The Role of the Imagination in an Analysis of Unconscious Relatedness. (October 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Hargaden, Helena
• Is Part Of: Transactional analysis journal. Volume 46:Number 4(2016:Oct.)
• Page Start: 311
• Page End: 321
• Publication Date: 2016-10
• Subjects: archetypes -- enactment -- the third -- the unconscious -- reverie -- transgenerational trauma -- feminization -- the wind/pneuma -- right and left brain hemispheres -- the feminine; Transactional analysis -- Periodicals; Psychology, Social -- Periodicals; Psychotherapy, Group -- Periodicals; Analyse transactionnelle -- Périodiques; 616.89145
• DOI: 10.1177/0362153716662624
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0362-1537

Abstract

The author presents a case study of her work with a female client. She chooses two periods of time in the therapy to explore the unconscious intersubjective nature of the clinical encounter. In part one she describes how an enactment leads to an impasse. Using the theory of the third, she describes how the impasse is resolved, which paves the way for the deeper therapeutic process described in part two. There she shows how previously dissociated traumatic states in both client and therapist are brought into conscious awareness. The theoretical focus is on theories of enactment, thirds, the use of imagination, reverie, and paradigms of the mind.