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Residues in the analyst of the patient's symbiotic connection at a somatic level: unrepresented states in the patient and analyst
Author(s) -
Godsil Geraldine
Publication year - 2018
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 - 10.1111/1468-5922.12377
Subject(s) - countertransference , psychoanalytic theory , somatic cell , psychology , psychoanalysis , dissociation (chemistry) , psychoanalytic therapy , psychotherapist , biology , genetics , chemistry , gene
This paper discusses the residues of a somatic countertransference that revealed its meaning several years after apparently successful analytic work had ended. Psychoanalytic and Jungian analytic ideas on primitive communication, dissociation and enactment are explored in the working through of a shared respiratory symptom between patient and analyst. Growth in the analyst was necessary so that the patient's communication at a somatic level could be understood. Bleger's concept that both the patient's and analyst's body are part of the setting was central in the working through.