Against Understanding, Volume 2: Cases and Commentary in a Lacanian Key

ISBN-13: 9780415635479 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 278 str.

Bruce Fink

Opis

Against Understanding, Volume 2, casts a spotlight on the status of case studies in psychoanalysis, which are commonly used to illustrate clinicians' expertise and mastery rather than patients' actual itineraries. When a case is presented, the complex, unwieldy, and often self-contradictory material of a therapeutic trajectory is often vastly oversimplified in view of producing a linear narrative that seems perfectly to fit the parameters of a practitioner's preferred theoretical framework. Bruce Fink attempts to eschew the appearance of "mastery" in assembling clinical material and in discussing his approach to practice and theory in the myriad case histories and vignettes included in both Volumes 1 & 2 of Against Understanding. To counterbalance the kind of paring down of material usually carried out to make cases conform to a particular paradigm, the case write-ups presented here include much of the "raw data" so often omitted: verbatim quotes from patients about their lives, backgrounds, dreams, and fantasies; and details about the many obscure, vacillating, and unruly phases of treatment. Fink hopes thereby to allow readers to form their own opinions about the well-foundedness or unsoundness of his formulations, interpretations, and interventions. This second part of a two-volume collection of papers, interviews, and case studies provides the reader with hundreds of illustrations of Lacanian theory in practice, and will be essential for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers and counselors.

Spis treści

Contents. Preface. Acknowledgments. Commentary. On Clinical Practice. 1. Analysand and Analyst in the Global Economy, or Why Anyone in their Right Mind Would Pay for an Analysis. 2. What’s So Different about Lacan’s Approach to Psychoanalysis? 3. Fantasies and the Fundamental Fantasy: An Introduction. 4. The Ethics of Psychoanalysis. 5. Why Diagnose? A Few Reflections on Diagnosis. On Reading Lacan. 6. An Introduction to Lacan’s Seminar XVIII: D’un discours qui ne serait pas du semblant. 7. Lacan on Personality from the 1930s to the 1950s. 8. An Introduction to "Kant with Sade". 9. Freud and Love on Love: A Preliminary Exploration. On Translation. 10. The Task of Translation. Cases. 11. In the Wake of Medea: A Case of Obsession from a Lacanian Perspective. 12. The Role of Semblance in "Identity" Construction. 13. The Freud Man and the Fundamental Fantasy. 14. Contours of Trauma. Critique. 15. Interview: Lacan in America (Loren Dent). 16. Interview: A Few Words with the Editors of MonoKL. 17. Violence in Psychoanalysis. References. Index.

O autorze

Bruce Fink is a practicing Lacanian psychoanalyst and analytic supervisor in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He trained as a psychoanalyst in France for seven years with—and is now a member of—the psychoanalytic institute Lacan created shortly before his death, the École de la Cause Freudienne in Paris. He is also an affiliated member of the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Society and Institute.