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The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2017, 77, (336–337) 2017 Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis 0002-9548/17 www.palgrave.com/journals Reclaiming Unlived Life: Experiences in Psychoanalysis, by Thomas Ogden, Routledge, London and New York, 2016, 206pp. Thomas Ogden has in this latest book provided us with several profound meditations on the nature of psychoanalysis, its practice, theoretical underpinnings, and goal. His writing style renders the most complex metapsychological concepts accessible to both general and analytic audiences creating an expansive forum for discourse and exchange with readers. Ogden draws the reader into an intersubjec- tive third space created by contributions from both reader and writer where the readers’ own reflections can be in dialogue with the writer leading to new insights into one’s internal landscape in relation to the analytic situation. In this third space, analyst and analysand, writer and reader become seekers of truth which will be dreamed in the analysis or daydreamed by the reader while reading. The dreamer who dreams the dream is observed by the dreamer who understands the dream thus creating a thinking space where the unthought, unknown, unknowable, and as-yet- unlived experience is eventually given shape, felt, thought, and spoken in the analysis. Giving shape to the
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Published: Jul 27, 2017
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