Reverie and Interpretation

by Thomas H. Ogden

This book is concerned with an attempt to use language to capture/convey a sense of the delicate interplay of aliveness and deadness of human experience in the analytic setting represents a major challenge to contemporary psychoanalysis.

Genres: Psychoanalysis, Psychology

288 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1997

Reviews

[Yasemin]

“Experience is never limited and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue. It is the very atmosphere of the mind; and when the mind is imaginative . . . it takes to itself the faintest hints of life...”:Henry James, 1884

“Deneyim asla sınırlanamaz ve tamamlanamaz; yoğun bir duyarlılıktır, bir nevi bilincin haznesinde asılı kalan ve her bir toz zerreciğini yakalayan incecik ipeksi iplikleriyle devasa bir örümcek ağı gibidir. Zihnin en hakiki atmosferidir; bir de zihin imgeselse... yaşamın en ince gizlerine açık hale gelir...”
Henry James,1884

The poet A.R. Amnions (1968):
You could ask what walks are good for. . . . Walks are useless. So are poems. . .. A walk doesn't mean anything, which is a way of saying that to some extent it means anything you can make it mean— and always more than you can make it mean. . . . Only uselessness is empty enough for the presence of so many uses. . . . Only uselessness can allow the walk to be totally itself, [pp. 118-119]
Şair A.R. Amnios(1968)...:
Yürüyüş ne işe yarar diye sorabilirsiniz...Yürüyüşler işe yaramazdır. Şiirler de öyle... Yürüyüşün hiçbir anlamı yoktur demek aslında yürüyüş ona ne anlam katmak istersen o anlama gelir demenin bir yoludur da ve aslında her zaman da senin katabileceğin anlamdan daha fazlasıdır.... Sadece işe yaramazlık bu denli çok amaç için yeterince boş alanı sağlayacaktır... Sadece işe yaramazlık yürüyüşün tamamiyle kendisi olmasına olanak tanır,(s.118-119)

[Psicologorroico · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ottimo libro di Ogden sulla Reverie. Ho trovato particolarmente interessante la sua rivisitazione della regola fondamentale e il capitolo sul linguaggio in psicoanalisi. Un po' meno interessante, inevitabilmente, il capitolo sulla poesia, in quanto bisogna conoscere bene l'inglese per discutere sul suono delle poesie prese in considerazione.

[Mariana Almeida · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ogden: o homem que vai carregar minha monografia nas costas rs

[Lucas · Rating 4 out of 5]

Herdeiro de Klein e Bion, Ogden realiza um desenvolvimento do conceito e uso da reverie. O destaque fica para os casos clínicos, ótimos exemplos de reverie na prática, com um pensamento clínico impressionante.

[Mohsen · Rating 5 out of 5]

the title i think is enough to explain what the book and what really psychoanalytic Litreature is about (or should be about), to be more human. to sense and think and feel in a way which is more apt to our nature. it's about the reveries of the analyst. how he feels himself and the patient. how that analytic space created by analyst-analysand, the third object of analysis, can contribute to make that discourse more humanistic. not just to intellectually understand something. but to feel it in your bones. Its again another amazing book by this author which i do recommend it

[Joanna · Rating 5 out of 5]

I enjoy Thomas Ogden't thinking a lot.