The practice of psychoanalysis / Thierry Bokanowski ; translated by David Alcorn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bokanowski, Thierry.

Contributor:

Alcorn, David.

Standardized Title:

De la practique analytique. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychoanalysis.

Psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (191 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Karnac, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume highlights several of the areas of tension and difficulty that have met psychoanalysis since its inception, and provides an incisive, informative history of various attempts to surmount these, finally leading to the author's own suggestions for a practice of psychoanalysis that remains open to the vicissitudes of the infinite set of processes of the human mind. In drawing from clinical examples and his own experience in addition to a wealth of psychoanalytic theory, the author examines such topics as the referential role of theory and the significance of the analytic space from bot

Contents:

COVER; CONTENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE Method and practice; CHAPTER TWO Concepts in contemporary psychoanalytic practice; CHAPTER THREE The work of psychoanalysis; CHAPTER FOUR Clinical matters; CHAPTER FIVE The sexual sphere and the work of the analysis; CHAPTER SIX "Analysis terminable and interminable"-refusing the feminine dimension; Conclusion; REFERENCES; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-172) and index.

ISBN:

1-78049-511-0

1-283-06902-4

9786613069023

1-84940-505-0

OCLC:

723945220