The truth about Freud's technique the encounter with the real
In this unusual and much-needed reappraisal of Freud's clinical technique, M. Guy Thompson challenges the conventional notion that psychoanalysis promotes relief from suffering and replaces it with a more radical assertion, that psychoanalysis seeks to mend our relationship with the real that h...
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New York, N.Y.
NYU Press
2012, ©1994
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| Series: | Psychoanalytic Crosscurrents S.
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- Preface
- Introduction
- I. The true and the real in Freud
- 1. Psychical and external reality
- 2. Realistic and neurotic anxiety
- 3. Realistic and wishful thinking
- 4. The neurotic and the psychotic experience of reality
- 5. Real love and transference-love
- II. The true and the real in Heidegger
- 6. Heidegger's conception of truth
- 7. Heidegger's conception of un-truth
- 8. Truth and science
- 9. Truth and technology
- 10. Truth and psychoanalysis
- III. The truth about Dora
- 11. The paradox of neurosis
- 12. A case of secrecy
- 13. Dreams of vengeance and farewell
- 14. Freud's last word
- 15. Love and reality
- IV. The truth about Freud's technique
- 16. The employment of dream interpretation ("The handling of dream-interpretation in psycho-analysis," 1911)
- 17. Freud's "Recommendations to physicians practising psycho-analysis" (1912)
- 18. On beginning the treatment (1913)
- 19. The concept of transference ("The dynamics of transference," 1912, and "Observations on transference-love," 1915)
- 20. Working-through ("Remembering, repeating, and working-through," 1914)
- V. The rat mystery
- 21. The cruel captain
- 22. The rat mystery
- Guilt and Truth
- "Classical" technique
- and Freud's
- VI. The end of analysis
- 25. Psychoanalysis, terminable-or impossible?
- 26. The end of analysis
- References
- Index
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-279) and index