The origins and destinies of the idea of thirdness in contemporary psychoanalysis

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ID9056484
AuthorsNelson Ernesto Coelho Júnior (0000-0002-0707-7356, 1359/52 Alameda Lorena, São Paulo, São Paulo, 01424‐001, Brazil, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume97
Issue4
Pages1105-1127
Publication date2016-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe International Journal of Psychoanalysis (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0020-7578 • E-ISSN: 1745-8315
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1745-8315.12433
PMID26493285
OpenAlexW1765079869
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited7

The central aim that animates this paper is to present and discuss the idea of thirdness or analytic third in psychoanalysis, from its origins to the concepts formulated by André Green and Thomas Ogden. The contributions of Winnicott, Reik and the Baranger couple are discussed, as are their influences to contemporary psychoanalysis. In order to promote the clarification and to distinguish different psychoanalytic conceptions of the third, ten figures referring to the meaning of thirdness that appear in different theories are presented, without necessarily their being mutually exclusive. As a final consideration, the article seeks to reorder in four dimensions the ten figures originally presented, emphasizing the central elements in Ogden and Green's constructions. These dimensions are at the same time conceptual and clinical, insofar as they create possibilities of operating the idea of thirdness in the transference/ countertransference dynamics

Countertransference · Epistemology · Meaning (existential) · Ogden · Order (exchange) · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Sociology · Philosophy · Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research · Psychology · Psychology and Mental Health · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications

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