1st Edition

The Knowledge of the Psychoanalyst

By Raul Moncayo Copyright 2025
70 Pages
by Routledge

70 Pages
by Routledge

The Knowledge of the Psychoanalyst documents Raul Moncayo’s practice of analysis over a period of twenty-five years. Exploring different aspects of knowledge in the work of Freud and Lacan, Moncayo considers themes including not-knowing as opposed to non-knowing, truth, and ignorance. The book considers unconscious guilt, S1 signifiers, understandings of history as both linear and circular,... Read more

Chapter 1

The Knowledge of the Psychoanalyst

 

Chapter 2

The Five Discourses Plus One

 

Chapter 3

The Ethics of the Lack in Psychoanalysis

 

Chapter 4

Triads and Quaternities

 

Chapter 5

The Philosophical and Psychoanalytic Concept of History

 

Chapter 6

The Mahayana Teaching of Mind-Consciousness and Freud’s and Jung’s Metapsychology

 

Chapter 7

Teaching Psychoanalysis

Biography

Raul Moncayo was born in Chile and first trained as a psychoanalyst in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He obtained his PhD in social-clinical psychology at the Wright Institute in Berkeley and trained as an analyst at the Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis, which he also helped found. He is the founder of the Chinese American Center for Freudian and Lacanian Analysis and Research.