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The analyst’s narcissism and the denial of limits
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Frosch, James P. |
| Copyright Year | 2020 |
| Description | This chapter explores the interplay of narcissistic desires between analyst and patient, examining the tendency for both to enact a mutual idealization, thus avoiding the need to mourn. In the analyst, the wish to be idealized is gratified by the patient's natural tendency, in the transference, to idealize, thus promising to heal the pain of experiencing the gap in the analyst between the real self and the ideal self. If recognized, this enactment can be analyzed and both participants can face the necessary grieving of a lost ideal reality. Muriel Dimen's “Lapsus linguae” movingly illustrates how the powerful interplay of narcissistic desires clouded the capacity of an analyst to recognize his patient's communication of her need for help. Book Name: Sexual Boundary Trouble in Psychoanalysis |
| Related Links | https://api.taylorfrancis.com/content/chapters/edit/download?identifierName=doi&identifierValue=10.4324/9781315682969-7&type=chapterpdf |
| Ending Page | 116 |
| Page Count | 12 |
| Starting Page | 105 |
| DOI | 10.4324/9781315682969-7 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| Publisher Date | 2020-07-30 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Book Name: Sexual Boundary Trouble in Psychoanalysis Psychoanalysis Psychology Analyst Interplay of Narcissistic Desires Narcissism Promising |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Chapter |
