How and why unconscious phantasy and transference are the defining features of psychoanalytic practice

LaFarge, Lucy

doi:10.1111/1745-8315.12292

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“…Unconscious dynamics and processes are de facto not visible to direct observation and cannot be "proven." One has to infer the presence of unconscious dynamics subjectively from observed behavior and conceptualize ideas about their interactions from the psychoanalytical perspective (LaFarge, 2014). In psychoanalytic assessments, the observer is interested in socially relevant behaviors rather than individual case studies.…”

Section: Social Weighting and Comparisonmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, the need to defend the ego-ideal tends to spawn compensatory actions to uphold the fantasy of a moral self rather than corrective tactics (Fotaki & Hyde, 2015). The next step is to attack the mental functions to render the experience less threatening (Shu et al, 2011), and to maintain the phantasies of virtue (phantasy is the unconscious form of fantasy; Bohleber, Jiménez, Scarfone, Varvin, & Zysman, 2015;LaFarge, 2014). The result is an internal battle in the unconscious mind, attacking cognitions, while raising psychological defenses to protect the ego-ideal's phantasies of moral purity.…”

Section: Unconscious Needs and Rationalizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“The Devil Made Me Do It!” An Inquiry Into the Unconscious “Devils Within” of Rationalized Corruption

Klerk

2017

Journal of Management Inquiry

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Individuals involved in corruption often offer rationalizations to convince themselves and others that they are not corrupt, and that their acts are justified and acceptable. However, to confine the dynamic process of mobilizing rationalizations to this purpose is too restrictive. Drawing on psychoanalytic theory, it is argued that an unconscious urge for rationalizations develops from a need to find psychological restitution and atonement, achieved only through self-convincing beliefs of acquittal. Six unconscious motives are identified as explanations how offenders believe that rationalizations acquit them from guilt, indemnify them, or redeem the corruption. These motives represent metaphorical devils that can spawn corruption in otherwise law-abiding citizens with moral intentions. Conceptualizations bring the unconscious dynamics or rationalized corruption into consciousness, where it can be studied and worked with. This makes an important contribution toward enabling managers to be more in control of rationalized corruption, both in themselves and elsewhere in the organization.

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Section: Social Weighting and Comparisonmentioning

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Section: Unconscious Needs and Rationalizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“The Devil Made Me Do It!” An Inquiry Into the Unconscious “Devils Within” of Rationalized Corruption

Klerk

2017

Journal of Management Inquiry

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“…Pero a pesar de este conocimiento, y para la mayoría de los analistas Freudianos y Kleinianos, la experiencia del paciente permanece no obstante enraizada en la fantasía inconscientedando forma a la vida exterior a través de la interior (ej. Blas, 2017;LaFarge, 2014). La responsabilidad del analista es comprender esta influencia que da forma, dentro de la mente CeIR Vol.…”

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Teoría del campo y el sentido del sueño: Continuando la comparación de la teoría interpersonal y la teoría del campo Bioniana

Stern¹

2020

CeIR

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This paper is a continuation of the comparison of interpersonal/relational theory and Bionian field theory that I began in two articles that appeared in Psychoanalytic Dialoguesin 2013 (Stern, 2013a,b). The paper has two sections. In the first, I discuss differences between Bionian field theory and interpersonal and relational psychoanalysis. In the second, I turn to what the two schools of field theory share.

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“…Before turning to my clinical experience for an example, a few words about my own personal core theory: Like Cooper, my intent when I do analysis is to help the patient come to know unconscious aspects of her mind; also like him, I believe that the patient’s relationship with me and the process that evolves between us are central data in accomplishing this aim. Perhaps more than Cooper, however, my personal core theory tends to place unconscious fantasy at the center of my view of mental life, as the point of articulation of historical experience, trauma, and wish, of internal and external reality (LaFarge 2014).…”

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From “Either/or” to “and”: The Analyst’s Use of Multiple Models in Clinical Work

LaFarge¹

2017

J Am Psychoanal Assoc

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In our "post-pluralistic era" (Cooper 2015), analysts, perhaps particularly in North America, are exposed to a multiplicity of formal theories in their training and their reading; their clinical work often reflects ideas drawn from more than one of them. An aspect of this development is the analyst's mental process as she draws on heterogeneous models when with the patient and when processing the events of the session afterward. A number of questions arise here: How does a new piece of clinical understanding, representing an alternative theoretical perspective-one that is not usually at the center of that analyst's thinking-enter the mind of the working analyst? How can the analyst assess whether this is a useful piece of understanding? How can the new piece become assimilated in the analyst's broader thinking? That is, how can the analyst's practice influence her theory? (Canestri 2006).

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How and why unconscious phantasy and transference are the defining features of psychoanalytic practice

Cited by 13 publications

References 10 publications

“The Devil Made Me Do It!” An Inquiry Into the Unconscious “Devils Within” of Rationalized Corruption

“The Devil Made Me Do It!” An Inquiry Into the Unconscious “Devils Within” of Rationalized Corruption

Teoría del campo y el sentido del sueño: Continuando la comparación de la teoría interpersonal y la teoría del campo Bioniana

From “Either/or” to “and”: The Analyst’s Use of Multiple Models in Clinical Work

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