Affect in Psychoanalysis - Charles Spezzano

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Résumé :
Drawing on the writings of Freud, Fairbairn, Klein, Sullivan, and Winnicott, Spezzano offers a radical redefinition of the analytic process as the intersubjective elaboration and regulation of affect. The plight of analytic patients, he holds, is imprisonment within crude fantasy elaborations of developmentally significant feeling states. Analytic treatment fosters the patient's capacity to keep alive in consciousness, and hence reflect on, these previously warded-off affective states...

Biographie:

Part I: Knowing and Talking About Affect. The Place of Psychoanalysis in the Conversation About Human Affective Life. How Psychoanalysts Talk About Affects Now. Part II: The Evolution of Psychoanalytic Thinking About Affects. Freud's Alleged Missing Theory of Affects Revisited. Affect and Its Regulation in Post-Freudian Theory. Part III: The Dialectics of Affect. Patients and Their Discontents: Who or What Is Responsible? Excitement, Certainty, Relational Coordination, and Competence. Part IV: The Technical Implications of Affect Theory. Affects, Resistance, and Character. The Struggle to Imagine.