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  • Psychoanalytic Theory
  • Psychology of Thinking
  • Intersubjectivity

Background:

  • Common sense is prevalent in discourse, including psychoanalytic settings.
  • It encompasses various organized thinking forms, evoking distinct affects, fantasies, and intersubjective experiences termed 'the feeling of common sense'.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore the multifaceted functions of common sense within the psychoanalytic process.
  • To analyze how common sense can both advance and impede therapeutic progress.
  • To illuminate the analyst's role in enactments related to common sense phenomena.

Main Methods:

  • Conceptual analysis of 'common sense' and 'the feeling of common sense'.
  • Exploration of its affective and intersubjective components.
  • Clinical illustrations demonstrating its functions and impediments in psychoanalysis.

Main Results:

  • Common sense possesses a complex conceptual structure influencing psychoanalytic discourse.
  • It can act as a catalyst for therapeutic movement or as a significant impediment.
  • Understanding common sense reveals patient dynamics and the analyst's potential collusion.

Conclusions:

  • Awareness of common sense phenomena is vital for effective psychoanalytic practice.
  • It informs the analyst's technical decisions and interpretive strategies.
  • Unraveling common sense is key to understanding both patient and analyst contributions to the therapeutic process.