Preconscious defence analysis, memory and structural change
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8972206 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Munder Ross (50 East 78th Street, Suite 1C, New York, NY 10021, USA ‐, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 84 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 59-76 |
| Publication date | 2003-02-01 |
| 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 | 10.1516/wruj-w1dq-8wwq-yxpg |
| PMID | 12639264 |
| OpenAlex | W2026662184 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 24 |
Beginning with the ways in which the use of the couch lends ‘depth to the surface’ (Erikson, 1954), I explore the topography of the inter‐ and intrasubjective psychoanalytic situation and process. I suggest that defences are not by definition unconscious but rather can be observed operating at conscious and preconscious levels, particularly under these conditions. A focus on preconscious disavowal provides a window on what has become unconscious repression. As a result of eliciting and then verbalising the operation of such defences with regard to anxieties in the here‐and‐now transference, declarative memories of increasingly specific childhood fantasies and events begin to hold sway over unmanageable procedural remnants from the analysand's past. With this may even come the possibility of neuronal regeneration, the more generalisable enhancement of declarative and symbolic functions and the sense of identity with which these are associated. Herein may lie one enduring therapeutic effect of the ‘talking cure’ ‐ putting feelings into words ‐ as one among a variety of psychotherapeutic modalities
Acting out · Cognitive psychology · Cognitive science · Feeling · Modalities · Preconscious · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Sociology · Unconscious mind · Personality Disorders and Psychopathology · Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Social Psychology
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Memory, Empathy, and Interactive Dimensions of Psychoanalytic Process
The Reappointment of the Guard
Developments in Cognitive Neuroscience
The Art and Science of Dream Interpretation
Connegtionism and Psychoanalysis
The Effect of Subliminal Visual Stimulation on Images and Dreams
The Dream Specimen Of Psychoanalysis
The Patient's Part in Analytic Process
An Expanded Developmental Line for Negation
Developments in Cognitive Neuroscience
Dora's Hysteria and the Maturation of Sigmund Freud's Transference Theory
The Construction, Reconstruction, and Deconstruction of Memory in the Light of Social Cognition
Psychoanalytic Implications of Recent Research on Sleep and Dreaming
Once More Onto the Couch
Further Observations on Primary Modes of Perception
The Patient and the Analyst
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,3 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2013 (8) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |