Common sense
Its uses, misuses, and pitfalls
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8973690 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard Zimmer (0000-0003-1037-069X, Columbia University, corresponding author), Richard B Zimmer (Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, New York, NY, USA) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 99 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 314-333 |
| Publication date | 2018-03-04 |
| 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 | 10.1080/00207578.2017.1399065 |
| OpenAlex | W2794498614 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 3 |
“Common sense” is ubiquitous in most discourse, including the psychoanalytic process. It is comprised of multiple different forms of thinking which have certain similarities of organization. Its appearance in interpersonal discourse evokes typical affects, fantasies, and intersubjective experiences, which I call “the feeling of common sense”. Because of its underlying conceptual structure and its powerful affective and intersubjective components, as well as the underlying conceptual organization of the various forms of thinking associated with it, common sense can have a variety of different functions in the analytic process; some serve its forward movement, while others function, in various ways, as impediments which need to be understood and unravelled. Such understanding sheds light not only on the patient’s internal dynamics, but the analyst’s collusive participation in enactments at many levels. Such awareness may shape the analyst’s technical decisions as much as the content of his or her interpretations. I offer clinical illustrations of a number of these phenomena
Cognitive science · Common sense · Content (measure theory · Epistemology · Feeling · Function (biology · Interpersonal communication · Intersubjectivity · Meaning (existential · Process (computing · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Variety (cybernetics · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology · Computer Science · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Social Psychology · Transactional Analysis in Psychotherapy
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| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
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