Drive, Ego, Object, And Self by Fred; Pine

Author:Fred; Pine [Pine, Fred;]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2012-01-25T04:30:00+00:00

Each of the four clinical vignettes in this chapter was built around a session or series of sessions in which new views of the material emerged—views that can be seen as shifts in the conceptual language of understanding from drive and/or ego and/or object relations and/or self to any one or more of the others. These shifts do not go in only one direction, in my experience. No one of the domains is more basic than another. And when the shift takes place, the earlier work does not disappear from the analysis. It was not “wrong” and subsequently “correctly” understood. Rather, in cyclic and interlocking fashion each comes up again and again.

These are not typical sessions. I do not mean to suggest that these shifts come up in every session. But, in my experience, they are typical of analyses—that is, they come up in every analysis at one time or another. Ultimately they are the reflections of what we familiarly describe as overdetermination, from one perspective, or multiple function, from another. Sandler (1981), in his discussion of wished-for role relationships that can carry in them libidinal aims as well as other object-relational wishes, such as for safety, is clearly thinking along the same lines. And Jacob Jacobson (1983) also works similarly in his demonstration of drive and of “representational world” concepts in the material of particular sessions.

In my experience of my own clinical work, this way of working does not for the most part entail a self-conscious application of different conceptual languages to the clinical work. Usually I am struck by the shift, if I notice it as a shift at all, after the fact. It does not feel like a shift. It just feels like doing analysis with a patient, being alert to a wide range of phenomena and occasionally having the experience of understanding something—an experience that is conveyed to the patient in this way or that. But the this’s and that’s, upon after-the-fact examination, turn out to extend across the full array of what I have been referring to as the four psychologies of psychoanalysis.

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