1st Edition

Constructions and the Analytic Field History, Scenes and Destiny

By Domenico Chianese Copyright 2008
248 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge

Constructions and the Analytic Field questions the relationship between psychoanalysis, history and literature. Does the analyst help the analysand construct a narrative, or is their task more of a historical reconstruction? In seeking to answer this question, Domenico Chianese examines Freud's writing, beginning with 'Constructions in Analysis' and ending in 'Moses and Monotheism', as well... Read more

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Biography

Domenico Chianese is a psychiatrist and training analyst of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society, of which he is former president. He has published two books, and lives and works in Rome.