![]() ![]() ![]() Specific technical suggestions are made regarding analytic work with overwhelm. ![]() A detailed clinical example illustrates how overwhelm may make itself known in the clinical encounter, and how it can infiltrate the transference/countertransference. Overwhelm entails risk, and under some circumstances it may open up space toward significant psychic transformations. Overwhelm is a state of dysregulation that can be confused with, but is not the same as, repetition compulsion. When the psychic economy of the infantile sexual is followed to its apex, a particular kind of state is produced that I call overwhelm-a word that is used here as a noun. Processes described in depth here suggest that passibility has ties to the rousing of infantile sexuality (Freud) and to the subject's normative perversity (Laplanche). Limit consent involves a more nuanced negotiation of limits and becomes possible when the subject makes herself passible (Lyotard 1988) to an other-a condition that is neither active nor passive. This essay proposes limit consent, a concept that offers us different ways to think about the sexual-and about the analytic encounter. The concept of affirmative consent presumes a subject who is fully transparent to herself and who can anticipate the precise effects of her assent. ![]()
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