Abstract: Abstract Review of Thomas Ogden’s Rediscovering Psychoanalysis: Thinking and Dreaming, Learning and Forgetting, The New Library of Psychoanalysis, London: Routledge, 2009. In his latest book, Thomas Ogden emphasizes the importance of the analyst’s evolved style as an essential aspect of treatment. He responds to nuances of style in creative writers and in analyst-patient interactions. His notion of talking-as-dreaming, a kind of mutual reverie state in which consciousness is encouraged to receive unconscious communications, is exemplified in analytic treatment as well as in supervision and teaching. The capacity to engage in talking-as-dreaming is part of the capacity to focus not only on content but also on how a particular narrative is being told, whether in the context of analysis, supervision, teaching, or the reading of clinical essays. In the four concluding chapters, Ogden also sympathetically explicates key contributions by Hans Loewald, Wilfred Bion, and Harold Searles. Individuation is a paramount concern throughout this book and the reviewer also notes the book’s resonance with other basic Jungian ideas.
Publication Year: 2009
Publication Date: 2009-10-01
Language: en
Type: article
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