Epilogue: Ed Tronick’s Contribution to the Theory and Technique of Psychoanalysis

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Notes

¹ Also, in Freeman’s discussion of how neuronal signals are transmitted in the brain, “At the microscopic level the wave-pulse relationship is linear within sharp limits of threshold and blockade … but at the macroscopic level the relationship is nonlinear and does not change over time” (Freeman, 1999, p. 53).

² The idea that the conscious process in psychoanalysis is only apparently coherent and not actually coherent is not new. Important examples of this idea appear in the work of Lacan, who writes of the disruptive power of the unconscious, and in discussions of the dialectic inherent in psychoanalytic work (Ogden, 1997; Bleger, 2012). Galatzer-Levy continues to be a leader in his innovative application of the principles of nonlinear theory to psychoanalysis (Galatzer-Levy, 2004, 2009).