The Logics of the Mind: Clinical View

ISBN-13: 9781855752474 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 190 str.

Jorge L. Ahumada

Opis

This collection of papers, spanning the last 15 years, presents a spirited defence of Freud's clinical method, considering the -crisis of psychoanalysis- in the wider context of a crisis of reflective thought in society as a whole. Expressing the wish to -clarify and polish the glass through which we see the psychoanalytic experience-, Jorge Ahumada seeks to redefine the functions of psychoanalysis for the era of mass media, in which the classic Freudian neuroses have mostly been replaced by what he terms -pathologies of peremptory gratification-.

Spis treści

Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- What is a clinical fact? Clinical psychoanalysis as inductive method -- The analyst as "base" -- On the transposition of self and object -- The unconscious delusion of "goodness" -- Perverse and symbiotic organizations in narcissistic object relationships -- On narcissistic identification and the shadow of the object -- Trauma, identification, evolution -- On the limitations and the infiniteness of analysis -- Epilogue

O autorze

Jorge L. Ahumada trained in psychiatry both in Argentina and in the US before completing his psychoanalytic training in Buenos Aires, where he is now working as a psychoanalyst in private practice.