ABSTRACT

This book is a creative psychoanalytic odyssey, a most intriguing psychological voyage. It explores many of the most basic, fundamental concepts of psychoanalysis, including repression, insight, transference, play, child analysis, jokes, puns, and parapraxes as well as the uncanny in dreams.

chapter One|13 pages

A painted guinea pig

chapter Two|14 pages

Repression and its vicissitudes

chapter Three|15 pages

Insight as an act of transgression

chapter Five|31 pages

Play in child analysis and adult analysis

chapter Seven|26 pages

Screen memories

chapter Eight|14 pages

Symptom as irony

chapter Nine|14 pages

A psychoanalytic conception of character

chapter |2 pages

Epilogue