Patients create a characteristic sense of time and space in the transference. Psychic reality is discontinuous and the structure of the discontinuities will be revealed by the impact on the patient of the temporal aspects of the psychoanalytic setting.
Perelberg gathers papers by members of the British Psychoanalytical Society around a single Freudian problem: how the mind holds, distorts, and reworks time. Ranging across Freud from the Studies on Hysteria to Analysis Terminable and Interminable, the contributors read a patient's relation to duration, sequence, and recollection as evidence of the state of their internal objects.
The organising claim is that afterwardsness (Nachtraglichkeit) governs psychic history: an event that carried no meaning when it happened acquires significance retrospectively, recovered and repeated rather than left in the past. Several chapters trace how an inability to bear mourning or guilt produces a timeless internal world, and how that arrest reappears in the consulting room as a particular handling of the setting's rhythms of presence and absence.
For clinicians, the volume supplies a vocabulary for hearing temporal disturbance in the transference and reading it as object-relational information.
About the authors
Rosine Jozef Perelberg
Rosine Jozef Perelberg is a Brazilian-born British psychoanalyst working within the traditions of contemporary British psychoanalysis and in dialogue with French psychoanalytic thought. She came to the field from social anthropology and family therapy, and is known for work on sexuality, gender, violence, time and dreaming, including the concept of apres coup. She is a training and supervising analyst and a past president of the British Psychoanalytical Society, and has been a visiting professor at University College London.
Rosine Jozef Perelberg
Rosine Jozef Perelberg is a Brazilian-born British psychoanalyst working within the traditions of contemporary British psychoanalysis and in dialogue with French psychoanalytic thought. She came to the field from social anthropology and family therapy, and is known for work on sexuality, gender, violence, time and dreaming, including the concept of apres coup. She is a training and supervising analyst and a past president of the British Psychoanalytical Society, and has been a visiting professor at University College London.
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- 2007
- Karnac
- Karnac
- 192
- 9781855754348