The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better by Richard Wilkinson |
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This text argues that insight and interpretation, the crucial tools of the psychoanalytic process, are no longer treated with the respect they deserve. It contends that psychoanalytic literature has been has been neglecting, misunderstanding or even abusing the validity of these two action and their place in the analytic process. Instead, the focus has shifted toward the effect of countertransference and its role in the relationship between patient and analyst. By the same token, the equally important question of the analyst's neutrality is regularly misunderstood and discredited. Roy Schafer explains how these new shifts in contemporary psychoanalysis have often resulted in conceptual imbalance and erratic technique. His goal, however, is not to reject these recent contributions but rather to integrate them into a more cohesive understanding of the psychoanalytic process. He demonstrates how unconscious and archaic fantasies inform the patients narrative. Factors such as invasion of the mind, threat punishment, seduction, control, envy, withdrawal and evasion can find expression through the transference. Interpretation of the transference, in turn, provides the patient with the insight of what it means to understand and to be understood, and why it is often so threatening. Therefore, when these fantasies are played out in the countertransference, they become a tool for further elucidation of these unconscious fantasies that underlie the analytic relationship. Schafer ends his discussion by examining the complex relation between psychoanalysis and the interpretation of sexual issues: how to find the right level and tone that facilitate analysis of the intrapsychic and existential aspects bound up with sexual problem; the sexist and homophobic turns of language pervasive in psychoanalytic discourse; and the crucial role played by incompletely mastered sexual anxieties in the success and failure of gender jokes.
This text argues that insight and interpretation, the crucial tools of the psychoanalytic process, are no longer treated with the respect they deserve. It contends that psychoanalytic literature has been has been neglecting, misunderstanding or even abusing the validity of these two action and their place in the analytic process. Instead, the focus has shifted toward the effect of countertransference and its role in the relationship between patient and analyst. By the same token, the equally important question of the analyst's neutrality is regularly misunderstood and discredited. Roy Schafer explains how these new shifts in contemporary psychoanalysis have often resulted in conceptual imbalance and erratic technique. His goal, however, is not to reject these recent contributions but rather to integrate them into a more cohesive understanding of the psychoanalytic process. He demonstrates how unconscious and archaic fantasies inform the patients narrative. Factors such as invasion of the mind, threat punishment, seduction, control, envy, withdrawal and evasion can find expression through the transference. Interpretation of the transference, in turn, provides the patient with the insight of what it means to understand and to be understood, and why it is often so threatening. Therefore, when these fantasies are played out in the countertransference, they become a tool for further elucidation of these unconscious fantasies that underlie the analytic relationship. Schafer ends his discussion by examining the complex relation between psychoanalysis and the interpretation of sexual issues: how to find the right level and tone that facilitate analysis of the intrapsychic and existential aspects bound up with sexual problem; the sexist and homophobic turns of language pervasive in psychoanalytic discourse; and the crucial role played by incompletely mastered sexual anxieties in the success and failure of gender jokes.
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