title: Conflict in the middle voice.
abstract: The author presents material from Homeric texts that is expressed in the middle voice, an ancient Greek verb form that strikes a balance between passive and active voices. A clinical vignette is presented in which the analysand expresses herself in a way that captures some of the sensibility of the middle voice. The author discusses ways in which the vision of human experience expressed by the middle voice, a vision that was developed and elaborated in the later Greek tragedies, can illuminate psychoanalytic approaches to problems of personal agency and conflict.
authors.affiliation: jayrgreen@aol.com
authors.forename: Jay
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Greenberg
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008037:Linguistics; D011573:Psychoanalytic Interpretation; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy / Q000379:methods*