Regression and new beginnings: Michael, Alice, and Enid Balint, and the circulation of ideas

Sklar, Jonathan

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“…WT moves from Leontes’ fear of his castratedness, his insecurity and inability to trust, to the hope that with the help of secure attachment, loss can be grieved, fresh starts possible (Fisher, ; Williams & Waddell, ; Sklar, ). Their ‘tragedy’ is that only through pain and loss do they learn to mentalize, to stand outside themselves and adopt a meta‐viewpoint on their folly.…”

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Perdita and Oedipus: A Tale of Two Adoptions

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2019

Brit J Psychotherapy

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The paper proposes Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale (WT) as foundation narrative for attachment-informed psychotherapy, and a counterpart to Oedipus Rex (OR), covering similar psychological territory but in a strikingly different way. Both start with a father's rejection of a baby and its rescue and adoption by distant shepherds. Both revolve around murderousness and desire in a mother-father-child triangle, but in WT the prime mover is filicide rather than parricide. WT points to the positive aspects of the care-giving dynamic. The main characters of WT, in contrast to OR's phallocentrism, are the rejected Queen Hermione, her handmaiden Paulina and Perdita herself. Their relationships are characterized by attachment security: this gives Paulina the courage to confront and instigate mentalizing in Leontes, the psychotic king, and for Perdita to find her sexuality through her transgressive love for Florizel. The environmental benefits of adoption are highlighted as WT's tragi-comic dynamic moves from chaos to renewal and rebirth: Hermione survives the 'attack on the good object'; Leontes recovers from his jealous hatred and subsequent depression; ruptures are repaired. WT depicts secure attachments as bulwarks against loss, and the key to resilience in the face of trauma.

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Perdita and Oedipus: A Tale of Two Adoptions

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2019

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“…1957 Margaret Little avançou em sua pesquisa e publicou o artigo "The analyst's total response to his patient's needs", onde retomou os quatro aspectos definidores da contratransferência de seu artigo de 1951 e propôs um novo constructo teórico que atribuiu à sua análise pessoal e à análise de pacientes severamente JonathanSklar (2015) escreveu uma breve biografia de Balint no site da British Psychoanalytical Assossiation onde relatou os principais fatos de sua vida. Nascido na Hungria em 3 de dezembro de 1896, foi junto com Alice Szekely-Kovacs em 1919 que ele participou da série de palestras inauguraisde Ferenczi como a primeira Cátedra de Psicanálise em seu país de origem.…”

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A crítica de Lacan ao conceito de contratransferência entre 1953 e 1961 e possíveis aproximações entre suas construções e a perspectiva inglesa sobre este fenômeno clínico

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This work was carried out with the methodology of historical-theoretical research, taking psychoanalysis as an object of study from a central concept to clinical work, which is countertransference, circumscribed within a period, with the aim of investigating different theoretical perspectives on it. We resorted to the reading of Lacan's texts on the phenomenon of countertransference indicated in the Jacques Lacan Séminaire 1952-1980 -Index Référentiel by Professor Henry Krutzen (2009) between 1953 and 1961 and to the reading of Freud's texts and the Anglo-Saxon authors cited by him , on which this important author of psychoanalysis developed his elaborations on this topic, as well as his commentators. We also visited works on the history of psychoanalysis after realizing that the different groups of psychoanalysts resulting from the institutionalization of the field produced different theoretical and practical understandings, fostering debates and deepening differences. Thus, it was intended to advance in the understanding of the place that this polyphonic concept occupies in the contemporary practice of the psychoanalytic clinic.

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Regression and new beginnings: Michael, Alice, and Enid Balint, and the circulation of ideas

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Perdita and Oedipus: A Tale of Two Adoptions

Perdita and Oedipus: A Tale of Two Adoptions

A crítica de Lacan ao conceito de contratransferência entre 1953 e 1961 e possíveis aproximações entre suas construções e a perspectiva inglesa sobre este fenômeno clínico

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