Abstract
Psychoanalytic situations create special dialogues designed to bring into relief what is unconscious. From this interpretive frame they establish semantic fields that expand the narrow range of referents of ordinary linguistic communication to include unspoken, expressive, projective, and transmissive modes as well. The referential range in this semantic space encompasses transmissive forms that can only be accessed through a combination of observation, listening and introspective awareness. Of the various levels and emergent forms that convey unconscious meanings many are received organically by induction, evocation, even physical states. Sensory input, pre-semiotic and symbolic meanings, infuse contextual experiences with information that is referred to and interpreted in this discourse alone. These indicative and iconic modes themselves become forms of reference where nonverbal enactive signifiers are recognized and taken as indices of meaning. When we say that the psychoanalytic process is “experiential,” this is what is meant. Words in our interpretive dialogues are acts — acts that are both organic and symbolic. This presentation lists ten referential perspectives pertaining to the psychoanalytic situation and the semantic scope of the analyst’s interpretive range.
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
Communications and Linguistic Studies
KEYWORDS
Psychoanalytic Semantic Field, Organismic Engagement, Multiple Interpretive Perspectives
