How Does Analysis Work?: Examples of Lacanian Interpretation
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Book Details
- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : December 2024
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 158
- Category :
Psychoanalysis - Category 2 :
Forthcoming - Catalogue No : 97876
- ISBN 13 : 9781032637662
- ISBN 10 : 1032637668
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How Does Analysis Work? uses short, compelling vignettes from people in Lacanian analysis to explore how analytic interpretation works.
Insights, revelations, connections, meanings and non-meanings all feature in these anonymous accounts of crucial moments in analysis, providing a sense of what it is all about. Drawn from a wide range of analysands, some seasoned analysts and others just starting out, these vignettes show how change takes place. The short pieces are drawn from Lacanian analysis, but many go against cliched views of what Lacanians do in their work, spanning both the classical and the radically innovative and showing the use of humour and theatre in psychoanalytic practice.
How Does Analysis Work? will be of great interest to psychoanalysts and Lacanian analysts in practice and in training, as well as anyone who is curious about the analytic process.
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For those of us who, scholars or not, are interested in the complex engagements of psychoanalysis, it can be frustrating how poorly psychoanalysis has been understood in terms of both its theories and practices. Then, too, there's the brutally reductive matter of its popular cultural representations. These simplistic ideas are not only harmful to those who would like to grasp psychoanalysis intellectually, but to analysands' experience of psychoanalysis in the consulting room. A book that describes the wide range of heterogeneous possibilities that have emerged from this form of encounter would therefore be a welcome intervention - one that can deepen and expand our sense of psychoanalytic practice in ways that work to enrich its theoretical underpinnings as well.
Dr Devorah Baum, Associate Professor of English Literature and Critical Theory, University of Southampton, UK
There has been a distinct lack of suitable academic literature offering tangible clinical examples of the unique features of a Lacanian analysis. Hence I am confident this book would be well received and read with great interest by academics in the social sciences and humanities alike, as well as the wide range of clinicians working in the mental health field. Over the decades a number of myths have emerged around the image of the Lacanian analyst, playing on a cliched stereotype of the Lacanian style of interpretation. These myths are quite misleading and urgently in need of challenge; there is no doubt that they have negatively influenced the reception of Lacanian analysis more broadly across the UK. This volume would address these misconceptions in a way that should, I hope, make the key precepts of contemporary Lacanian technique accessible to a wider audience.
Dr Gwion Jones, Assistant Professor in Psychology, Coventry University, UK
Table of Contents
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
- A Question that put me to Work
- 110
- My Teddy Collection
- Playing Games
- Queer Dead Uncles
- La Cough
- Motherhood
- Why Hypothesize?
- A Thread of Interpretation
- Analysis, Moments of Concluding
- Love as an Effect of Truth
- We Have a Date!
- The Place of the Object
- Fathers and Daughters
- Lateness
- The Fruit, the Vagina and the Pyjamas
- Hidden in Plain Sight
- Reunion
- Second Analysis
- Speak!
- Dreams in an Analysis
- Scenario
- My Desk is next to my Bed
- Random Act
- A Knock on the Door
- Betrayal
- Grampy
- ‘Analysis Terminable and Interminable’, Thirty Years on
- Less than Zero
- A Love Letter
- Gay Shame, Phantasy and Recovering Myself
- The Goodbye
- Samson and Delilah
- What’s in a Name?
- The Choice of Exile
- A Cut Off
- “Mmms”
- Hell is Other People!
- A Pair of Converse Trainers
- My First Wish to be an Analyst
- An Excerpt from a Didactic Analysis: Death in Other Words
- Image of a Telephone
- A Story
- Eat What You Want, Drink What You Want
- A Sewing Machine and an Umbrella
- The Hidden Letter
- Scrambled Eggs
- The Eye of the Storm
- Swift and Fragmentary Notes on Interpretation
- Scansion
- Only You Would Dream of Such a Thing!
- My PIN
- Conjunctions of Embarrassment and Suffering
- Unconscious and drive being cut
- 1982
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