Elective: The Body

Adult Psychoanalytic Training (APT)
2023-24, 2nd Trimester — Fridays, 3:30-5:00pm
Babs Glover, MA LMHC
John Cardinali, PsyD

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December 1, 2023 — Mime is Money: Embodied subjectivity and embodied intersubjectivity; Mimesis in relating

[31 pages]

Sletvold comes to us from the tradition of Norwegian Character Analysis, which is heir to the work of both Freud and Wilhelm Reich.  Sletvold elaborates the Freudian perspective on the body and situates Reich, who pioneered the development of character analysis and centered the place of the body in his theory and work, at the core of the Norwegian perspective. Sletvold foregrounds the importance of embodiment in both subjectivity and intersubjectivity, argues for the centrality of body mimesis in the development of human relations, and introduces us to the mimetic approach to clinical reflection, which promises to deepen and broaden our understanding of our patients.

Sletvold, J. (2014). Ch6: “Embodied Subjectivity: Freud’s ‘Ich’ and the embodied self” in The Embodied Analyst: From Freud and Reich to Relationality. NY: Routledge (pp68-99).

Sletvold, J. (2014). Ch7: “Embodied Intersubjectivity: ‘You’ in mind” in The Embodied Analyst: From Freud and Reich to Relationality. NY: Routledge (pp68-99).