Blogs about: Transitionals
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Structure and Process
In the early 1950’s, Winnicott had identified the transitional (whether object, phenomenon, or space) as the bridge between inner life and outer reality, a bridge that, presumably, the subject must se… more →
THE PSYCHOANALYTIC FIELD
Structure and Process
Fadi Abou-Rihan wrote 3 weeks ago: In the early 1950’s, Winnicott had identified the transitional (whether object, phenomenon, or space … more →
Losing Objects
Fadi Abou-Rihan wrote 1 month ago: Freud thought the dream the royal road to the unconscious and the dream book itself the jewel of his … more →
From Eruption to Frontier to Aevum...
Fadi Abou-Rihan wrote 1 month ago: Be it in terms of the settling into the depressive position, the resolution of the Oedipus complex, … more →
The Middle - 2: Aevum Philosophicum
Fadi Abou-Rihan wrote 1 month ago: [Go ahead; look closer. It’s next to where just about everything Greek used to be trashed before it … more →
The Middle - 1: Limbus Analyticus
Fadi Abou-Rihan wrote 2 months ago: An object that is at times animated and at others inert, at times the focus of intense affective inv … more →
The Psychoanalysis of Irrelevance
Fadi Abou-Rihan wrote 2 months ago: Picking up from where I left off in the previous post, there is little that’s comfortable or f … more →
The Irrelevance of Psychoanalysis (?!)
Fadi Abou-Rihan wrote 2 months ago: I want to turn to the possibility that psychoanalysis may acquire the status of a found object and h … more →
Intelligibility - Ownership
Fadi Abou-Rihan wrote 2 months ago: If the found object must begin as animated and vital and only later can it move on to become irrelev … more →
Murky Subjects
Fadi Abou-Rihan wrote 2 months ago: Though he insists that any given found object must eventually be decathected, Winnicott does not so … more →
Culture/Illusion
Fadi Abou-Rihan wrote 3 months ago: Speaking of “the whole cultural field,” and without straying away from the text where the found obje … more →
Animation, resilience, irrelevance
Fadi Abou-Rihan wrote 3 months ago: For it to qualify as found, Winnicott highlights three interlocking moments rather than, say, charac … more →
More than an object
Fadi Abou-Rihan wrote 3 months ago: Winnicott tells us that the found object is part of the world of the real—and hence not merely the … more →
3, 4, 2
Fadi Abou-Rihan wrote 10 months ago: In the early 1950’s, Winnicott had identified the transiti … more →
other-than-me, more-than-me, other-than-mine
Fadi Abou-Rihan wrote 11 months ago: Of the found object’s various Winnicottian features, … more →
Found
Fadi Abou-Rihan wrote 11 months ago: This post is the first in a series that finds its po … more →
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