ABSTRACT

Creative Repetition and Intersubjectivity looks at contemporary Freudian and post-Freudian theory through an intersubjective lens. Bruce Reis offers views on how psychoanalytic conceptions from the last century uniquely manifest in the consulting rooms of this century – how analytic technique has radically evolved through developing Freud’s original insights into dreaming, and hallucinosis; and how the presentation of today’s analysands calls for analyst’s use of themselves in unprecedented new ways.

Taking up bedrock analytic concepts such as the death instinct, repetition, trauma and the place of speech and of silence, Reis brings a diversely inspired, twenty-first century analytic sensibility to his reworking of these concepts and illustrates them clinically in a process-oriented approach. Here the unconscious intersubjective relation takes on transformative power, resulting in the analyst’s experience of hybridized chimerical monsters, creative seizures, reveries and intuitions that inform clinical realities outside of verbal or conscious discourse -- where change occurs in analysis.

Drawing on an unusually broad selection of major international influences, Creative Repetition and Intersubjectivity will be of great interest to psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists across the schools of thought.

chapter |5 pages

Introduction

chapter Chapter 1|14 pages

Monsters, dreams and madness

Explorations in the Freudian intersubjective

chapter Chapter 2|11 pages

An introduction to dreaming

chapter Chapter 3|14 pages

Zombie states

Reconsidering the relationship between life and death instincts

chapter Chapter 4|10 pages

Symbiont life

chapter Chapter 5|16 pages

Performative and enactive features of psychoanalytic witnessing

The transference as the scene of address

chapter Chapter 6|6 pages

Silence and quiet

A phenomenology of wordlessness

chapter Chapter 7|8 pages

Form and content

chapter Chapter 8|13 pages

Duende and the shape of things unknown

chapter Chapter 9|16 pages

Creative repetition