The Emergence of Analytic Oneness: Into the Heart of Psychoanalysis

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Introduction: On the emergence of analytic oneness—challenges and mysteries
	Part I. Within the depths of being: experiences in a new dimension
	Part II. The “voice” of breakdown
	Notes
PART I: Within the depths of being: Experiences in a
new dimension
	Chapter 1: The heart: Or, what’s heart got to do with it?
		A “hearing heart”
		Tustin’s “heart-break”—or, “Who needs a heart when a heart can be broken?”
		Dante and Ugolino in the Inferno—the unmet weeping of the broken-heart
		Case illustration: the gate of tears
		Concluding thoughts: heartbreak and breakthrough
		Notes
	Chapter 2: Two-in-oneness: Transformations in “O”
		What kind of analytic presence and “withnessing” would that be?
		Clinical illustration: saying it for the first time
		Further thoughts: transformations in “O”neness
		A closing note of fiction
		Notes
	Chapter 3: Into the depths of a “black hole” and deadness
		A theoretical-clinical context
		The analysis
		Discussion
		Note
	Chapter 4: Whose sleep is it, anyway? Or, Night Moves
		“In the grip of the process”
		Clinical material
		Discussion
		I. In the grip of the uncanny
		II. Interconnectedness
		Concluding thoughts
		Afterword
		Notes
	Chapter 5: A beam of “chimeric” darkness: Presence, interconnectedness, and transformation in the psychoanalytic treatment of a patient convicted of sex offenses
		The “chimeric” element in interconnectedness
		Case illustration
		Discussion
		Notes
	Chapter 6: Where are you, my beloved? On absence, loss, and the enigma of telepathic dreams
		Delving into the profound mystery of telepathy in psychoanalysis
		Psychoanalysis and telepathic dreams
		Case illustration: “You alone knew how to wait/search”
		The dream
		“In a forest of frost, in a dawn of cornflowers”: the telepathic dream between absence and loss
		Notes
	Chapter 7: Pentheus rather than Oedipus: On perversion, survival, and analytic “presencing”
		Contextualizing perversion in psychoanalytic thinking—drive, object-relations, selfobject
		I.
		II.
		III.
		Not in Oedipus anymore: perversion—autotomy and survival
		Is perversion treatable?
		Concluding remarks
		Notes
PART II: The “voice” of breakdown
	Prologue: The annihilated last scream
		A Talmudic story
	Chapter 8: “For You have returned my soul within me with compassion”: “Presencing,” passion, and compassion in the depths of perversion, breakdown, despair, and deadness
		Compassion
		Case illustration
		Concluding thoughts: unless the bottom has been reached
		Epilogue
		Notes
	Chapter 9: The “voice” of breakdown: On facing the unbearable traumatic experience in psychoanalytic work
		The “voice” of trauma and breakdown
		Case illustrations
		Notes
	Chapter 10: From extension to revolutionary change in clinical psychoanalysis: The radical influence of Bion and Winnicott
		Bion
		Winnicott
		Clinical illustrations
		Concluding thoughts
		Notes
References
Index