Vic Sedlak
Biographic Data
| ID | 4503136 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vic Sedlak |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vic |
| FAMILY NAME | Sedlak |
| SIGNATURE | SEDLAK V |
| AFFILIATIONS | British Psychoanalytical Society (Incorporating the Institute of Psychoanalysis), London, UK |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Discussion of Francis Pasche’s paper “From the ambivalent superego to the impersonal superego
Discussion of A candidate at Work: The case of Ms. N
The Psychoanalyst’s Superegos, Ego Ideals and Blind Spots: The Emotional Development of the Clinician
Psychotherapists and psychoanalysts enter an emotional relationship when they treat a patient; no matter how experienced they may be, their personalities inform but also limit their ability to recognise and give thought to what happens in the consulting room. The Psychoanalyst’s Superegos, Ego Ideals and Blind Spots investigates the nature of these constrictions on the clinician’s sensitivity. Vic Sedlak examines clinicians’ fear of a superego wh…
The psychoanalyst's normal and pathological superegos
The first section of the paper explores a number of differing views regarding the concept of the superego, essentially in terms of its formation and its functions. Two broad theories of superego development, both of which were introduced by Freud, are described. The first takes the superego to be principally oedipal in origin; the second traces the superego to an earlier period. The controversy about the usefulness of the concept of the death ins…
Towards an Emancipatory Psychoanalysis: Brandchaft’s Intersubjective Vision
The patient's material as an aid to the disciplined working through of the countertransference and supervision
The author argues that the patient's largely unconscious observations of the analyst's functioning are, at times, communicated in the patient's material and that this can impart a sense of clinical relevance to the countertransference. The concept of 'understanding work' is used to provide a psychoanalytical model of this phenomenon. This is illustrated in a clinical case and it is argued that a selective consideration of the patient's material c…
The psychoanalyst's normal and pathological superegos
The first section of the paper explores a number of differing views regarding the concept of the superego, essentially in terms of its formation and its functions. Two broad theories of superego development, both of which were introduced by Freud, are described. The first takes the superego to be principally oedipal in origin; the second traces the superego to an earlier period. The controversy about the usefulness of the concept of the death ins…
The patient's material as an aid to the disciplined working through of the countertransference and supervision
The author argues that the patient's largely unconscious observations of the analyst's functioning are, at times, communicated in the patient's material and that this can impart a sense of clinical relevance to the countertransference. The concept of 'understanding work' is used to provide a psychoanalytical model of this phenomenon. This is illustrated in a clinical case and it is argued that a selective consideration of the patient's material c…
The patient's material as an aid to the disciplined working through of the countertransference and supervision
The author argues that the patient's largely unconscious observations of the analyst's functioning are, at times, communicated in the patient's material and that this can impart a sense of clinical relevance to the countertransference. The concept of 'understanding work' is used to provide a psychoanalytical model of this phenomenon. This is illustrated in a clinical case and it is argued that a selective consideration of the patient's material c…
Towards an Emancipatory Psychoanalysis: Brandchaft’s Intersubjective Vision
The psychoanalyst's normal and pathological superegos
The first section of the paper explores a number of differing views regarding the concept of the superego, essentially in terms of its formation and its functions. Two broad theories of superego development, both of which were introduced by Freud, are described. The first takes the superego to be principally oedipal in origin; the second traces the superego to an earlier period. The controversy about the usefulness of the concept of the death ins…
The Psychoanalyst’s Superegos, Ego Ideals and Blind Spots: The Emotional Development of the Clinician
Psychotherapists and psychoanalysts enter an emotional relationship when they treat a patient; no matter how experienced they may be, their personalities inform but also limit their ability to recognise and give thought to what happens in the consulting room. The Psychoanalyst’s Superegos, Ego Ideals and Blind Spots investigates the nature of these constrictions on the clinician’s sensitivity. Vic Sedlak examines clinicians’ fear of a superego wh…
Discussion of A candidate at Work: The case of Ms. N
Discussion of Francis Pasche’s paper “From the ambivalent superego to the impersonal superego
Psychoanalysis (4 works) · Psychoanalytic theory (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Id, ego and super-ego (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (3 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics (2 works) · Psychoanalytic Therapy (2 works)