Abstract

BARROS, Elizabeth Lima da Rocha  and  BARROS, Elias M. da Rocha. Betty Joseph in context. Rev. bras. psicanál [online]. 2013, vol.47, n.3, pp. 111-123. ISSN 0486-641X.

The contribution of Betty Joseph is examined in light of the concept of intertextuality (Octavio Paz) and within the context of the clinical developments of the psychoanalytic culture of the British Psychoanalytical Society. The authors try to dialectically relate her ideas to the contributions of Klein, Balint, Rycroft, Bion, Rosenfeld and Segal, among others. Betty Joseph would focus her approach on what was happening in the here and now of the session and would seek to identify the unconscious invitations which the patient would offer the analyst (through projective identifications) to play certain parts or feel certain feelings, in view of maintaining its psychic balance unaltered, therefore stopping any psychic change from occurring. These projections, and the analyst's response to them, may or may not produce a psychic change that challenges its current state of mental balance, which, in turn, allows us to observe how the past is lived in the present, reaffirming the immediacy of psychic truth. The first published contributions of Betty Joseph date from the late 1950s, but we believe that she reaches the peak of her singularity in the 1970s.

Keywords : intertextuality; Klein; Balint; Rycroft; Bion; Rosenfeld; Segal.

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