The body/mind dialectic within the psychoanalytic subject: finding the analyst's voice

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The analyst's voice may mean many things, one of which would be the physical presence of the analyst. The way the voice sounds communicates before words. It may evoke the vocalizing of the mother, even before birth. The voice and the heartbeat of the mother together contribute to the first sense the baby has of otherness; content in analysis at some times does not have any significance. The unthought known is a factor here. A theoretical perspective and physical vocalizing may be put together to bring to life the idea of a mind-body dialectic and a biological basis for phsychoanalysis.

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Of course we can talk . . . but can we also hum? Reply to Gerson's commentary on "Finding the Analyst's Voice."(response to Samuel Gerson's response to Harriet Kimble Wrye, same publication, same issue, p. 371)

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Patients' potentially reparative immersion in physicality of the analyst's voice are discussed by Gerson, who points out some things that might contribute to misunderstanding some ideas on timing and balance related to maternal erotic transferences/countertransferences. In a paper, complexity of a clinical encounter can't entirely come through; some theoretical aspects have to be expressed briefly. Wrye tends to privilege the preverbal and nonverbal, believing analytic focus should center more on the talk in the talking cure, the more differentiated later developmental material.

Analysis, Countertransference (Psychology), Transference (Psychology), Gerson, Samuel

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Can we talk? Commentary on "The Body/Mind Dialectic Within the Psychoanalytic Subject: Finding the Analyst's Voice" by Harriet Kimble Wrye

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Harriet Wrye in recent contributions has brought back from the area of metapsychology the idea that cam from Freud that, "The ego was first and foremost a bodily ego; it is not merely a surface entity, but is itself a projection of a surface." She has put it into clinical use. She has brought the very valuable concept of maternal erotic transference to analysis. At a point where she discusses Gerson's paper, though, Wrye slips into a dichotomy and privileging in her thinking and separates maternal and paternal, pre-oedipal and oedipal, semiotic and symbolic.

Wrye, Harriet Kimble

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