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Autotheory: Toward the Embodying of Analytic Framing
Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association
|June 26, 2023
Summary
Autotheory integrates the analyst's embodied self into feminist theory and psychoanalysis. This approach explores how personal experience shapes theory, particularly through framing in clinical practice.
Area of Science:
- Feminist Theory
- Psychoanalytic Theory
- Subjectivity Studies
Background:
- Autotheory is an emerging concept in feminist theory.
- It highlights the inherent subjectivity and embodiment in theoretical development and application.
- It offers a framework to reintegrate the analyst's embodied self into clinical practice and psychoanalytic theory.
Purpose of the Study:
- To explore the role of the analyst's embodied self in clinical practice through autotheory.
- To examine "framing" and the "frame" as key concepts in autotheory and psychoanalysis.
- To conceptualize framing activity as a developmental goal within the psychoanalytic process.
Main Methods:
- Conceptual analysis of autotheory within feminist and psychoanalytic frameworks.
- Extension of relational and intersubjective theories.
- Examination of autotheoretical texts for insights into subjectivity.
- Inclusion of a clinical vignette illustrating framing in remote therapy.
Main Results:
- Autotheory provides a method for reintroducing the analyst's embodied subjectivity into psychoanalytic discourse.
- Framing and the frame are crucial elements where personal experience and theory intersect.
- Autotheoretical texts demonstrate the dynamic interplay between relational experience and theory formation.
- Remote therapy via videoconference presents unique challenges and opportunities for framing activity.
Conclusions:
- Autotheory offers a valuable lens for understanding the analyst's embodied contribution to psychoanalytic theory and practice.
- The concept of framing is central to how subjective experience is integrated into the therapeutic process.
- Further exploration of autotheory can enrich psychoanalytic understanding of subjectivity and relational dynamics.
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