An Apocryphal Dictionary of Psychoanalysis is a book of transpositions, collecting together the author’s clinical vignettes, enigmatic objects, stray thoughts, projects, images, notes from readings, and musings. Born from moments in which the author has sensed a solution for problems encountered in daily work or for obscure but exciting points of the theory, the entries are ordered in an apocryphal manner, offering a personal and challenging view of psychoanalysis. Like small epiphanies in which there is always an emotion - be it that of amusement, astonishment, gratitude, sadness, joy – they express the style of the analyst and of the person in treating mental suffering. Ideas for psychoanalysis are outlined where at centre stage is the ability to wait, to be surprised; to operate from the place of the unconscious, which by definition is a place of negativity, and to exercise a form of soft scepticism – ultimately, a mode of hospitality.
Key Features
- Collection of clinical vignettes, enigmatic objects, stray thoughts, projects, images, and notes from readings
- Personal and challenging view of psychoanalysis
- Entries ordered in an apocryphal manner
- Expressions of amusement, astonishment, gratitude, sadness, and joy
- Outlines ideas for psychoanalysis with a focus on the unconscious
Additional Information
Remarks on films and exhibitions, memories, episodes from daily life, summaries of papers to write, questions, doubts, and obsessions - all of which have shaped the author’s understanding of psychoanalysis. An Apocryphal Dictionary of Psychoanalysis will be of great use to psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists.
