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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819900003321

Autore

Ferraro Fausta <1947->

Titolo

Endings : on termination in psychoanalysis / / Fausta Ferraro and Alessandro Garella ; translated by Dorothy L. Zinn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, c2009

ISBN

1-282-50520-3

9786612505201

90-420-2626-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (214 p.)

Collana

Contemporary psychoanalytic studies ; ; 10

Altri autori (Persone)

GarellaAlessandro

ZinnDorothy L

Disciplina

150.195

Soggetti

Psychoanalysis

Psychotherapy - Termination

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- The Beginnings: Freud, Ferenczi and Analysis Terminable and Interminable -- After Freud: The Theme of Termination in the Mid-1900s -- Theoretical Developments and Modern Orientations -- The Psychoanalytic Process -- The Termination Process -- The Termination of Analysis as a Psychoanalytic Event -- The Liminal -- Forms of Time -- A Map of Termination -- Ending -- References.

Sommario/riassunto

Ever since Analysis Terminable and Interminable , the termination of therapy has placed the clinical and metapsychological levels of psychoanalytic thought in a dialectical tension. The rereading proposed by the authors situates Freud and Ferenczi as two poles of a debate which is still ongoing: psychoanalytic literature demonstrates the convergences, divergences and hybridizations which have come about through time, the various schools and the geography of analysis. The authors explore the development of the termination process , and within this, the termination event as a final moment, each with its own characteristics. The beginning of the termination process constitutes a critical moment in the analysis, one we may investigate through the conceptual lens of liminality , a sort of threshold or border that is



useful for the reading of a wide range of phenomena related to termination. Every termination is nonetheless incomplete, and it is against this backdrop that the authors’ theoretical reflection and clinical experience interact, suggesting a typology of analytic termination. From this, a map of a little-explored terrain emerges, where we see a mixing of the boundaries between interior and exterior reality, individual and couple goals, and theoretical aims and concrete aspirations - all requiring a meticulous task of reconnaissance.