ABSTRACT

Illusions and Disillusions of Psychoanalytic Work recounts and explores the disappointing and sometimes tragic evolutions of the treatments of certain patients who are resistant to the effects of analytic work. In this book the author reports cases taken from his own experience and that of his collaborators. The author points out moreover, that such cases have never been absent from the series of analysands that he has treated, from the early days of his practice up until today, without minimizing his counter-transference reactions or their possible impact on these disappointing evolutions.

part I|99 pages

Theoretical Study

chapter Two|14 pages

Lacanian thinking on language

chapter Four|7 pages

Die Entstellung

chapter Seven|4 pages

The notion of failure

chapter Eight|5 pages

Variety of traumas

chapter Ten|3 pages

The ego prior to repression

chapter Eleven|2 pages

Libidinal styles

chapter Twelve|2 pages

Drive fusion and defusion

chapter Fifteen|10 pages

Causes and remedies

chapter Eighteen|5 pages

Conclusions

part III|24 pages

Illusions and Disillusions of Psychoanalytic Work

chapter |16 pages

Postscript

Clinical passion, complex thinking: towards the psychoanalysis of the future