Kirchkheli Maia
, London, UK.
Am J Psychoanal. 2024 Dec;84(4):632-647. doi: 10.1057/s11231-024-09488-0.
This essay was inspired by the experience of observing a newborn baby and the mother on a weekly basis for an entire year. I explore the receptive function of the maternal body whose mirroring acts created the intermediate area between her and her baby facilitating for what I call imitative playing. The concept of imitation came to mind because of its physicality. The reason for naming it 'playing' lies in its quality: I am trying to capture something about the perceptual and communicative capacity of the body. Born out of affective mutuality of the dyad, it is a corporeal elaboration of their union, the primary physical aliveness, that could be an observable element of personalization, a precursor in the journey to symbolism. The direct observation of infants is not sufficient to arrive at the ideas that I have suggested without psychoanalytic knowledge, the substance that I have imbued with what I perceived. In Winnicottian language this could be described as psychoanalytic apperception. I think it stems from an analyst's visceral self that gives life to psycho-analytic concepts as well as transforms an analysand's non-verbal expressions into communications.
这篇文章的灵感来源于一整年每周对一名新生儿及其母亲的观察经历。我探讨了母体的接受功能，其镜像行为在她和她的宝宝之间创造了一个中间区域，促进了我所说的模仿性游戏。想到模仿这个概念是因为它具有身体性。将其命名为“游戏”的原因在于其特质：我试图捕捉身体的感知和交流能力的某些方面。它诞生于二元组的情感相互作用，是它们结合的身体阐述，是最初的身体活力，这可能是个性化的一个可观察要素，是通往象征化旅程的一个先兆。如果没有精神分析知识，仅仅对婴儿的直接观察不足以得出我所提出的观点，而我已将我所感知到的内容融入其中。用温尼科特的话来说，这可以被描述为精神分析领悟。我认为它源于分析师的内在自我，这种内在自我赋予精神分析概念以生命，并将分析对象的非言语表达转化为交流。
