Idiomatic Expressions and Somatic Experience in Psychoanalysis by Ravit Raufman

Author:Ravit Raufman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CAM)

In emphasizing her ability, we can see how psychoanalytic writing is perceived in terms of a developmental achievement; a notion that allows comparing the development of the individual to that of psychoanalytic literature. Within the creative field of playing with concepts and ideas in a way that combines a theory of thinking with object relation and intersubjective theories, it is worth noting the work of Bion and his followers, who expanded the idea of projective identification, and created a theory of thinking, based on the containing function of the parent/therapist.5

Perel’s poem illustrates the shift from a one-directional gaze into mutual recognition. It illustrates constant switches between gazes; the reader cannot decide who is looking at whom. Is it the daughter who sees her father? Or does the father see her, and can report what he sees? Is he writing about himself and his own experience, or about her, growing up? And if he is writing about himself, this is a changing self, as his daughter’s gaze is no longer located inside him. Something has been fundamentally changed, forcing us to ask: can the father describe himself, while his self is ever changing? Can he describe the focal point from which he is being looked at – his daughter – while this “point” continually shifts according to his gaze? In a way, these questions usually accompany us in our therapeutic realm, shared with our patients.

Cartwright emphasizes the passion involved in this process:

While listening to the patient, commenting and interpreting, the therapist demonstrates a containing “presence” through inviting the patient to join a passionate inquiry into what is on both of their minds. While the analytic field is imbued with a range of emotions, it is the qualities of passion, faith and curiosity that approximate the emotional character of the containing function. This leads to the intersubjective qualities of feeling held in another’s mind, seeing oneself in the other’s mind, an important part of the container function.

(2013, p. 97)

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