Fire at the theatre
(Un)reality of/in the transference and interpretation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8972865 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Giuseppe Civitarese (0000-0002-3466-4329, Piazza A. Botta 1I‐27100 PaviaItaly, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 86 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 1299-1316 |
| Publication date | 2005-10-01 |
| 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/eq54-c5gf-ll64-1nux |
| OpenAlex | W1992464679 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 17 |
Only in Bion's extended idea of ‘waking dream thought’ is the oneiric paradigm of the cure (already an obvious Freudian principle) completely applicable. The author's basic hypothesis is that, by adopting this paradigm thoroughly, one can combine the radical antirealism which is expressed in the postulate by which all the patient's communications are transference‐connected (here meaning ‘false connection’‐i.e. as projection/displacement of elements of the patient's inner psychic world) with the ‘reality’ of the transference, that is to say with the conviction that the facts of the analysis are co‐determined by the patient‐analyst dyad and actually rooted in how they interact. The Freudian metaphor of the fi re at the theatre is reintroduced here to suggest the crisis of the therapist's internal setting and capacity for reverie, which occurs when the irreducible ambiguity of the transference is resolved defensively, either in the patient's external reality or in his unconscious fantasy constellation. The author gives three clinical examples. The fi rst shows some of the not necessarily negative effects of this temporary crisis. The other two vignettes show a way of listening to the traumatic events of the patient's life from a perspective (that of the ‘analytic fi eld’) which is thought to be potentially the most transformative and vital to the analytical relationship
Active listening · Ambiguity · Art · Conviction · Countertransference · Dream · Epistemology · Fantasy · Freudian slip · Interpretation (philosophy · Literature · Meaning (existential · Metaphor · Perspective (graphical · Psychic · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Psychotherapist · Unconscious mind · Medicine · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Philosophy · Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
Notes on intersubjectivity and the psychoanalytic field
Slicing the Psychoanalytic Pie
Neutrality in the Field
Meeting Patients Where They Are
Caesura’ as Bion’s discourse on method
Immersion versus interactivity and analytic field
Dreams that mirror the session
Trauma and the metaphor of oppression
Psychoanalytic Theories as Efforts to Grasp the True (Not Fictional) Nature of Human Reality
The Ethical Foundation of Analytic Action
Therapeutic Action and the Analyst’s Responsibility
Action and the Analyst’s Responsibility
The Patient as Interpreter of the Analyst's Experience
The mystery of things.
Commentary on Ilany Kogan’s “On Being a Dead, Beloved Child”
The Analytic Space
Repression, transference and reconstruction
On not being able to dream
Some Implications of Bion's Thought
Rejoinder to Harold Blum
What's true and whose idea was it
Analysis of transference
Some implications of Bion's thought
Day Residues, Recall Residues, and Dreams
Transference Neurosis as A Waking Dream
| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,6 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2023 (18) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |