The Impossibility of Meaning: Joining and Rejoining: Reply to Cooney, Ferro, and Stern. Issue 2 (3rd March 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: McGleughlin, Jade
• Is Part Of: Psychoanalytic dialogues. Volume 30:Issue 2(2020)
• Page Start: 160
• Page End: 165
• Publication Date: 2020-03-03
• Subjects: Psychoanalysis -- Periodicals; Psychotherapist and patient -- Periodicals; 616.891705
• DOI: 10.1080/10481885.2020.1727186
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1048-1885

Abstract

Abstract : In response to commentaries on my paper The Analyst's Necessary Nonsovereignty and the Generative Power of the Negative, by Donnel B. Stern, Antonino Ferro, and Amy Schwartz Cooney (this issue), I grapple with queries including defining subjectivity and sovereignty (Cooney); the negative in relation to subjectivity (Stern); the power and problematic nature of the analyst as both part of the field and interpreter of the field (Ferro); and the asymmetry of the analyst/patient relationship. More significantly I return to my own emphasis on knowing as assurance and wonder how our writing may engage less sovereignty and include more performance, play, risk and vulnerability. I query what we achieve when knowing is interrupted by the negative and suggest a shared sensory experiencing may allow access to a transformational process where the force of the negative runs through us all.