Time in Practice: Temporality, Intersubjectivity, and Listening Differently - Softcover

Ellis, Mary Lynne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1032394188 ISBN 13: 9781032394183

Publisher: Routledge, 2023

Synopsis

Time in Practice: Temporality, Intersubjectivity, and Listening Differently is an original exploration of diverse ways in which individuals ‘live’ time, consciously and unconsciously. Challenging the psychoanalytic emphasis on the past as determinative, Mary Lynne Ellis explores the significance of present and future dimensions of individuals’ experiences which catalyses change in the analytical relationship.

Through critical analyses of the theorizing of Freud, Jung, Klein, Winnicott, and Lacan, Ellis highlights the limitations of spatial metaphors, binaries of ‘inner’/‘outer’, in addressing the socio-political and historical specificity of patients’ experiences, including questions of identity and discrimination. She explores how intersectional and interdisciplinary perspectives allow for the development of new interpretations of temporality/intersubjectivity/language/embodiment in analytical practices. Ellis reflects on the dynamism of conceptualizations emergent in autobiography, fiction, phenomenological and postmodern philosophy, gender, post-colonial, queer, and cultural studies, for contemporary relational psychoanalytic practices. This revised and updated edition includes discussion of experiences of loss, vulnerability, mortality, inequalities, and powerlessness associated with the profound impact of the spread of the coronavirus, climate change, and the Ukraine war. It also includes a new chapter on mourning, time, and identities.

The book will be of interest to psychotherapists, art therapists, counsellors, psychologists, and those working in the fields of gender, sexuality, class, race, and post-colonial studies, literature, and allied disciplines.

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About the Author

Mary Lynne Ellis is a relational analytical/phenomenological psychotherapist in private practice in London. With nearly forty years’ experience, she has also worked as an art therapist in the NHS and the voluntary sector. Her many publications focus on questions of language, identities, and embodiment in analytical psychotherapy. She is co-author, with Noreen O'Connor, of Questioning Identities: Philosophy in Psychoanalytic Practice (Routledge). Ellis has master’s degrees in philosophy and in art therapy. She is also a visual artist.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032394188
• ISBN 13: 9781032394183
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 210