Manifestations of the archaic in character within the analytic field
From memories in behaviour to chronic and acute enactments
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9056342 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Roosevelt M S Cassorla (0000-0002-2750-7202, Brazilian Psychoanalytic Society of Campinas, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 105 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 991-1008 |
| Publication date | 2024-11-01 |
| 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 | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00207578.2024.2371993 |
| PMID | 39878007 |
| OpenAlex | W4406964132 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 23 |
The objective of this paper is to discuss the ways in which primitive aspects of the mind, in particular, the archaic elements of character, become manifest within the analytic field. After a review of the concept, it is proposed that a "normal" character manifests through memories in behaviours/feelings, which seek the object to satisfy their needs. The characterological structure keeps primitive traumatic inscriptions under control. Other emotional experiences can activate these inscriptions, causing them to detach from the seemingly stable organization. New attempts to freeze traumatic situations occur within the analytic field and manifest as a mimetic theatre that keeps the analytic pair paralysed. So-called chronic enactments take root. Analytical work in parallel areas disrupts the collision, leading to an acute enactment. The abrupt access to triangularity revives traumatic situations. Understanding these situations expands the symbolic network of thought. The text articulates the behaviours/feelings using the Freudian concept of Agieren. Its two connotations - discharge and mimetic theatre - are discussed and their similarities and differences with enactments are highlighted. The accompanying feeling of uncanniness (Unheimlich) reflects the ambiguity of the known (registered) and the unknown (unsymbolized). The ideas presented stem from clinical investigation. The facts are discussed through detailed clinical material
Aesthetics · Ambiguity · Character (mathematics) · Epistemology · Feeling · Field (mathematics) · Freudian slip · Linguistics · Object (grammar) · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · The Symbolic · Philosophy · Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research · Psychology · Psychology and Mental Health · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Social Psychology
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Beyond the Pleasure Principle.
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Enactment
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General Problems of Acting Out
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Living the Non-Dream
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The analyst’s implicit alpha‐function, trauma and enactment in the analysis of borderline patients
From bastion to enactment
Second thoughts on Agieren
Enactment
What happens before and after acute enactments? An exercise in clinical validation and the broadening of hypotheses
Acute enactment as a ‘resource’ in disclosing a collusion between the analytical dyad
Variations on the concept of traumatism
Implicit memory and early unrepressed unconscious
The Evolution Of The Concept Of Character In Freud's Writings
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |