1st Edition

Psychoanalytic Concepts and Technique in Development Psychoanalysis, Neuroscience and Physics

By Florence Guignard Copyright 2020
262 Pages
by Routledge

262 Pages
by Routledge

262 Pages
by Routledge

Psychoanalytic Concepts and Technique in Development offers a clear and thorough overview of contemporary psychoanalytic theory and clinical technique, from a largely post-Freudian, French perspective, but also informed by the work of Klein, Bion and Winnicott. Drawing on the French tradition, Florence Guignard sets out a comprehensive guide to the major drives and concepts in classical... Read more

FOREWORD by Sparta Castoriadis & Fanny Cohen Herlem

PREFACE by Anna Ferruta

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER ONE Genealogy organisation of the drives

CHAPTER TWO The birth of psychic life

CHAPTER THREE The question of splitting

CHAPTER FOUR An introduction to projective identification

CHAPTER FIVE Sadomasochism, a conceptual chimera 

CHAPTER SIX The epistemophilic impulse

CHAPTER SEVEN From the drives to thought

CHAPTER EIGHT The contemporary relevance of neurosis

CHAPTER NINE Oedipus with or without complex 

CHAPTER TEN The adolescent Oedipus

CHAPTER ELEVEN The depressive and paranoid-schizoid positions revisited

CHAPTER TWELVE The concept of the infantile

CHAPTER THIRTEEN The infantile-in-the-psychoanalyst: blind spots and stopper-interpretations

REFERENCES

INDEX

Biography

Florence Guignard is a Swiss and French psychoanalyst and member of the IPA. She is Past Chair of the IPA COCAP (Committee on Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis) and founded the SEPEA (Société Européenne pour la Psychanalyse de l’Enfant et de l’Adolescent) in 1994.