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>Howard,
>This is exactly what analyst do every day all day long. If for example a
>patient starts to tell a dream and then announces "That's funny, I
>remembered it a moment ago." the analyst might say, "It seems that as you
>decided to tell me the dream something outside your awareness interfered
>with recalling it. Perhaps, there was something about telling the dream
>here that threatened to make you uncomfortable and so it was driven from
>awareness." (In jargon The patient's wish to work within the working
>alliance stimulated signal anxiety because the relatively undisguished
>content of his dream, which results from the partially lifting of
>repression, caused him to again repress the memory of the dream. This
>probably resulted from repressed unconscious fantasies that were aspects of
>the transference.)
>
>One can do similar things for more general situations. For example,
>describing intergroup violence in terms of narcissitic rage (easily done in
>plain English) provides vitally important information about why ethnic
>struggles become so chronic and intractable.
>
>Your challenge is generally easy when it comes to the "clinical theory" of
>psychoanalysis. Metapsychology on the other hand is largely tautological
>and therefore often does collapse when said plainly.
>
>At 06:59 PM 3/9/00 -0500, you wrote:
>>For the fun of it and to make a point:
>>
>>My challenge is for psychoanalytic theory supporters to (1) take a
>>psychoanalytic concept, (2) express it in plain English (no
>>psychoanalytic jargon allowed), and (3) describe how said concept is a
>>contribution to an understanding of the human condition.
>>
>>Why? I'll bet that most psychoanalytic concepts need jargon and an
>>audience aware of the controversies within the world of psychoanalysis
>>to have much meaning. Take psychoanalytic concepts out of a
>>psychoanalytic context and they disappear.
>>
>>Let's see.
>>
>>Howard D. Eisman, Ph.D.
>
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