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1Austen Riggs Center, Stockbridge, MA, USA. Shmuel.Erlich@huji.ac.il
The International Journal of Psycho-Analysis
|November 25, 2003
Summary
This study reframes subjective experience as a dynamic process, not static contents. It proposes two processing modalities and polarities, impacting psychoanalytic theory and practice.
Area of Science:
- Psychoanalytic theory
- Psychology of experience
Background:
- Traditional psychoanalysis views experience linearly.
- Recent psychoanalytic discourse highlights complexity.
- This paper challenges the traditional linear view.
Purpose of the Study:
- To re-examine the constitutive aspects of experience.
- To propose a new model of experience processing.
- To explore implications for psychoanalytic understanding.
Main Methods:
- Conceptual analysis of psychoanalytic theory.
- Reframing experience as a process.
- Identifying two processing modalities and subject-object polarities.
Main Results:
- Experience arises from two ongoing processing modalities.
- Subject-object experience involves separateness/instrumentality and oneness/being.
- A process-oriented view offers new insights.
Conclusions:
- Reframing experience has implications for subjectivity and inter-subjectivity.
- This model impacts understanding of relationships and psychology.
- Experiential 'goodness-of-fit' is crucial in analysis and beyond.
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