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Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Vol. 49, No. 3, 781-812 (2001)
DOI: 10.1177/00030651010490032001

Hearing Voices: the Fate of the Analyst's iDentifications

Henry F. Smith

17 Hammond Street Cambridge, MA 02138-1915, Henryfsmith{at}cs.com, Training and Supervising Analyst, Psychoanalytic Institute of New England

Using detailed clinical examples, the author illustrates the function of conscious and unconscious identifications with former training analysts, supervisors, teachers, and theorists in the mind of the working analyst. As compromise formations, analytic identifications are the product of loving and aggressive wishes, defenses against those wishes, and self-punitive trends that accompany the analyst in the work. The analyst's stance at any given moment has an identificatory history that may become conscious at certain times with certain patients. While the analyst's identifications modify over time, following a predictable developmental path, they are never fully given up, but consciously and unconsciously remain an active part of the analyst's inner life. During the clinical hour they are responsive to both the analyst's and the patient's conflicts, and they coexist in a dynamic reciprocal relationship with the patient's inner life.


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