Playing in the Darkness

Use of the Object and Use of the Subject

Dados Bibliográficos

ID8333773
AutoresSteven H Cooper (0009-0007-8575-6294, autor correspondente)
Ano2018
Volume66
Fascículo4
Páginas743-765
Data de publicação2018-08-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0003-0651 • E-ISSN: 1941-2460
EditoraSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0003065118796497
PMID30249131
OpenAlexW2893580217
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas21
Referências citadas15

Play in the context of the patient’s sense of absence, loss, and compromised capacities for symbolization can be a link between unsymbolized experience and greater capacities for representation. Winnicott’s concepts of play evolved as one of the ways that analysts translate unconscious and unrepresented experience. For many patients who have experienced absence, the analyst and the analytic setting are subjected to the patient’s unconscious efforts to destroy and negate meaning and relatedness. For the analyst to be “used” as an object to be destroyed and to survive destruction, he must become a subject in the mind of the patient and in his own mind as analyst within the intersubjective field. The analyst’s work with his own resistance is vital to becoming a changing subject and an object available for play in the psychoanalytic process

Context (archaeology) · Epistemology · Meaning (existential) · Object (grammar) · Object relations theory · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Psychotherapist · Representation (politics) · Resistance (ecology) · Subject (documents) · Unconscious mind · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · History · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Transactional Analysis in Psychotherapy