Another Reading of Freud's Case Study: Meeting with Catherine as the Trace of a Co-created Dynamic Scene and the Beginning of Psychoanalytic Method
2022
Abstract
The author assumes that the dynamic scene is a universal phenomenon of an initial interview. The analyst is not fully aware of this scene and does not anticipate where it will take him emotionally.
Catherine's clinical notes can be seen as retrospective breaking free from this scene. Freud partly captures his experience of scenic inclusion, partly resists it with a theoretical grasp, and in the process of coping with it discovers a new method of psychoanalytic work in free association.