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Index
Relational Perspectives Book Series
Unformulated Experience
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I Experience Formulated and Unformulated
1 The Given and the Made
Winnicott's Dialectic
Psychoanalytic Constructivism
Postmodernism: The Verbal in the Nonverbal
Hermeneutics and Poststructuralism
Postmodernism and Clinical Psychoanalysis: a Contradiction?
What Does "Linguistic" Actually Mean?
Clinical Psychoanalysis: the Nonverbal in the Verbal
A Source for the Unconventional: The Personal Reworking of Public "Action" Images
Rapprochement: Two Meanings for the Word "Language"
The Continuing Centrality of Self-Reflection in Psychoanalysis
A Note of Caution
The Given and the Made, Redux
Reflection and the Interpersonal Field
2 Unformulated Experience
What is Unformulated Experience?
Thought and Affect
Reification
Progressive Clarification: Experience as Emergent
Freud's Thought
Structure in Unconscious Meaning
Formulation as the Attribution of Meaning
3 Familiar Chaos
Associations and Constructions
Sullivan and Unformulated Experience
Curiosity, Uncertainty, and Acceptance of the Familiar
4 Creative Disorder and Unbidden Perceptions
Two uses of Unformulated Experience
Curiosity and Creative Disorder
Power and Curiosity
Power and Coconstruction
Part II Reconsidering Self-Deception
5 Imagination and Creative Speech
What is Dissociated?
New Meanings
The Pragmatics of Creative Speech
True Stories
Dissociation and Imagination
Imagination and Consensual Validation
Dissociation and the Interpersonal Field
A Clinical Illustration
6 Not-Spelling-Out
Two Kinds of Dissociation: "Strong" and "Weak"
Dissociation in the Strong Sense
Self—Deception for Freud and Sartre
Self—Deception and Unformulated Experience
Self—Deception and Fingarette's "Spelling—Out"
Dissociation as an Active Process
Avowal, Disavowal, and Spelling—Out
Language in Fingarette's Account
7 Narrative Rigidity
An Approach to Narrative
Narrative Rigidity in Psychoanalysis
Stereotyped Narratives of Self
"The War of the Ghosts"
Foucault and Power
Power and Convention
The Morality of Psychoanalysis
Clinical Illustration
Conclusion
8 The Problem of the Private Self
Beyond Anxiety
The Field and Personal Agency
Multiplicity and Embeddedness
Dissociation and Self-Deception
Courage and Curiosity
Part III Unformulated Experience in the Work of the Analyst
9 Interpretation and Subjectivity
Interpreting the Absolute Unconscious: Science and Objectivity
Interpreting Unformulated Experience: Subjectivity and Phenomenology
Correspondence Theorists in Psychoanalysis
The Validity of the Verbal
Interpretation from the Patient's Perspective
"Fit" and Recognition
The Patient's Feeling of Safety
The Place of the Therapeutic Collaboration in the Patient's Judgment of "Fit"
The Atmosphere of Safety in the Perception of Feelings of Tendency
"Fit" and Unformulated Experience
Interpretation from the Analyst's Perspective
Gadamer's Perspectivism and Psychoanalytic Interpretation
10 The Analyst's Unformulated Experience of the Patient
The Nature of the Analyst's Experience
The Formulation of the Analyst's Experience
The Grip of the Field
Breaking the Grip
A Clinical Illustration
A Sequence of Events in the Analyst's Experience
11 Gadamer's Hermeneutics
Issues of Knowing and Understanding
The Asymmetry of the Analytic Relationship
Gadamer: A Philosopher Relevant to Clinical Practice
From Schleiermacher to Gadamer: Rejecting Empathic Knowing in Favor of Mutual Influence
The Hermeneutic Circle
Sharing a Tradition: Cultural Differences and the Special Case of Psychoanalysis
Genuine Conversation and the Creation of the Analytic Field
Open Questions, Commitment, and Countertransference Involvement
The Fusion of Horizons: Any Understanding Reflects a Change in the Field
The Priority of Prejudice: Gadamer and Habermas
Schafer and the Interpersonal Field
The Triple Hermeneutic
But what should the Analyst Actually do?
12 Courting Surprise
Between Experience and Expectation
Clinical Illustration
Hermeneutics and the Inevitability of Embeddedness
The Problem of Curiosity: Seeing What is Questionable
The Innocent Analyst
Notes
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 4
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
References
Index
Index
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