Reflections on a contemporary psychoanalytic metatheory
Abstract
Freud and later Rapaport and Gill proposed metapsychological points of view they hoped would provide analysts with the means to organize the major findings in the field. I propose an open dynamic systems theory as a possible metatheory and five areas of inquiry that can be used to organize, describe, and conceptualize the specifics of any psychic happening. I illustrate the use of the five areas of inquiry with a clinical vignette.
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Psychoanalytic metatheory, organization of clinical experience, case presentation
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