Journal
PSYCHOANALYSIS SELF AND CONTEXT
Volume -, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/24720038.2023.2269234
Keywords
Agency; alter-ego selfobject experience; fictional creative writing; forward edge; hidden self states
Categories
Ask authors/readers for more resources
This paper explores the hidden selves in human relationships and suggests that fictional creative writing can bring these hidden self-states to light. It emphasizes how the creative writing process offers a different perspective to understand and empathize with our own and our patients' hidden self-states.
This paper is interested in the hidden selves that hover silently in the spaces that all human relationships create. It asks how these hidden self-states can find the light of day and suggests that one way is through fictional creative writing. The author shares a piece of fictional writing in which an elusive character-Isobel-appears. This ethereal and fictional manifestation occurs in the context of excruciatingly painful relational experiences in which the narrator describes repetitive and painful struggles for transformation. Speculative attempts to understand the meaning of the fictional material reveal an emerging forward edge and a fledgling sense of agency. But more. It elaborates how the creative writing process offers a different kind of lens through which to locate, elaborate, see, experience and be empathic with our own and, by extension, with our patients' hidden self-states.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available