A Psychoanalytic Odyssey : Painted Guinea Pigs, Dreams, and Other Realities / Eugene J. Mahon.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Mahon, Eugene J., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Psychoanalytic interpretation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (247 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Taylor and Francis, 2018.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Psychoanalytic process, as Eugene Mahon envisions it, is an odyssey through the mind of each of his analysands, the many children and adults he has treated over the forty years of his analytic practice. The painted guinea pigs of the title refer to three-year old children mourning their school pet. "Who painted him?" a child asks when a replacement pet of a slightly different color arrives in the school a few days after the death of the original pet, as if the dead can return from the grave after a paint job. This book is full of arresting images like this as the author explores many of the most basic, fundamental concepts of psychoanalysis e.g. repression, insight, transference, play, child analysis, working through, dreams within dreams, jokes, puns, parapraxes as well as the uncanny in dreams, screen memories, symptom, character and Freud's discovery of the Oedipus complex. This book is a highly original, creative psychoanalytic odyssey, a most intriguing psychological voyage you will not want to disembark from."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

• COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE A painted guinea pig; CHAPTER TWO Repression and its vicissitudes; CHAPTER THREE Insight as an act of transgression; CHAPTER FOUR Transference: the past in the present, the present in the past; CHAPTER FIVE Play in child analysis and adult analysis; CHAPTER SIX Manifestly misleading: the cunning artistry of dream; CHAPTER SEVEN Screen memories; CHAPTER EIGHT Symptom as irony; CHAPTER NINE A psychoanalytic conception of character; CHAPTER TEN Mourning, dreaming, and the discovery of the Oedipus complex; EPILOGUE
• REFERENCESINDEX

Notes:

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 23, 2014).

ISBN:

• 0-429-91046-0
• 0-367-32392-3
• 0-429-89623-9
• 0-429-47146-7
• 1-78241-167-4

OCLC:

867817998