Interpretation as Freud's specific action, and Bion's container‐contained
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8971025 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Chris Mawson (The Institute of Psychoanalysis & The British Psychoanalytical Society, Byron House, 112A Shirland Road, London, W9 2BT, UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 98 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1519-1532 |
| Publication date | 2017-05-25 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The International Journal of Psychoanalysis (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-7578 • E-ISSN: 1745-8315 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1745-8315.12668 |
| PMID | 28542871 |
| OpenAlex | W2618221029 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 4 |
This is a paper showing how a concept central to the work of Wilfred Bion, and one of Klein's important recommendations concerning the practice of analysis with adults and small children, can both be seen in the light of Freud's earliest formulation of the origin of anxiety and the mother's first responses to her infant in distress. In the paper I suggest that these clinically influential concepts of Klein and Bion show an underlying consistency and affinity with Freud's early ideas about the management of anxiety in the mother-infant relationship, described in two of his pre-psychoanalytic writings, How Anxiety Originates (1894b), and The Project for a Scientific Psychology (1950 [1895]). The specific mode of operation of psychoanalytic interpretation is clarified by the comparisons made, with no attempt to suggest that Klein or Bion based their concepts upon these particular early formulations of Freud's
Action (physics · Anxiety · Consistency (knowledge bases · Container (type theory · Distress · Epistemology · Interpretation (philosophy · Psychiatry · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Psychotherapist · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Social Representations and Identity
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,38 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2023 (6) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |