding in the two systems are fundamentally different. Self psychology interprets causes and relies on interpretive rules similar to those used in allegory. Classical psychoanalysis investigates reasons and seeks to uncover the patient's own interpretive system. Self psychology refinds its own theory in the rela…
Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalysis Appropriated, Psychoanalysis Applied
The assumptions which predominate in the reading of psychoanalytic theory differ from those involved in listening to the patient in the psychoanalytic process. A weakness of much applied psychoanalysis is that these two sets of assumptions are confused and theoretical certainty is substituted for clinical exploration. This difference in assumptions is illustrated by the different assumptions about the signifier in two poems. In Freud's work on Le…
Toward a Methodology for Applying Psychoanalysis to Literature
This paper proposes a methodology which seeks to use psychoanalysis to fathom the unique quality of the literary text without turning the text into a symptom or its author into a patient. Its hypothesis: the literary text evokes an unconscious fantasy in its readers; critics who respond to the text empathically but without conscious understanding re-enact aspects of its organizing fantasy in the way they write their criticism. To test this hypoth…
Rules of Clinical Understanding in Classical Psychoanalysis and in Self Psychology
This paper compares the rules that govern clinical understanding in classical psychoanalysis and in self psychology. The rules of understanding in the two systems are fundamentally different. Self psychology interprets causes and relies on interpretive rules similar to those used in allegory. Classical psychoanalysis investigates reasons and seeks to uncover the patient's own interpretive system. Self psychology refinds its own theory in the rela…
The Analyst's Interpretation as Fetish
This paper explores the transference dynamics and underlying fantasies of analysands whose characters have been shaped by conflict solutions common to perversion. Giving the impression of a serious engagement for therapeutic ends, these individuals live out in the treatment a sexualized enactment in which the analyst's interventions are transformed into a fetish. This enactment is designed to support a defensive effort to avoid external perceptio…
On the Value of Explicit Reconstruction
Classical psychoanalysis provides a clinical method and a technique which enable us to help the patient undo primary process transformations of crucial organizing events and the fantasies about them, toward the end of understanding not only the original internal components of conflicts still persisting in the present, but the manner in which the patient originally constructed his or her unique pathogenic system of meaning. That technique involves…
Toward a Methodology for Applying Psychoanalysis to Literature
This paper proposes a methodology which seeks to use psychoanalysis to fathom the unique quality of the literary text without turning the text into a symptom or its author into a patient. Its hypothesis: the literary text evokes an unconscious fantasy in its readers; critics who respond to the text empathically but without conscious understanding re-enact aspects of its organizing fantasy in the way they write their criticism. To test this hypoth…
Conflict, Structure, and Absence
The authors understand the work of André Green as addressing unresolved and uncharted issues in Freud's views on the earliest phases of development, particularly as those issues concern the evolution of psychic structure, the development of drive components, and the internalization of object representations. The authors describe Green's conceptualization of primitive conflict and its most deleterious result, absence, or the failure to represent t…
An Empty Mirror
André Green has proposed that when a failure occurs in the process of differentiating from, mourning, and symbolizing the primary object, that is, of representing it, a void is left in the place of a representation. The author considers how such a failure might manifest itself in clinical material and whether an understanding of this theoretical thinking might help us conduct our clinical work. Green's thinking on this subject is summarized, and …
Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalysis Appropriated, Psychoanalysis Applied
The assumptions which predominate in the reading of psychoanalytic theory differ from those involved in listening to the patient in the psychoanalytic process. A weakness of much applied psychoanalysis is that these two sets of assumptions are confused and theoretical certainty is substituted for clinical exploration. This difference in assumptions is illustrated by the different assumptions about the signifier in two poems. In Freud's work on Le…
Clinical Truth and Contemporary Relativism
This paper proposes that clinical psychoanalysis requires distinctions for its practice that tend to be blurred by a less than careful importation of contemporary philosophical concepts. One such distinction is that between narration and the event narrated; another, that between meaning seen as absolutely relative and meaning understood as hierarchical. The first distinction identifies present experience as formed by a narrative strategy arrived …
Spatial Metaphors of the Mind
A case in which the author began to understand her patient as "collapsing the space between them," rather than as continuing only to free associate, is the occasion for a contemplation of the way psychoanalytic theory effects a transition between what is inner, or lived, and outer, or experienced. Metaphor is seen as the agent of this transition. The author discusses metaphor in relation to the case described, while also examining spatial metapho…
The Disregarded Analyst and the Transgressive Process
This paper describes the difficulty of working with patients who have adopted conflict solutions common to perversion. These analysands' rapid shifts from one discontinuous mental state to another draw the analyst into a regressive transference/countertransference engagement characterized by alternations of actualized self and object representations. The analyst's disengagement from this regressive interaction is crucial, but difficult. A detaile…
Unconscious fantasy in context
For Jacob A. Arlow, understanding unconscious fantasies was central to his clinical work. These fantasies are to be found at the core of those eruptions that break without warning into our ordinary lives, whether in the form of hysterical symptoms, daydreams or nightmares. What, however, could an unconscious fantasy be on a theoretical level, beyond a vehicle for discharge? Although partly unconscious, such fantasies are sometimes composed of fix…
The Transference Neurosis in Freud's Writings
This paper reviews the evolution of the concept of transference neurosis in Freud's writings. It suggests that the language in which the concept of the transference neurosis is originally expressed by Freud includes an idea of the analyst as aggressively pursuing the analytic cure by waging a solitary battle against the patient's disease. With the representation of the death drive and the larger role accorded to sadism as its external manifestati…
In the Same Way a Poem Contains the Alphabet”
William I. Grossman's contributions to psychoanalysis have been insufficiently appreciated, perhaps because his writing is concentrated and his meaning consequently difficult to unpack. One of his most important contributions is a remarkable description of the systematic way Freud imagined, thought, and theorized, beginning long before he created psychoanalysis. This way of thinking exemplifies Freud's theories even as it organizes his thinking. …
Toward a Methodology for Applying Psychoanalysis to Literature
This paper proposes a methodology which seeks to use psychoanalysis to fathom the unique quality of the literary text without turning the text into a symptom or its author into a patient. Its hypothesis: the literary text evokes an unconscious fantasy in its readers; critics who respond to the text empathically but without conscious understanding re-enact aspects of its organizing fantasy in the way they write their criticism. To test this hypoth…
Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalysis Appropriated, Psychoanalysis Applied
The assumptions which predominate in the reading of psychoanalytic theory differ from those involved in listening to the patient in the psychoanalytic process. A weakness of much applied psychoanalysis is that these two sets of assumptions are confused and theoretical certainty is substituted for clinical exploration. This difference in assumptions is illustrated by the different assumptions about the signifier in two poems. In Freud's work on Le…
Rules of Clinical Understanding in Classical Psychoanalysis and in Self Psychology
This paper compares the rules that govern clinical understanding in classical psychoanalysis and in self psychology. The rules of understanding in the two systems are fundamentally different. Self psychology interprets causes and relies on interpretive rules similar to those used in allegory. Classical psychoanalysis investigates reasons and seeks to uncover the patient's own interpretive system. Self psychology refinds its own theory in the rela…
The Transference Neurosis in Freud's Writings
This paper reviews the evolution of the concept of transference neurosis in Freud's writings. It suggests that the language in which the concept of the transference neurosis is originally expressed by Freud includes an idea of the analyst as aggressively pursuing the analytic cure by waging a solitary battle against the patient's disease. With the representation of the death drive and the larger role accorded to sadism as its external manifestati…
On the Value of Explicit Reconstruction
Classical psychoanalysis provides a clinical method and a technique which enable us to help the patient undo primary process transformations of crucial organizing events and the fantasies about them, toward the end of understanding not only the original internal components of conflicts still persisting in the present, but the manner in which the patient originally constructed his or her unique pathogenic system of meaning. That technique involves…
Clinical Truth and Contemporary Relativism
This paper proposes that clinical psychoanalysis requires distinctions for its practice that tend to be blurred by a less than careful importation of contemporary philosophical concepts. One such distinction is that between narration and the event narrated; another, that between meaning seen as absolutely relative and meaning understood as hierarchical. The first distinction identifies present experience as formed by a narrative strategy arrived …
The Analyst's Interpretation as Fetish
This paper explores the transference dynamics and underlying fantasies of analysands whose characters have been shaped by conflict solutions common to perversion. Giving the impression of a serious engagement for therapeutic ends, these individuals live out in the treatment a sexualized enactment in which the analyst's interventions are transformed into a fetish. This enactment is designed to support a defensive effort to avoid external perceptio…
The Disregarded Analyst and the Transgressive Process
This paper describes the difficulty of working with patients who have adopted conflict solutions common to perversion. These analysands' rapid shifts from one discontinuous mental state to another draw the analyst into a regressive transference/countertransference engagement characterized by alternations of actualized self and object representations. The analyst's disengagement from this regressive interaction is crucial, but difficult. A detaile…
Shame / Contempt Interchanges
Spatial Metaphors of the Mind
A case in which the author began to understand her patient as "collapsing the space between them," rather than as continuing only to free associate, is the occasion for a contemplation of the way psychoanalytic theory effects a transition between what is inner, or lived, and outer, or experienced. Metaphor is seen as the agent of this transition. The author discusses metaphor in relation to the case described, while also examining spatial metapho…
Conflict, Structure, and Absence
The authors understand the work of André Green as addressing unresolved and uncharted issues in Freud's views on the earliest phases of development, particularly as those issues concern the evolution of psychic structure, the development of drive components, and the internalization of object representations. The authors describe Green's conceptualization of primitive conflict and its most deleterious result, absence, or the failure to represent t…
The Reader's lack
The Analyst at Work
An Empty Mirror
André Green has proposed that when a failure occurs in the process of differentiating from, mourning, and symbolizing the primary object, that is, of representing it, a void is left in the place of a representation. The author considers how such a failure might manifest itself in clinical material and whether an understanding of this theoretical thinking might help us conduct our clinical work. Green's thinking on this subject is summarized, and …
In the Same Way a Poem Contains the Alphabet”
William I. Grossman's contributions to psychoanalysis have been insufficiently appreciated, perhaps because his writing is concentrated and his meaning consequently difficult to unpack. One of his most important contributions is a remarkable description of the systematic way Freud imagined, thought, and theorized, beginning long before he created psychoanalysis. This way of thinking exemplifies Freud's theories even as it organizes his thinking. …
Racamier's ‘On narcissistic perversion’
On Freud's Screen Memories
Unconscious fantasy in context
For Jacob A. Arlow, understanding unconscious fantasies was central to his clinical work. These fantasies are to be found at the core of those eruptions that break without warning into our ordinary lives, whether in the form of hysterical symptoms, daydreams or nightmares. What, however, could an unconscious fantasy be on a theoretical level, beyond a vehicle for discharge? Although partly unconscious, such fantasies are sometimes composed of fix…
The Correspondence Between Sigmund Freud and Eugen Bleuler, 1904–1937
Psychoanalysis (18 works) · Psychology (17 works) · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (14 works) · Philosophy (12 works) · Epistemology (10 works) · Psychoanalytic theory (9 works) · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (7 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Mental Health and Psychiatry (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works)