title: Boundary and analytic attitude: reflections on a summer holiday break.
abstract: The effect of a boundary in analytic work at the summer holiday break is discussed in relation to archetypal experiences of exclusion, loss and limitation. Some attempts by patients to mitigate an analyst's act of separation are reviewed as enactments, and in particular the meanings of a gift made by one patient. Analytic attitude towards enactment from within different schools of practice is sketched, with reference to the effect on the analyst of departing from the received practice of their own allegiance. A theory is adumbrated that the discomfort of 'contravening the rules' has a useful effect in sparking the analyst into consciousness, with greater attention to salient features in an individual case. Interpretation as an enactment is briefly considered, along with the possible effects of containing the discomfort of a patient's enactment in contrast to confronting it with interpretation.
authors.affiliation: London.
authors.forename: Susanna
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wright
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011573:Psychoanalytic Interpretation
keywords: Agieren; Boundary; Confini; Deutung; Geschenk; Grenze; Limite; Urlaubspause; actitud analítica; agir; agito; analytic attitude; analytische Haltung; atteggiamento analitico; attitude analytique; cadeau; enactment; gift; holiday break; interpretación; interpretation; interpretazione; interprétation; límite; pausa delle vacanze; pausa vacacional; pause analytique due aux congés d'été; puesta en acto; regalo; аналитическая установка; границы; интерпретация. подарок; отпуск; разыгрывание; 假期暂停; 分析的态度; 界限; 礼物; 行为表现; 诠释