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Patterns - Building Blocks of Experience (Hardcover, large type edition)
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Patterns - Building Blocks of Experience (Hardcover, large type edition)
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In recent years, various tributaries of psychoanalytic and
developmental theory have flowed into our dawning understanding of
the role of early sensory and affective experiences in the
construction of our personal worlds. In Patterns: Building Blocks
of Experience, Marilyn Charles shows how such primary experiences
coalesce into patterns, those essential units of meaning that
capture the unique subjectivity of each individual. Frequently
"known" by their prosody or affective melody, patterns come to have
profound meanings that we utilize in constructing basic notions of
self and other. Through pattern, Charles holds, we approach elusive
meanings through dimensions of shape, contour, and affective
resonance. Such patterned understandings, in turn, become a mode of
interchange through which we touch one another in ways that go
beyond the overtly physical.
Analytic patients, Charles finds, have often led early lives too
full of "noise" to use their early sensory and affective
experiences constructively. Such patients tend to live out patterns
that operate unconsciously and have become literally
incomprehensible. Analytic communication, by drawing explicit
attention to such patterned experience, provides new images that
intrude on ingrained patterns of thinking about the self and other.
Out of the productive clash of analytically co-constructed images
and the invariant patterns of the past emerge new conceptions of
what the patient may choose to be in the present moment.
Through it all, Charles displays an admirable willingness to sit in
difficult spaces and to work through troubling therapeutic impasses
from the inside out, rather than from some point of ostensible
safety. This finely textured and richly evocative study, which
grows out of Charles' extensive clinical work with artists,
writers, and musicians, is a signal contribution to developmental
theory, clinical theory, and the psychology of creativity.
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