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Reflexive Paper re: transference

Reflexive *****: Perspectives on Transference, Counter-*****, Projection Identification and Pathological Projection Identification

Introduction

The disparate experiences of both my familial and undergraduate encounter compared to my participation in this masters degree programme is striking; especially shifting from a neuropsychological perspective and some cognitive behavioural interventions to the psychoanalytic principles of Sigmund Freud, Wilfred Bion, Melanie Klein, etc., and immersion into following topics: transference, counter-transference in ***** psychotic and neurotic states; the differences in psychotic, borderline ***** neurotic conditions; the concept of 'Other Mind'; And the understanding of the topographical, structural and economic pre-characteristics of psychotic states and ***** defences employed by psychotic personality.

A came to this curriculum with a basic lay persons view of psychoanalysis unfortunately through the eyes of misanthropic university lecturers and mid 20th century psychiatry. My *****ualisation was that psychosis ***** from a psycho-neurological *****. However, the exposure ***** Freudian theory and subsequent psychoanalytic theoreticians constructs and implementation of them in the course of one to one session with the patient, has been particularly elucidating. Hence I will attempt ***** reveal my understanding by comparing Freud's topographical and ***** models followed ***** exploring the theories with the clinical contact I have had with ***** patient. This ***** hope will bring about an understanding ***** the metamorphoses of my original to present understanding of the concepts.

***** ographical and structural models

Freud originally tried ***** portray a neurological model of ***** mind in his 1923 publication of Ego ***** the Id, which he abandoned a topogr*****phical ***** suggest*****g three adjacent compartments, which are; conscious, preconscious and unconscious; mental thoughts we are of are conscious; ***** we are unaware of but are retrievable and non-threatening are preconscious (E.g. what outfit you wore yesterday.); the mental thoughts that we ***** unaware of and due to being threatening are distressingly difficult ***** retrieve are unconscious. (E.g. how you wished your father to die.)

***** topographical model did not jibe with Freud's 'unremitting conflict.' Hence, Freud devised the structural model of the **********, Id ***** Superego having ***** independent structures forever at war. Each of these agencies operates for different reasons. The id is submerged in the unconscious, and is an *****archic accumulation ***** desire inhabited by selfish, sexual, destructive, barbaric emotions constantly threatening to take over. The 'pleasure principle' dominates ***** Id exacting unmediated gratification.

*****, my ***** education was neurologically biased and sa***** that such emotions ***** characteristic of the to 'gut' in conjunction with the limbic system. *****, the application ***** Freud's ***** model, an *****fant is born an aggregation of primitive instinctual urges, (or all id). The id is g*****ned by primary process thinking; irrational, timeless, immoral instinct driven thought, which fails to d*****tinguish fantasy (wish) ***** reality (action).

The ego resides partly in consciousness facilitating our capacity ***** function rationally. It's quest ***** control of primal instincts is an endeav***** for a pragmatic agency to convey them due to limitations inflicted by the external world. The ***** component in the unconscious helps