Psychoanalytic concepts and technique in development : psychoanalysis, neuroscience and physics / Florence Guignard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Guignard, Florence, author.

Contributor:

Weller, Andrew, translator.

Series:

New library of psychoanalysis

Standardized Title:

Quelle psychanalyse pour le XXIe siècle. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Psychoanalysis.

Psychoanalysis--Methodology.

Physical Description:

pages cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2019.

Language Note:

In English, translated from the original French.

Summary:

"Psychoanalytic Concepts and Technique in Development offers a clear and thorough overview of contemporary psychoanalytic theory and clinical technique, from a largely post-Freudian, French perspective, but also informed by the work of Klein, Bion and Winnicott. Drawing on the French tradition, Florence Guignard sets out a comprehensive guide to the major drives and concepts in classical psychoanalysis, and how these are understood and employed in contemporary psychoanalytic training and practice, whilst looking ahead to the future of the discipline and drawing upon findings from related fields. Guignard explores the premise that the way psychoanalysts conceptualize their theoretical field and technical tools conditions the way their therapeutic discipline is practiced. She argues that because their main instrument for healing is their own self, it is of utmost importance to update conceptual tools to think about this. To do so, psychoanalysts can draw upon the latest discoveries in related disciplines like neurosciences and physics. Topics covered in this book include: - A genealogy of the drives - the deconstruction of the Oedipus Complex in our contemporary societies - the role of the psychoanalyst's infantile part when (s)he is at work - links between sensorial elements and elements of thinking - links between psychoanalysis, the neurosciences and physics"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Genealogy of the drives

The birth of psychic life

The question of splitting

An introduction to projective identification

Sadomasochism : a chimerical concept

The epistemophilic drive

From drives to thinking

The contemporary relevance of neurosis

Oedipus with or without complex

The adolescent Oedipus

The paranoïd-schizoïd and depressive positions revisited

The concept of the infantile

The infantile-in-the-psychoanalyst : blind patches and stopper-interpretations.

Notes:

"This book is a translation of a work previously published in French by Éditions Ithaque, Paris, France as Quelle psychanalyse pour le XXIème siècle? (2016)"-- Title verso.

Translated by Andrew Weller.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Guignard, Florence. Quelle psychanalyse pour le XXIe siècle. English. Psychoanalytic concepts and technique in development.

ISBN:

9780367185190

0367185199

9780367185244

0367185245

OCLC:

1089843684