Working at the "Intimate Edge": Intersubjective Considerations--Comments on "A Case Study of Power and the Eroticized Transference-Countertransference"

Author： Ehrenberg Darlene Bregman

Publisher： Routledge Ltd

ISSN： 0735-1690

Source： Psychoanalytic Inquiry, Vol.25, Iss.3, 2005-07, pp. : 342-358

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Abstract

Working from the premise that as analysts we are always vulnerable to unconscious collusion and enactment, and that this has radical implications for how we conceive of the analytic process, I try to illustrate how the process of working at the intimate edge of the analytic relationship, and explicitly engaging what goes on intersubjectively between patient and analyst expands the analytic process and the analytic possibilities. I especially focus on how deconstructing interactive enactment can help to access unconscious aspects of what might be in play in relation to the issues of power and eroticized transference-countertransference under discussion here, and how this process itself can become the medium of the work and the focus of therapeutic action.