How Does Analysis Work? Examples of Lacanian Interpretation

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements       

A Question That Put Me to Work

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My Teddy Collection    

Playing Games 

Queer Dead Uncles      

La Cough        

Motherhood     

Why Hypothesize?       

A Thread of Interpretation         

Analysis, Moments of Concluding        

Love as an Effect of Truth         

We Have a Date!          

The Place of the Object

Fathers and Daughters  

Lateness          

The Fruit, the Vagina and the Pyjamas   

Hidden in Plain Sight   

Reunion           

Second Analysis           

Speak! 

Dreams in an Analysis            

My Desk Is Next to My Bed       

Random Act     

A Knock on the Door    

Betrayal           

Grampy           

‘Analysis Terminable and Interminable’, Thirty Years On

Less than Zero 

A Love Letter   

Gay Shame, Phantasy and Recovering Myself    

The Goodbye   

Samson and Delilah      

What’s in a Name?       

The Choice of Exile      

A Cut Off         

“Mmms”         

Hell Is Other People!    

A Pair of Converse Trainers      

My First Wish to Be an Analyst 

An Excerpt from a Didactic Analysis: Death in Other Words

Image of a Telephone   

A Story

Eat What You Want, Drink What You Want        

A Sewing Machine and an Umbrella      

The Hidden Letter        

Scrambled Eggs

The Eye of the Storm    

Swift and Fragmentary Notes on Interpretation  

Scansion          

Only You Would Dream of Such a Thing!          

My PIN

Conjunctions of Embarrassment and Suffering   

Unconscious and Drive Being Cut           

1982

Biography

Berjanet Jazani is a medical doctor and practicing psychoanalyst based in London, UK. She is the president of the College of Psychoanalysts (UK), clinical member of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research (CFAR), and the author of Lacanian Psychoanalysis from Clinic to Culture; Lacan, Mortality, Life and Language: Clinical and Cultural Explorations; and The Perfume of Soul from Freud to Lacan: A Critical Reading of Smelling, Breathing and Subjectivity (all Routledge).

“For those of us who, scholars or not, are interested in the complex engagements of psychoanalysis, it can be frustrating how poorly psychoanalysis has been understood in terms of both its theories and practices. Then, too, there's the brutally reductive matter of its popular cultural representations. These simplistic ideas are not only harmful to those who would like to grasp psychoanalysis intellectually, but to analysands' experience of psychoanalysis in the consulting room. A book that describes the wide range of heterogeneous possibilities that have emerged from this form of encounter would therefore be a welcome intervention - one that can deepen and expand our sense of psychoanalytic practice in ways that work to enrich its theoretical underpinnings as well.” - Dr Devorah Baum, Associate Professor of English Literature and Critical Theory, University of Southampton, UK

 

“There has been a distinct lack of suitable academic literature offering tangible clinical examples of the unique features of a Lacanian analysis. Hence I am confident this book would be well received and read with great interest by academics in the social sciences and humanities alike, as well as the wide range of clinicians working in the mental health field. Over the decades a number of myths have emerged around the image of the Lacanian analyst, playing on a cliched stereotype of the Lacanian style of interpretation. These myths are quite misleading and urgently in need of challenge; there is no doubt that they have negatively influenced the reception of Lacanian analysis more broadly across the UK. This volume would address these misconceptions in a way that should, I hope, make the key precepts of contemporary Lacanian technique accessible to a wider audience.” - Dr Gwion Jones, Assistant Professor in Psychology, Coventry University, UK