A vindication of jung’s unconscious and its archetypal expression: Jung, and Matte Blanco

Carvalho, Richard

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“…In this relational framework, enactment may be the best way for unconscious traumatic aspects of the patient's experience, echoed in the analyst's parallel difficulties, to become available. See the Jungian literature (Cambray , Carvalho and , Maier , Martini , Solomon ) for recent explorations of this. All these are rooted in contemporary developments of Jung's seminal ideas about the field and its amplification through mutual unconsciousness (Jung , paras.…”

Section: Discussion: Dissociation and Enactmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…I would say the sensation that put me back in touch with my denied emotional reality was that separation and loss involves pain in the somapsyche (Bion 2005, Carvalho 2016). Bleger (2013) speaks of the setting crying when the mute symbiosis is ruptured.…”

Section: Dissociated States Between Usmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In Jung's work () there has always been a recognition of an inevitable self/object confusion that has creative potential. Currently there is a growing interest in Jung's concept of synchronicity, which is being explored through empirical research (e.g., Atmanspacher and Fach ) and through clinical material in situations where space and time between patient and analyst are abolished (e.g., Carvalho ). Using the framework of Matte Blanco's (1975) bi‐logic Carvalho explores the meaning of a shared somatic symptom of proctalgia fugax experienced by patient and analyst when absent from each other.…”

Section: Communicative Mechanisms In Primitive Mental Statesmentioning

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“…Bleger uses the word ‘mute’ for the symbiotic tie that is concealed in the setting until it is broken. I suggest that this muteness can also be understood as a dissociation linked with trauma and the area that is mute is the equivalent in current thinking to the non‐repressed unconscious (Carvalho , Lombardi 2008, Sapisochin 2013, Sletvold ). Bleger states ‘We are not interpreting gaps in memory but something that was never a part of memory’ (Bleger 2013, p. 238).…”

Section: Bleger's Conceptualisation Of the Setting: The Ending Of Thementioning

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Residues in the analyst of the patient's symbiotic connection at a somatic level: unrepresented states in the patient and analyst

Godsil¹

2018

J Analytical Psychology

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This paper discusses the residues of a somatic countertransference that revealed its meaning several years after apparently successful analytic work had ended. Psychoanalytic and Jungian analytic ideas on primitive communication, dissociation and enactment are explored in the working through of a shared respiratory symptom between patient and analyst. Growth in the analyst was necessary so that the patient's communication at a somatic level could be understood. Bleger's concept that both the patient's and analyst's body are part of the setting was central in the working through.

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Section: Dissociated States Between Usmentioning

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Residues in the analyst of the patient's symbiotic connection at a somatic level: unrepresented states in the patient and analyst

Godsil¹

2018

J Analytical Psychology

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“…Saban's reaction to Winnicott's notorious retort, ‘I cannot be communicated to in such language’, being a case in point). But Matte Blanco's bi‐logic – at least as mediated and clinically developed by Richard Carvalho (, , ) – now offers us an approach that allows a coherent and non‐partisan basis for such differentiation, and therefore a ‘language’ that can indeed mediate between psychoanalysts and analytical psychologists. It offers a metapsychology that can accommodate both those inclined to prioritize the repressed unconscious and those who privilege the unrepressed.…”

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Winnicott redux: a reply to Saban

Meredith‐Owen

2016

J Analytical Psychology

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Analytic attitude – focus or embodiment? Subtle communications in the transference/countertransference relationship

Wright¹

2020

J Analytical Psychology

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The paper considers a 'befallment' that occurred in the course of analysis at a time when the focus of work was too much at a conscious level, dissociated from the patient's embodied and visceral depths. A rigidly held attitude of focal attention is considered as potentially a defence against embodied experiences of overwhelm and vulnerability that may haunt shadowy realms which remain unlit by the narrow beam of conscious awareness. Rather as a dream drifts in from the unconscious, an enactment by the analyst brought neglected aspects of the transference and countertransference relationship into the room. Later, the patient's own dreaming mind offered images that suggested an underlying dynamic. These subtle communications, alongside the patient's attitude toward the analyst's lapse, are considered as factors in the achievement of greater embodied integration. The analyst's difficulty in arriving at a formulation of such events is discussed, along with the necessity of holding such 'befallments' in mind over long periods of time before any explanation can be adumbrated.It is from this central position of the unknown that there ensues the disproportion between the massive engagement required by analysis and the scarcity of means at our disposal for explaining to ourselves and communicating what is happening.

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A vindication of jung’s unconscious and its archetypal expression: Jung, and Matte Blanco

Cited by 3 publications

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Residues in the analyst of the patient's symbiotic connection at a somatic level: unrepresented states in the patient and analyst

Residues in the analyst of the patient's symbiotic connection at a somatic level: unrepresented states in the patient and analyst

Winnicott redux: a reply to Saban

Analytic attitude – focus or embodiment? Subtle communications in the transference/countertransference relationship

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