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‘Dispossessing’
(expelling)
Humiliation
Shame
breast
(Expulsive
anal
modality. A1)
Stifling breast (Retentive anal modality. A2) Poisoning breast (Phallico- urethral modality. FU)
Despair
Worthlessness. Contempt.
Pessimism
Mistrust
Mutilating breast (Genital modality. G)
Depersonalisation
Estrangement. Derealisation.
III. CONTEMPORARY EXTENSIONS AND CLINICAL USES OF THE CONCEPT
David Liberman’s Theory of Communication as a whole presents a contribution to contemporary psychoanalysis, which can be synthetized in two ways, along which the concept further developed: Firstly, the theory presents a modern empirically based system of evaluation and investigation; a system widely developed and detailed in his publications, especially in Liberman (1970), and then expanded and perfected in the vast and laborious oeuvre of David Maldavsky (2004, 2007 and 2013) on what this author has named the DLA (David Liberman Algorithm). Secondly, the other innovative direction that Liberman’s work has taken, lies its direct relevance to contemporary practice, evaluation as well as clinical implications for psychoanalytic work, as it provides innovative tools to address actual psychopathology in all its complexity and heterogeneity. Specific example of further developments in this area is Samuel Arbiser’s (1994) reformulation of the free associative process, interpretative interventions, and the whole of clinical setting, with favorable ensuing clinical consequences with patients with phobic-obsessive and perverse structure: “…[The fact that] the formulation did not retain the classical form of interpretation and inclined very clearly in the direction of warning was consistent with the language of action , which was the only language the patient used and understood (pragmatic distortion—Liberman, 1971-2)…” (Arbiser 1994, p. 741; original emphasis).
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