Reconsidering the Moveable Frame in Psychoanalysis Its Function and Structure in Contemporary Psychoanalytic Theory

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Synopsis

Reconsidering the Moveable Frame in Psychoanalysis explores the idea of ‘the frame’ at a time when this concept is undergoing both systematic revival and widespread transformation. It has always been tempting to see the frame as a relatively static, finite and definable feature of psychoanalytic work. At its most basic, the frame establishes agreed upon conditions of undertaking psychoanalytic work. But as this book shows, the frame has taken on a protean quality. It is sometimes a source of stability and sometimes a site of ethical regulation or discipline. It can be a place of imaginative mobility, and in certain analytic hands, a device for psychic work on projections and disavowals.

Beginning with a seminal essay on the frame by José Bleger, this book includes commentary on that work and proceeds to explorations of the frame across different psychoanalytic theories. The frame is perhaps one of the spots in psychoanalysis where psyche and world come into contact, a place where the psychoanalytic project is both protected and challenged. Inevitably, extra-transferential forces intrude onto the psychoanalytic frame, rendering it flexible and fluid. Psychoanalysts and analysands, supervisors and candidates are relying increasingly on virtual communication, a development that has effected significant revisions of the classical psychoanalytic frame. This book presents a dialogue among distinct and different voices. It re-examines the state and status of the frame, searching for its limits and sifting through its unexpected contents whilst expanding upon the meaning, purview and state of the frame.

Reconsidering the Moveable Frame in Psychoanalysis will appeal to all psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists interested in how best to understand the frame and to use it most effectively in their clinical practice.

Book details

Series:
Relational Perspectives Book Series
Author:
Isaac Tylim, Adrienne Harris
ISBN:
9781317373148
Related ISBNs:
9781315672434, 9781138943438, 9781138943469
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Pages:
276
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
No
Date of addition:
2023-08-28
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2018
Copyright by:
Isaac Tylim, Adrienne Harris 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Nonfiction, Psychology