| Description |
1 online resource (1 online resource (xxvi, 289 pages)). |
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Psychoanalytic Crosscurrents S. |
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Psychoanalytic Crosscurrents S.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-279) and index. |
| Contents |
Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- I. The true and the real in Freud -- 1. Psychical and external reality -- 2. Realistic and neurotic anxiety -- 3. Realistic and wishful thinking -- 4. The neurotic and the psychotic experience of reality -- 5. Real love and transference-love -- II. The true and the real in Heidegger -- 6. Heidegger's conception of truth -- 7. Heidegger's conception of un-truth -- 8. Truth and science -- 9. Truth and technology -- 10. Truth and psychoanalysis -- III. The truth about Dora -- 11. The paradox of neurosis -- 12. A case of secrecy -- 13. Dreams of vengeance and farewell -- 14. Freud's last word -- 15. Love and reality -- IV. The truth about Freud's technique -- 16. The employment of dream interpretation ("The handling of dream-interpretation in psycho-analysis," 1911) -- 17. Freud's "Recommendations to physicians practising psycho-analysis" (1912) -- 18. On beginning the treatment (1913) -- 19. The concept of transference ("The dynamics of transference," 1912, and "Observations on transference-love," 1915) -- 20. Working-through ("Remembering, repeating, and working-through," 1914) -- V. The rat mystery -- 21. The cruel captain -- 22. The rat mystery -- Guilt and Truth -- "Classical" technique -- and Freud's -- VI. The end of analysis -- 25. Psychoanalysis, terminable-or impossible? -- 26. The end of analysis -- References -- Index. |
| Summary |
In this unusual and much-needed reappraisal of Freud's clinical technique, M. Guy Thompson challenges the conventional notion that psychoanalysis promotes relief from suffering and replaces it with a more radical assertion, that psychoanalysis seeks to mend our relationship with the real that has been fractured by our avoidance of the same. Thompson suggests that, while avoiding reality may help to relieve our experience of suffering, this short-term solution inevitably leads to a split in our existence. M. Guy Thompson forcefully disagrees with the recent trend that dismisses Freud as an hist. |
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Print version record. |
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Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976.
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Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.
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Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939. (OCoLC)fst00034252
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Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976. (OCoLC)fst00032385
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Psychoanalysis and philosophy.
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Psychoanalysis and philosophy. (OCoLC)fst01081277
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 0814782191 9780814782194 (DLC) 94002933 |
| ISBN |
9780814784488 (electronic bk.) |
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0814784488 (electronic bk.) |
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0814784488 |
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9780814782194 |
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0814782191 |
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