ABSTRACT
Collectively, Emmanuel Ghent's papers constitute a manifesto for the relational turn in psychoanalysis. They are guides to the work an provide crucial trail markers to the new paths being cut in the conduct and comprehension of clinical psychoanalytic process as reformulated in the last quarter of the twentieth century. In his essay "Paradox and Process", Ghent aims to show the links between two apparently contradictory aspects of clinical work-the ongoing engagement between analyst and patient, and the naming and interpreting of problems. His inspiration here is Winnicott, who introduced "paradox into the dry sobriety of psychoanalysis". Ghent's contribution here is to show that this back-and-forth between acceptance of not-knowing and speech about what can—even for a moment—be known, is ubiquitous in clinical psychoanalysis. His essay demonstrates this ubiquity by taking us through the work of a range of clinician-scholars, all of whom have been influenced by Winnicott: Balint, Khan, Kohut, Bollas, Mitchell, Benjamin.
