Kategorie: Psychoanalysis & Theory

There are sessions that do not feel alive. The analyst, usually attentive and curious, finds their mind drifting. Thoughts lose their edge, attention softens, and...

There are moments in analytic work when understanding does not arrive through words, but through a shift in feeling. The analyst finds themselves suddenly anxious,...

There is a particular intensity in being watched. In psychoanalytic work, this intensity becomes especially charged when the patient remains seated, facing the analyst, rather...

There is a quiet temptation in analytic work: to remain in the realm of the agreeable. Sessions that flow smoothly, a patient who is cooperative,...

There are moments in clinical practice when the analyst’s body seems to know before the mind does. A sudden wave of fatigue, an inexplicable tightness...

Before the infant can imagine itself, it must first be imagined. Long before language, before memory, before even a coherent sense of self, there exists...

Psychoanalysis is, at its core, a theory of transformation. It concerns the movement from excitation to representation, from bodily intensity to psychic form, from what...

Psychoanalysis has long been sustained by a powerful conviction: that symptoms are not arbitrary. They speak, even when the subject cannot. They condense conflict, displace...

There are patients for whom the analytic encounter does not unfold in the expected register of conflict, fantasy, and interpretation. Instead, one is met with...