The Use of the Analyst and The Sense of Being Real

The Clinical Meaning of Winnicott’s “The Use of an Object”

Bibliographic Data

ID9230407
AuthorsPaolo Fabozzi (Training and Supervising Analyst and member of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society (SPI) and an Adjunct Professor at “Sapienza,” University of Rome., corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume85
Issue1
Pages1-34
Publication date2016-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Psychoanalytic Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0033-2828 • E-ISSN: 2167-4086
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/psaq.12056
PMID26784713
OpenAlexW2343776162
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited5

"The Use of an Object and Relating through Identifications" (1968) represents Donald Winnicott's theoretical and clinical legacy. The author develops this concept from a clinical point of view, through the analysis of a woman with psychotic functioning. He reflects upon the dramatic quality of risks inherent in the processes linked to the use of the object with seriously disturbed patients. He explores different meanings of the analyst's survival, linking it to the analyst's response. The processes of the use of the object--that is, the encounter between the patient's potential destructiveness and the analyst's capacity to respond through his own judicious subjectivity--let the patient experience the analyst's capacity to keep his own subjectivity, authenticity, and creativity alive. It is starting from the traces of this live object that patients gradually form their own personal sense of being real

Creativity · Epistemology · Meaning (existential) · Object (grammar) · Object relations theory · Point (geometry) · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Psychotherapist · Quality (philosophy) · Subjectivity · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Social Psychology

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