CONSTRUCTION OF THE DISCOURSES RELATED TO THE COUCH IN PSYCHOANALYSIS: EXAMINATION OF ANALYSANDS' DISCOURSES IN RELATION TO THE TRANSFERENCE

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2023-9

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Vaizoğlu Şengünler, Refika Çiğdem

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In psychoanalysis, the couch traditionally takes a position that ends the preliminary interviews and initiates the process of analysis. Transition to the couch and related experiences include subjective differences for each analysand and each process. In this study, it was aimed to investigate how the concepts of psychoanalysis and the couch are constructed in the minds of participants who were continuing a psychoanalytic process and the effect of these constructions on their desires and hesitations about the couch. Additionally, how they position themselves and their analysts in this process were examined through the concept of transference. For this purpose, semi-structured interviews were conducted with eight participants who were on a psychoanalytic process. The interviews were analyzed using the discourse analysis method. As a result of the analysis, the findings were gathered under four main headings as; discourses about psychoanalysis, discourses about the couch, analyst's positions in the psychoanalytic process and subject positions. These main topics and their sub-topics were interpreted and discussed through the literature on psychoanalytic theory and other studies in the field. Suggestions for future research and clinical implications were presented through these comments.

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psychoanalysis, couch, transference, subject positions, discourse analysis

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/105302

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