Reflections on Loewald’s “Internalization, Separation, Mourning, and The Superego”

Chodorow, Nancy J.

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“…Many psychoanalysts appreciate the radical implications for object relations theory of Loewald's decision to postulate that from birth, drive and object are inextricably linked (e.g. Chodorow, ; Cooper, ; Lear, ; Mitchell ). His is an ego psychology that is giving birth to American object relations theory.…”

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Creative Readings: Essays on Seminal Analytic Works

Cooper¹

2014

The International Journal of Psychoanalysis

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The breadth of Thomas Ogden's thinking is fully on display in this volume. He renders what he calls creative readings of some of his favorite analytic writers who range in their psychoanalytic orientations and points of focus. We will never know where Fairbairn and Ogden, Isaacs and Ogden, and Winnicott and Ogden begin and leave off in these creative readings. Ogden tells us in a particularly personal and spontaneous moment: "Who cares?" He wants readers to understand what they think about what each of these seminal thinkers has to say. In the chapter on Susan Isaac's revised theory of thinking, for example, Ogden tells us what makes for a timeless paper. He uses Bion's felicitous title phrase, 'a memoir of the future', to argue that timeless papers not only say something about current understandings of a topic but also extend our understandings in ways that the author may not entirely grasp at the time of writing.In the preface, Ogden asks about each author: "Who but?" In these words and the entirety of the book, he expresses his own substantial modesty about his capacity to appreciate and be intellectually playful with the power and uniqueness of the author's assertions. He wants to read creatively rather than to translate these authors. 'Who but' is the verbal enactment of a psychoanalyst who understands how much the author in question gave us something new, something fresh that he or she had discovered in the course of analytic work. Ogden reads simultaneously as reader, analyst, and patient of the authors he considers. He understands that for many who write, we do not always know why we are writing or even what we are saying until we are fortunate enough to have our students and colleagues work with our ideas and especially with our particular ways of putting things. As analysts we are perpetually humbled by the ways that our words are heard by our patients and by how often our patients produce 'creative readings' of our formulations.In the first chapter dealing with Freud's Mourning and melancholia, Ogden conveys to us that Freud left us with not only a new set of ideas about human experience but a new form of experiencing others and ourselves. Ogden focuses on this paper partially because, in his view, Freud develops for the first time (perhaps without being fully aware of what he had in mind) a kind of proto-theory of object relations. This paper is also chosen because it allows Ogden to show us how Freud wants us to hear how he thinks and, by implication, this allows us to think about how Ogden thinks about how Freud thinks. He writes about Freud's modesty, both genuine and perhaps at times postured as a mode of inquiry. He talks about Int J Psychoanal (2014) 95:587-608

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Creative Readings: Essays on Seminal Analytic Works

Cooper¹

2014

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A Different Universe: Reading Loewald through “On the Therapeutic Action of Psychoanalysis”

Chodorow

2009

The Psychoanalytic Quarterly

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Hans Loewald's classic paper, "On the Therapeutic Action of Psychoanalysis" (1960), is one of our field's most comprehensive and elegant accounts of the analytic attitude and stance that are required to enable a psychoanalytic process leading to psychic change, as well as a fine-tuned and original conceptualization of that change. The author shows how Loewald, while not including technical or interpretive recommendations or claiming a new metapsychology, elaborates the multiple facets of the relationship between analyst and patient and provides a subtly complex description of the epistemology of clinical work. His still-fresh formulations prefigure contemporary psychoanalysis.

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The Boston Change Process Study Group: Reflections on a Clinical Theory

Ginsburg¹

2012

The Psychoanalytic Quarterly

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Reflections on Loewald’s “Internalization, Separation, Mourning, and The Superego”

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Creative Readings: Essays on Seminal Analytic Works

Creative Readings: Essays on Seminal Analytic Works

A Different Universe: Reading Loewald through “On the Therapeutic Action of Psychoanalysis”

The Boston Change Process Study Group: Reflections on a Clinical Theory

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