Why do we write? Psychoanalytic writing and fiction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Paola Golinelli
Keyword(s):  
Psychoanalytic Writing

The Infancy of Affection

2020 ◽  
pp. 67-105
Author(s):  
Alexander Freer
Keyword(s):  
Human Development ◽  
Early Life ◽  
Skin Ego ◽  
Psychoanalytic Writing

Chapter 2 considers Wordsworth’s accounts of very early life and its passions, from early drafts of the poem that would become The Prelude to the 1807 ‘Ode’. It reads Wordsworth’s poems as ambivalent narratives of human development, placing them alongside related accounts of genesis and individuation in psychoanalytic writing and criticism. It puts Wordsworth’s poetics of infancy into dialogue with Didier Anzieu’s tactile account of an early ‘skin ego’ and Mutlu Konik Blasing’s developmental theorization of lyric. In this context, Wordsworth’s poems resist normative narratives of development, and testify to a kind of early pleasure spread so widely that it becomes an inseparable element of perception itself, suggesting a formative role comparable to (but pointedly at odds with) psychoanalytic accounts of an ‘original’ trauma.

Psychoanalytic Writing: An Essay on Communication

1978 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 381-392 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florence Bonime ◽  
Walter Bonime
Keyword(s):  
Psychoanalytic Writing

On psychoanalytic writing

2005 ◽  
Vol 86 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas H. Ogden
Keyword(s):  
Psychoanalytic Writing

To be or not to be three: a clinical narrative, an unanswered question

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-128
Author(s):  
Jill Savege Scharff
Keyword(s):  
Family Of Origin ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Couple Relationship ◽  
Unanswered Question ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Potential Child ◽  
Psychoanalytic Literature ◽  
Clinical Narrative ◽  
Psychoanalytic Understanding ◽  
Psychoanalytic Writing

The psychoanalytic literature deals with parenthood as a developmental stage but barely addresses the couple's preconception of fertility intentions. The author reviews the available literature from social research and psychoanalytic writing. Working with a couple over family of origin conflicts, she uncovers the hidden conflict over the wish to have or not have a child, reveals unconscious fantasies about the potential child, and deals with conflict in the otherwise compatible couple relationship itself. The author offers this clinical vignette to extend psychoanalytic understanding of the unconscious fantasies involved. She concludes with a discussion of transference towards the couple therapist as an infection to be avoided, an annoying parent to speed away from, and a disturbing child about whom the couple was ambivalent.

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