A Psychoanalytic Odyssey: Painted Guinea Pigs, Dreams, and Other Realities

ISBN-13: 9781780491448 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 246 str.

Eugene J. Mahon

Opis

Psychoanalytic process, as Eugene Mahon envisions it, is an odyssey through the mind of each of his analysands, the many children and adults he has treated over the forty years of his analytic practice. The painted guinea pigs of the title refer to three-year old children mourning their school pet. -Who painted him?- a child asks when a replacement pet of a slightly different color arrives in the school a few days after the death of the original pet, as if the dead can return from the grave after a paint job. This book is full of arresting images like this as the author explores many of the most basic, fundamental concepts of psychoanalysis e.g. repression, insight, transference, play, child analysis, working through, dreams within dreams, jokes, puns, parapraxes as well as the uncanny in dreams, screen memories, symptom, character and Freud's discovery of the Oedipus complex. This book is a highly original, creative psychoanalytic odyssey, a most intriguing psychological voyage you will not want to disembark from.

Spis treści

Introduction -- A painted guinea pig -- Repression and its vicissitudes -- Insight as an act of transgression -- Transference: the past in the present, the present in the past -- Play in child analysis and adult analysis -- Manifestly misleading: the cunning artistry of dream -- Screen memories -- Symptom as irony -- A psychoanalytic conception of character -- Mourning, dreaming, and the discovery of the Oedipus complex -- Epilogue

O autorze

J. Mahon, Eugene