Main description:

This collection of papers, spanning the last 15 years, presents a spirited defence of Freud's clinical method, considering the "crisis of psychoanalysis" in the wider context of a crisis of reflective thought in society as a whole. Expressing the wish to "clarify and polish the glass through which we see the psychoanalytic experience", Jorge Ahu

Contents:

Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- What is a clinical fact? Clinical psychoanalysis as inductive method -- The analyst as "base" -- On the transposition of self and object -- The unconscious delusion of "goodness" -- Perverse and symbiotic organizations in narcissistic object relationships -- On narcissistic identification and the shadow of the object -- Trauma, identification, evolution -- On the limitations and the infiniteness of analysis -- Epilogu