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The “lilt” feeling

The “lilt” feeling Bruce Johnson This paper describes a new feeling, lilt, which emerges in some patients who undergo psychoanalysis. First we discuss the timing of occurrence of the lilt feeling. Then we describe its characteristics. Next we compare the lilt feeling with known human affects in psychoanalysis, and finally we discuss the utility of this new feeling. In the course of psychoanalysis, patients often begin to experience them- selves differently from the way they did when they started. This occurs in the final phases of a successful psychoanalysis. In the beginning of therapy, feelings of depression, anger, or anxiety prevail. As psychoanalysis pro- gresses and as the patient becomes curious about unconscious conflicts, the work leads to the resolution of these conflicts. This is commonly called the middle phase of treatment. Then in the final phases of the process, the conflicts are reworked or worked through and the patient leaves. Often it can be observed that the patient has developed or individuated beyond his or her original goal of symptom relief and the resolution of one or more of the basic conflicts. The patient is decidedly a different person than when he or she began. There is a subjective feeling that http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The American Journal of Psychoanalysis Springer Journals

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Springer Journals
Copyright
1984 Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis
ISSN
0002-9548
eISSN
1573-6741
DOI
10.1007/BF01252540
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Abstract

Bruce Johnson This paper describes a new feeling, lilt, which emerges in some patients who undergo psychoanalysis. First we discuss the timing of occurrence of the lilt feeling. Then we describe its characteristics. Next we compare the lilt feeling with known human affects in psychoanalysis, and finally we discuss the utility of this new feeling. In the course of psychoanalysis, patients often begin to experience them- selves differently from the way they did when they started. This occurs in the final phases of a successful psychoanalysis. In the beginning of therapy, feelings of depression, anger, or anxiety prevail. As psychoanalysis pro- gresses and as the patient becomes curious about unconscious conflicts, the work leads to the resolution of these conflicts. This is commonly called the middle phase of treatment. Then in the final phases of the process, the conflicts are reworked or worked through and the patient leaves. Often it can be observed that the patient has developed or individuated beyond his or her original goal of symptom relief and the resolution of one or more of the basic conflicts. The patient is decidedly a different person than when he or she began. There is a subjective feeling that

Journal

The American Journal of PsychoanalysisSpringer Journals

Published: Dec 1, 1984

Keywords: Clinical Psychology; Psychotherapy; Psychoanalysis

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