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Winnicott's Subjective Object: Merging experiences as preconditions of being
No full textThe author explores the clinical meaning of D. W. Winnicott's concept of subjective object. He describes an adult patient marked by the failure of her primary nurturing environment because of unworked-through grief and severely traumatic experiences that predated her birth. This failure forced the patient into a sort of “impossibility of being.” The author describes how an erotic transference represented an impulse for development and transformation for her because it took the shape of “holding” her embryonic capacity to experience illusion within the analytic relation. Last, the author illustrates how the gradual construction of the analyst as a subjective object allowed the patient to begin to work through both the traumas inherited from her primary environment and the unthinkable anxieties connected to them
Un nuovo vertice psicoanalitico: la quieta rivoluzione futura di D. W. Winnicott
No full textL’Autore prende le mosse dall’esame di due note inedite della Klein del 1953, dove viene evidenziato il ruolo dell’identificazione proiettiva come strumento che può permettere all’analista di padroneggiare le difficoltà controtransferali. Questa, nel 1953, è la punta più avanzata delle ricerche nell’ambito delle relazioni oggettuali inconsce. Viene quindi analizzato il saggio di Winnicott «Lo sviluppo emozionale primario», nel quale egli inizia a interrogarsi sulla relazione tra soggettività e oggettività sia relativamente alla nascita della mente, che al funzionamento psichico dell’analista. Infine l’Autore mostra come ne «L’odio nel controtransfert» (1947) siano contenute le origini di una radicale trasformazione della teoria psicoanalitica. La concezione winnicottiana del funzionamento psichico viene fondata sul principio assolutamente innovativo per cui il funzionamento inconscio dell’oggetto, nonché le trasformazioni causate dall’inconscio del soggetto, vadano indagati e ri-trasformati perché il soggetto possa avviare una trasformazione psichica.The author begins with an examination of two unpublished notes by Melanie Klein, written in 1953. In these notes the role of the study of projective identification as a tool that can permit the analyst to master countertransferential difficulties is highlighted; in 1953, this is the most advanced point of psychoanalytic investigations into unconscious object relations. The author then considers Winni-cott’s essay «Primitive Emotional Development» (1945), where he begins to inquire into the relationship between subjectivity and objectivity, in relation both to the birth of the mind and to the analyst’s psychic functioning. Ultimately, the author demonstrates that the origins of an extraordinary transformation of psychoanalytic theory are contained in the essay «Hate in the Countertransference» (1947). In fact, the Winnicottian conception of psychic functioning is founded on the radical and absolutely innovative principle by which the object’s unconscious functioning, as well as its transformations caused by the subject’s unconscious, must be investigated and transformed in order that the subject may be capable of beginning a psychic transformation
Dreaming and Experiencing in the Potential Space
No full textThe author presents some clinical sequences from two sessions in order to illustrate his thoughts about dreaming, about experiencing in analysis, and about the clinical realization of the potential space. When the dreamer’s conscious and unconscious relationship with her own dream turns the latter into a living psychic object, the experience that the dreamer can have of the dream occupies an intermediate area, placing itself between the internal world and external reality. When the dreamer lets the dream-experience affect the experience of external reality, a further transformation can take place in the analysis, since this intermediate intrapsychic area can become a transitional area between the patient and the analyst. The analyst and the patient were able to create a potential space in which, in addition to the transference repetition of cumulatively traumatic situations, an experience was generated that gave rise to embryonic processes of integration between dissociated aspects of the patient
The genesis of interpretation between subjectivity and objectivity. Theoretical-clinical considerations
No full textThe patient “employs” and “enlists” the analyst in his various transference forms, not so much by attributing a role to him, but by inducing subtle and deep changes in his person. What the patient makes us experience transforms our potential interpretation into words that arise from the emotional “turbulence” established between the patient and the analyst, prompted by the patient's suffering, made “real” by the analyst’s temporary suffering. Interpretation can become alive, meaningful, usable by the patient, only if the analyst allows that turbolence to temporarily become his own, not just to understand the patient, but to transform him through a partial transformation of the analyst himself. To realize this, we have to maintain an ongoing dialogue between our objectivity and our temperate and floating subjectivity
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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