Becoming a Subject
Some Theoretical and Clinical Issues
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8972935 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Roger Kennedy (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 81 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 875-892 |
| Publication date | 2000-10-13 |
| 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 | 10.1516/0020757001600264 |
| PMID | 11109574 |
| OpenAlex | W2002334328 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
The author presents a cluster of theoretical and clinical thoughts and some clinical material concerned with the issue of subjectivity in psychoanalysis. For convenience, he has organised these thoughts around the notion of 'becoming a subject'. This entails a process of recovery, or discovery, of unconscious subjective elements. There is a discussion of what we mean by the term 'subject', with reference to various strands of philosophical and psychoanalytical thinking. It is suggested that becoming a subject involves a shift towards a 'subjective position'. This refers to how being a subject involves some capacity to take up different positions without becoming fixed in any frozen state of being. In order to be fully in touch with another person, in a truly subjective position, one begins to grasp the other's point of view; the other is seen as other, as a person or a subject, in a context, orientated to others and being affected by others. A subjective position involves allowing experiences of the other to interpenetrate oneself, so that they make an impact. In order to clarify these ideas, clinical material from the analysis of a bulimic patient is presented to illustrate some of the difficulties for this patient in becoming a subject and allowing the analyst to make an impact on her
Context (archaeology · Epistemology · GRASP · Order (exchange · Process (computing · Psychoanalysis · Subject (documents · Subjectivity · Unconscious mind · Computer Science · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychology and Mental Health · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2013 (11) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |