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Intersubjectivity and the creation of meaning in the analytic process
Author(s) -
Maier Christian
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of analytical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.285
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 1468-5922
pISSN - 0021-8774
DOI - 10.1111/1468-5922.12112
Subject(s) - intersubjectivity , psychology , construct (python library) , unconscious mind , consciousness , meaning (existential) , projective test , learned helplessness , representation (politics) , id, ego and super ego , attunement , process (computing) , psychoanalysis , cognitive psychology , cognitive science , epistemology , social psychology , psychotherapist , philosophy , computer science , neuroscience , medicine , alternative medicine , pathology , politics , political science , law , programming language , operating system
By means of a clinical illustration, the author describes how the intersubjective exchanges involved in an analytic process facilitate the representation of affects and memories which have been buried in the unconscious or indeed have never been available to consciousness. As a result of projective identificatory processes in the analytic relationship, in this example the analyst falls into a situation of helplessness which connects with his own traumatic experiences. Then he gets into a formal regression of the ego and responds with a so‐to‐speak hallucinatory reaction—an internal image which enables him to keep the analytic process on track and, later on, to construct an early traumatic experience of the analysand.