Spanish C2 · Day 9
Day 9: Transferencia y silencio del analista — Free indirect speech in the Spanish novel (part 2)
What you'll learn
- Grammar: Free indirect speech in the Spanish novel (part 2)
- Reading: El precio del silencio
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Grammar point: Free indirect speech in the Spanish novel (part 2)
In Spanish narrative fiction, free indirect speech ( estilo indirecto libre , or EIL) operates as a subtle threshold where the narrator's third-person voice fuses with the protagonist's internal consciousness. At C2, the essential competence consists in sustaining and modulating these polyphonic layers across an entire passage without collapsing into either overt narrator reporting or unmediated monologue. Compare: …
Key vocabulary (8 of 29 words)
- la contratransferencia – countertransference
- la abstinencia – abstinence from gratifying the patient's relational demands
- la resistencia transferencial – resistance expressed through transference
- la identificación proyectiva – projective identification
- la atención flotante – evenly suspended attention
- el entrampamiento contratransferencial – countertransference entanglement
- la colusión – unconscious collusion
- la escenificación – enactment of a relational pattern
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