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Seeing the Light
- Source :
- Psychoanalytic Quarterly; January 2009, Vol. 78 Issue: 1 p107-122, 16p
- Publication Year :
- 2009
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Abstract
- Seeing the light is an expression that usually connotes a conceptual grasp of meaning in all its complexity, while the perception of light is not the issue. In this paper, the authors present a patient with an exquisite light sensitivity that disturbs her sleep; she is “seeing the light” in a symptomatic, concrete way. Light itself has become a compliant and collusive element onto which an aspect of conflict is displaced in the service of self-deception. Ironically, the analysis and deconstruction of the symptom eventually led to the kind of insight that the expressionseeing the light conveys.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00332828 and 21674086
- Volume :
- 78
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Supplemental Index
- Journal :
- Psychoanalytic Quarterly
- Publication Type :
- Periodical
- Accession number :
- ejs45063373
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1002/j.2167-4086.2009.tb00387.x