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The analyst's hatred of analysis
1Weill Cornell Medical College, USA. nkravis57@gmail.com
The Psychoanalytic Quarterly
|March 5, 2013
Summary
Psychoanalysts often experience antipathy towards analytic work, viewing it as shameful. Recognizing analytic identity as a dual internal object is crucial for psychoanalytic education and practice.
Area of Science:
- Psychoanalysis
- Psychology
Background:
- Analytic work elicits strong, often contradictory, emotional responses from analysts.
- Resistance to conceptualizing negative feelings towards analysis hinders fulfilling analytic practice.
Purpose of the Study:
- To explore the normative, yet often shameful, antipathy some psychoanalysts feel towards their work.
- To examine the role of psychoanalytic training in fostering or mitigating this shame.
- To understand the implications of analytic identity as a dual internal object.
Main Methods:
- Conceptual analysis of psychoanalysts' attitudes towards analytic work.
- Exploration of the psychoanalytic concept of internal objects.
- Speculation on the projection and disavowal of negative feelings.
Main Results:
- Antipathy towards analysis is presented as a common, expectable experience among analysts, often perceived as shameful.
- Psychoanalytic training may inadvertently perpetuate shame surrounding negative analytic feelings.
- Analytic identity is conceptualized as a dynamic interplay between loving and persecutory internal objects.
Conclusions:
- Acknowledging and working through shame related to analytic antipathy is essential for effective psychoanalytic practice.
- Psychoanalytic education should address the complexities of analytic identity and its associated internal objects.
- Understanding these dynamics can improve both psychoanalytic training and clinical application.
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