Vis-a-vis the couch
Where is psychoanalysis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8972897 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrea Celenza (0000-0001-9591-0565, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 86 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1645-1659 |
| Publication date | 2005-12-01 |
| 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 | 10.1516/2u8u-u92f-p2tt-2te4 |
| PMID | 16318942 |
| OpenAlex | W2025784073 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 22 |
The author discusses ways in which the couch or chair (lying down versus sitting up) may be used to maintain safety and defend against perceived dangers in the analytic process. Several dialectics are relevant as they intersect with that of danger and safety, including engagement/privacy, interiority/exteriority and subject/object. The author discusses these dialectics in terms of the ways in which the analyst is used at different points in time, i.e. as an objectified other, a subjective object or part-object, or as a subject with an internal world. The therapeutic action associated with sitting up (versus lying down on the couch) has been under-theorized, despite the fact that many, if not most, sit up for some portion of their analysis. Through the use of a heuristic visual-spatial metaphor as represented by the use of the couch or chair, the author discusses the significance of lying down and sitting up for therapeutic action
Action (physics · Dialectic · Epistemology · Lying · Metaphor · Object (grammar · Perspective (graphical · Psychoanalysis · Psychotherapist · Sitting · Subject (documents · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Medicine · Philosophy · Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Social Psychology
The patient's experience of the analyst's subjectivity
Psychoanalytic Studies of the Personality
Building bridges
The Restoration of the Self
Self-reflexivity and the therapeutic action of psychoanalysis
The Couch as Defense and as Potential for Enactment
The Ideal of the Anonymous Analyst and the Problem of Self-Disclosure
Sadomasochistic Relating
Misrecognitions and the Fear of Not Knowing
The Effect of the Structure of the Ego on Psychoanalytic Technique
Standing in the Spaces
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2020 (15) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |