Radical Psychoanalysis: An Essay on Free-Associative Praxis

ISBN-13: 9781138954847 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 232 str.

Professor Barnaby B. Barratt

Opis

This book offers a critique of the brands of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy that have forgotten Freud's discovery of free-association.

Spis treści

Foreword by Christopher Bollas. Introductory Note. What is Radical Psychoanalysis? Freudian Roots I. Freudian Roots II. Sampling Free-associative Discourse. Textual Analysis and the Dogma of Interpretation. The Lessons of the Method: Psychic Energy. The Lessons of the Method: Theorizing Praxis. The Lessons of the Method: Triebe and Psychic Reality. On the Paramount Significance of our Psychosexualities. The Necessity of the Psychoanalyst. Resisting Praxis: Notes on Clinical and Theoretical Retreats. What is Freeing about Free-Associative Praxis?

O autorze

Barnaby B. Barratt has practiced psychoanalysis in Michigan and now in South Africa. He was Professor of Family Medicine and Psychiatry at Wayne State University, and is now Senior Research Associate at the University of Witwatersrand's Institute for Social and Economic Research. His previous work includes Psychic Reality and Psychoanalytic Knowing, Psychoanalysis and the Postmodern Impulse and What is Psychoanalysis? 100 Years after Freud’s ‘Secret Committee’ (all Routledge).