Memories Of Positive Experiences In The Resolution Of Conflicts

Illustrated In A Case Of Hysteria

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ID8336316
AuthorsARNOLD Z PFEFFER (39 East 74 Street New York, New York 10021, corresponding author)
Year1980
Volume28
Issue2
Pages309-329
Publication date1980-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0003-0651 • E-ISSN: 1941-2460
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/000306518002800203
PMID7381169
OpenAlexW2086967851
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited5

Clinical material from an analysis is used to illustrate the thesis that memories of positive experiences with significant figures of the past, like pathogenic memories, are displaced onto the analyst in the transference. It is suggested that such positive memories with their associated impulses, affects, and content become available and significantly operative in connection with and in response to interpretation and working through of pathogenic conflicts, especially in the transference. Memories of positive experiences appear to play a role in the resolution of conflicts and in the consequent analytic and therapeutic changes. Thus, just as there are repetitions of conflicted and pathogenic experiences, "negative repetitions," there are repetitions of positive experiences, "positive repetitions."

Cognitive psychology · Conflict resolution · Content (measure theory) · Developmental psychology · Hysteria · Interpretation (philosophy) · Linguistics · Psychoanalysis · Resolution (logic) · Sociology · Computer Science · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Social Psychology · Transactional Analysis in Psychotherapy

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