Time in Psychoanalysis: Some Contradictory Aspects - Hardcover

Green, Andre

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1853435511 ISBN 13: 9781853435515

Verlag: Free Association Books, 2002

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Reseña del editor:

Time is a traditional theme in philosophy and a fundamental theme in psychoanalysis. The wealth of studies devoted to the former contrasts strikingly with their scarcity in the latter. Over more than 40 years, Freud elaborated different hypotheses on the conception of time in psychoanalysis. His speculations contained numerous different aspects: a developmental point of view (the libido theory) involving fixations and regressions, the process of "retroaction", dreams as a form of indirect recollection, the timelessness of the unconscious, the function played by primal phantasies in categorizing experience and, finally, repetition compulsion. His investigations ultimately led him to the concept of historical truth which, unfortunately, has since been neglected. Taken together, these hypotheses form a complex theory of temporality, a genuine diachronic heterogeneity, justifying its description as "fragmented time". In this book, the author sets out to restore the full richness of a theory which contemporary psychoanalysis has progressively tended to simplify with the aim of taming it and returning to a linear, homogenous conception of time.

Biografía del autor:

Andre Green is a Training Analyst and a former President of the Paris Psychoanalytic Society, an Honorary Member of the British Psychoanalytical Society and a Patron of the Squiggle Foundation. He is also a Director of the Paris Psychoanalytic Institute and an author of various books in the psychoanalytic field including "The Work of the Negative, The Chains of Eros" and "Time in Psychoanalysis."

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• Verlag: Free Association Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1853435511
• ISBN 13: 9781853435515
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 200