Three realms of the unconscious and their therapeutic transformation
Stolorow, R.D.; Atwood, G.E.; Brandchaft, B.
Psychoanalytic Review 79(1): 25-30
1992
ISSN/ISBN: 0033-2836 PMID: 1579614 Document Number: 3587
The new understandings that have been obtained through the clinical application of psychoanalytic self psychology have highlighted the need for a radical revision of the psychoanalytic theory of the unconscious (Shane and Shane, 1990). What follows is a progress report briefly summarizing an evolving theory of the unconscious that we believe is consistent with the basic principles of self psychology and its singular emphasis on the primacy of self-experience rather than instinctual drives. Our framework delineates three different realms of the unconscious, After describing our developing understanding of these different realms, we offer a formulation of the distinctive transformations that psychoanalytic treatment can bring about in each of the three domains.
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