Psychotherapy: An Erotic Relationship: Transference and Countertransference Passions

✍ Scribed by David Mann

• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 220
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Psychotherapy: An Erotic Relationship challenges the traditional belief that transference and countertransference are merely forms of resistance which jeopardize the therapeutic process. David Mann shows how the erotic feelings and fantasies experienced by clients and therapists can be used to bring about a positive transformation. Combining extensive clinical material with theoretical insights and new research on infants, the author traces erotic development back to the parent-child relationship, drawing parallels between this relationship and the therapist/client dyad. Individual chapters explore the function of the erotic within the unconscious, pre-Oedipal and Oedipal material, homoeroticism in therapy, sexual intercourse as a metaphor for psychological change, the primal scene and the difficulties of working with perversions.

✦ Table of Contents

BOOK COVER......Page 1
HALF-TITLE......Page 2
TITLE......Page 3
COPYRIGHT......Page 4
DEDICATION......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 6
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 7
INTRODUCTION......Page 9
1 THE EROTIC TRANSFERENCE......Page 12
THE EROTIC AND METAPHOR......Page 13
LOVE AND THE EROTIC......Page 15
PSYCHOTHERAPY: AN EROTIC RELATIONSHIP......Page 17
IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE EROTIC......Page 20
TECHNICAL INNOVATIONS AND THE EROTIC......Page 23
THE EROTIC LAID BARE: THE SACRED AND THE PROFANE......Page 25
THE EROTIC BOND......Page 26
EROTIC TRANSFORMATION......Page 30
LOVE......Page 35
The platonic division of love......Page 40
Love and the confusion of tongues......Page 41
When is love not love?......Page 44
SEXUAL DESIRE......Page 48
Erotized transference......Page 49
Avoiding ‘Ferenczi’s folly’......Page 50
The ‘analyst as sex symbol’......Page 51
The ‘sexualized’ countertransference......Page 53
A woman’s desire......Page 55
The erotic as a gold-mine and minefield......Page 56
‘Observations on transference love revisited’......Page 57
The erotic and hostility......Page 59
CONCLUDING REMARKS......Page 61
TABOO AND EROTIC DESIRE......Page 63
EROTIC SUBJECTIVITY......Page 67
CLINICAL EXAMPLES......Page 71
THE COUNTERTRANSFERENCE......Page 75
EROTIC COUNTERTRANSFERENCE......Page 78
THE THERAPIST’S AMBIVALENCE......Page 85
THE EROTIC PRE-OEDIPAL MOTHER......Page 90
THE EROTIC OEDIPAL MOTHER......Page 94
THE EROTIC PRE-OEDIPAL FATHER......Page 98
THE EROTIC OEDIPAL FATHER......Page 103
CONCLUDING REMARKS......Page 106
5 THE HOMOEROTIC TRANSFERENCE-COUNTER TRANSFERENCE MATRIX......Page 108
LITERATURE......Page 110
CLINICAL VIGNETTES......Page 115
DISCUSSION......Page 123
INTRODUCTION......Page 127
CLINICAL VIGNETTES......Page 132
Analysis, sex and the symbol of creativity......Page 135
7 TRANSFERENCE AS SYMBOLIC PRIMAL SCENE......Page 145
Observations and theories on the primal scene......Page 148
PRIMAL SCENE REPRESENTATION IN MYTH......Page 151
FREUD AND THE WOLF-MAN......Page 154
CLINICAL VIGNETTES......Page 158
PRIMAL SCENE: TRANSFERENCE AND COUNTERTRANSFERENCE......Page 164
CONCLUDING REMARKS......Page 168
8 TRANSFERENCE PERVERSIONS......Page 169
PAST TRAUMA AND PERVERSION......Page 170
THE PRIMAL SCENE AND PERVERSION......Page 171
THE ANAL UNIVERSE OF PERVERSION......Page 172
CLINICAL VIGNETTES......Page 173
THE ANAL-SADISTIC TRANSFERENCE AND COUNTERTRANSFERENCE......Page 175
DISCUSSION......Page 179
CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER!......Page 187
COMMON KNOWLEDGE INTERPRETATIONS AND TRANSFORMATIONAL INTERPRETATIONS......Page 189
CLINICAL EXAMPLE: Y (WHY?)......Page 193
THE TRANSFORMATIONAL COUPLE......Page 197
TRANSFERENCE AND COUNTERTRANSFERENCE: A MUTATIVE PROCESS......Page 198
EROTIC HORROR AND EXCITEMENT......Page 200
7 Transference as symbolic primal scene......Page 203
REFERENCES......Page 205
INDEX......Page 217