ABSTRACT
Each of the three models of contemporary psychoanalytic field theory has introduced novel insights, concepts, and technical tools to the range of psychoanalytic field theories and to psychoanalysis in general. Some of what the work on psychoanalytic field theory has offered includes new ways of looking at some fundamental principles and techniques of psychoanalysis. And this work has afforded a deeper understanding of the essentials of psychoanalytic thought and concepts. The preceding chapters have explored these innovations and reflections; here one particular contribution from each model will be noted. The mythopoeic model brought into fresh relief the psychoanalytic approach of understanding all aspects of the analytic encounter as infused with an essential ambiguity. The dream function of sessions of the oneiric model highlights a fundamentally analytic way of attending to communications in therapeutic processes. The focus in the plasmic model on the emergence of the effects of unconscious metaphoric processes in the analytic dyad emphasizes the necessity of there being two persons who are both integrally involved in the therapeutic processes.
