Essays in Existential Psychoanalysis: On the Primacy of Authenticity

Author(s) : Michael Guy Thompson

Essays in Existential Psychoanalysis: On the Primacy of Authenticity

Book Details

  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Published : 2023
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Pages : 304
  • Category :
    Existential therapy
  • Catalogue No : 97350
  • ISBN 13 : 9781032551234
  • ISBN 10 : 1032551232

Table of Contents


Acknowledgements
Preface: What Is The Existentialist Sensibility?

1. Sartre and Psychoanalysis: The Role of Freedom in the Clinical Encounter
2. Nietzsche and Psychoanalysis: The Fate of Authenticity in a Postmodernist World
3. Logos and Psychoanalysis: Truth and Creativity in Heidegger's Conception of Language
4. What Is The Will? On the Role of Desire in Psychoanalysis
5. Vicissitudes of Authenticity in Psychoanalysis
6. The Crisis of Experience in Contemporary Psychoanalysis
7. The Sceptic Dimension to Psychoanalysis
8. Happiness and Chance
9. Is the Unconscious Really all that Unconscious?
10. The Demise of the Person in the Psychoanalytic Situation
11. Deception, Mystification, Trauma: Laing and Freud
12. Free Association: A Technical Principle or Model for Psychoanalytic Education?
13. The Rule of Neutrality
14. The Existential Dimension to Working Through

Index

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