Weeds on the Ruins: Agency, Compromise Formation, and the Quest for Intersubjective Truth

REFERENCES

• Aron , L. 1996 . A meeting of minds: Mutuality in psychoanalysis , Hillsdale, NJ : The Analytic Press .
   Google Scholar
• Aron , L. 2005 . Acceptance, compassion and an affirmative analytic attitude in both intersubjectivity and compromise formation theory. . Psychoanalytic Dialogues , 15 : 433 – 446 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Aron , L. 2006 . Analytic impasse and the third: Clinical implications of intersubjectivity theory. . International Journal of Psycho-Analysis , 87 : 349 – 368 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Beebe , B. , Jaffe , J. , Lachmann , F. , Feldstein , S. and Crown , C. 2000 . Systems models in development and psychoanalysis: The case of vocal rhythm coordination and attachment. . Infant Mental Health Journal , 21 : 99 – 122 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Benjamin , J. 1995 . Like subjects, love objects: Essays on recognition and sexual difference , New Haven, CT : Yale University Press .
   Google Scholar
• Benjamin , J. 2004 . Beyond doer and done to: An intersubjective view of thirdness. . Psychoanalytic Quarterly , 73 : 5 – 46 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bion , W. 1962 . Learning from experience , Northvale, NJ : Aronson .
   Google Scholar
• Bion , W. 1983 . Attention and interpretation , New York : Aronson . (Original work published 1970)
   Google Scholar
• Bion , W. 1992 . Cogitations , London : Karnac .
   Google Scholar
• Bohleber , W. 2007 . Remembrance, trauma, and collective memory: The battle for memory in psychoanalysis. . International Journal of Psycho-Analysis , 88 : 329 – 352 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bollas , C. 1987 . The shadow of the object , New York : Columbia University Press .
   Google Scholar
• Bollas , C. 1989 . Forces of destiny , Northvale, NJ : Aronson .
   Google Scholar
• Brandchaft , B. 1994 . “ To free the spirit from the cell ” . In The intersubjective perspective , Edited by: Stolorow , R. , Atwood , G. and Brandchaft , B. 57 – 76 . Northvale, NJ : Aronson . (Original work published 1993)
   Google Scholar
• Brandchaft , B. 2007 . Systems of pathological accommodation and change in analysis. . Psychoanalytic Psychology , 24 : 667 – 687 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Brenner , C. 1994 . The mind as conflict and compromise formation. . Journal of Clinical Psychoanalysis , 3 : 473 – 488 .
   Google Scholar
• Brenner , C. 2002 . Conflict, compromise formation, and structural theory. . Psychoanalytic Quarterly , 70 : 397 – 417 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bromberg , P. 1991 . On knowing one's patient inside out: The aesthetics of unconscious communication. . Psychoanalytic Dialogues , 1 : 399 – 422 .
   Google Scholar
• Bromberg , P. 1998 . Standing in the spaces: Essays on clinical process, trauma, and dissociation , Hillsdale, NJ : The Analytic Press .
   Google Scholar
• Bromberg , P. 2006 . Awakening the dreamer: Clinical journeys , Hillsdale, NJ : The Analytic Press .
   Google Scholar
• Boston Change Process Study Group. 2007 . The foundational level of psychodynamic meaning. . International Journal of Psycho-Analysis , 88 : 843 – 860 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Busch , F. 2005 . Conflict theory/trauma theory. . Psychoanalytic Quarterly , 74 : 27 – 46 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Coburn , W. 2007 . “ Psychoanalytic complexity: Pouring new wine directly into one's mouth ” . In New developments in self psychology practice , Edited by: Buriski , P. and Kottler , A. 3 – 22 . New York : Jason Aronson .
   Google Scholar
• Coburn , W. Discussion of Fosshage, Lachmann, and Stolorow . Paper presented at the Annual International Conference on the Psychology of the Self . October 2008 , Baltimore.
   Google Scholar
• Davies , J. 1996 . Linking the “pre-analytic” with the postclassical: Integration, dissociation, and multiplicity of unconscious process. . Contemporary Psychoanalysis , 32 : 553 – 576 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Davies , J. and Frawley , M. 1994 . Treating the adult survivor of childhood sexual abuse , New York : Basic Books .
   Google Scholar
• Eigen , M. 1998 . The psychoanalytic mystic , Binghamton, NY : Esf Publications .
   Google Scholar
• Ferenczi , S. 1933 . “ Confusion of tongues between adults and the child: The language of tenderness and passion ” . In Final contributions to the problems and methods of psychoanalysis , Edited by: Balint , M. 156 – 167 . London : Karnac .
   Google Scholar
• Fonagy , P. and Target , M. 1998 . Mentalization and the changing aims of child psychoanalysis. . Psychoanalytic Dialogues , 8 : 79 – 87 .
   Google Scholar
• Fosshage , J. “ Development of individuality within a systems world ” . In The challenge of individuality: New perspectives in psychoanalytic contextualism , Edited by: Frie , R. and Coburn , W. New York : The Analytic Press . (in press).
   Google Scholar
• Freud , S. 1894 . The neuropsychoses of defense. . Standard Edition , 3 : 43 – 61 . London: Hogarth Press.
   Google Scholar
• Freud , S. 1895 . Studies on hysteria. . Standard Edition , 2 London: Hogarth Press.
   Google Scholar
• Freud , S. 1896 . Further remarks on the neuropsychoses of defense. . Standard Edition , 3 London: Hogarth Press.
   Google Scholar
• Freud , S. 1912 . A note on the unconscious in psycho-analysis. . Standard Edition , 12 : 257 – 266 . London: Hogarth Press.
   Google Scholar
• Freud , S. 1914 . Remembering, repeating and working-through. Further recommendations on the technique of psychoanalysis. . Standard Edition , 12 : 147 – 156 . London: Hogarth Press.
   Google Scholar
• Freud , S. 1915 . Instincts and their vicissitudes. . Standard Edition , 14 : 117 – 140 . London: Hogarth Press.
   Google Scholar
• Freud , S. 1937 . Constructions in psychoanalysis. . Standard Edition , 23 : 257 – 269 . London: Hogarth Press.
   Google Scholar
• Freud , S. 1939 . Moses and monotheism: three essays. . Standard Edition , 23 : 17 – 137 . London: Hogarth Press.
   Google Scholar
• Frie , R. 2008 . “ The situated nature of psychological agency ” . In Psychological agency: Theory, practice, and culture , Edited by: Frie , R. 1 – 31 . Cambridge, MA : MIT Press .
   Google Scholar
• Frie , R. and Reis , B. 2005 . “ From theory through practice ” . In Relational and intersubjective trends in psychoanalysis , Edited by: Mills , J. 3 – 33 . New York : Aronson .
   Google Scholar
• Gentile , J. 1998 . Listening for deep structure: Between the a priori and the intersubjective. . Contemporary Psychoanalysis , 34 : 67 – 89 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Gentile , J. 2001 . Close but no cigar: The perversion of agency and the absence of thirdness. . Contemporary Psychoanalysis , 37 : 623 – 654 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Gentile , J. 2007 . Wrestling with matter: Origins of intersubjectivity. . Psychoanalytic Quarterly , 76 : 547 – 582 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Gentile , J. 2008a . “ Agency and its clinical phenomenology ” . In Psychological agency: Theory, practice, and culture , Edited by: Frie , R. 117 – 135 . Cambridge, MA : MIT Press .
   Google Scholar
• Gentile , J. 2008b . Between private and public: Towards a conception of the transitional subject. . International Journal of Psycho-Analysis , 89 : 959 – 976 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Gerson , S. 2008 . Unconscious phantasy and relational reality. . Psychoanalytic Inquiry , 28 : 151 – 168 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Ghent , E. 1990 . Masochism, submission, and surrender. . Contemporary Psychoanalysis , 24 : 108 – 136 .
   Google Scholar
• Ghent , E. 1992 . Paradox and process. . Psychoanalytic Dialogues , 2 : 135 – 159 .
   Google Scholar
• Ghent , E. 2002 . Wish, need, drive, motive in the light of dynamic systems theory. . Psychoanalytic Dialogues , 12 : 763 – 808 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Green , A. 1975 . The analyst, symbolization and absence in the analytic setting (On changes in analystic ractice and analytic experience). . International Journal of Psychoanalysis , 43 : 436 – 440 .
   Google Scholar
• Grand , S. 2000 . The reproduction of evil , Hillsdale, NJ : The Analytic Press .
   Google Scholar
• Greenberg , J. 1991 . Oedipus and beyond , Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press .
   Google Scholar
• Greenberg , J. 2005 . Conflict in the middle voice. . Psychoanalytic Quarterly , 74 : 105 – 120 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Greenberg , J. and Mitchell , S. 1983 . Object relations in psychoanalytic theory , Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press .
   Google Scholar
• Grotstein , J . 2007 . A beam of intense darkness: Wilfred Bion's legacy to psychoanalysis , London : Karnac .
   Google Scholar
• Harris , A. 2005 . Gender as soft assembly , Hillsdale, NJ : The Analytic Press .
   Google Scholar
• Herman , J. 1992 . Trauma and recovery , New York : Basic Books .
   Google Scholar
• Hoffman , I. 1998 . Ritual and spontaneity in psychoanalytic process , Hillsdale, NJ : The Analytic Press .
   Google Scholar
• Hoffman , I. 2005 . Review essay, Oedipus and beyond by J. Greenberg. . Psychoanalytic Dialogues , 5 : 93 – 112 .
   Google Scholar
• IARPP Colloquium. (2007, November). Discussion of paper by Donnel Stern: “The Eye Sees Itself: Dissociation, Enactment, and the Achievement of Conflict.”
   Google Scholar
• Klugman , D. Investment and divestment: Oneness, agentic relatedness, and self psychology's tripartite model of the person. Paper presented at the 20th Annual International Conference on the Psychology of the Self . Chicago.
   Google Scholar
• Kohut , H. 1977 . The restoration of the self , Madison, CT : International Universities Press .
   Google Scholar
• Kohut , H. 1984 . How does analysis cure? , Chicago : University of Chicago Press .
   Google Scholar
• Kundera , M. 1980 . The book of laughter and forgetting , New York : Knopf .
   Google Scholar
• Kundera , M. 1984 . The unbearable lightness of being , New York : Harper and Row .
   Google Scholar
• Lacan , J. 1977 . “ The function and field of speech and language in psychoanalysis ” . In Ecrits: A selection , Edited by: Sheridan , A. 30 – 113 . New York : Norton . (Original work published 1953)
   Google Scholar
• Macrone , M. 1990 . Brush up your Shakespeare! , New York : Harper and Row .
   Google Scholar
• Marks-Tarlow , T. 2008 . Psyche's veil: Psychotherapy, fractals, and complexity , New York : Routledge .
   Google Scholar
• Martin , J. , Sugarman , J. and Thompson , J. 2003 . Psychology and the question of agency , Albany, NY : SUNY Press .
   Google Scholar
• Masterson , J. 1976 . Psychotherapy of the borderline adult: A developmental approach , New York : Brunner/Mazel .
   Google Scholar
• Mills , J. 2004 . Clarifications on Trieb: Freud's theory of motivation reinstated. . Psychoanalytic Psychology , 21 : 673 – 677 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Mitchell , S. A. 1988 . Relational concepts in psychoanalysis , Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press .
   Google Scholar
• Muller , J. 1996 . Beyond the psychoanalytic dyad: Developmental semiotics in Freud, Pierce, and Lacan , New York : Routledge .
   Google Scholar
• Muller , J. 2007 . “ Introduction ” . In The embodied subject , Edited by: Muller , J. and Tillman , J. vii – x . New York : Aronson .
   Google Scholar
• Ogden , T. 1994 . Subjects of analysis , Northvale, NJ : Aronson .
   Google Scholar
• Ogden , T. 2005 . This art of psychoanalysis: Dreaming undreamt dreams and interrupted cries , New York : Routledge .
   Google Scholar
• Ogden , T. 2007 . Reading Harold Searles. . International Journal of Psycho-Analysis , 88 : 353 – 369 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Ornstein , P. H. and Ornstein , A. 2005 . Conflict in contemporary clinical work: A self psychological perspective. . Psychoanalytic Quarterly , 74 : 219 – 252 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Peirce , C. S. 1891 . “ The architecture of theories ” . In The essential Peirce: Selected philosophical writings , Vol. 1 Edited by: Houser , N. and Kloesel , C. 285 – 297 . Bloomington : Indiana University Press .
   Google Scholar
• Pizer , S. 1992 . The negotiation of paradox in the analytic process. . Psychoanalytic Dialogues , 2 : 215 – 240 .
   Google Scholar
• Pizer , S. 1998 . Building bridges: The negotiation of paradox in psychoanalysis , Hillsdale, NJ : The Analytic Press .
   Google Scholar
• Pollock , L. and Slavin , J. 1998 . The struggle for recognition: Disruption and reintegration in the experience of agency. . Psychoanalytic Dialogues , 8 : 857 – 873 .
   Google Scholar
• Rank , O. 1945 . Will therapy and truth and reality , New York : Knopf .
   Google Scholar
• Rothstein , A. 2005 . Compromise formation theory: An intersubjective dimension. . Psychoanalytic Dialogues , 15 : 415 – 431 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Rustin , J. 1997 . Infancy, agency, and intersubjectivity: A view of therapeutic action. . Psychoanalytic Dialogues , 7 : 43 – 62 .
   Google Scholar
• Sander , L. 1983 . “ Polarity, paradox, and the organizing process ” . In Frontiers of infant psychology , Edited by: Call , J. , Galenson , E. and Tyson , R. 315 – 327 . New York : Basic Books .
   Google Scholar
• Sander , L. 2002 . Thinking differently. . Psychoanalytic Dialogues , 12 : 11 – 42 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Seligman , S. 2005 . Dynamic systems as a metaframework for psychoanalysis. . Psychoanalytic Dialogues , 15 : 285 – 319 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Slavin , J. 1997 . “ Memory, dissociation and agency in sexual abuse ” . In Memories of sexual betrayal: Truth, fantasy, repression, and dissociation , Edited by: Gartner , R. 221 – 236 . New York : Aronson .
   Google Scholar
• Slavin , J. Psychoanalytic controversies and the developmental trajectory: Agency, tearfulness and sexuality . Paper presented at a symposium at the Spring Meeting, Division of Psychoanalysis (39), American Psychological Association . New York.
   Google Scholar
• Slavin , J. 2007 . “ Personal agency and the possession of memory ” . In Memory: An interdisciplinary approach , Edited by: Mendels , D. and Soreq , H. 299 – 317 . Bern, , Switzerland : Peter Lang .
   Google Scholar
• Slavin , J. Becoming an individual: Technically subversive thoughts on the role of the analyst's influence. . Psychoanalytic Dialogues , (in press).
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Slavin , J. and Pollock , L. 1997 . The poisoning of desire: The destruction of agency and the recovery of psychic integrity in sexual abuse. . Contemporary Psychoanalysis , 33 : 573 – 593 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Slavin , M. and Kriegman , D. 1992 . The adaptive design of the human psyche: Psychoanalysis, evolutionary biology, and the therapeutic process , New York : Guilford .
   Google Scholar
• Slavin , M. and Kriegman , D. 1998 . Why the analyst needs to change. . Psychoanalytic Dialogues , 8 : 247 – 284 .
   Google Scholar
• Smith , H. 2003 . Conceptions of conflict in psychonalytic theory and practice. . Psychoanalytic Quarterly , 72 : 49 – 96 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Smith , H. 2005 . Dialogues on conflict: Toward an integration of methods. . Psychoanalytic Quarterly , 74 : 327 – 363 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Sroufe , A. 1999 . Implications of attachment theory for developmental psychopathology. . Developmental Psychopathology , 11 : 1 – 13 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Starr , K. 2008 . Faith as the fulcrum of psychic change. . Psychoanalytic Dialogues , 18 : 203 – 229 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Stern , D. B. 1997 . Unformulated experience: From dissociation to imagination in psychoanalysis , Hillsdale, NJ : The Analytic Press .
   Google Scholar
• Stern , D. B. 2004 . The eye sees itself: Dissociation, enactment, and the achievement of conflict. . Contemporary Psychoanalysis , 40 : 197 – 237 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Stern , D. B. 2009 . Partners in thought: Working with unformulated experience, dissociation, and enactment , New York : Routledge .
   Google Scholar
• Stern , D. N. 1977 . The first relationship: Infant and mother , Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press .
   Google Scholar
• Stern , D. N. 2004 . The present moment , New York : Norton .
   Google Scholar
• Stolorow , R. 1997 . Dynamic, dyadic, intersubjective systems: An evolving paradigm for psychoanalysis. . Psychoanalytic Psychology , 14 : 337 – 364 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Stolorow , R. and Atwood , G. 1992 . Contexts of being: The intersubjective foundations of psychological life , Hillsdale, NJ : The Analytic Press .
   Google Scholar
• Straker , G. 2006 . Signing with a scar. . Psychoanalytic Dialogues , 16 : 93 – 112 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Thelen , E. 2005 . Dynamic systems theory and the complexity of change. . Psychoanalytic Dialogues , 15 : 255 – 283 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Thelen , E. and Smith , L. 1994 . A dynamic systems approach to the development of cognition and action , Cambridge, MA : MIT Press .
   Google Scholar
• Van der Kolk , B. 1994 . The body keeps score: Memory and the evolving psychobiology of posttraumatic stress. . Harvard Review of Psychiatry , 1 : 253 – 265 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Winnicott , D. W. 1965a . The maturational processes and the facilitating environment , New York : International Universities Press .
   Google Scholar
• Winnicott , D. W. 1965b . “ The theory of the parent–infant relationship ” . In The maturational processes and the facilitating environment , 37 – 55 . New York : International Universities Press . (Original work published 1960)
   Google Scholar
• Winnicott , D. W. 1992 . “ Transitional objects and transitional phenomena ” . In Through Paediatrics to psychoanalysis: Collected papers , 229 – 242 . New York : Brunner/Mazel . (Original work published 1951)
   Google Scholar