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| Published: November 20, 2021
From Seeking to Witnessing: Freud’s Unique Perspective on Human Subjectivity
Master’s Student, Ambedkar University Delhi, India Google Scholar More about the auther
DIP: 18.01.076.20210904
DOI: 10.25215/0904.076
ABSTRACT
“This struggle between doctor and the patient, between intellect and instinctual life, between understanding and seeking to act, is played out almost exclusively in the phenomenon of transference” (Freud, 1912. p.322). This paper is a theoretical review, and will attempt to articulate Freud’s unique perspective on human subjectivity through what occurs in the psychoanalytic clinic: the unfolding of a patient’s inner world within the complex intersubjective tides of the analyst, the patient and the setting. The clinic here also becomes a metaphor for and a representation of what occurs outside or without it. Towards the end, Freud’s contribution will also be seen in the light of his changing technique and the impact of this change on the psychoanalytic way of seeing.
Keywords
Psychoanalysis, Freud, transference, psychotherapy, acting out, resistance
This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
© 2021, Puri R.
Received: September 20, 2021; Revision Received: November 02, 2021; Accepted: November 20, 2021
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ISSN 2348-5396
ISSN 2349-3429
18.01.076.20210904
10.25215/0904.076
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Published in Volume 09, Issue 4, October- December, 2021