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A “Good Hour” in Child Analysis and Adult Analysis

2000· article· en· W2425630415 on OpenAlexaff
Eugene J. Mahon

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Psychoanalytic Study of the Child · 2000
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicPsychotherapy Techniques and Applications
Canadian institutionsColumbia College
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSurprisePsychoanalytic theoryNothingPsychologyConvictionPsychoanalysisEpistemologyCreativitySocial psychologyPhilosophyLaw

Abstract

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An attempt is made to compare and contrast a "good hour" in child and adult psychoanalysis. Since all analytic hours reflect the conflicted vicissitudes of an associative process, what function can it serve to isolate certain specific hours as "good"? While analytic process always reflects the simultaneous impulse to reveal and to conceal, it is argued that at times the mind "surprises" itself with its own daring and savors the epiphany before the forces of defense make off with it again. A child's surprising formulation of the nature of transference and therapeutic alliance is compared to an adult's more mature grasp and use of the same concept. Analysis and creativity are compared as activities that nourish and foster surprise elements, creating new stabilities out of their tolerance for instability and destabilization. Childhood is emphasized as the crucible par excellence where surprises are not only engendered but integrated. Child analysis may be more accustomed to surprises and perhaps can contribute to adult analytic experience by way of this unusual expertise. The elements of surprise in certain analytic hours are discussed in terms of their developmental psychoanalytic components. Hours can be termed "good" as long as the implication that more defensive hours are "bad" is resisted with the psychoanalytic conviction that the mind reflects the human condition and that therefore nothing human is alien to it. As Shakespeare put it, there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so!

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.100
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.007
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.009
GPT teacher head0.303
Teacher spread0.294 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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