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C Rohde-Dachser

Publications and source records attributed to C Rohde-Dachser.

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PubMed1993

["Mother" and "father" in psychoanalytic case vignettes. On some latent rules in the discourse of psychoanalysis].

Proceeding from the conviction that there is a collective gender-specific unconscious within the community of psychoanalysts which determines latent rules operative in psychoanalytic discourse, the authors have conducted a research project extending over a number of years and systematically examining case descriptions in psychoanalytic journals to see to what extent those latent gender-specific rules are in fact observed in such publications. The project examines the way in which male and female analysts employ the terms "mother" and "father" in these publications and also the frequency and connotations of concepts related to "mother" and "father". Significant differences between male and female analysts become apparent, substantiating the assumption of a collective gender-specific unconscious. The authors conclude that this unconscious finds its way into psychoanalytic therapy, leading to unconscious counter-transference reactions that are acted out rather than worked on.

Countertransference↗
PubMed1990

[The "daughterly" existence. Unanswered questions about the female Oedipus complex].

The author investigates the structural difficulties currently involved in arriving at a conclusive definition of the female Oedipus complex. She shows how Freud's theory of the female Oedipus complex, originally a theory of non-individuation, now figures as a theory of individuation, with old, partriarchally oriented constructs and modern ideas of emancipation having entered into complex combinations that can sometimes be disentangled only with difficulty. Finally, three aspects of the female Oedipus complex are examined: 1. its importance in the acquisition of female sexual identity, 2. its function as a locus for finding the heterosexual object, and 3. its role as a locus for the resolution or fixation of the "daughterly" existence.

Female↗
PubMed1990

[The female paradigm in psychoanalysis].

According to the author, the necessary change to a new psychoanalytic paradigm of femininity can only take place if the patriarchal discourse of psychoanalytic metatheory is systematically deconstructed. Only then can a reconstruction of this discourse occur with a view toward the emancipation of both genders.

Adolescent↗
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[Dyad as illusion? Reflections on some structural conditions in a 2 person relationship with the example of partnership and psychoanalysis].

The psychoanalytic situation is based on a dyadic concept where the relatives of the patient easily may be regarded as a disturbing element which should be eliminated as far as possible. In reality, however, there exist manifold interrelationships and feedback mechanisms among the psychoanalytic dyad and other significant relationships of a patient in psychoanalysis. The relational triangle of patient, partner and psychoanalyst is taken as an example to demonstrate within a sociological framework the process of competition of two primary one-to-one relationships mutually demanding exclusivity. Because of the inhibited communication between the analyst and the partner of the patient, this competition, however, cannot be settled obviously. It is rather shifted into the partner-relationship where it appears as a (originally iatrogenic) conflict of the couple which, then, easily may be misinterpreted by the psychoanalyst from a psychopathological point of view and not in terms of structural interrelations. In this process, a scapegoat function often is ascribed to the partner of the patient who is not able to disprove this interpretation and may react in a paranoid manner. The patient, on his part, in this situation often suffers from a loyalty conflict between his partner and his analyst which can be resolved in several modes. One pattern of solution is the splitting of the transference into a totally "good" and a totally "bad" relationship, the negative side generally ascribed to the partner-relationship. The different viewpoints of Kohut and Kernberg regarding these splitting phenomenons in the transference are discussed, and also the problem, whether a protracted narcissistic transference as required by Kohut for the treatment of narcissistic personalities must not lead to undue impairment of a concurrent real relationship of the patient. There is the question whether the present state of psychoanalytic technique can do justice to relational triangle as presented here from a sociological point of view, or whether they rather are denied (out of structural reasons, too) by a dyadic conception which does not correspond to the post-symbiotic reality of adult patients, even when a disturbance on the so-called prae-oedipal level is attested to them.

Communication↗