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Unformulated Experience - From Dissociation to Imagination in Psychoanalysis (Hardcover)
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Unformulated Experience - From Dissociation to Imagination in Psychoanalysis (Hardcover)
Series: Relational Perspectives Book Series
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In this powerful and wonderfully accessible meditation on
psychoanalysis, hermeneutics, and social constructivism, Donnel
Stern explores the relationship between two fundamental kinds of
experience: explicit verbal reflection and "unformulated
experience," or experience we have not yet reflected on and put
into words. Stern is especially concerned with the process by which
we come to formulate the unformulated. It is not an instrumental
task, he holds, but one that requires openness and curiosity; the
result of the process is not accuracy alone, but experience that is
deeply felt and fully imagined. Stern's sense of explicit verbal
experience as continuously constructed and emergent leads to a
central dialectic at the heart of his work: that between curiosity
and imagination, on one hand, and dissociation and unthinking
acceptance of the familiar on the other. The goal of psychoanalytic
work, he holds, is the freedom to be curious, whereas defense
signifies the denial of this freedom. We defend against our fear of
what we would think, that is, if we allowed ourselves the freedom
to think it. Stern also shows how the unconscious itself can be
reconceptualized hermeneutically, and he goes on to explore the
implications of this viewpoint on interpretation and
countertransference. He is especially persuasive in showing how the
interpersonal field, which is continuously in flux, limits the
experience that it is possible for participants to reflect on. Thus
it is that analyst and patient are together "caught in the grip of
the field," often unable to see the kind of relatedness in which
they are mutually involved. A brilliant demonstration of the
clinical consequentiality of hermeneutic thinking, Unformulated
Experience bears out Stern's belief that psychoanalysis is as much
about the revelation of the new in experience as it is about the
discovery of the old
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