Constructing Realities: Transformations Through Myth and MetaphorRodopi, 2004 - 147 էջ One of the challenges in psychoanalytic work is to find ways to enliven the space when working with individuals whose thinking is highly constrained and who have little capacity for play. This incapacity often signals a split between valued and devalued aspects of self. In cases such as these, self-protection becomes paramount and may profoundly impede growth, as whatever is not known is perceived as dangerous, rather than being a challenge that invites further development. For the therapist who must create aliveness within the consulting room, we are caught by the very real threat that this aliveness poses to the defensive structures on which the patient's equilibrium rests. Movement thus can be quite precarious. In this volume, Marilyn Charles considers how notions of "play" and "myth", as brought into the literature by Winnicott and Bion, can help to provide an interim space in which impossible realities can be constructed at a safe enough reserve that we can more actively consider them and thereby create possibilities, rather than foreclosing on them. |
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Էջ 3 - ... deep pathology? I have previously suggested (Segal, 1957) that it hinges on the nature of symbolism. I made a distinction between concrete symbolism, in which the symbol is equated with what is symbolized (the symbolic equation), and a more evolved form in which the symbol represents the object but is not confused and identified with it, and does not lose its own characteristics. This view was later refined by others and developed in my later paper on the subject (Segal, 1978; and Chapter 3),...