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PSYCHOANALYTIC FIELD THEORIES AND CONCEPTS Tri-Regional Entry Inter-Regional Editorial Board: Roosevelt Cassorla (Latin America), Andrea Celenza (North America) and Marie-France Dispaux (Europe) Inter-Regional Coordinating Chair: Eva D. Papiasvili
I. INTRODUCTION AND INTRODUCTORY DEFINITION(S)
As is the case with most concepts in psychoanalysis the concept of the field or the analytic field has developed from many different inter-disciplinary, cultural and psychoanalytic traditions in different parts of the world. In Latin America , most contemporary field theories and conceptualizations are based on the concept of “Psychoanalytic Field” [campo psicoanalítico] as a dynamic configuration in the intersubjective dimension, as defined and described in the Argentinian Psychoanalytic Dictionary (Borenszstejn, 2014). This, today classical concept, was coined in 1960’s by Willy and Madeleine Baranger (1961-62, 1964, 1966), and is viewed by contemporary theorists as a macro-concept and an example of a complex conceptual thought (Kancyper, 1998). This complex conceptualization emerged in the clinical practice of the Barangers (1993) as a way to avoid the crystallization of the time flux and to stimulate in some degree the hopeful opening of a potential psychical change. The effects of so defined field are manifest in the analytical process or the lack of it, and the field becomes visible when the thought and affect content is lost in the intersubjective dynamics, in which case a tructure called ‘bastion” is generated and, in the most extreme cases, there is a “parasitizing” (Baranger, Baranger, and Mom, 1978). In contrast with other views of the ‘field’ in the analytic situation that contributed to the theory of technique, the Barangers’ field is characterized by the presence of what they called “the basic unconscious fantasy in the intersubjective dynamics,” which is an original and recurrent structure, based on which the transferences and countertransferences of the field are created by the members of the analytic dyad. The basic unconscious fantasy both ”translates” and “produces” (Baranger, M., 2004). This fantasy is a shared original “phantom” assemblage (Baranger, Campo and Mom 1970), in which the history, identifications and traumas of every participant (i.e., both the analyst and the analysand) are involved. (The English term “fantasy” is used here to translate the Spanish “ fantasía ” and “phantom” to translate the Spanish “ fantasma ” or its derivative “ fantasmático/ca ”.) Since the time this third fantasy-object, the product of the collusion among several phantoms, is generated, it commands the unconscious aspects of the dynamics of the relationship.
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