Attacks on Linking or a Drive to Communicate? Tolerating the Paradox
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9233644 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Avner Bergstein (0000-0003-2301-5902, Faculty member and Training and Supervising Analyst at the Israel Psychoanalytic Society., corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 84 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 921-942 |
| Publication date | 2015-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Psychoanalytic Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0033-2828 • E-ISSN: 2167-4086 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/psaq.12043 |
| PMID | 26443950 |
| OpenAlex | W2102820963 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 12 |
The notion of attacks on linking, as described by Bion, may depict a patient's drive to communicate the internalization of a destructive relationship between a primary object and an infant. This may be enacted between patient and analyst in the here and now of the analysis, whereby fragmentation and numbing of thinking may point to a primitive catastrophe relived in the psychoanalytic setting. The patient's material may seem incoherent, but incoherence might be the communication the patient is unconsciously trying to convey. Thus, the notion of attacks on linking depicts a paradoxical, caesural experience in which the attack on linking is itself a link
Cognitive science · Epistemology · Internalization · Linguistics · Object (grammar) · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Medicine · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Philosophy · Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 10 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2025 (10) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |