![]() ![]() The author discusses how frequently psychoanalytic scholars, even of differing theoretical orientations, make consistent references to “internal dramas.” She presents 3 clinical examples to illustrate the theoretical and clinical usefulness of theatrical analogies. They add flesh to the bones of experience-distant concepts like recurring intersubjective patterns or nonlinear dynamic systems. These theatrical analogies invite disparate perspectives on unconscious-structure, process, dynamism, or even primitive, disorganized components-into integrative tales or stories. ![]() After comprehensively reviewing models of unconscious structure from Freud to Mitchell, the author explores how using analogies to theater or drama for explaining the unconscious benefits the psychoanalytic project in 2 distinct ways: They offer metaphors that transcend differences between longconflicting theoretical models they allow for comprehensive methods of interpretation encompassing myriad perspectives on the unconscious.
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