action language
Following literary theorists, who examined the role of telling and showing in narration, Roy Schafer makes a distinction between telling and showing in the psychoanalytical situation. Telling happens when the analysand tells in words about events; about the past. Showing happens when the analysand conveys ideas, feelings, fantasies or reactions, verbal or non-verbal and freely associates these in an unselective way and without rehearsal. The analysand seems to be operating in the present; even when talking about the past.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Schafer
Aspects of Internalization (1968)
A New Language for Psychoanalysis (1976)
The Analytic Attitude (1983)
Retelling a Life (1992) (questia)
The Contemporary Kleinians of London (1997)
Bad Feelings (2003)
Insight and Interpretation (2003)
Tragic Knots in Psychoanalysis (2009) (kindle)
Schafer, R. (1980). Action Language and the Psychology of the Self. Annu.
Psychoanal., 8:83-92
Schafer, R. (2013). Final Word. Psychoanal. Q., 82(1):83-85
