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Thomas Ogden - Reverie and Interpretation - Privacy Reverie and Analytic Technique - 4
Thomas Ogden - Reverie and Interpretation - Privacy Reverie and Analytic Technique - 4
Analytic Technique
I hold this to be the highest task of two
people: that each should stand guard over
the solitude of the other.
R M. Rilke, 1904
Debussy felt that music is the space between the notes.
Something similar might be said of psychoanalysis.
Between the notes of the spoken words constituting the
analytic dialogue are the reveries of the analyst and the
analysand. It is in this space occupied by the interplay
of reveries that one finds the music of psychoanalysis.
The current chapter represents an effort to examine
some of the methods (techniques) that we as analysts
depend upon to help us listen to this music.
In this chapter and the next, I shall attempt to
describe three separate, but interrelated implications
for psychoanalytic technique that derive from the
108 Reverie and In terpretaaon
1. Psychoanalysis is a psychological-interpersonal
process that requires conditions in which analyst
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