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Vis‐à‐vis the couch

Where is psychoanalysis

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ID8973804
AuthorsAndrea Celenza (0000-0001-9591-0565, 219 Sandy Pond RoadLincoln, MA 01773USA, corresponding author)
Year2005
Volume86
Issue6
Pages1645-1658
Publication date2005-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe International Journal of Psychoanalysis (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0020-7578 • E-ISSN: 1745-8315
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1516/5r0c-t87t-ck9d-86uj
OpenAlexW4245523356
LanguageFR
Citations received3
References cited22

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 objectifi ed 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 undertheorized, despite the fact that many, if not most, analysands 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 signifi cance of lying down and sitting up for therapeutic action

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Unique citing works3
Citations per year0,33
Citation span2017 - 2019 (3)
Citation velocityhistorical
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 3

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