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THE SECOND SPHERE AND THE STORY OF NO STORY |
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| Authors: | LUCY LA FARGE |
| Institution: | Editor for North America of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis. She is also a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research and a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College, New York. |
| Abstract: | The author discusses Roy Schafer's ideas of the second self and second reality, as well as his consistent theme of storyteller and story. The latter theme is also explored in the context of more recent psychoanalytic influences, such as Bionian thought, trauma theory, the French approach, and the interpersonal perspective. To illustrate the idea of the nonstory in today's clinical encounters, the author presents two clinical vignettes. |
| Keywords: | Roy Schafer empathy analytic process second self second reality analytic attitude story storyteller subjectivity Kleinian theory analytic listening nonstory |