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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781372503321

Autore

Bokanowski Thierry

Titolo

The practice of psychoanalysis [[electronic resource] /] / Thierry Bokanowski ; translated by David Alcorn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Karnac, 2006

ISBN

1-78049-511-0

1-283-06902-4

9786613069023

1-84940-505-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (191 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

AlcornDavid

Disciplina

150.195

Soggetti

Psychoanalysis

Psychology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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