Soreanu, Raluca (2018) On Michael Balint, Cases and Countertransference’. The Journal of the Balint Society, 46. pp. 57-63.
Soreanu, Raluca (2018) On Michael Balint, Cases and Countertransference’. The Journal of the Balint Society, 46. pp. 57-63.
Soreanu, Raluca (2018) On Michael Balint, Cases and Countertransference’. The Journal of the Balint Society, 46. pp. 57-63.
Abstract
The article looks at the place of cases in the psychoanalytic universe of Michael Balint, while giving special attention to his work Balint groups. I argue that the case was at the heart of Balint’s work of orchestrating a complicated and creative encounter between psychoanalysis and medicine. I evoke Balint’s explorations and his formative years in Budapest, in the 1920s and 1930s, where he was greatly influenced by the epistemological ideas of Sándor Ferenczi. I discuss Ferenczi’s lesser known idea of “utraquism” of the sciences, and his medical utopia, which puts psychoanalysis at the centre. I also look at the place of countertransference in the theories and practices of the Budapest School of Psychoanalysis. These early elaborations on countertransference constituted “the case” as a particular kind of epistemic unit and produced some mutations in terms of the contexts where psychoanalysis can be imagined to work creatively.
Item Type: | Article |
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Date Deposited: | 26 Nov 2019 15:41 |
Last Modified: | 16 May 2024 19:56 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/25922 |
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