Living psychoanalysis : from theory to experience / Michael Parsons.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Parsons, Michael, 1941- author.

Series:

New library of psychoanalysis (Unnumbered)

The new library of psychoanalysis

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychoanalysis.

Physical Description:

xxii, 262 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Hove, East Sussex : Routledge, 2014.

Summary:

"Living Psychoanalysis: From Theory to Practice represents a decade of work from one of today's leading psychoanalysts. Michael Parsons brings to life clinical psychoanalysis and its theoretical foundations, offering new developments in analytic theory and vivid examples of work in the consulting room. The book also explores connections between psychoanalysis, art and literature, showing how psychoanalytic insights can enrich our lives far beyond the clinical situation. Living Psychoanalysis comprises four main sections: Life and Death - asks what it means to be fully and creatively alive, and introduces the concept of avant-coup Sexuality, Narcissism and the Oedipus complex - develops fresh ways of understanding these key concepts How analysts listen - explores links between psychoanalytic listening and the way artists look at the world, and introduces the concept of the internal analytic setting The Independent tradition in British psychoanalysis - considers the theoretical foundations of Independent clinical technique, and discusses from various perspectives the role of training in developing the identity of analysts and analytic therapists With fresh theoretical concepts and a focus on specific aspects of clinical practice, Living Psychoanalysis: From Theory to Practice will be a valuable resource for analysts, therapists and professionals who wish to extend their vision of psychoanalysis. It will also be of great interest to general readers concerned to deepen their understanding of the links between culture and the mind"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part I Between death and the primal scene 1

1 Keeping death alive 3

2 Why did Orpheus look back? Apres-coup, avant-coup 17

3 More about memory 35

4 In defence of the uncanny 48

Part II Concepts on the move 63

5 Sexuality and perversion: discovering what Freud discovered 63

6 Oedipal disidentification: au nom du fils, au nom de la fille 84

7 Narcissism as prison, narcissism as springboard: a reading Sophocles' Ajax 98

Part III The activity of listening 111

8 Listening out, listening in, looking out, looking in 113

9 The analyst's countertransference to the psychoanalytic process 137

10 Raiding the inarticulate: internal setting, beyond countertransference 153

Part IV Clinical practice taking shape 169

11 What does interpretation put into words? 171

12 An Independent theory of clinical technique 184

13 Forming an identity: reflections on psychoanalytic training 205.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415626460

0415626463

9780415626477

0415626471

OCLC:

863695472