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  • Psychoanalysis
  • Psychology
  • Clinical Practice

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  • Clinical psychoanalytic practice requires specific attentional modes.
  • Unrepresented or 'shadow' experiences pose challenges in therapy.
  • Therapeutic space must accommodate ambiguity and the 'other'.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To discuss the importance of a 'bi-ocular' mode of attentiveness in psychoanalysis.
  • To explore how this mode fosters a psychic space for unrepresented experiences.
  • To emphasize the need to embrace ambiguity in the analytic setting.

Main Methods:

  • Utilizing clinical material to illustrate theoretical concepts.
  • Describing the psychoanalytic process involving reverie and analysis.
  • Focusing on the analyst's role in maintaining an open, non-reductive stance.

Main Results:

  • A 'bi-ocular' attentiveness, balancing reverie and analysis, is crucial.
  • This approach creates a psychic space for 'shadow' experiences to emerge.
  • Embracing ambiguity allows for pictorial and ideational representation of difficult material.

Conclusions:

  • The psychoanalytic setting must accommodate 'otherness' beyond the immediate and the dyadic.
  • Maintaining analytic intensity without relying on real-life models is key.
  • This method facilitates the emergence and processing of non-apparent psychic material.