Where are you, my beloved?: On absence, loss, and the enigma of telepathic dreams

Eshel, Ofra

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“…In the many years that have passed since I treated Nir, I have come to realize that transformation in the most cut‐off, blocked, deadening, empty, desperate, and despairing psychic zones—zones of psychic breakdown, madness, annihilation, and catastrophe—may become possible only when the analyst/therapist is willing and able to be‐within (and with‐in ) the patient's experiential world and within the grip of the analytic process, with the ensuing patient‐analyst deep‐level interconnectedness or “witnessing” psyche‐with‐psyche (Eshel , , , , , , , ). This interconnectedness, which becomes at‐one‐ment when the analyst puts him‐/herself entirely within the patient's emotional reality, is difficult and demanding, an unyielding, ongoing struggle with the underlying catastrophe to reach a new and formative, deep experiencing, beyond epistemological exploration‐K.…”

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“…In modern physics, different paradigms—classical physics and quantum mechanics—do coexist (Kuhn ). Whereas classical physics is based on assumptions of linear causality, determinism, and a sharp separation between observer and observed, quantum mechanics introduced into scientific thinking enigmatic principles of uncertainty and inseparability of observer and observed, the crucial formative effect of the process of observation, and the fundamental organization of unbroken wholeness that underlies our perceived world of separateness at the particle level (Bohm ; Botella and Botella ; Eshel , , , , , ; Field ; Godwin ; Kulka ; Mayer ; Sucharov ; Suchet ).…”

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From Extension to Revolutionary Change in Clinical Psychoanalysis: The Radical Influence of Bion and Winnicott

Eshel

2017

The Psychoanalytic Quarterly

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This paper addresses the radical departure of late Bion's and Winnicott's clinical ideas and practices from traditional psychoanalytic work, introducing a revolutionary change in clinical psychoanalysis. The profound significance and implications of their thinking are explored, and in particular Bion's conception of transformation in O and Winnicott's clinical-technical revision of analytic work, with its emphasis on regression in the treatment of more disturbed patients. The author specifically connects the unknown and unknowable emotional reality-O with unthinkable breakdown (Winnicott) and catastrophe (Bion). The author suggests that the revolutionary approach introduced by the clinical thinking of late Bion and Winnicott be termed quantum psychoanalysis. She thinks that this approach can coexist with classical psychoanalysis in the same way that classical physics coexists with quantum physics.

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From Extension to Revolutionary Change in Clinical Psychoanalysis: The Radical Influence of Bion and Winnicott

Eshel

2017

The Psychoanalytic Quarterly

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“…It is precisely this kind of constriction of the sensory "flow" within the patient and between patient and analyst that can contribute to a profound sense of psychic suffocation as was suffered frequently by the patient described earlier. These claustrophobic and constricted sensory "packages" may act upon the analyst in somatically powerful ways, and the analyst may, in turn, respond with sensory fragmentation or hallucinatory-like somatic symptoms (Eshel, 2001(Eshel, , 2006Grand, 2003;Goldberg, 2004).…”

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Body to Body: Discussion of “’Tis Beauty Kills the Beast” by Susanne Chassay

Peoples

2015

Studies in Gender and Sexuality

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Following upon Chassay's concerns about the viability of sensory communication in claustrum states, I elaborate on her distinction between sensations that serve as fuel for claustrum states and those that serve the meaning-making "containment" function. I suggest that a proto-symbolic registering of incipient meaning may germinate within sense experience itself, prior to the constellation of specific affects and symbolic meaning, as a form of intersomatic subjectivity. I argue that the interpellative aspects of social reality-"the psyche-in-the-body-in-the-social"-create a "somatic delinking" that forecloses this mutually enlivening, aesthetic exchange. endeavored in spasmodic fits and starts to expand and revise my initial response to her paper. 1 Throughout those 20 months, Susanne and I walked together, along with a few other very dear friends, as the news of her illness grew worse. Any respite she would begin to feel, any fresh arrival of hope, was soon slammed down by new symptoms, new levels of pain, and more rounds of difficult treatment. Although this journey through serious illness is such a common one, it has been especially poignant for me as the revisions to this manuscript lay waiting, most often fallow, within me.The few occasions during her illness when I had been able to pick it up and enjoy a rare breath of spaciousness and creativity had been quickly followed by the sad weight of likelihood that she and I would not see this through to completion together. Walking alongside her, holding her physically, emotionally, spiritually, and discovering greater depths of beauty in the unshuttered heart together, has altered what lies within me wanting to be spoken. It has also made more 1 I am very grateful to Stephen Hartman, who generously welcomed us to submit our respective papers to Studies in Gender and Sexuality for possible publication.Correspondence should be sent to Karen Peoples, Ph.D.,

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“…12 12 For recent discussions of the enigma of telepathy in dreams, see Eshel (2006) and Mayer (2001). Significantly, Eshel interprets telepathic experiences as an expression of the unconscious communication that occurs between therapist and patient. …”

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Distant feelings: telepathy and the problem of affect transfer over distance

Pile

2011

Trans Inst British Geog

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This paper addresses the problem of affect transfer at a distance. Geographers have been creative in importing concepts that seek to account for the transmission of affect. These include terms such as suggestion and contagion, and indeed transmission itself. In this paper, I explore the problem through the concept of telepathy. Telepathy, understood as ‘distant feeling’ or ‘feeling at a distance’, is directed at the problem of the transfer of affect as well as thought over distance. Using telepathy to throw into sharp relief the problem of affect transfer, this paper explores examples drawn from late nineteenth century psychology, late twentieth century psychic spying (remote viewing) and Freud’s interpretation of occult phenomena. The paper concludes on the implications of telepathic unconscious communication for understanding affect transfer at a distance.

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Where are you, my beloved?: On absence, loss, and the enigma of telepathic dreams

Cited by 44 publications

References 41 publications

From Extension to Revolutionary Change in Clinical Psychoanalysis: The Radical Influence of Bion and Winnicott

From Extension to Revolutionary Change in Clinical Psychoanalysis: The Radical Influence of Bion and Winnicott

Body to Body: Discussion of “’Tis Beauty Kills the Beast” by Susanne Chassay

Distant feelings: telepathy and the problem of affect transfer over distance

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