IPA Inter-Regional Encyclopedic Dictionary of Psychoanalysis

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Contemporary analysts continue the theoretical extension begun by Freud of unconscious processes, TRAVERSING INDIVIDUAL SUBJECTS, as part of their dyadic and triadic internally configured societal interactions and group affiliations. The creative flourish of multiple conceptual overlaps, interacting and standing side-by-side with disparities and contradictions, within and among individual theories and within and across the three regions possibly reflects the maddening and inspiring ambiguities and paradoxes of the essence of the object, the unconscious, itself.

See also: CONFLICT CONTAINMENT: CONTAINER-CONTAINED COUNTERTRANSFERENCE DRIVES

OBJECT RELATIONS THEORIES PROJECTIVE IDENTIFICATION

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