Middle Phase

Fourth Year Adult Psychoanalytic Training (APT)
2021-22, 2nd Trimester — Fridays, 3:30-5:00pm
Katherine Weissbourd, PhD

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March 4, 2022 — Enactment

[40 pages]

Is enactment part of a containing process or antithetical to containment? Does Ted Jacobs’s paper shed light on this question? Try to bring examples of enactment as you understand it from your own work.

Pages: 38

Ivey, G. (2008). Enactment Controversies: A Critical Review of Current Debates. Int. J. Psycho-Anal., 89(1):19-38.

Jacobs, T.J. (2001). On Unconscious Communications and Covert Enactments: Some Reflections on Their Role in the Analytic Situation. Psychoanal. Inq., 21(1):4-23.