Endings : on termination in psychoanalysis / Fausta Ferraro and Alessandro Garella ; translated by Dorothy L. Zinn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ferraro, Fausta, 1947-

Contributor:

Garella, Alessandro.

Zinn, Dorothy L.

Series:

Contemporary psychoanalytic studies ; 10.

Contemporary psychoanalytic studies ; 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychoanalysis.

Psychotherapy--Termination.

Psychotherapy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (214 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Ever since Analysis Terminable and Interminable , the termination of therapy has placed the clinical and metapsychological levels of psychoanalytic thought in a dialectical tension. The rereading proposed by the authors situates Freud and Ferenczi as two poles of a debate which is still ongoing: psychoanalytic literature demonstrates the convergences, divergences and hybridizations which have come about through time, the various schools and the geography of analysis. The authors explore the development of the termination process , and within this, the termination event as a final moment, each with its own characteristics. The beginning of the termination process constitutes a critical moment in the analysis, one we may investigate through the conceptual lens of liminality , a sort of threshold or border that is useful for the reading of a wide range of phenomena related to termination. Every termination is nonetheless incomplete, and it is against this backdrop that the authors’ theoretical reflection and clinical experience interact, suggesting a typology of analytic termination. From this, a map of a little-explored terrain emerges, where we see a mixing of the boundaries between interior and exterior reality, individual and couple goals, and theoretical aims and concrete aspirations - all requiring a meticulous task of reconnaissance.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

The Beginnings: Freud, Ferenczi and Analysis Terminable and Interminable

After Freud: The Theme of Termination in the Mid-1900s

Theoretical Developments and Modern Orientations

The Psychoanalytic Process

The Termination Process

The Termination of Analysis as a Psychoanalytic Event

The Liminal

Forms of Time

A Map of Termination

Ending

References.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-282-50520-3

9786612505201

90-420-2626-X

OCLC:

649903340

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789042026261 DOI