Unconscious Fantasy and Theories of Cure
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8333201 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sander M Abend (1040 Park Avenue New York, N.Y. 10028, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1979 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 579-596 |
| Publication date | 1979-06-01 |
| 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 | 10.1177/000306517902700304 |
| PMID | 512289 |
| OpenAlex | W206750028 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 21 |
| References cited | 7 |
It has long been known that patients' wishes for cure by analysis give expression to unconscious wishes for instinctual gratification which originate in childhood mental life. Patients sometimes develop theories about how they believe analysis attains its ends; these are likely to affect the way they behave in the analytic situation, and analysis of them may therefore constitute an important contribution to progress in the analysis. Two illustrative cases are presented; in both, the unconscious determinants of the patients' theories turn out to be infantile sexual fantasies connected with their uncon scious wishes for instinctual satisfaction. It is further suggested that analogous unconscious fantasies also influence the theories of analysts and other therapists about how analysis works. In some instances these factors, while not affecting theory formation explicitly, may, without being recognized as doing so, contribute to decisions regarding the modification of analytic technique. Awareness of that possibility may aid analysts in assessing the indications for such proposed modifications
Epistemology · Expression (computer science) · Fantasy · Gratification · Psychoanalysis · Psychotherapist · Unconscious mind · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology · Computer Science · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Social Psychology · Transactional Analysis in Psychotherapy
Developing a new narrative
Two sets of private theories in analysands and their analysts
Putting the Social Work Academy on the Couch
Memories of Jacob A. Arlow
Who Needs Theory of Therapeutic Action
To Have and to Hold
The Person in the Analyst’s Chair
Slips of the Analyst
A Variant of Joking in Dreams
Some Notes on Insight and Its Failures
Theories of Pathogenesis
Vicissitudes of ideas of cure in analysands and their analysts
Utopic ideas of cure and joint exploration in psychoanalytic supervision
How much time does psychoanalysis take? The duration of psychoanalytic treatments from Freud’s cases to the Swedish clinical practice of today
The patient's private construction of meaning and canons of science
The patient's private and canons of science
Freud and Therapeutic Action Reconsidered
Psychic Change in Analysis
Idealization of the Analyst by the Young Adult
A Patient Who Was Not Sexually Abused
The dialectics of psychoanalytic research
| Citations per year | 0.47 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1981 - 2022 (42) |
| Highly cited | No |