The violence of interpretation : from pictogram to statement / Piera Aulagnier ; translated by Alan Sheridan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aulagnier, Piera.

Series:

New library of psychoanalysis ; 41.

New library of psychoanalysis ; 41

Standardized Title:

Violence de l'interprétation. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aggressiveness.

Violence.

Schizophrenia.

Psychoanalysis.

Physical Description:

xxxi, 245 p.

Place of Publication:

Hove [U.K.] ; Philadelphia : Brunner/Routledge, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Published in English for the first time, this is a seminal work by an original and creative analytical thinker. Piera Aulagnier's The Violence of Interpretation bridges the work of Winnicott and Lacan, putting forward a theory of psychosis based on children's early experiences. The author's analysis of the relationship between the other's communications and the infant's psychic experience. and of the pre-verbal stage of development of unconscious fantasy starting from the 'pictogram', have fundamental implications for the psychoanalytic theory of development. She developed Lacan's ideas to enable the treatment of severe psychotic states. Containing detailed discussion of clinical material, and written in the author's precise yet provocative style, The Violence of Interpretation is a welcome addition to the New Library of Psychoanalysis.

Contents:

part Part One: From pictogram to statement

chapter 1 The activity of representation, its objects and its aim

chapter 2 The primal process and the pictogram

chapter 3 The fantasy representation of the primary process: thing-presentation and word-presentation I Thing-presentation and body fantasisation

chapter 4 The space where the I can come about

part Part Two: The interpretation of violence and primary delusional thinking

chapter 5 Concerning schizophrenia: the potential for psychosis and primary delusional thinking Schizophrenia, paranoia, primary delusional thinking: general

chapter 6 Concerning paranoia: primal scene and primary delusional thinking

chapter 7 By way of conclusion: the three ordeals that delusional thinking reshapes.

Notes:

"First published as La violence de l'interpretation: du pictogramme a l'enonce, Presses Universitaires de France, 1975."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-237) and index.

ISBN:

1-134-56122-9

0-203-36129-6

9786610022311

1-280-02231-0

0-203-37805-9

1-134-56123-7

9780203361290

OCLC:

252868740