1st Edition

Unrepresented States and the Construction of Meaning Clinical and Theoretical Contributions

Edited By Howard B. Levine, Gail S. Reed, Dominique Scarfone Copyright 2013
304 Pages
by Routledge

304 Pages
by Routledge

304 Pages
by Routledge

In the last several decades, the analytic field has widened considerably in scope. The therapeutic task is now seen by an increasing number of analysts to require that patient and analyst work together to strengthen, or to create, psychic structure that was previously weak, missing, or functionally inoperative. This view, which may apply to all patients, but is especially relevant to the treatment... Read more
Psychoanalytic Ideas and Applications Series , Clinical and theoretical aspects of representation: an introduction , Introduction: from a universe of presences to a universe of absences , An empty mirror: reflections on nonrepresentation , The colourless canvas: representation, therapeutic action, and the creation of mind , Presence and absence: theoretical studies , From traces to signs: presenting and representing , Psychic figurability and unrepresented states , “If one only knew what exists!” , “Non-represented” mental states , Clinical explorations , Drive, representation, and the demands of representation , Discovering an umbrella , In search of symbolization: the analyst’s task of dreaming , The inaccessible unconscious and reverie as a path of figurability , The process of representation in early childhood

Biography

Howard B Levine