Secret Riverbeds
Secrecy and the Architecture of Subjectivity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21374486 |
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| Authors | Todd Anderson (0009-0003-5301-8060, 16 Madison Square West, 12th Floor, New York, NY 10010) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 112 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 257-275 |
| Publication date | 2025-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Psychoanalytic Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0033-2836 • E-ISSN: 1943-3301 |
| Publisher | Guilford Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1521/prev.2025.112.3.257 |
| PMID | 40971234 |
| OpenAlex | W4414380508 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
Secrecy is a foundational yet underexamined dimension of psychic life. Reflecting on sexual secrecy, the existential closet, and the embodied life of the unsaid, this contribution explores how hidden truths and private experiences shape subjectivity, interpersonal fields, and bodily symptomatology. Drawing on psychoanalytic theory, clinical vignettes, and continental philosophy, secrecy is reframed as a paradox: both a protective sanctuary and a source of isolation. Psychoanalytic treatment becomes a space where secrets may be reverently witnessed rather than prematurely revealed. By attending to the secret riverbeds, the psychoanalyst honors what remains hidden while fostering the possibility of relational contact and psychic transformation
Embodied cognition · Existentialism · Human sexuality · Psychic · Psychoanalytic theory · Secrecy · Space (punctuation) · Subjectivity · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration
| Highly cited | No |
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