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April 13, 1982. THE IMPRISONED ANALYSAND: AN ESSAY ON INTERPRETATION (The 32nd Freud Anniversary Lecture). Roy Schafer, Ph.D.
Dr. Schafer called attention to themes used by those whose wish to emotionally imprison themselves influences their fantasies concerning their ideas, their own bodies, places, or even the world. For some, the wish to be victimized and imprisoned may be so intense that their character structures, analyses, and lives are shaped by imprisonment fantasies. These fantasies are organized in rich, multidetermined narratives or story lines which repeat themselves in derivatives throughout a person's life and analysis. Imprisonment narratives are only one