The Analyzing Situation

di Jean-Luc Donnet (Autore)

Andrew Weller (Traduttore)

Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2009

In this book Jean-Luc Donnet explores the particularities of the status of the method in psychoanalysis, linked to the specificity of unconscious psychic processes. If the method aims at ensuring a level of technical mastery, it must also make sure that analytic treatment does not become an 'application' of knowledge. A modern conception of the analytic situation implies going beyond the classical pair of 'setting-interpretation'. Starting out from the postulate of a transferential dynamic of the encounter, the author brings into play the pair 'analyzing site-situation'. The 'analyzing situation' emerges from the utilization, in a found-created mode (Winnicott), of an initial site constituted by a set of means put at the patients disposal. The analyzing situation includes patient and analyst in a self-organizing structure. The notion of a site makes it possible to approach the difference between psychoanalysis and analytic psychotherapy differently: each site has a 'logic', an intrinsic functional coherence, which have their own incidence on the therapeutic process. In the second part of the book, which ends with analysis of an essential screen-memory "A Child Is Being Talked About", the author also presents four other texts: a vertiginous study of Conrad's novel "Lord Jim", a new exploration of 'tender humour', a moving reading of Freud's "A Disturbance on the Acropolis", and a radical approach to "Civilization and its Discontents", which reflect the central place he gives to the agency of the Superego as a keystone of Freudian thought.

• Autore: Jean-Luc Donnet
• Traduttore: Andrew Weller
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Collana: The International Psychoanalytical Association Psychoanalytic Ideas and Applications Series
• Anno: 2009
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 210 p.
• Dimensioni: 230 x 147 mm
• EAN: 9781855757660

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