1st Edition

On Freud's Constructions in Analysis

220 Pages
by Routledge

220 Pages
by Routledge

220 Pages
by Routledge

In Constructions in Analysis Freud introduces the notion of constructions, different from interpretation, and considers it necessary - under certain conditions - to reconstruct a part of the infantile history of the subject. The difference between construction and reconstruction as well as which should be the limit of the intervention of the analyst in order to avoid a proposal far removed from... Read more
Contemporary Freud -- Preface -- Introduction -- “Constructions in Analysis” (1937d) -- Discussion of “Constructions in Analysis” -- Freud’s basic assumptions on “constructions” -- Construction: the central paradigm of psychoanalytic work -- Reconstruction in contemporary psychoanalysis -- Constructions and historicization -- Creative construction -- Construction then and now -- Knowledge as fact and knowledge as experience: Freud’s “Constructions in Analysis” -- The conundrum of time in psychoanalysis -- On deconstruction

Biography

Pragier, Georges