Towards a better use of psychoanalytic concepts: A model illustrated using the concept of enactment |
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Authors: | Werner Bohleber Peter Fonagy Juan Pablo Jiménez Dominique Scarfone Sverre Varvin Samuel Zysman |
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Affiliation: | 1. Werner Bohleber Kettenhofweg, , Germany;2. Research Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, University College, London, , London, WC1E 7HB UK;3. Departamento de Psiquiatra y Salud Mental Oriente, , Providencia, 6640871 Santiago, Chile;4. , Montral, (QC) H2V 2W6 Canada;5. , 0274 Oslo, Norway;6. , Buenos Aires, (1425 CABA) Argentina |
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Abstract: | It is well known that there is a lack of consensus about how to decide between competing and sometimes mutually contradictory theories, and how to integrate divergent concepts and theories. In view of this situation the IPA Project Committee on Conceptual Integration developed a method that allows comparison between different versions of concepts, their underlying theories and basic assumptions. Only when placed in a frame of reference can similarities and differences be seen in a methodically comprehensible and reproducible way. We used “enactment” to study the problems of comparing concepts systematically. Almost all psychoanalytic schools have developed a conceptualization of it. We made a sort of provisional canon of relevant papers we have chosen from the different schools. The five steps of our method for analyzing the concept of enactment will be presented. The first step is the history of the concept; the second the phenomenology; the third a methodological analysis of the construction of the concept. In order to compare different conceptualizations we must know the main dimensions of the meaning space of the concept, this is the fourth step. Finally, in step five we discuss if and to what extent an integration of the different versions of enactment is possible. |
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Keywords: | Enactment countertransference acting‐out Agieren conceptual research conceptual integration |
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