The Interpretations of the Past: Childhood Trauma, Psychical Reality, and Historical Truth

Schimek, Jean G.

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“…Such issues as the defensive function of memories (G. Klein, 1966;Loewald, 1976), one's position on the lifespan (Schäfer, 1978), the context of time (Loewald, 1973), and the inherent subjectivity of the analytic process itself (Schimek, 1975) cast doubt upon the objectivity of the process of recollection. And what of the survivor?…”

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On silence and the holocaust: A contribution to clinical theory

Wilson

1985

Psychoanalytic Inquiry

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Section: Arnold Wilsonmentioning

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On silence and the holocaust: A contribution to clinical theory

Wilson

1985

Psychoanalytic Inquiry

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“…Rather than casting the understanding of these phenomena in terms of layers, where the more deeply buried is both earlier developmentally and more profoundly important, these alternative conceptualizations highlight context, mutual and reciprocal causal patterns, and feedback loops in which the ‘buried past,’ is continually modified by the living present (cf. Schimek, 1975; Schacter, 1996, 2001). Such an evolving alternative paradigm for psychoanalysis, fully attentive to the phenomena that have been of central concern to analysts through the decades, but attentive as well to the ways in which human beings live not only in the past and in the psychic depths (cf.…”

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One‐person and two‐person conceptions of attachment and their implications for psychoanalytic thought

Wachtel

2010

The International Journal of Psychoanalysis

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There has been increasing interest among analysts in the possibilities of enriching psychoanalytic thought through fuller incorporation of attachment theory and research. This paper offers a clinical illustration of the ways in which attention to an attachment perspective can lead to novel and useful ways of addressing the patient's issues. It also presents a number of cautions that it is necessary to be alert to if attachment thinking is to achieve its full potential in advancing psychoanalytic thought and practice. Conceptions of attachment and approaches to its study and clinical use actually vary quite substantially. Some are more one-person, static, and categorical. Others are more two-person, dynamic, and focused on the process whereby attachment patterns develop and are maintained over time. This paper explores the distinction between these two versions of attachment theory and research with two aims in mind - first, to refine our understanding of the potential role that attachment thinking can play in advancing the psychoanalytic paradigm; second, to utilize the insights achieved through examining the attachment paradigm to consider some broader issues in the construction of psychoanalytic theory more generally and its relational variant in particular.

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“…Freud revised the significance of actual events in pathogenesis in his own mind several times over the course of his lifetime. He gave five successive accounts of the changes of his views (see Schimek 1975). He drastically changed his seduction theory (described in his writing between 1892 and 1897), which held actual events responsible for neurotic developments in the course of his own self-analysis.…”

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Conflict in Contemporary Clinical Work: a Self Psychological Perspective

Ornstein¹,

Ornstein²

2005

The Psychoanalytic Quarterly

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The authors review the history of controversy regarding conflict versus deficit. They suggest that conflict, when conceptualized within the theory of self psychology, may arise in one of two ways, either: (1) along with deficit when caregivers are unable to provide developmentally needed selfobject functions, and, at the same time, these needed caregivers are also feared; these conflicts are unconscious and potentially pathogenic. Or: (2) conflicts may appear secondary to deficit. Such conflicts also require the analysis of selfobject transferences that have arisen on the basis of the underlying deficit. A clinical example demonstrates that deficit related to the oedipal phase may give rise to oedipal-selfobject transferences, requiring their working through for a successful termination.

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The Interpretations of the Past: Childhood Trauma, Psychical Reality, and Historical Truth

Cited by 31 publications

References 8 publications

On silence and the holocaust: A contribution to clinical theory

On silence and the holocaust: A contribution to clinical theory

One‐person and two‐person conceptions of attachment and their implications for psychoanalytic thought

Conflict in Contemporary Clinical Work: a Self Psychological Perspective

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