A theory of the setting
The transformation of unrepresented experience and play
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8971275 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Steven H Cooper (0009-0007-8575-6294, The Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, Newton Centre, MA, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 100 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1439-1454 |
| Publication date | 2019-11-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The International Journal of Psychoanalysis (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-7578 • E-ISSN: 1745-8315 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00207578.2019.1622424 |
| PMID | 33945740 |
| OpenAlex | W2997804284 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 24 |
| References cited | 18 |
The psychoanalytic setting can be defined in part by its functions. The setting operates as an auxiliary function for the analyst's capacities, which include containment, interpretation, as a participant in play, and supervisor of the setting. The setting houses the transition from unrepresented to represented experience. The setting is a location for the dynamic transit between vital, interactive elements of both containment and interpretation of the patient's unconscious and conscious experience. Process and non-process elements of the setting are always interacting with one another because the objects' internal fantasies of the setting are always juxtaposed with the constant, structural elements of the setting. The author attempts to further elaborate the relationship of play to understanding unrepresented experience
Containment (computer programming · Epistemology · Function (biology · Interpretation (philosophy · Management · Meaning (existential · Process (computing · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Psychotherapist · Supervisor · Unconscious mind · Computer Science · Philosophy · Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Social Psychology · Transactional Analysis in Psychotherapy
Waiting in Rooms
The Collision between Comparative Theory and Dialectical Thinking
Playing in Time
Credo
Splitting and the Use of the Object
Polemics and Play
Donald Winnicott and Stephen Mitchell’s Developmental Tilt Hypothesis Reconsidered
The common ground in in-person and telehealth psychoanalysis
Beating an undead horse
Some Vicissitudes of playing related to containment and disruption
Playing, Paradox, and Analytic Activity Between Knowing and Being
Shared Catastrophe, Resistance, and Learning in the Countertransference
Toward an Ethic of Play in Psychoanalysis
Reflections on the role of the analytic setting in the light of Covid‐19
Avatar of Desire
Some brief personal reflections on the 100th Anniversary Conference papers. Where are we? Where have we come from? Where might we go
Play Changes Us
The Oedipal Virtual Citadel
Consenting and Assenting to Psychoanalytic Work
The Limit of Intimacy and the Intimacy of Limit
Revolution in the Air
The Poetics of Estrangement and the Cinematic Unconscious in All of Us Strangers
Living an experience of defence
Becoming a Psychoanalyst
International Journal of Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalytic Technique and the Interactive Matrix
Ruptures in the Analytic Setting and Disturbances in the Transformational Field of Dreams
The Components of Psychic Conflict and Its Consequences in Mental Life
Destruction reconceived
On
Interpretative enactments and the analytic setting
Raiding the inarticulate
The intimate room
On holding and containing, being and dreaming
The body of the analyst and the analytic setting
"The Holding Environment" And The Therapeutic Action Of Psychoanalysis
Playing in the Darkness
| Unique citing works | 24 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,43 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 24 |