Visual perception as constructions of object relations An account from the analysis of a “visual” woman
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6129773 |
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| Authors | Roar Olsen (a Veidebakken 13, N-1671 , Kråkerøy , Norway E-mail, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 118-132 |
| Publication date | 2000-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0106-2301 • E-ISSN: 1600-0803 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01062301.2000.10592589 |
| OpenAlex | W2017257618 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
The focus of this paper is on how the visual perception of an analysand reflects central inner object relations. The article raises the question of how to understand the analysand's visual perception. Is it merely projections of content? Of form? Or is it ingrained in the whole personality, and in that respect revealing a mode of functioning which spreads out to cognitive as well as emotional areas? In the analysand's visual constructions, figure- ground perception seems to be closely related to the process of separation and individuation. The shadow perception seems to be related to loss. As products of mentalisation, these perceptual tendencies seem to bind the affect at the level of imagery, which is a higher level of psychic transformation than somatic or motor activity, but lower than verbalisation
Affect (linguistics) · Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Cognitive science · Individuation · Linguistics · Object (grammar) · Perception · Psychic · Psychoanalysis · Shadow (psychology) · Visual perception · Art, Aesthetics, and Perception · Communication · Neuroscience · Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
| Highly cited | No |
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