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  Imagination as reciprocal process and its role in the psychoanalytic situation
 
 
Title: Imagination as reciprocal process and its role in the psychoanalytic situation
Author: Lothane, Zvi
Appeared in: International forum of psychoanalysis
Paging: Volume 16 (2007) nr. 3 pages 152-163
Year: 2007
Contents: Imagination has been widely discussed in literature, literary criticism, philosophy, and psychology but has attracted limited attention among psychoanalysts and psychiatrists. However, imagination is a basic psychologic function, as basic as sense-perception. After laying the ground by discussing the dialectics of sense-perception and imagination in everyday life, literature, psychology and philosophy, the author applies imagination as a core concept to the interpersonal processes in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. Given that the person in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy reveals him- or herself via the exercise of free association, Freud's central methodologic contribution, the author then builds a bridge between imagination and free association, which are complementary processes. Furthermore, the traditional view of free association as limited to the analysand is then extended to include the free association of the analyst. The interaction between the free association and imagination in the analysand, reciprocated by the free association and imagination in the analyst, is called by the author reciprocal free association.
Publisher: Routledge
Source file: Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften
 
 

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