What is it about?
The author argues that one of the main functions of perverse relatedness is to induce the analyst into becoming the patient's unconscious accomplice in a collusive “perverse pact” against the analytic work aimed at disavowing intolerable aspects of reality.
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Why is it important?
The intense power of collusive induction in perverse relating leads the analyst to participate in transference-countertransference enactments and to the crystallization of a silent and chronic unconscious collusion between the patient and analyst in the analytic field, stagnating the process (bastion).
Perspectives
The author claims that analysis of perverse pathology should not be limited to interpretation of the patient's intrapsychic functioning but should also focus on the information obtained by the analyst through his participation in collusive enactments; the analyst should also take a “second look” at the analytic “field” to detect underlying collusive bastions. The author highlights the influence of death anxiety in the bastions that develop in the treatment of perverse patients.
Dr Jaime P Nos
International Psychoanalytical Association
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This page is a summary of: Collusive induction in perverse relating: Perverse enactments and bastions as a camouflage for death anxiety, The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, April 2014, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1111/1745-8315.12144.
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