Transference and countertransference : Freud’s therapeutic frame in narratives of psychotherapy
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Jesse Gay (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
- Advisor
- Ben Clarke
Abstract: My project analyzes an innate symbiosis between the fields of literature and psychoanalysis through the workings of transference within narratives of psychotherapy. In the texts I examine (e.g. Tender is the Night, Portnoy’s Complaint, The White Hotel, Fear of Flying, and Antichrist), I argue that transference is a product of the transitional space created through the therapeutic encounter between patient and analyst. It’s through transference, and its modulation within the created transitional spaces in my chosen texts, that a metaphorical and continuous mobius strip is created – bridging my texts to each other and the project. This mobius strip, crafted out of each text’s narrative encounters with itself and with psychoanalysis, is, by its very nature of sharing psychoanalytic thought with literary representation, constitutive of a conduit and convergence point for narrative; in turn, this function of the mobius strip allows for intersectionality between the fields of literature and psychoanalysis.
Transference and countertransference : Freud’s therapeutic frame in narratives of psychotherapy
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Dissertation
- Language: English
- Date: 2022
- Keywords
- Freud, Psychoanalysis, Transference, Transitional Space
- Subjects
- Psychoanalysis in literature
- Psychotherapy in literature
- Freud, Sigmund, $d 1856-1939 $x Influence