The function of the frame

To Protect the Psychoanalytic Room

Bibliographic Data

ID6130154
AuthorsRolf Künstlicher (a Flemminggatan 294, S-112 26 , Stockholm , Sweden, corresponding author)
Year1996
Volume19
Issue2
Pages150-164
Publication date1996-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0106-2301 • E-ISSN: 1600-0803
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01062301.1996.10592367
OpenAlexW2327757975
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited1

The difficulty in differentiating the rules of treatment in psychoanalysis from the general “rules of play” that enclose and shelter the analytic process is discussed. The view is maintained that these “rules of play” constitute an absolute aspect of psychoanalysis. Their function is to create a frame, that protects the two participants on their vulnerable positions, enclosing a room where two persons mutually can listen to their thoughts and partake in feelings and the movements of the unconscious. Alien impingements revive traumatic experiences and break the frame. The traumatic or unthinkable is beyond the frame and is therefore enacted through repetition and acting-out. Through the break-down and restoration of the analytic frame, the possibility opens to incorporate into thoughts and feelings, that which has been rendered inaccessible. Clinical material illustrates the silent frame and the perverted frame

Epistemology · Feeling · Frame (networking) · Function (biology) · Linguistics · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Repetition (rhetorical device) · Unconscious mind · Computer Science · Philosophy · Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research · Psychology · Psychology and Mental Health · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Social Psychology

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