title: On the wish to be invisible.
abstract: This paper is a reverie on the wish to be invisible and how it is played out in psychoanalysis. Beginning with a brief clinical case and its countertransference manifestations, the paper touches on invisibility in various aspects of analysis, ranging from publication to supervision. It emphasizes the unconscious determinants of the wish to be invisible.
authors.affiliation: Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, USA. docaig@aol.com
authors.forename: Arnold
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Goldberg
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000436:Alcoholics Anonymous; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000523:psychology; D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D004924:Escape Reaction; D005201:Fantasy; D005619:Freudian Theory; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D008611:Mentors; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D015990:Placebo Effect; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy / Q000193:education; D011619:Psychotropic Drugs / Q000627:therapeutic use; D011643:Publishing; D013689:Telephone; D014473:Unconscious, Psychology; D014836:Volition
chemical_list: D011619:Psychotropic Drugs