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The infantile in the analytic relationship

F Guignard1

  • 1Paris Psychoanalytical Society.

The International Journal of Psycho-Analysis
|December 1, 1995
PubMed
Summary

This study explores the analytic couple's unconscious dynamics, revealing how disruptions in analysis signal shifts in drive excitation and lead to representational deficiencies. Analysts manage blind spots through a "work of the negative" to facilitate treatment.

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Area of Science:

  • Psychoanalysis
  • Psychodynamic Psychology
  • Clinical Psychology

Background:

  • Examines narcissistic and relational dynamics in the analytic couple's preconscious functioning.
  • Focuses on drive-related, developmental, and structural elements of the infantile within the therapeutic relationship.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To understand how disruptions in analytic tone reflect changes in drive excitation.
  • To explore the analyst's experience of blind spots and their management.
  • To investigate the role of infantile dynamics in the patient's impact on the analyst.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of transference and countertransference phenomena.
  • Conceptual framework involving "blocking representations" and the analyst's "work of the negative."
  • Application of André Green's psychoanalytic theories.

Main Results:

  • Disruptions in analytic tone signify unconscious shifts in drive excitation and loss of internal objects.
  • Analyst blind spots arise from the patient's infantile dynamics impacting the preconscious.
  • Desisting from "blocking representations" can repress wishes and create beneficial containment.

Conclusions:

  • The analyst manages blind spots via a "work of the negative," denying fantasies of seduction by the analysand's infantile omnipotence.
  • This model aids in understanding psychoanalyst termination criteria and repression dynamics.
  • Highlights the importance of preconscious functioning in the analytic couple.

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