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Not all news is good news, as not always no news means good news. At least, not in science, not in arts and not in psychoanalysis. However, what is new, when it does not frighten too much, has the potential to arise the interest. This is, perhaps, because it activates our exploring, risk-taking behaviors, which, as we all know, represent something radically opposed to conservative, security seeking attitudes.
Today, looking at some of psychoanalytical writings, from here and from everywhere, in which the authors' efforts seem to be more directed towards defending and preserving and much less toward innovating, I can't help thinking about the immobilizing power of Bowbly's ‘attachment behavior’. This seems to be odd since, as practicing psychoanalysts, we all wish our patients to change, to dare to get new attitudes and to get rid of the old ones.
The aim of this paper is to succinctly call attention to some relatively new, not ‘classical’ ideas, which, from my point of view, have recently presented those notes of novelty susceptible to arise some interest or a certain fear and resistance. In a relatively chronological order and with some theoretical and clinical continuity, these could be:
Attachment theory
Relational-intersubjective model
Implicit relational knowing