Transformational Processes in Clinical Psychoanalysis by Lawrence J. Brown

Author:Lawrence J. Brown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CAM)

Discussion

In a paper delivered at the 1975 International Psychoanalytic Association congress, Andre Green (1975) noted three trends in the development of psychoanalytic theory and practice. The first is characterized by the search for the “historical reality of the patient” (p. 9), which aims to discover repressed remnants of the actual past as these are revealed in the transference. The second tendency is represented by the movement towards object relations theory in which the transference is considered as the externalization of the analysand’s inner object world into the psychoanalytic process occurring between patient and analyst. The third development focuses on the mental processes of the patient and analyst with an appreciation of the role of the analytic setting, which, however, Green does not see as a precondition to the establishment of the analytic process. Though he does not explicitly speak of a fourth trend, in this paper Green implicitly offers an additional perspective that speaks of the necessity of a setting that “allows the birth and development of an object relation [and psychoanalytic process]” (p. 11).

At this point, I want to remind the reader of the model I proposed of the analytic process in Chapter 1 and we can now appreciate the vital role the setting plays in it:

The active here-and-now process of continuous transformations of affects arising in the intersubjective field to create new meaning which is achieved through a perpetual unconscious joint process of dreaming and Nachtraglichkeit (apres coup) made possible through the linked alpha functions of the patient and analyst, all of which is enabled by, and depends upon, a stable analytic setting/frame.

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