By James S. Grotstein

In who's the Dreamer Who desires the Dream? A research of Psychic Presences, James Grotstein integrates a few of his most vital paintings of modern years in addressing primary questions of human psychology and spirituality. He explores essential and interrelated psychoanalytic difficulties: the character of the subconscious brain and the which means and internal constitution of human subjectivity. To this finish, he teases aside the complicated, tangled threads that represent self-experience, delineating psychic presences and mystifying dualities, matters with various views and features, and items with diversified, usually phantasmagoric properties.

Whether he's expounding at the subconscious as a number of dimensions comprehensible when it comes to nonlinear techniques of chaos, complexity, and emergence conception; enhancing the psychoanalytic thought of psychic determinism by means of becoming a member of it to the concept that of autochthony; evaluating Melanie Klein's inspiration of the archaic Oedipus complicated with the traditional Greek fantasy of the labyrinth and the Minotaur; or reading the connection among the tales of Oedipus and Christ, Grotstein emerges as an analyst whose medical sensibility has been profoundly deepened via his scholarly use of mythology, classical concept, and modern philosophy. the result's either a major synthesis of significant currents of latest psychoanalytic inspiration and a relocating exploration of the character of human affliction and spirituality.

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La première intervention se situe avant le début de la rencontre proprement dite : dans le choix de l’espace matériel, dans l’organisation de cet espace. Il appartient au praticien – sinon de choisir l’espace du moins de prendre en charge sa disposition ; même si celui-ci ne dispose pas d’un bureau, il lui appartient de veiller à l’installation de son interlocuteur, de lui indiquer qu’au sein d’un espace institutionnel plus vaste il prend soin de disposer un secteur plus intime (diminuer le son de la télévision, se mettre dans un endroit où on risque moins d’être dérangé).

On m’a ramassé, on m’a emmené au docteur, je ne me rappelle de rien. Après quand j’ai vu mon docteur, il m’a demandé si je buvais, je ne bois plus, il m’a donné des médicaments. Les paroles de cet homme semblent décrire une sorte de chute brutale, de perte de connaissance, d’évanouissement et il s’efforce de faire participer son interlocuteur à la catastrophe physique et naturellement subjective qui l’a mis à terre. Il tente de décrire dans le détail, les mots lui manquent, il mime la chute devant le praticien.

En effet un clinicien en s’exprimant peut faire courir le risque de centrer le sujet sur ce qui le préoccupe, sur ce qui l’intéresse et donc de détourner le sujet de ce qu’il était en train d’adresser à un destinataire, le 26 10 ENTRETIENS EN PSYCHOLOGIE CLINIQUE DE L’ADULTE priver de la possibilité de s’entendre dire. Même si le clinicien part du discours du sujet, de son thème, de sa forme pour intervenir, il n’évacue pas la possibilité de s’en servir de pré-texte pour développer un texte qui lui appartient et du coup déposséder son interlocuteur de ses propres énoncés, recouvrir le texte de son patient.

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