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Tearfulness: A Psychoanalytic Interpretation

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 1984
In our view, the tearful feeling state is occasioned by the ego temporarily threatened with being inundated by complex memories and affects. For the moment, the ego cannot provide appropriate satisfying and integrated verbal expression. Words and verbal thinking are delayed.
E C, Wood, C D, Wood
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The Reflexive Function of Psychoanalytic Interpretation

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 2023
The act of interpretation in psychoanalysis has a distinct character due to the discursive structure of the psychoanalytic setting. The discourse that issues from the interplay of the fundamental rule and evenly suspended attention is a reflection on reflection.
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Interpreting Psychoanalytic Interpretation: A Fourfold Perspective

The Psychoanalytic Review, 2011
Following an overview of psychoanalytic interpretation in theory, practice, and historical context, as well as the question of whether interpretations have scientific validity, the author holds that hermeneutics, the philosophical and psychological study of interpretation, provides a rich understanding of recent developments in self psychology, inter ...
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The Logic of Psychoanalytic Interpretation

The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 2010
The importance and difficulty of validating psychoanalytic interpretations at the time they are made led the author to propose an existential hypothesis method, which involves formulating fundamental psychoanalytic theories as existential hypotheses (i.e., hypotheses that claim the theories are true at least for one case but not necessarily for all ...
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Psychoanalytic interpretations: Word-music and translation

The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2003
A perspective on psychoanalytic interpretations as a special case of artistic translations (i.e. translations of both content and formal aspects of discourse) is proposed. Mutative interpretations are seen as creative endeavours that always presuppose a prior text, which is itself already a translation.
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Ego Psychoanalytic Rorschach Interpretation

Rorschachiana, 2017
Abstract. This article concerns the utility of ego psychoanalytic perspectives in Rorschach interpretation. Psychoanalytic ego psychology focuses on how people cope with events in their lives and how effectively they can meet challenges to their sense of well-being.
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Interpretive Fallibility and the Psychoanalytic Dialogue

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 1993
The concept of the analyst's interpretive fallibility is utilized to understand and organize the ways in which contemporary psychoanalytic theory has expanded on Freud's notions regarding the hypothetical nature of interpretation. This expansion involves a particular axis regarding the analyst's stance, an axis that cuts across theoretical scaffolding
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