Reading Beckett in the Context of Psychoanalysis: A Literary Bridge between One-Person and Two-Person Psychology

The present paper constructs a practical conceptual bridge between reading and psychoanalysis across the divide of one‐ and two‐person psychologies. Using literary examples from the writings of Samuel Beckett that correspond to the working through of internalized traumatic experience, the paper link...

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Published inBritish journal of psychotherapy Vol. 33; no. 4; pp. 456 - 469
Main Author Miller, Ian, S.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London Artesian Books 01.11.2017
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Subjects
Adult Psychotherapy
Affect
Internalization
Meaning
Psychoanalysis
Psychology
Transference/Countertransference
Trauma
Working Through
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Summary:The present paper constructs a practical conceptual bridge between reading and psychoanalysis across the divide of one‐ and two‐person psychologies. Using literary examples from the writings of Samuel Beckett that correspond to the working through of internalized traumatic experience, the paper links contemporary psychoanalytic concepts including Bion's containercontained and Bollas’ evocative object, with the small grained ‘d’ arrivals embedded within the larger movements of the psychological shuttle between P/SD. These clarifications of meaning are discernible both within psychoanalysis and in evocative reading.
Bibliography:‘Reading Beckett in the context of psychoanalysis: A literary bridge between one‐person and two‐person psychology’ was Commended in the 2016 Rozsika Parker Prize (Post‐Qualification Path).
ISSN:0265-9883
1752-0118
DOI:10.1111/bjp.12307