Psychoanalytic Dialogues back issues from January 2008:
Dreams Within Dreams; Books Within Books: Embedded Frames of Illusion in Psychoanalysis
Jan 01, 2008; ... Embedded levels of illusion, common in the arts, are also frequently encountered in psychoanalytic work. Classical psychoanalysts, comparing nested frames of illusion to Prince Hamlet's play within a play, concluded that the function of the inner frame is to protect and disguise deeper truths ....
Hierarchical and Nonhierarchical Models of Consciousness: Commentary on Paper by Hilary Hoge
Jan 01, 2008; ... Understanding consciousness as either hierarchical-as a single reality with various levels of depth-or nonhierarchical, as a self-organizing multiplicity of embodied states with an emergent intelligence greater than the sum of its information, makes a decisive difference in clinical practice. It ...
Can Dreams Within Dreams Serve as Metaphor for Modern Life Itself?: Commentary on Paper by Hilary Hoge
Jan 01, 2008; ... The social nature of dreaming is discussed. Those few remembered and shared dreams (out of the totality of experienced and soon-forgotten dreams) are eventually shaped by the particular culture that reads into dreams its own way of viewing private psychological experience. Psychoanalysis is one ...
Commentary on Paper by Hilary Hoge
Jan 01, 2008; ... In this discussion the author raises the question of the analyst's freedom to sustain paradoxical viewpoints, specifically with regard to dream interpretation and related links to internal objects and the self as they appear in the transference. Paradox allows for the creation of multiple, ...
Reply to Commentaries
Jan 01, 2008; ... Each discussant approached my paper on embedded levels of illusion from a different perspective, representing schools as diverse as those derived from Jung and Bion. It is interesting that, although my paper was not primarily about dreams or how to interpret them, but rather about the way in ...
Roles in the Psychoanalytic Relationship
Jan 01, 2008; ... Who we are depends on the situation we are in. Psychoanalysis, like any other recurrent social activity, is conducted under the influence of implicit social roles. Our technical emphasis on free association and other unstructured aspects of the analytic setup tends to minimize awareness of the ...
In Search of the Person in the Patient: An Interpersonal Perspective on "Roles in the Psychoanalytic Relationship": Commentary on Paper by Richard Almond
Jan 01, 2008; ... I am postulating an irreconcilable discrepancy between psychoanalytic metapsychology and praxis. Metapsychology reaches for the abstract, for the general class of which the patient is an ostensible member-said class, somewhat tautologically, demonstrating the validity of the professed ...
Roles of Engagement: Commentary on Paper by Richard Almond
Jan 01, 2008; ... Richard Almond's discussion on the benefits of attending to the tension between what he refers to as analyst role and nonrole behaviors is quite stimulating and highlights important issues within the world of psychoanalysis. Although appreciating Almond's efforts to add clarity and perspective ...
Lost in Translation: Problems of Interdisciplinary Contributions in Psychoanalysis: Reply to Commentaries
Jan 01, 2008; ... Although psychoanalysis is by its nature a social process, conceptualizations of the process have not acknowledged that the two participants function within social roles. The resistance to understanding the way that these subtle role structures affect clinical process is illustrated by the ...
The Contextuality and Existentiality of Emotional Trauma
Jan 01, 2008; ... In this article I chronicle the emergence of two interrelated themes that crystallized in my investigations of emotional trauma during the more than 16 years that followed my own experience of traumatic loss. One pertains to the context-embeddedness of emotional trauma and the other to the claim ...