Flexibility of the psychoanalytic approach in the treatment of a suicidal patient: persistent silences as "playing dead". His investigations begin with the logical properties of the unconscious described by Freud, which Matte Blanco. An introduction to Matte Blanco's reformulation of the Freudian unconscious and his conceptualization of the internal world.
EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCE AND INFINITY 1
It was in fact Freud b) who recognized a particular function in the violation of the principle of non-contradiction. Matte Blanco's bi-logic sheds a powerful light on the nature of the unconscious and on that of the infinite. With this, we want to emphasize once again how it is that the unconscious and the infinite find their roots in the primitive experience of the body.
SYMMETRIC FRENZY AND CATASTROPHIC CHANGE
Central to the analyst's interest is the conflict between the a-spatial and a-temporal nature of the unconscious (not to mention the a-dimensional abyss from which it is derived) and the organizing concepts of space and time. The first part of the clinical material here examines the problems the psychotic patient has with the ability to think. Likewise, for Matte Blanco, it is unlikely that such patients will be able to articulate asymmetries when faced with the symmetrizations of the unconscious.
This is an affirmation which echoes Bion's above comment that 'The finite "comes out of darkness and formless infinity".'. The large scale of the objects in the poem shows the tendency of emotions to become infinite. In the coffin, he will bury his emotional life at the bottom of the sea, as it is intolerable.
Meanwhile, the asymmetrizing activity of the conscious mind brings perception and the ability to discern. In this part of the psyche, 'the amount of symmetrization is so great that thinking, which. Also in the last session of the week, the atmosphere in the consultation room seemed collaborative.
Geometries of mind in Bion's transformational perspective: consideration in terms of bi-logical epistemology.
THROUGH THE EYE OF THE NEEDLE The unfolding of the unconscious body 1
The importance for psychoanalysis of the body and the relationship between body and mind was clear to Freud from his first research into hysteria (Breuer & Freud 1895), in which the body and somatics were central. The interest in the relationship between mind and body is not reflected in Matte Blanco's research, but this statement makes explicit his assumption of the importance of the role of the body in clinical and psychoanalytic research. In the clinical part of this chapter I will give some examples of the mind's discovery of the body.
After about two years of work, when we were on the verge of summer separation, G. this case shows us how necessary a specific working-through is to place the body on the perceptual horizon of the mind. The advent of this dream was also consistent with certain aspects of the transmission relationship of the time.
The third example, an adult patient suffering from a serious physical illness, shows a disconnection between body and mind, leading to the subject being completely unaware of his body. Moreover, with this distinction, I intend to emphasize the essential importance of reality - the reality of the body - in the development of the analytic process, which is therefore understood as primarily oriented towards the exploration of fantasies. Shame in relation to the body, gender, and death: A clinical investigation of psychotic levels of shame.
The body keeps score: approaches to the psychobiology of post-traumatic stress disorder.
THE BODY EMERGING FROM FORMLESS INFINITY 1
From an analytical point of view, the deepest psychic levels coincide with the proximity of the confused and boiling cauldron of the id. In relation to Freud's discoveries, my view of the body as a compass to work through is thus characterized in a different way. In such a context, the sensory-perceptual experience of the body corresponds to the onset of early mental autonomous functioning and to the capacity to exist as a separate subject.
In fact, this level is characterized by an increase in the dimensions of symmetry in relation to asymmetric and differentiating sources of thinking. It is not 'the land that is not'. It is 'the land that never was'. By saying this, Simone seemed to me to be alluding to his tragic lack of integration with the body as a fact that had been inescapably lacking in all his personal development and the revolutionary and innovative understanding of the new experience being realized in analysis ( cf. Williams 2007). At the same time, the awareness of the intersubjective relationship must increase in Simone.
At this point let us go to a later session in which the violent conflictuality regarding the recognition of the body emerges again. Now you can tap into the feeling of getting close to being your true self. Actively evoking the body in the analytic session allows its placement in reality (Freud 1911) and brings it within the radius of the mental functioning of attention ('I must pay more attention.
This mind-body integration becomes an important instrument of restraint in relation to the most secret and dangerous manifestations of the destructive instinct.
BODY, ADOLESCENCE AND PSYCHOSIS 1
Physical maturation simultaneously confronts the subject with an extraordinary intensification of the drives and with the real possibility of reproduction. In such situations, the totality of the analyst's person is involved, in the sense that the analyst is called. The counterpart of the activation of the transference on the analyst's body is a parallel transference of the analyst on his or her body.
This dialogue forms an interaction with the non-psychotic area of the patient's personality (Bion according to which, even in the most extreme cases of thought deficits such as acute psychotic episodes, the analyst at all times expects a meaningful verbal response from some kind of the analysand as a basis for elaboration (Bion 1955). At the beginning of the analytic experience, Luca presented the typical manifestations of acute psychosis – namely, mental confusion. The persecuting anxiety that he was a 'false' recalled the use of.
I didn't want to study anymore, I was wasting time and I was afraid of how time was passing. Elaborating the events of the acute psychotic explosion allowed us to get even closer to the mind-body relationship, which is illustrated in the following fragments. This was further evidence of his mental growth and the positive trend of his analytic experience.
Other positive factors were the patient's keen intelligence and the presence of extensive areas of good ego functioning prior to the outbreak of the crisis.
TIME IN PRIMITIVE MENTAL STATES 1
The id's lack of connections to a spatio-temporal structure leads Freud (1924) to anchor the idea of time to the discontinuity in the functioning of the perceptual-conscious system. The 'alternation' resulting from it would be a major contributing factor to the establishment of the idea of time. In the primitive mental states to which I refer, the situation is quite different, insofar as the lack of temporal parameters is a specific aspect of the patient's disturbance.
From my point of view, however, the central relationship of time is not only to the space of action (Lombardi 2002b), but also to bodily space (Lombardi 2002a). These included the very foundations of the patient's internal organization and her relationship to death (Lombardi 1986). It became clear to me that in primitive mental states the physical measurement of time was experienced as the main representative of the reality of loss, ie.
I will now describe short series of sessions characterized by the emergence of the question of time. I believe that in this order the analysand gave a realistic picture of the beginning of the session. This creates obstacles to the proper functioning of the mental faculties delegated to representation and consciousness.
This has, within the analytical relationship, a specific correlation with acquiring respect for the boundaries of the setting.
TIME, MUSIC AND REVERIE 1
And the ear captures – with the help of the sensory condensation inherent in the primary process (Freud 1900) – the dialectic of the emotions and intuits the dramatic development of the plot. The importance of the acoustic dimension contrasts with its relegation to an insignificant background position: to hear 'without paying attention to it'. Musical experience is just one example taken from a large variety of internal events that depend on the function of the specialized sense organs (hearing, sight, smell, taste, touch), a specific area where the activation of the sense organs (Freud 1911 ) contributes to gaining access to consciousness and thinking.
In the course of this chapter I will emphasize the affective experience and the intersubjective exchanges on the basis of which a knowledge of time is constructed; So I will create a kind of counterpoint to the investigation of more 'objective' phenomena - such as the discovery of the existence of clocks and of the various. On the other hand, in this chapter I will not investigate the details of the relationship of time with the professional practice of music or with sublimation processes (for which see e.g. Boyer 1992). Matte Blanco wrote of the presence of the infinite in the mind, a presence that disregards the distinguishing and dividing parameters of thought.
My conception of time in relation to affects differs from the views of those authors who emphasize the importance of the quality of time distortion, so that “the particular orientation of the ego in time provides an essential element in the qualification of a certain affect. experience' (Hartocollis 1972, p. 106). There is a loss of the sense of reality and the awareness of the passing of time.''
Learning the limits of the body thus interacts with the infinitization of intense emotions, promoting deinfinitization and mental containment (Bion 1965; Matte Blanco 1975).
