Language and the Psychoanalytic Process
Psychoanalysis and Vygotskian Psychology, Part II
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8332199 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Arnold Wilson (Graduate Faculty, New School for Social Research, New York), Lissa Weinstein (0000-0002-7734-9417, Department of Clinical Psychology, Teachers College, Columbia University) |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 725-759 |
| Publication date | 1992-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0651 • E-ISSN: 1941-2460 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/000306519204000304 |
| PMID | 1401719 |
| OpenAlex | W2395208514 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
| References cited | 29 |
This paper follows our previous one, where we described a psychoanalytic conception of language, thought, and internalization that is informed by the thinking of Lev Vygotsky. Here, several aspects of the analytic process which allow for the understanding of ineffable experiences in the analysand's history and the analytic situation are investigated: specifically, primal repression, metaphor, and the role of speech in free association. It is suggested that Freud's notion of primal repression be revived and redefined as one aspect of the descriptive unconscious. Some implications of primal repression for transference and resistance are explored. The metaphoric in its broad sense is examined as one example of how early dynamic experiences embedded in the process of language acquisition can be reached within the clinical situation. It is proposed that an understanding of free association is enhanced by awareness of distinctions between inner, egocentric, and social speech. The basic rule can be interpreted as an invitation for the analysand to use inner speech in collaboration with the analyst as best he or she can. Further, the aliveness and degree of superficiality of the analysis can be seen as a function of the analyst's ability to appreciate the properties of inner speech and foster the conditions in the analysis that allow for its unfolding
Association (psychology) · Cognitive science · Epistemology · Free association (psychology) · Linguistics · Metaphor · Process (computing) · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Psychotherapist · Transference · Unconscious mind · Computer Science · Educational and Psychological Assessments · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Social Representations and Identity
Level of Vocabulary Development and Selected Elements Regarding Sensory Integration and Balance in 5-Year-Old Girls and Boys
Vygotsky vs. Freud
Embracing figures of speech
The Talking Cure as Action
“Bringin’ in the sheaves
A New Model for Conceptualizing Insightfulness in the Psychoanalysis of Young Children
A Conjoint Phase of Treatment Involving a Severely Disturbed Adolescent Boy and His Father
Speech events, language development, and the clinical situation
Mentalization, insightfulness, and therapeutic action
History of the unconscious in Soviet Russia
Vygotsky’s inner language and its relation to the unconscious system of Freud
An Investigation into Some Implications of a Vygotskian Perspective on the Origins of Mind
Psychoanalysis as Poetry
Ghosts of Paradigms Past
Metaphors of a Bodily Mind
The Transference and the Zone of Proximal Development
From Developmental Metaphor To Developmental Model
Actual Minds, Possible Worlds
Languages of Art
Organization and pathology of thought
Narrative Truth and Historical Truth
Syntactic Structures
Language and Interpretation in Psychoanalysis
Metaphor and the Psychoanalytic Situation
The Dynamics of Interpretation
Dream Psychology and the Analytic Situation
An Investigation into Some Implications of a Vygotskian Perspective on the Origins of Mind
Free Association
The Role of Transference Practical Considerations in Relation to Psychoanalytic Therapy
On Reconstruction
Psychoanalysis as an Art and the Fantasy Character of the Psychoanalytic Situation
Notes on Transference
Interpretation and Naming
Philosophical investigations
Unconscious Fantasy and Disturbances of Conscious Experience
Language and Consciousness
The Metaphorical Process as Cognition, Imagination, and Feeling
| Unique citing works | 17 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 1992 - 2025 (34) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 17 |