Long-Term Psychoanalytic Supervision with Donald Meltzer: The Tragedy of Triumph

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Long-Term Psychoanalytic Supervision with Donald Meltzer is a detailed account of a particularly demanding analysis which Donald Meltzer closely supervised over twelve years. This will enable the reader to closely follow the internal life of a long-term, trying analysis. The reader can see how Meltzer’s thoughts had crucially guided the course of this analysis in many of its most challenging moments, often redirecting it. By watching things happening, the reader is enabled to get a deeper insight into Meltzer's highly complex, though outstanding thought. On many particularly important points, the author invited Meltzer to give his thoughts and interpretations in his own words as if he himself was the analyst. This provides the reader with a unique opportunity to ‘listen’ to Meltzer verbatim. Long-Term Psychoanalytic Supervision with Donald Meltzer demonstrates the often overwhelming yet fascinating complexities of mental life and will speak to psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists, as well as those interested in the philosophy of the mind. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents Presentation of the book Acknowledgements Preface Introduction 1 “. . . for a patient to discover this atmosphere of passionate interest in his mental life is the real therapeutic factor in analysis, I think.” 2 Experiencing the session in the transference versus experiencing it outside the transference: the difference between analysis and psychotherapy 3 Dreams as babies brought to the analyst though also as actings in the transference 4 “If you don’t see and feel the intensity and the immediacy of the transference, then you see it in this diminished light as simply a repetition of the past.” 5 “When she lowers the passion, she lowers the value of everything, and then abandonment is so much easier” 6 The importance of the concept of forgiveness as a key factor in “creating a new way of thinking about things” 7 “. . . it has to be made in the depths . . . (long silence) . . . in love for the truth . . . (long silence) . . . in love for the truth . . .” 8 “It’s not the badness that has made the secrecy; it’s the secrecy that has made the badness” 9 “JSM: Do you take notes of the sessions you think are important? DM: Oh no, I take notes on every session. JSM: On every session of every patient? DM: On every session of every patient. JSM: And you see fourteen patients a day . . .” 10 “I can’t come [to the session], I feel it . . . I’m a piece of shit . . . I’ll come as soon as I feel human . . .” 11 The fecal nature of the devil 12 “. . . worrying about your patient is terribly important . . . the only way we have of keeping the patients safe is to be worried about them.” 13 “Well, it’s like introducing the left breast to the right breast . . .” 14 “. . . I have to come here to know what I’ll do the next hour . . .” 15 Wrestling with triumph 16 “. . . the way in which she does it is by crawling inside everybody and controlling them from inside” 17 Mother’s inside transformed into a golden grave for the triumphant child 18 “. . . all her actions have to be listened to as if they were dreams . . .” 19 Projective identification into the internal mother may infuse into the subject’s hemorrhoids such an intensely coloured pathological life 20 An acting in the counter-transference re-enacted in the course of a supervision session 21 “The thing about life in the claustrum is that it is cut off from the beauty of the world” Appendix: Donald Meltzer’s claustrum theory – a brief survey References Index