Reconsidering the moveable frame in psychoanalysis : its function and structure in contemporary psychoanalytic theory / edited by Isaac Tylim and Adrienne Harris.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tylim, Isaac, editor.

Harris, Adrienne, editor.

Series:

Relational perspectives book series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychoanalysis.

Cyberspace--Psychological aspects.

Cyberspace.

Psychological aspects.

Physical Description:

xv, 276 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.

Summary:

Reconsidering the Moveable Frame in Psychoanalysis explores the idea of 'the frame' at a time when this concept is undergoing both ystematic revival and widespread transformation. It has always been tempting to see the frame as a relatively static, finite and definable eature of psychoanalytic work. At its most basic, the frame establishes agreed upon conditions of undertaking psychoanalytic work. But as his book shows, the frame has taken on a protean quality. It is sometimes a source of stability and sometimes a site of ethical regulation or discipline. It can be a place of imaginative mobility, and in certain analytic hands, a device for psychic work on projections and isavowals. Beginning with a seminal essay on the frame by José Bleger, this book includes commentary on that work and proceeds to exploration of the frame across different psychoanalytic theories. The frame is perhaps one of the spots in psychoanalysis where psyche and world come into contact, a place where the psychoanalytic project is both protected and challenged. Inevitably, extra-transferential forces intrude onto the psychoanalytic frame, rendering it flexible and fluid. Psychoanalysts and analysands, supervisors and candidates are relying increasingly on virtual communication, a development that has effected significant revisions of the classical psychoanalytic frame. This book presents a dialogue among distinct and different voices. It re-examines the state and status of the frame, searching for its limits and sifting through its unexpected contents whilst expanding upon the meaning, purview and state of the frame. Reconsidering the Moveable Frame in Psychoanalysis will appeal to all psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists interested in how best to understand the frame and to use it most effectively in their clinical practice. Book jacket.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

Introduction / Isaac Tylim and Adrienne Harris

Psychoanalysis of the psychoanalytic setting / José Bleger

José Bleger and the relevance today of his dialectical frame / Haydee Faimberg

Comparative models of the function of the frame

Frame matters / Lynne Zeavin

The setting and the frame : subjectivity and objectivity in the psychoanalytic relationship / Jon Tabakin

Reconfiguring the frame as a dynamic strucutre / Peter Goldberg

When the frame doesn't fit the picture / Anthony Bass

Frame, culture, politics, terror

When we frame / Stephen Hartmann

The frame as a border in a variety of settings / Yolanda Gampel

Revisiting the concept of frame / Janine Puget

Variations in the frame

Contemporary developments and challenges of analytic training and practice / Claudio Laks Eizerik

A tale of two cities / Harvey L. Rich

Psychoanalysis and cyberspace : shifting frames and floating bodies / Luca Caldironi

Spiral process as place : the ineffable architecture of analytic space / Kim Rosenfield

Psychoanalytic turmoil in cyberspace / Monica Horovitz

Shifting the container : psychoanalysis and cyberspace culture / Velleda C. Ceccoli.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138943438

1138943436

9781138943469

1138943460

OCLC:

982653944