title: The analyst's way of being: recognizing separable subjectivities and the pendulum's swing.
abstract: Whether the analyst finds the patient's emerging transference affectively tolerable or intolerable plays an important role in the analytic couple's negotiation of the configuration that the transference-countertransference relationship ultimately assumes. If the analyst is deeply repelled by transference-related roles to which he is assigned, patient-ascribed attributions, or projection-drenched interactions, he may react in violent protest, engaging in enactments that say more about his separable subjectivity than about the intersubjective situation. While there has been a recent trend to view enactments as a crucial aspect of psychoanalytic technique, this trend risks overlooking the way in which the analyst's way of being comes into play in the treatment.
authors: Training and Supervising Analyst at the New Center for Psychoanalysis and at the Psychoanalytic Center of California in Los Angeles, California.
authors: Richard
authors: R
authors: Tuch
mesh_terms: D003379:Countertransference; D006801:Humans; D011385:Projection; D011572:Psychoanalysis; D012380:Role; D014167:Transference, Psychology
keywords: Analyst's way of being; analyst's psychology; analytic process; analytic stance; conjunctive and disjunctive reactions; countertransference; doer/done to; enactment; manifest and core transference; one- and two-person psychologies; projective identification; role responsiveness; separable subjectivities