Surrender, Transformation, and Transcendence

Abstract

Integrating psychoanalysis, mysticism, and quantum physics, this paper explores different means of transformation through superconscious states that transcend space and time. Venturing into technique, the paper discusses ways these transcendent states of consciousness can be used clinically to come to know and experience the other more directly from the inside. A paradigm shift beyond intersubjectivity is implicated.

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¹ In giving Victoria the paper to read, she asked me why I had chosen the detail of a secret passage since that was not in the original dream but was part of the disguise I was employing. I did not have a reason that I was aware of. She then told me that she had been obsessed with finding secret passages as a child, constantly knocking on walls and removing books. We were both struck by the resonance, by a moment of the uncanny, and of how our minds were interconnected.

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Melanie Suchet

Melanie Suchet, Ph.D., is an Associate Editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and a Contributing Editor of Studies in Gender and Sexuality. She is a Clinical Associate Professor at NYU’s Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and is on the Faculty of the Stephen A. Mitchell Center for Relational Studies. She is the recipient of the American Psychological Association’s 2014 SGI Award and of their 2016 scholarship award. She is Coeditor of the Routledge book series Psyche and Soul and Originator and Co-editor of Relational Psychoanalysis: Volume 3, dedicated to bringing to the fore newer ideas, especially political and social issues.