On the Importance of the Setting in the Psychoanalytic Situation |
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Authors: | Henrik Carpelan M.D. |
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Affiliation: | Stenb?cksgatan 3 A 18, SF 00250 , Helsingfors 25 , Finland |
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Abstract: | In this article, we explore the process of psychoanalytical listening in the context of language. We demonstrate through a clinical example how listening may act as a facilitator of a person's linguistic style, but also how the defence of negation blocks the same process. Guided by the modern speculations on the function of metaphor, we show how listening has been expressed in various metaphors and other “tropes” of language by psychoanalysts, and also how useful metaphors can be in our listening to patients. |
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Keywords: | Emily Dickinson poem going on being Winnicott creativity |
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