Notes on the Analytic Discovery of a Primal Scene

Bonaparte, Marie

doi:10.1080/00797308.1945.11823128

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“…An instance of this has been reported by Marie Bonaparte (1945). According to the analyst's construction, some details in the material produced by the analysand had a connection with the experience in early childhood of observing her nanny participating in the sexual act.…”

Section: The Verity Of Constructionmentioning

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Reflections on the Meaning of Constructions

Rechardt¹,

Ikonen²

1991

The Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review

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Section: The Verity Of Constructionmentioning

confidence: 92%

Reflections on the Meaning of Constructions

Rechardt¹,

Ikonen²

1991

The Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review

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“…Such instances have been described by Bonaparte (1945) where an old man's confessions confirmed primal scene memories and by Flumerfelt (1962) when hospital records substantiated psychoanalytic reconstruction. Many interpretations during the course of analysis "predict the past" and as such have been labeled "postdictions."…”

Section: Validation Of Reconstructions In Psychoanalysismentioning

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Is Psychoanalysis “Our Science“? Reflections on the Scientific Status of Psychoanalysis

Harrison

1970

J Am Psychoanal Assoc

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“…Novey's papers (1964Novey's papers ( , 1966 on the subject of actual historical data in psychoanalysis are among the rare discussions of this topic. And yet, as Blum (1994) more recently observed, many patients fi nd themselves talking to relatives about their childhood, attending to old photographs or home movies, recovering mementos of childhood, visiting old homes and cemeteries, or unearthing diaries and letters of long ago (for example, see Bonaparte, 1945;Flumerfelt, 1962;Serota, 1964;Viederman, 1995;Castelnuovo-Tedesco, 1997). These outside sources may add conviction to reconstruction or memory, although not without transferential import.…”

Section: Memories and Beliefs: Conviction And The Question Of Veridicmentioning

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False memories, negative affects, and psychic reality: The role of extra‐clinical data in psychoanalysis

Good

Day²,

Rowell³

2005

The International Journal of Psychoanalysis

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Psychoanalysis as a treatment originated in the idea that neurosis is related to the ways in which individual psychic reality departs from actuality. Psychic reality includes memories, beliefs and their associated affects and fantasies connected with an individual's experience of the inner and outer world. The psychoanalytic determination of what meaningful memories or beliefs are inaccurate, distorted or false ordinarily relies upon principles of intra‐clinical validation. By itself, however, intra‐clinical validation is subject to limitations and pitfalls that conviction alone about what is actual cannot circumvent. Despite this fact, there are remarkably few analytic case reports demonstrating false or signifi cantly distorted memories through the use of data obtained from outside the consulting room. This paucity of reports may be related, at least in part, to the belief that the use of extra‐clinical data is essentially unanalytic or supports resistance. Based on the views that (a) psychic reality cannot be regarded as exclusively subjective or objective but is inherently both; and that (b) a goal of analysis is to achieve a different, acceptable and more accurate view of reality, the authors report a clinical case involving a confi rmably false pivotal memory and its associated negative affects. They discuss theoretical and technical considerations in utilizing extra‐clinical data during the treatment process.

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Notes on the Analytic Discovery of a Primal Scene

Cited by 20 publications

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Reflections on the Meaning of Constructions

Reflections on the Meaning of Constructions

Is Psychoanalysis “Our Science“? Reflections on the Scientific Status of Psychoanalysis

False memories, negative affects, and psychic reality: The role of extra‐clinical data in psychoanalysis

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