Rose prelims correx 7/4/07 9:03 PM Page i CHAPTERTITLE I 111 2 3 4 5 6 SYMBOLIZATION 711 8 9 10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 211 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 911 Rose prelims correx 7/4/07 9:03 PM Page ii 111 2 Symbolization: Representation and Communication is one of a 3 series of low-cost books under the title PSYCHOANALYTIC ideas 4 which brings together the best of Public Lectures and other 5 writings given by analysts of the British Psychoanalytical Society 6 on important psychoanalytic subjects. 7 The books can be ordered from: 8 Karnac Books, 118 Finchley Road, London NW3 5HT 9 www.karnacbooks.com 10 Tel. +(0)20 7431 1075 1 Fax: +(0)20 7435 9076 2 E-mail: [email protected] 3 4 Other titles in the Psychoanalytic ideas Series: 5 Shame and Jealousy: The Hidden Turmoils 6 Phil Mollon 711 Dreaming and Thinking 8 Rosine Jozef Perelberg 9 Spilt Milk: Perinatal Loss and Breakdown 20 Joan Raphael-Leff (editor) 1 Unconscious Phantasy 2 Riccardo Steiner (editor) 3 Psychosis (Madness) 4 Paul Williams (editor) 511 6 Adolescence 7 Inge Wise (editor) 8 Child Analysis Today 9 Louis Rodriguez de la Sierra (Editor) 311 Psychoanalytic Ideas and Shakespeare 1 Inge Wise and Maggie Mills 2 You Ought To! 3 Bernard Barnett 4 Time and Memory 5 Rosine Jozef Perelberg 6 7 Symbolization: Representation and Communication 8 James Rose (Editor) 911 Rose prelims correx 7/4/07 9:03 PM Page iii 111 2 3 4 5 6 SYMBOLIZATION 711 8 9 10 Representation and 1 2 Communication 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 211 Editor 1 James Rose 2 3 4 5 Series Editors 6 7 Inge Wise and Paul Williams 8 9 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 911 Rose prelims correx 7/4/07 9:03 PM Page iv 111 2 3 4 5 First published in 2007 by the Institute of Psychoanalysis, London 6 7 8 9 10 1 2 Copyright © James Rose 2007 for Chapters One, Four, Six, Seven, Eight. 3 4 James Rose asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of the 5 identified works. 6 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored 711 in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, 8 electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the 9 prior written permission of the publisher. 20 1 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data 2 3 A C.I.P. for this book is available from the British Library 4 511 ISBN 978 1 85575 590 1 6 7 Designed, typeset, and produced by The Studio Publishing Services Ltd, 8 www.studiopublishingservicesuk.co.uk e-mail: [email protected] 9 311 Printed in Great Britain 1 2 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 3 4 www.karnacbooks.com 5 6 7 8 911 Rose prelims correx 7/4/07 9:03 PM Page v 111 CONTENTS 2 3 4 5 6 711 8 9 10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 211 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS vii 1 ABOUT THE EDITOR ix 2 3 CHAPTER ONE 4 Symbols: on their formation and use 1 5 James Rose 6 7 CHAPTER TWO 8 Aconnection between a symbol and a symptom 15 9 Sigmund Freud 30 1 CHAPTER THREE 2 Triangulation, one’s own mind and objectivity 19 3 Marcia Cavell 4 5 CHAPTER FOUR 6 Symbols and their function in managing the anxiety of 7 change: an intersubjective approach 51 8 James Rose 911 v Rose prelims correx 7/4/07 9:03 PM Page vi vi CONTENTS 111 CHAPTER FIVE 2 Apsychoanalytic approach to perception 83 3 Cesar Botella and Sara Botella 4 CHAPTER SIX 5 Aclinical paradox of absence in the transference: 6 how some patients create a virtual object to communicate 7 an experience 107 8 James Rose 9 10 CHAPTER SEVEN 1 Observing patients' use of the psychoanalytic setting 2 to communicate an experience of absence: 3 the work of progressive triangulation 119 4 James Rose 5 6 CHAPTER EIGHT 711 Some conclusions 137 8 James Rose 9 20 BIBLIOGRAPHY BY SUBJECT 141 1 2 INDEX 3 4 511 6 7 8 9 311 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 911 Rose prelims correx 7/4/07 9:03 PM Page vii 111 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 2 3 4 5 6 711 8 9 10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 211 I thank the International Journal of Psychoanalysis for permission to 1 reprint the following: 2 3 Cavell, M. (1998). Triangulation, one’s own mind and objectivity. 4 International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 79: 449–467. © Institute of 5 Psychoanalysis, London, UK. 6 7 I am also grateful to Thomson Publishing Services on behalf of 8 Taylor & Francis Books, UK for permission to use “A psychoana- 9 lytic approach to perception”, from The Work of Psychic Figurability 30 (2005), by Cesar and Sara Botella. 1 Permission to reproduce “Aconnection between a symbol and a 2 symptom”, (Freud, 1916c), is by arrangment with Paterson Marsh 3 Ltd, London. 4 5 6 7 8 911 vii Rose prelims correx 7/4/07 9:03 PM Page viii 111 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 2 3 4 5 6 711 8 9 20 1 2 3 4 511 6 7 8 9 311 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 911 Rose prelims correx 7/4/07 9:03 PM Page ix 111 ABOUT THE EDITOR 2 3 4 5 6 711 8 9 10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 211 James Rose, PhD, is a Fellow of the Institute of Psychoanalysis and 1 a member of the British Psychoanalytical Society. He has a private 2 psychoanalytic practice in London. He has worked in the Brandon 3 Centre, an inner city charity specializing in the psychotherapeutic 4 treatment of adolescents and young adults for the past twenty 5 years. 6 7 8 9 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 911 ix