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H K Wrye

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PubMed1994

Narrative scripts: composing a life with ambition and desire.

The "formative and deformative narratives" and the psychodynamics of male-female relations permeate us all, and are revealed in theme and variations in our consulting rooms. Conventional narrative forms are largely androcentric, action-oriented, and point single-mindedly toward a goal (Van Buren, 1991), whereas women's stories and their identities--digressive and complex weavings--are built around the significant relationships in their lives (Gilligan, 1982; Kaplan, 1984; Bernay, 1986). As clinicians, we must be mindful of derangements of our own desire, shaped by our biological mothers and fathers, our psychoanalytic fathers, Freud, and his early followers, and sometimes our own analysts. We must attend to the voice of our own ambition and trace its flourishes and derailments, understanding female ambition from a woman's point of view in order to assist our patients in reconstructing deformative narratives into healthier and more enabling ones. We need to take responsibility for our own ambition, stilling the disabling voices of the characters in our own intrapsychic dramas, maintaining consciousness of the deformative voices in the culture at large, and attunement to voices of support for ambition integrated with nurturance and aggression.

Assertiveness↗
PubMed1991

The maternal erotic countertransference.

This paper reviews literature on countertransference erotism and perversion, and offers our conception of the maternal erotic countertransference. We stress that sado-masochistic issues are not only issues of aggression, but represent pre-oedipal erotism as well. The analyst's struggle with these issues may contribute to a perverse misalliance instead of a creative coupling. It is typical of the perverse misalliance that it contains a refusal to participate, with all the attendant disinterest and deadness and lack of creativity usually associated with that condition. We have emphasized two keys to springing the analyst from the deadlocks of such paralysing countertransferences, thereby opening access to the creative use of both maternal erotic transference and countertransference. First, is the analyst's ability to view herself or himself as maternally erotic; and second, is the analyst's ability to experience, contain and make accessible to analysis the patient's potential erotism, including its perverse aspects.

Adult↗
PubMed1989

The maternal erotic transference.

After reviewing literature on gender and erotic transferences, which have often been treated as primarily problematic, this paper offers a positive and transformational view of aspects of what is called the maternal erotic transference (MET). Rooted in mother and baby's earliest sensual contacts, it manifests in concrete transferences to the real parts of the body of the therapist; its expressions are typically inhibited as preverbal and/or defended against out of shame and fear of humiliation. Analysts of both genders who have access to their own maternal erotic countertransferences and their patients' matching transferences may enable their patients' acceptance of and immersion in the maternal erotic transference in its loving and sado-masochistic permutations and thus foster the making of a sense of wholeness, and connectedness to living. Experienced thus, MET may herald the transition in the analysis from a dyadic to a triadic oedipal phase animated by accessible pre-oedipal aggressivity and sensuality.

Breast↗