Love and melancholia in the analysis of women by women

Dados Bibliográficos

ID8971233
AutoresR J Perelberg (0000-0003-1441-491X, Bedford College, autor correspondente)
Ano2017
Volume98
Fascículo6
Páginas1533-1549
Data de publicação2017-07-03
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe International Journal of Psychoanalysis (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0020-7578 • E-ISSN: 1745-8315
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1745-8315.12686
PMID28671276
OpenAlexW2733893289
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas14

This paper suggests that in the analysis of women by women a melancholic core may be encountered at the centre of the transference/countertransference situation that is an expression of the loss of the primary maternal object that has never been mourned. The attachment to the primary, lost object may be preserved in a melancholic, invisible way, and the longing that it is connected to might only reach representation in the après coup of the analytic process. The links between this primary love, melancholia and the unrepresentable in the analysis of women will be explored. These analyses powerfully evoke the relationship to the somatic. The internalization of the body of the mother, which is a requirement in the development of a woman, can take on frightening, fragmented, part-object qualities. An example of a five times a week analysis is discussed

Countertransference · Expression (computer science · Melancholia · Object (grammar · Psychoanalysis · Representation (politics · Computer Science · Philosophy · Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research · Psychology · Psychology and Mental Health · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Social Psychology