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field atmosphere, as if those feelings and affects were a compass and a lamp orienting and illuminating the darkness and labyrinths of the human soul. In contemporary Kancyper’s view (1998, 1999), the basic unconscious fantasy should not be reduced to its most regressive aspects of bastion and ‘parasitizing’, because it is also permanently present during the prospective processes of creativity, promoting a catalytic, productive field of new ideas and inventions in the intersubjective dynamics. On the other hand, Kancyper acknowledged that the Barangerean concept of field and the basic fantasy commanding the unconscious aspects of the relationship may awaken in analysts several impediments and resistances, because it may inflict a new wound on their narcissism and power; once again, they may lose the illusion of their omnipotence and their sovereign self-sufficiency. The fantasy born in and through the field “spreads its wings” in the bond with the other and the others. It is autonomous and exercises its own influence on the subjects, analogous to the Unconscious, having its own laws and psychodynamics independent of the conscious and rational rule. To accept its presence in every (more or less) stable and lasting relationship inevitably implies additional, complex work. Analysts cannot keep maintaining the position of passive observers of a situation that unduly alienates and frustrates them. When frustrated or alienated, analysts must put in additional psychic work, aware that through their own psychical functioning they asymmetrically participate in the outcome of nurturing or destructive bonds. This added psychical work demands to reallocate the automatic tendency to deposit in others the stream of projections and projective identifications or the massive return of these on the self, and to admit that eventually every member of the field is involved in the production of the intersubjective fantasy, which is original to and originates in the particular situation of that field. Although the concept of the field emerged in the theory of technique for the treatment of adults, Kancyper (1998, 1999) views it also as highly relevant in the analysis of children and adolescents. However, here the matter is more complex, due to the effects of the triangle formed by parents, the analysand and the analyst. This demands the latter to make a thorough exploration of the multiple-field dynamics, since it should include the effects of the parents’ unconscious fantasies in the establishment and creation of the basic unconscious fantasy of the field.
II. Cbb. Roosevelt Cassorla In a series of publications, Cassorla ((2001, 2005, 2008, 2012, 2017, 2018) developed many aspects of the Psychoanalytic Field theory. Below are some of his major contributions.
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