Steven T Levy
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4499512 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Steven T Levy |
| PRENOMES | Steven T |
| SOBRENOME | Levy |
| ASSINATURA | LEVY S T |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Emory University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research 1711 Uppergate Drive, N.E. Atlanta, GA 30322 |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 33 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 128 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1984 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2018 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Influential Papers from the 1950s
The 1950s were a pivotal era in psychoanalysis. It was a time when psychoanalytic attention turned from the exploration of the internal world to the external. The influence of object relational ideas grew on various issues and Kleinian ideas gained a stronger foothold in North America. There were numerous contributions on the subject of countertransference from varying psychoanalytic schools of thought. Early preoedipal experiences between child …
Influential Papers from The 1950s
Commentary on Kernberg and Michels
Comings and Goings
Looking Ahead
Comings and Goings
Research to the Rescue? Introduction to a Discussion
Comings and Goings
Our First Century
Lamentation of an Aging Warrior
Comings and Goings
More Better
Psychoanalytic Education Then and Now
In Memoriam
Modern Times
Comings and Goings
Comings and Goings
Splendid Isolation
Our Literature
Fantasy and psychoanalytic discourse
Key words: Education Section, Phantasy
Regression and Psychoanalytic Technique
An exploration of the regression concept historically and conceptually reveals that its familiarity and frequent use have resulted in decreasing conceptual clarity and precision. Rooted in an outmoded fixation-regression model of development and psychopathology, the concept has become concretized. This paper is a beginning exploration of problematic aspects of the concept of regression, with emphasis on potentially detrimental consequences for ps…
Suggestion and Psychoanalytic Technique
The role of the analyst's suggestive influence on the course and outcome of psychoanalytic treatment is explored, and traditional and newer perspectives on analytic technique are contrasted. The intersubjective critique of the neutral, objective analyst in relation to suggestion is examined. The inevitable presence and need for suggestive factors in analysis, and the relationship of suggestion to transference susceptibility, are emphasized. The m…
Repetition Compulsion Revisited
Freud's repetition compulsion concept is reviewed and examined critically. It has been used as an explanatory concept to cover a wide variety of clinical phenomena similar only in their manifest repetitive quality, and it appears frequently in psychoanalytic and psychiatric literature. Its relationship to trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder is explored. Emphasis is on the detrimental technical legacy of the concept, which has cast a pessimis…
Principles of Interpretation
On Those Wrecked By Success
Freud's description of those wrecked by success outlines conflicted oedipal triumph as the central underlying dynamic in this character type. It does not distinguish those patients who avoid success from those driven to achieve and then wreck their success. We present a complex picture that we believe is prototypic of patients who destroy their success. A clinical case illustrates our point of view. We emphasize the developmental problems we beli…
The Analytic Surface and the Theory of Technique
This paper examines the concept of the analytic surface as a starting point for the interpretive process in relation to the theory of psychoanalytic technique. The history of the concept of the analytic surface within psychoanalysis is reviewed. Four different conceptualizations of analytic surfaces are described (M. M. Gill, P. Gray, A. Kris, E. A. Schwaber). The advantages of a “surface” approach are explored in relation to clinical work, the t…
Regression and Psychoanalytic Technique
An exploration of the regression concept historically and conceptually reveals that its familiarity and frequent use have resulted in decreasing conceptual clarity and precision. Rooted in an outmoded fixation-regression model of development and psychopathology, the concept has become concretized. This paper is a beginning exploration of problematic aspects of the concept of regression, with emphasis on potentially detrimental consequences for ps…
On Grist for the Mill
The meaning of the "grist for the mill" metaphor has undergone a shift from "analyzing everything" to "everything is analyzable." This is used as a point of departure for exploring some of the multiple, complicated, and often unrecognized ways reality is used defensively by analyst and analysand. The point of view presented is in the spirit of a balancing perspective with regard to current trends in psychoanalysis which emphasize interactions, th…
Psychoanalytic Education Then and Now
Empathy and Psychoanalytic
I have attempted to review the major psychoanalytic contributions to our understanding of empathy within the psychoanalytic situation. In doing so, I have discussed the relation between empathy and identification, reviewed aspects of the metapsychology of analytic comprehension, and have described the role of the analyst's evenly hovering attention in empathic responsiveness, as noted by several analytic investigators of empathy. The interrelatio…
Neutrality, Interpretation, and Therapeutic Intent
Neutrality is a central concept within the theory of psychoanalytic technique. We spell out the major controversies in which the concept has become embroiled, and provide a definition that we believe coincides with actual psychoanalytic practice. We discuss its merits and weaknesses, noting also the negative consequences of relying on older definitions. We relate neutrality to the interpretive process, indicating ways interpretation protects neut…
Unconscious Fantasy
Despite general agreement about the clinical importance of unconscious fantasy, the concept itself has remained unclear. After reviewing Freud's work on the subject, the conceptual dilemma is specified: where in current psychoanalytic theory do we place this important, dynamically repressed, structuralized mental content? Three conceptual paths have been followed in attempting to deal with this problem. The first emphasizes the structural, tripar…
Therapeutic Strategy and Psychoanalytic Technique
The role of therapeutic strategy within psychoanalytic technique is described. An antistrategic bias inherent in certain aspects of the “classical” technique is explored in relation to the historical development of psychoanalysis. Clinical expertise, which includes the making of strategic or tactical choices, is relegated to the “unofficial,” due in part to this negative bias impeding the study of technical differences in favor of general agreeme…
Splendid Isolation
Repetition Compulsion Revisited
Freud's repetition compulsion concept is reviewed and examined critically. It has been used as an explanatory concept to cover a wide variety of clinical phenomena similar only in their manifest repetitive quality, and it appears frequently in psychoanalytic and psychiatric literature. Its relationship to trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder is explored. Emphasis is on the detrimental technical legacy of the concept, which has cast a pessimis…
Psychoanalytic Perspectives On Emptiness
A clinical example illustrates the thesis that the experience of feeling empty, like any other mental event, can be understood in terms of the conflicting wishes, prohibitions , compromises, and gratifications that color any experience in ways that clarify its meaning. Theoretical hypotheses which explain mental events and experiences as the result of deficiencies of structures are difficult to translate into therapeutic practices. This is especi…
Suggestion and Psychoanalytic Technique
The role of the analyst's suggestive influence on the course and outcome of psychoanalytic treatment is explored, and traditional and newer perspectives on analytic technique are contrasted. The intersubjective critique of the neutral, objective analyst in relation to suggestion is examined. The inevitable presence and need for suggestive factors in analysis, and the relationship of suggestion to transference susceptibility, are emphasized. The m…
Fantasy and psychoanalytic discourse
Key words: Education Section, Phantasy
Negativism and Countertransference
The purpose of this work is to explore the phenomenon of negativism and the analyst's response to it during the course of analytic work with a patient in whom negativism is a central behavioral pattern. Melville's short story, "Bartleby the Scrivener," describing in telling detail the response of a sympathetic lawyer to profound and pervasive negativism in his legal scribe, is discussed as a literary analogy to the analyst-analysand dyad. Aspects…
Looking Ahead
Our Literature
On Those Wrecked By Success
Freud's description of those wrecked by success outlines conflicted oedipal triumph as the central underlying dynamic in this character type. It does not distinguish those patients who avoid success from those driven to achieve and then wreck their success. We present a complex picture that we believe is prototypic of patients who destroy their success. A clinical case illustrates our point of view. We emphasize the developmental problems we beli…
Psychoanalytic Perspectives On Emptiness
A clinical example illustrates the thesis that the experience of feeling empty, like any other mental event, can be understood in terms of the conflicting wishes, prohibitions , compromises, and gratifications that color any experience in ways that clarify its meaning. Theoretical hypotheses which explain mental events and experiences as the result of deficiencies of structures are difficult to translate into therapeutic practices. This is especi…
Empathy and Psychoanalytic
I have attempted to review the major psychoanalytic contributions to our understanding of empathy within the psychoanalytic situation. In doing so, I have discussed the relation between empathy and identification, reviewed aspects of the metapsychology of analytic comprehension, and have described the role of the analyst's evenly hovering attention in empathic responsiveness, as noted by several analytic investigators of empathy. The interrelatio…
Therapeutic Strategy and Psychoanalytic Technique
The role of therapeutic strategy within psychoanalytic technique is described. An antistrategic bias inherent in certain aspects of the “classical” technique is explored in relation to the historical development of psychoanalysis. Clinical expertise, which includes the making of strategic or tactical choices, is relegated to the “unofficial,” due in part to this negative bias impeding the study of technical differences in favor of general agreeme…
Negativism and Countertransference
The purpose of this work is to explore the phenomenon of negativism and the analyst's response to it during the course of analytic work with a patient in whom negativism is a central behavioral pattern. Melville's short story, "Bartleby the Scrivener," describing in telling detail the response of a sympathetic lawyer to profound and pervasive negativism in his legal scribe, is discussed as a literary analogy to the analyst-analysand dyad. Aspects…
Unconscious Fantasy
Despite general agreement about the clinical importance of unconscious fantasy, the concept itself has remained unclear. After reviewing Freud's work on the subject, the conceptual dilemma is specified: where in current psychoanalytic theory do we place this important, dynamically repressed, structuralized mental content? Three conceptual paths have been followed in attempting to deal with this problem. The first emphasizes the structural, tripar…
The Analytic Surface and the Theory of Technique
This paper examines the concept of the analytic surface as a starting point for the interpretive process in relation to the theory of psychoanalytic technique. The history of the concept of the analytic surface within psychoanalysis is reviewed. Four different conceptualizations of analytic surfaces are described (M. M. Gill, P. Gray, A. Kris, E. A. Schwaber). The advantages of a “surface” approach are explored in relation to clinical work, the t…
Neutrality, Interpretation, and Therapeutic Intent
Neutrality is a central concept within the theory of psychoanalytic technique. We spell out the major controversies in which the concept has become embroiled, and provide a definition that we believe coincides with actual psychoanalytic practice. We discuss its merits and weaknesses, noting also the negative consequences of relying on older definitions. We relate neutrality to the interpretive process, indicating ways interpretation protects neut…
On Grist for the Mill
The meaning of the "grist for the mill" metaphor has undergone a shift from "analyzing everything" to "everything is analyzable." This is used as a point of departure for exploring some of the multiple, complicated, and often unrecognized ways reality is used defensively by analyst and analysand. The point of view presented is in the spirit of a balancing perspective with regard to current trends in psychoanalysis which emphasize interactions, th…
On Those Wrecked By Success
Freud's description of those wrecked by success outlines conflicted oedipal triumph as the central underlying dynamic in this character type. It does not distinguish those patients who avoid success from those driven to achieve and then wreck their success. We present a complex picture that we believe is prototypic of patients who destroy their success. A clinical case illustrates our point of view. We emphasize the developmental problems we beli…
Principles of Interpretation
Repetition Compulsion Revisited
Freud's repetition compulsion concept is reviewed and examined critically. It has been used as an explanatory concept to cover a wide variety of clinical phenomena similar only in their manifest repetitive quality, and it appears frequently in psychoanalytic and psychiatric literature. Its relationship to trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder is explored. Emphasis is on the detrimental technical legacy of the concept, which has cast a pessimis…
Regression and Psychoanalytic Technique
An exploration of the regression concept historically and conceptually reveals that its familiarity and frequent use have resulted in decreasing conceptual clarity and precision. Rooted in an outmoded fixation-regression model of development and psychopathology, the concept has become concretized. This paper is a beginning exploration of problematic aspects of the concept of regression, with emphasis on potentially detrimental consequences for ps…
Suggestion and Psychoanalytic Technique
The role of the analyst's suggestive influence on the course and outcome of psychoanalytic treatment is explored, and traditional and newer perspectives on analytic technique are contrasted. The intersubjective critique of the neutral, objective analyst in relation to suggestion is examined. The inevitable presence and need for suggestive factors in analysis, and the relationship of suggestion to transference susceptibility, are emphasized. The m…
Fantasy and psychoanalytic discourse
Key words: Education Section, Phantasy
Splendid Isolation
Our Literature
Comings and Goings
Comings and Goings
In Memoriam
Modern Times
More Better
Psychoanalytic Education Then and Now
Comings and Goings
Comings and Goings
Our First Century
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