“Dissociative Turn”and its Implications in Psychoanalysis
Historically, dissociation is a topic that Sigmund Freud
did not welcome in his psychoanalytic theories. This was against the background
of his conflict with Joseph Breuer, Pierre Janet and Sándor Ferenczi. Since
then, as Glover (1943) expressed, the term dissociation has a “chequered
hisoty”(p.12) in psychoanalysis. However, since Steven Marmer (1980) took “a
first step in posing a psychodynamic formulation for multiple personality
(p.455), there seems to be a “growing chorus of American thinkers” “who hopes
to rescue dissociation from obscurity” in the theory of psychoanalysis
(Goldman, 2012. p. 338). The topic of dissociation has been discussed in an increasing
number in the psychoanalytic literature. A
psychoanalytic research engine (Pepweb) indicates that its number doubles in
each decade for the past 40 years (405 between1980~1989, 935
between 1990~1999, 1629 between 2000~2009, and 2461 between 2010~2019).
This movement can potentially invite some major
reorganization in the psychoanalytic literature, that Sheldon Itzkowitz (2015) referred to as the “dissociative turn.” So, what is
it about his “turn”? In his compacted paper with the same title, Itzkowitz (2015) mentions as
follows.
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