A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Theory and TechniqueThe goal of my teaching has always been, and remains, to train analysts. --Jacques Lacan, Seminar XI, 209 Arguably the most profound psychoanalytic thinker since Freud, and deeply influential in many fields, Jacques Lacan often seems opaque to those he most wanted to reach. These are the readers Bruce Fink addresses in this clear and practical account of Lacan's highly original approach to therapy. Written by a clinician for clinicians, Fink's Introduction is an invaluable guide to Lacanian psychoanalysis, how it's done, and how it differs from other forms of therapy. While elucidating many of Lacan's theoretical notions, the book does so from the perspective of the practitioner faced with the pressing questions of diagnosis, what therapeutic stance to adopt, how to involve the patient, and how to bring about change. Fink provides a comprehensive overview of Lacanian analysis, explaining the analyst's aims and interventions at each point in the treatment. He uses four case studies to elucidate Lacan's unique structural approach to diagnosis. These cases, taking up both theoretical and clinical issues in Lacan's views of psychosis, perversion, and neurosis, highlight the very different approaches to treatment that different situations demand. |
Contents
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THE ANALYTIC RELATIONSHIP | 28 |
INTERPRETATION OPENING UP THE SPACE OF DESIRE | 42 |
THE DIALECTIC OF DESIRE | 50 |
DIAGNOSIS AND THE POSITIONING OF THE ANALYST | 73 |
A LACANIAN APPROACH TO DIAGNOSIS | 75 |
PSYCHOSIS | 79 |
PERVERSION | 165 |
PSYCHOANALYTIC TECHNIQUE BEYOND DESIRE | 203 |
FROM DESIRE TO JOUISSANCE | 205 |
AFTERWORD | 218 |
A NOTE ON DOCUMENTATION | 223 |
NOTES | 224 |
RECOMMENDED READING | 280 |
INDEX | 289 |
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Page 40 - The unconscious impulses do not want to be remembered in the way the treatment desires them to be, but endeavour to reproduce themselves in accordance with the timelessness of the unconscious and its capacity for hallucination. Just as happens in dreams, the patient regards the products of the awakening of his unconscious impulses as contemporaneous and real; he seeks to put his passions into action without taking any account of the real situation.
Page 40 - This struggle between the doctor and the patient, between intellect and instinctual life, between understanding and seeking to act, is played out almost exclusively in the phenomena of transference. It is on that field that the victory must be won.
Page 40 - It is undeniable that in his endeavor to emerge victorious over the transference phenomenon the psychoanalyst is faced with the greatest difficulties, but it should not be forgotten that it is just these difficulties that render us 1 Freud, " Zur Dynatnik der Ubertragung," Zentralblatt fur P.-A., Jahrg.
Page 40 - It cannot be disputed that controlling the phenomena of transference presents the psycho-analyst with the greatest difficulties. But it should not be forgotten that it is precisely they that do us the inestimable service of making the patient's hidden and forgotten erotic impulses immediate and manifest. For when all is said and done, it is impossible to destroy anyone in absentia or in effigie.
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Page 255 - The oldest and best meaning of the word "unconscious" is the descriptive one; we call "unconscious" any mental process the existence of which we are obliged to assume — because, for instance, we infer it in some way from its effects — but of which we are not directly aware.
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