Full Description
Time in Practice: Temporality, Intersubjectivity, and Listening Differently is an original exploration of diverse ways in which individuals 'live' time, consciously and unconsciously. Challenging the psychoanalytic emphasis on the past as determinative, Mary Lynne Ellis explores the significance of present and future dimensions of individuals' experiences which catalyses change in the analytical relationship.
Through critical analyses of the theorizing of Freud, Jung, Klein, Winnicott, and Lacan, Ellis highlights the limitations of spatial metaphors, binaries of 'inner'/'outer', in addressing the socio-political and historical specificity of patients' experiences, including questions of identity and discrimination. She explores how intersectional and interdisciplinary perspectives allow for the development of new interpretations of temporality/intersubjectivity/language/embodiment in analytical practices. Ellis reflects on the dynamism of conceptualizations emergent in autobiography, fiction, phenomenological and postmodern philosophy, gender, post-colonial, queer, and cultural studies, for contemporary relational psychoanalytic practices. This revised and updated edition includes discussion of experiences of loss, vulnerability, mortality, inequalities, and powerlessness associated with the profound impact of the spread of the coronavirus, climate change, and the Ukraine war. It also includes a new chapter on mourning, time, and identities.
The book will be of interest to psychotherapists, art therapists, counsellors, psychologists, and those working in the fields of gender, sexuality, class, race, and post-colonial studies, literature, and allied disciplines.
Contents
INTRODUCTION
PART ONE: Questions of time in psychoanalysis
1. Freud's time: repeating or constructing?
2. Jung's unconscious: past, present, and future
3. Klein: splitting the breast or split in time?
4. Winnicott and Lacan: more about time
PART TWO: Living time: new perspectives
5. Living time and the time of the Other
6. States of time
7. Identities in time
8. Times of mourning: mourning's dissonance
9. Time, narrative, and change in the analytical relationship
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