Jahrbuch der Psychoanalyse: Band 79: Probleme der Gegenübertragung

Themenschwerpunkt:

• Helmut Hinz: Aufmerksamkeit für die Form des Sprechens – mit Worten handeln, mit Worten sprechen
  

  Abstract

  The aim is to describe how silences and fragmented speech of a young woman at the beginning of the psychoanalysis changed slowly through a longer period of not-understanding. This was possible via using the counter-transference feelings as indicating emotional states which dominated also in the patient but without name. Secondly, via patiently observing the forms of speaking, which at first is to understand more as an action in the service of reduction of tension. In the center this part of the treatment is a strongly fragmented state, in which a paranoidschizoid way of functioning appears as an intense, incoherent, difficult to bear, un-represented presence, so to speak as pure aesthesia, which must not be suppressed by anesthesia. At first, there are only rare possibilities to describe this intense presence, not to speak of understanding it. It is possible to pay attention to the forms of the communication in a state of patience, until a meaning evolves which makes sense at this moment.

• Veronika Grüneisen: Wenn Gegenübertragung schwer erträglich wird
  

  Abstract

  This paper presents countertransference experiences in two analytic treatments in order to show that contertransference is not only a source of information about the psychodynamics of the patient, but can also confront the analyst with parts of him- or herself which can be hard to acknowledge and contain. The defence against this confrontation can block the ability to interprete until it has been worked through – if need be, with the help of colleagues.

• Aydan Özdaglar: »Das wird man ja wohl noch sagen dürfen!« – Schwierigkeiten mit der Gegenübertragung
  

  Abstract

  Does the influence of right-wing populism in German society have an impact on the analytic encounter? The reluctance of some German psychoanalysts to take migrants and refugees into treatment can be seen as a fear of becoming entangled in, or flooded by, powerful anxieties within the transference and / or countertransference involving the anxiety of being seen as racist, or being a racist. These anxieties involve encapsulated unsconscious feelings of shame and guilt, associated with the collective past, that appear to have been transmitted intergenerationally.

• Franco De Masi: Die erotische Übertragung: Vom Traum zum Wahn
  

  Abstract

  The author distinguishes a benign loving transference from a malign sexual transference. The analyst does not need to feel disturbed by the loving transference, since it signals the patient’s incipient ability to dream an affective relationship. Instead, the sexualised transference, as a stabile, against relations directed psychopathological structure, can trigger a countertransference which is difficult to control. Whereas in case of the loving transference the patient wants to live in an emotionalised state together with the analyst, in case of the malign erotic sexualised transference he wants to change the psyche of the analyst and pull him over into his own malign state. This kind of manipulation occasionally leads to violent action and often creates an agitated and negative countertransference. In his countertransference the analyst is subject of the delusion, the patient could destroy his or her analytic identity. The strength of the projections suggests to the analyst that delusion is at stake. A delusion, which is followed by unpleasant feelings instead of loving feelings. Technically important is the timing of the interpretations, which in case of a delusional transference should take place promptly and continuously in order to avoid that the psychotic core subjects the rest of the personality.

• Barbara Strehlow: Wenn der Vater untergetaucht ist. Vom Ertrinken und Wiederauftauchen im triangulären Übertragungs-Gegenübertragungsraum mit Mutter und Tochter
  

  Abstract

  Re-analysing a child therapy, the prelingual deprivation of the father is put to the fore. The paternal object stays almost un-negotiated by oedipal reality and is split into an idealized and a rejecting (abandoning) part, the latter being defensively projected onto every phantasized non-paternal, especially the person of the mother. The philosophical term ›Vermutungsschluss‹ is apreciated as part of the psychoanalytic method, but widened by transference / countertransference. The value of the parental narration of the child’s history is underlined, especially with a mostly silent child.

• Interview mit Wolfgang Loch geführt von Ursula von Goldacker. Mit einer Einleitung von Gemma Jappe

Theoriegeschichte:

• Johann Georg Reicheneder: Breuer – Signorelli – Freud. Zur Initial-Fehlleistung der Psychoanalyse
  
  Abstract

  In his essay ›On the Psychic Mechanism of Forgetfulness‹ Freud assigns the later described as »parapraxis« mental performance in the theoretical framework, which he had previously developed from the analysis of mental disorders. He extends the scope of his reflections into the sphere of normal psychic functioning. In 1898, Freud is busy preparing ›The Interpretation of Dreams‹, a work in which he opens up a first basic look into the construction of the psychic apparatus and the basic rules of its functioning. His identification with Luca Signorelli as the artist, who has created a great work of art formative for the future, and the considerable fear of annihilation that came to life in Freud in this situation, and which express themselves in the pictorial programme of the Orvieto Cathedral, are discussed in the present examination. The self-portrait of himself and Fra Angelico, which Signorelli has inserted in a prominent place of the work of art, direct Freud’s identification and his confrontation with the loss of his colleague and friend Josef Breuer at the latest after the publication of the ›Studies on Hysteria‹.

Wolfgang-Loch-Vorlesung:

• Ilka Quindeau: Nachträglichkeit und die Bedeutung des Anderen
  
  Abstract

  In this contribution, the construction of memories is presented from a psychoanalytical perspective, in which afterwardsness (Nachträglichkeit) plays a central role. Memories are constituted in an inter-subjective process where the precipitations of sensomotoric-affective experience are evoked and recategorized, i.e. connected with corresponding constructions of meaning. In the case of traumatic experiences, this processing takes place within the framework of transference in psychotherapy, in which the splittings and dissociations are gradually reduced and a new sense of reality can emerge.