ABSTRACT
Psychoanalysis is a ‘form of inquiry, a theory of mind and a mode of treatment concerned, above all, with the unconscious mind’ (Pick, 2015: 19). Many of the key concepts of psychoanalysis were developed by Sigmund Freud (1856–1939), the ‘father of psychoanalysis’, but have since been redeveloped and substantially revised by many key figures including Melanie Klein, Jacques Lacan, Wilfred Bion, Donald Winnicott and Carl Jung, among others. As a consequence, contemporary psychoanalysis offers a very large repertoire of tools and concepts that have inspired both therapeutic work and the broader realms of arts, humanities and social sciences.
