Fosshage Cofounder, Board Director, and Faculty of the National Institute for the Psychotherapies, New York City, is a Founding Faculty Member of the Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity, New York City, and Clinical Professor of Psychology, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis.
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Psycho-Analysis may be said to have been born with the twentieth century; for the publication in which it emerged before the world as something new—my Interpretation of Dreams—bears the date “1900” [Freud, 1924, p. 191].
In: Clinical and Social Realities, ed. L. J. Kaplan. Northvale, NJ: Aronson, 1995, pp.
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IT IS THE ERA OF PLURALISM OF MODELS IN PSYCHOANALYSIS.
Gooch, J. (2002), The primitive somatopsychic roots of gender formation and intimacy: Sensuality, symbolism, and passion in the development of the mind.
Newirth, J. (2003), The Subject of the Unconscious.
Fosshage Cofounder and Board Director, National Institute for the Psychotherapies; Faculty, Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis, New York University.
Fosshage, J. (1983), Developmental arrests and conflict theory toward a unifying theory: “The Case of Burton.”
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(1982), Introspection, empathy, and the semicircle of mental health. Int. J. Psycho-Anal., 63:395-408.
(1980), Formulating interpretations in clinical psychoanalysis, Int. J. Psycho-Anal., 61:203-211.
Fosshage Cofounder and Board Director, National Institute for the Psychotherapies; Core Faculty, Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity, New York City.
What I have posited to be the supraordinate functions of dreaming mentation (which include the function of conflict resolution, applicable to Tolpin's dream; see Fosshage, 1983, p. 658) also applies to waking mentation.
In addition, he describes the following:
When the patient insists that Fosshage wants her to “leave everything” and “get on with it,” I believe she is communicating her perception of the agenda that he does, in fact, have for her—that she go forward in her quest for more distinct self-definition. As with her father, this is an agenda to which she feels she must accommodate if she is to maintain the bond with Fosshage as his “special one.” I am suggesting that, alongside the patient's genuine developmental progress, her unconscious compliance with Fosshage's developmental agenda has codetermined the galloping pace of the analysis and that this entire, complex intersubjective system is both represented and disguised in her dream imagery.
References
Fosshage, J. (1983), The psychological function of dreams: A revised psychoanalytic perspective.
Essential features of this model are as follows (for a detailed presentation see Fosshage, 1983, 1987a; Fosshage and Loew, 1987): 1) Primary process is redefined as imagistic mentation that serves “an over-all integrative and synthetic function” (Fosshage, 1983, p.
References
Fosshage, J. (1983), The psychological function of dreams: A revised psychoanalytic perspective.
Fosshage, J. (1987a), Dream interpretation revisited.
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Fosshage, J. (1987b), New vistas in dream interpretation.
In my assessment, P continued to work in her dreaming mentation (see Fosshage, 1983; Fosshage & Loew, 1987, for my view on the function of dreams) on the frightening image of the old, deathlike, needy other that was emerging in the transference in the previous session.
Fosshage, J. (1983). The psychological function of dreams: A revised psychoanalytic perspective.
Fosshage, J. (1990). Toward reconceptualizing transference: Theoretical and clinical considerations.
Fosshage, J. & Loew, C.
In Empathy II, ed. J. Lichtenberg, M. Bornstein, & D.
Fosshage Core Faculty, Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity; Faculty Member and Supervisor, Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis, New York University.
The recent reconceptualization of transference by Wachtel (1980), Gill (1982), Hoffman (1983), Stolorow and Lachmann (1984), and Fosshage (1990) as an organizing activity profoundly undermines these claims.
Fosshage, J. (1990), Toward reconceptualizing transference: Theoretical and clinical considerations.
Fosshage Core Faculty, Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity; Clinical Associate Professor (Faculty and Supervisor), New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis.
Lichtenberg, J. (1989), Psychoanalysis and Motivation.
Fosshage, J. (1994), Toward reconceptualizing transference: theoretical and clinical considerations. Int. J. Psycho-Anal., 75: 265-280.
Fosshage, J. (in press), Countertransference as the analyst's experience of the analysand: the influence of listening perspectives.