The Analyzing Situation

ISBN-13: 9781855757660 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 212 str.

Jean-Luc Donnet

Opis

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 patient's 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.

Spis treści

Psychoanalytic Ideas and Applications Series -- Introduction -- From the fundamental rule to the analyzing situation -- The Sirens’ song -- Clinical reports, interanalytic exchanges -- For a logic of the site: On the difference between psychoanalysis and psychotherapy -- Addendum A -- Addendum B -- Introduction -- Lord Jim or the shame of living -- Tender humour -- Freud and the shadow of the superego -- Work of culture and superego -- A child is being talked about

O autorze

Donnet, Jean-Luc