TY  - BOOK
AU  - Scotto di Vettimo,Delphine
TI  - Auto­biographical Writing: a Plea for Intimacy
PY  - 2016///.
							
N1  - 13
N2  - Based on the history of Marta—a family history of persecution, exile, and shame—this study gives priority to clinical experience as an experience of intimacy, within the context of psychotherapeutically-oriented interviews. Intimacy is understood here as a personal envelope which, on the one hand, is formed in the intersubjective relationship, in a relationship that necessarily consists of opaqueness and alterity, and, on the other, which confronts the subject with him- or herself and with others, ensuring both a social function and a psychic function. In counterpoint, a reflection is offered on the conditions of unveiling and veiling of intimacy in transferential space, of which shame, which entails a laying bare of the subject, represents one of the dialectics. The clinical setting provides a perfect opportunity for bringing to light the structural elements of a process which is traumatic in nature, and in which the subject can experience this ordeal of strangeness and of secret at the deepest levels of him- or herself, an experience which can lead to metaphorical invention
UR  - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-connexions-2016-1-page-109?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
ER  -