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The analytic superego
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The analytic superego 1

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ByWarren Colman
BookDissecting the Superego

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Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2018
Imprint Routledge
Pages 15
eBook ISBN 9781351117104

ABSTRACT

The anxiety that many therapists feel in relation to the demands of a persecutory analytic superego interferes with their availability to patients and can result in an inhibited, artificial or even sadistic approach to clinical work. This chapter explores the factors that contribute to the development of the analytic superego, showing how anxieties that are inherent within clinical work can be reinforced by training and by the ‘organisation in the mind’ of psychoanalytic culture and institutions. I suggest the development of a truly analytic attitude involves replacing superego constraints (or rebellion) with ego judgement so that ‘boundaries’ become lodged not in rules but in the analyst’s own thinking mind.

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