Erotic overstimulation and the co-construction of sexual meanings in transference-countertransference experience.
This paper attempts to explore the ways in which Western child-rearing practices do not provide an early interpersonal experience in which infantile, sexual, or sensual-erotic experience is held, contained, and given meaning within a safe parent-child dyad. It is the author's basic premise that this normative developmental process fosters a dissociation of unformulated aspects of early sexual and sensual-erotic experience, leaving much of the experience ensconced in unsymbolized and therefore relatively inchoate image, sensation, and affect. The impact of such a dissociation on the patient-analyst relationship is explored, specifically at times when sexual or erotic material begins to impact upon transference-countertransference processes. An extended clinical example is provided.
Davies
J M
JM
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D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002668:Child Rearing; D003071:Cognition; D003379:Countertransference; D004882:Erotica; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010465:Perception; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D012725:Sexual Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D014167:Transference, Psychology