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Patterns - Building Blocks of Experience (Paperback)
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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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