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Gray, P. (1973). Psychoanalytic Technique and the Ego's Capacity for Viewing Intraps... J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn., 21:474-494.

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(1973). Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 21:474-494

Psychoanalytic Technique and the Ego's Capacity for Viewing Intrapsychic Activity

Paul Gray, M.D. Author Information

IT IS A CURIOUS FACT that the central, most necessary part of psychoanalytic technique is one of the least discussed, certainly one of the least well conceptualized aspects of psychoanalysis. I am referring to analytic listening or, more accurately, analytic perception. My main purpose in this paper is to examine and sharpen our idea of this aspect of technique in the analysis of adult neuroses. The observations which follow concern that portion of the complex of functions here designated as the analyst's perspective of attention, or perceptual focus, in particular, the uses of such perspectives of attention that are receptive to the derivatives of thoughts or affects or processes of which the patient is unaware.

In addition, I will emphasize a point of view regarding a particular application of the analyst's perceptual focus to a specific task in analytic work: that of analyzing those productions which are intended by the patient to refer to behavior, either current or anticipat

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