It's a rather bizarre choice
of analysands, isn't it?
Classical psychoanalysis sees the curative factor as arising out
of the analysand's projection upon the analyst of crucial unresolved relationship issues from childhood.
Not exact matches
The division between heroic analyst and pathetic
analysand is fully prefigured in Rousseau: pathetic in the doing and heroic in the telling seems to be the motto
of the paranoid intellectual.
The photo in some respects doesn't reveal very much: A small mat to protect the mattress from the
analysand's shoes, a folded blanket, and a pillow are pretty much it, apart from a section
of the mattress itself.
But each
of these positions could be interchangeable on a meta level if we follow Brannon's cue
of adding the analyst to the story, marking the positions
of analyst and
analysand both in the center
of the graph.
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