190 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
190 Pages
by
Routledge
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This collection of papers, spanning the last fifteen years, presents a spirited defence of FreudÂ’s clinical method, considering the Â’crisis of psychoanalysisÂ’ in the wider context of a crisis of reflective thought in society as a whole. Expressing the wish to Â’clarify and polish the glass through which we see the psychoanalytic experienceÂ’, Jorge Ahumada seeks to redefine the functions of... Read more
Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- What is a clinical fact? Clinical psychoanalysis as inductive method -- The analyst as "base" -- On the transposition of self and object -- The unconscious delusion of "goodness" -- Perverse and symbiotic organizations in narcissistic object relationships -- On narcissistic identification and the shadow of the object -- Trauma, identification, evolution -- On the limitations and the infiniteness of analysis -- Epilogue
Biography
Jorge L. Ahumada trained in psychiatry both in Argentina and in the US before completing his psychoanalytic training in Buenos Aires, where he is now working as a psychoanalyst in private practice.
