Freud and the Desire of the Psychoanalyst

ISBN-13: 9781855755925 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 222 str.

Serge Cottet

Opis

Freud's invention of psychoanalysis was based on his own desire to know something about the unconscious, but what have been the effects of this original desire on psychoanalysis ever since? How has Freud's desire created symptoms in the history of psychoanalysis? Has it helped or hindered its transmission?

Exploring these questions brings Serge Cottet to Lacan's concept of the psychoanalyst's desire: less a particular desire like Freud's and more a function, this is what allows analysts to operate in their practice. It emerges during analysis and is crucial in enabling the analysand to begin working with the unconscious of others when they take on the position of analyst themselves. What is this function and how can it be traced in Freud's work?

Cottet's book, first published in 1982 and revised in 1996, is a classic of Lacanian psychoanalysis. It is not only a scholarly study of Freud and Lacan, but a thought-provoking introduction to the key issues of Lacanian psychoanalysis.

Spis treści

The Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research Library ,   , Introduction , Introduction to the Second Edition , From the Hysteric to Freud’s Desire , Freud’s analytic act , Capturing the unconscious , Between two passions: the real and the signifier , On Freud’s transference , The case of Freud , The Passion for Origins , Questioning the desire for truth , Truth and certitude , Reaching the real through constructions , Freud’s excavations and the archaeologist’s desire , Successful paranoia , The Freudian myth , Freudian Ethics , The ethics of desire , Strategy and tactics , The analyst’s ideals , Desire and its discontents , The Desire of the Other , The psychoanalyst’s action , Socrates’s desire , The de-being 1 of the analyst , Conclusion

O autorze

Serge Cottet