ABSTRACT

How can the psychotherapist think about not knowing? Is psychoanalysis a contemplative practice? This book explores the possibility that there are resources in philosophy and theology which can help psychoanalysts and psychotherapists think more clearly about the unknown and the unknowable. The book applies the lens of apophasis to psychoanalysis,

chapter 1|10 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|5 pages

The Corpus Dionysiacum

chapter 3|28 pages

Apophasis in Dionysius

chapter 4|12 pages

Jung, Neoplatonism and Dionysius

chapter 5|40 pages

The opposites

chapter 6|8 pages

The transcendent function

chapter 9|3 pages

Conclusion