“The Use of an Object and Relating through Identifications” (1968) represents Donald Winnicott’s theoretical and clinical legacy. The author develops this concept from a clinical point of view, through the analysis of a woman with psychotic functioning. He reflects upon the dramatic quality of risks inherent in the processes linked to the use of the object with seriously disturbed patients. He explores different meanings of the analyst’s survival, linking it to the analyst’s response. The processes of the use of the object—that is, the encounter between the patient’s potential destructiveness and the analyst’s capacity to respond through his own judicious subjectivity—let the patient experience the analyst’s capacity to keep his own subjectivity, authenticity, and creativity alive. It is starting from the traces of this live object that patients gradually form their own personal sense of being real.
The use of the analyst and the sense of being real: the clincal meaning of Winnicott's "the use of an object" / Fabozzi, Paolo. - In: THE PSYCHOANALYTIC QUARTERLY. - ISSN 0033-2828. - STAMPA. - 85:1(2016), pp. 1-34. [10.1002/psaq.12056]
The use of the analyst and the sense of being real: the clincal meaning of Winnicott's "the use of an object"
FABOZZI, Paolo
2016
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“The Use of an Object and Relating through Identifications” (1968) represents Donald Winnicott’s theoretical and clinical legacy. The author develops this concept from a clinical point of view, through the analysis of a woman with psychotic functioning. He reflects upon the dramatic quality of risks inherent in the processes linked to the use of the object with seriously disturbed patients. He explores different meanings of the analyst’s survival, linking it to the analyst’s response. The processes of the use of the object—that is, the encounter between the patient’s potential destructiveness and the analyst’s capacity to respond through his own judicious subjectivity—let the patient experience the analyst’s capacity to keep his own subjectivity, authenticity, and creativity alive. It is starting from the traces of this live object that patients gradually form their own personal sense of being real.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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