Traditional analytic orientation to memory as subject to repression has overshadowed examination of some of the ego's other activities bearing on memory. The author examines the defensive use of memory with the analytic goal of maximum autonomous access for the patient to the ego's previously unconscious management of intrapsychic conflict. A close scrutiny of an example of this in the form of the telling of a dream explores this resistance process and illustrates a technical approach. Some aspects of this perspective are considered in relation to traditional approaches to dream material. Certain technical priorities for differing clinical settings are discussed.
Get full access to this article
View all access options for this article.
References
1.
AbendS. M. (1989). Counter-transference and psychoanalytic technique. Psychoanal. Q., 58:374–395
2.
BrennerC. (1969). Some comments on technical precepts in psychoanalysis. J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn., 17:333–352
3.
BrennerC. (1976). Analysis of dream, symptoms, fantasies, and similar phenomena. In Psychoanalytic Technique and Psychic Conflict.New York: Int. Univ. Press, pp. 133–166
4.
FreudS. (1900). Examination dreams. S. E., 4
5.
FreudS. (1913). On beginning the treatment (further recommendations on the technique of psycho-analysis). S. E., 12
6.
FreudS. (1933). Revision of the theory of dreams. S. E., 22
7.
GrayP. (1973). Psychoanalytic technique and the ego's capacity for viewing intrapsychic activity. J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn., 21:474–494
8.
GrayP. (1986). On helping analysands observe intrapsychic activity. In Psychoanalysis: The Science of Mental Conflict. Essays in Honor of Charles Brenner, ed. RichardsA. S.RichardsA. S.. Hillsdale, N.J.: Analytic Press, pp. 245–262
