1st Edition

Problems of Psychoanalytic Technique in Freud and Lacan What Does a Psychoanalyst Do?

By Bruno Bonoris Copyright 2025
178 Pages
by Routledge

178 Pages
by Routledge

178 Pages
by Routledge

Problems of Psychoanalytic Technique in Freud and Lacan  contributes to the everyday work of contemporary psychoanalysts through a critical examination of psychoanalytic technique. Bruno Bonoris revisits and questions key concepts, including free association, evenly suspended attention, transference, interpretation, and construction, with reference to Freud, Lacan, and the work of... Read more

1. Dreaming: Cut and Beginning  2. Conjecturing: Experience and Theory  3. Opening: Free Association and Evenly Suspended Attention  4. Othering: Responsibility, Rectification, and Localization  5. Loving: Introduction to the Problem of Transference  6. Causing: The Analyst’s Desire  7. Pretending to Forget: The Subject Supposed to Know  8. Interpreting: The Analytic Reading  9. Cutting: Analytic Writing

Biography

Bruno Bonoris is a psychoanalyst based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is Professor of Psychology at the University of Buenos Aires and a doctoral researcher in psychology (UBA) and philosophy (Université Paris 8).

"Far from Lacanian purely theoretical discussions and closed language, in Problems of Psychoanalytic Technique, Bonoris thinks about daily psychoanalytic practice through a more clinical than theoretical lens. He invites us to rethink what a psychoanalyst does in the office."

Jorge N. Reitter, author of Heteronormativity and Psychoanalysis: Oedipus Gay

"Problems of Psychoanalytic Technique inscribes itself in the antipodes of the project to naturalize psychoanalysis. Bonoris elucidates the modalities through which a particular subject is instituted within the psychoanalytic clinic, conceiving it as an integrally a formal entity under which there is, literally, nothing."

Nicolás Garrera-Tolbert, PhD, lecturer of Philosophy, St Francis College, USA