Cum-sidering the Other. The Sublime in the analytic encounter
Journal title STUDI JUNGHIANI
Author/s Fulvia De Benedittis
Publishing Year 2011 Issue 2010/32
Language Italian Pages 19 P. 97-115 File size 86 KB
DOI 10.3280/JUN2010-032006
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According to "aesthetic conflict concept" (Meltzer), the Authoress shows how the analyst and the patient should build up a particular relationship in which there is reciprocal recognition of beauty, just like mother and son. This reciprocal feeling is an essential stage of psychical life. In the psychoanalytical context, the feeling of beauty is not present as an apollonian beauty, but as the sublime. The experience of the sublime is not only a body perception, but it is also an ascetic and spiritual aisthesis. In the human and especially psychotherapeutic meeting, the person’s deepest truth comes out through a symbolic act, which is able to transfigure each other into his intimate reality. Every meeting as psychotherapeutic meeting is authentic if it pursues a psychical truth. This event can produce a "living symbol" (Jung) if there is a reciprocal imagining look. The Authoress is inspired by the psychoanalytical theories of Meltzer, Bion and Jung and by religious, aesthetical and philosophical sources too.
Keywords: Sublime, spiritual aisthesis, transfiguration, rêverie, alpha-function, symbol, transcendent function, imagination, truth
Fulvia De Benedittis, Cum-siderare l’Altro. Il Sublime nell’incontro analitico in "STUDI JUNGHIANI" 32/2010, pp 97-115, DOI: 10.3280/JUN2010-032006