Transformations in hallucinosis and the receptivity of the analyst
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8971239 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Giuseppe Civitarese (0000-0002-3466-4329, Via Teodorico 8, 27100 Pavia, Italy, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 96 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1091-1116 |
| Publication date | 2014-09-17 |
| 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 | 10.1111/1745-8315.12242 |
| PMID | 25229774 |
| OpenAlex | W2072869522 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 34 |
| References cited | 8 |
Bion describes transformation in hallucinosis (TH) as a psychic defence present in elusive psychotic scenarios in which there is a total adherence to concrete reality: as the hallucinatory activity which physiologically infiltrates perception and allows us to know reality, setting it off against a background of familiarity; and then, surprisingly, as the ideal state of mind towards which the analyst has to move in order to intuit the facts of the analysis. When hallucinosis is followed by 'awakening', the analyst gains understanding from the experience and goes through a transformation that will inevitably be transmitted to the analytic field and to the patient. In this paper I illustrate Bion's concept and underline its eminently intersubjective nature. Then I differentiate it from two other technical devices: reverie, which unlike hallucinosis does not imply the persistence of a feeling of the real, and Ferro's transformation in dreaming, i.e., purposeful listening to everything that is said in the analysis as if it were the telling of a dream. Finally, I try to demonstrate the practical utility of the concept of transformation in hallucinosis in order to read the complex dynamics of a clinical vignette. Though not well known (only two references in English in the PEP archive), TH proves to be remarkably versatile and productive for thinking about psychoanalytic theory, technique and clinical work
Active listening · Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Countertransference · Dream · Epistemology · Feeling · Mirroring · Perception · Psychic · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Psychotherapist · Reality testing · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychology and Mental Health · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Social Psychology
Dreaming in color
Wilfred R. Bion’s Psychoanalysis Between Epistemology and Mysticism
The Untelling
The Analyst’s Necessary Nonsovereignty and the Generative Power of the Negative
The Poetics of Boundary Violation
Beta and the Limits of Communication
The Reality of Trauma; the Trauma of Reality
Possibility Clouds Arising from a Close Reading of Civitarese and Berrini’s “On Using Bion’s Concepts of Point, Line, and Linking in the Analysis of a 6-Year-Old Child”
What Remains Untold in the Untelling
Atoms of experience
The Unthinkable
Bion’s Graph of “In Search of Existence”
On the Presence and Absence of Supervisors
Bringing It All Back Home
Truth as Immediacy and Unison
S’il-vous-plaît, considérez-moi comme un rêve ». Une vision bionienne du rêve
Tales of Covid-19
On Bion’s Concepts of Negative Capability and Faith
Living the Non-Dream
Residues in the analyst of the patient's symbiotic connection at a somatic level
The day the clock stopped. Primitive states of unintegration, multidimensional working through and the birth of the analytical subject
The limits of interpretation. A reading of Bion’s “On Arrogance”
I sensi e l'inconscio [Truth and the unconscious in psychoanalysis] by Giuseppe Civitarese
Intuition and we-ness in Bion and post-Bionian field theory
Experiences in Groups as a key to “late” Bion
The grammar of paradox
Psicoanalisi delle psicosi [Psychoanalysis of the psychoses
Intimacy
The concept of time in Bion's “A Theory of Thinking”
A Child is Being Caged
Intersubjectivity And Analytic Field Theory
Obsessionality
The Psychotic Part of the Personality
Obscura/Lucida
| Unique citing works | 34 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,4 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2026 (11) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 34 |