Reading French Psychoanalysis

Dana Birksted-Breen, Sara Flanders, Alain Gibeault, Dana Birksted-Breen, Sara Flanders, Alain Gibeault

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN: 9780415485036
• eBook ISBN: 9781317723318
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Mental Health in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

How has psychoanalysis developed in France in the years since Lacan so dramatically polarized the field?

In this book, Dana Birksted-Breen and Sara Flanders of the British Psychoanalytical Society, and Alain Gibeault of the Paris Psychoanalytical Society provide an overview of how French psychoanalysis has developed since Lacan. Focusing primarily on the work of psychoanalysts from the French Psychoanalytical Association and from the Paris Psychoanalytical Society, the two British psychoanalysts view the evolution of theory as it appears to them from the outside, while the French psychoanalyst explains and elaborates from inside the French psychoanalytic discourse. Seminal and representative papers have been chosen to illuminate what is special about French thinking. A substantial general introduction argues in favour of the specificity of 'French psychoanalysis', tracing its early influences and highlighting specific contemporary developments.

Sections are made up of introductory material by Alain Gibeault, followed by illustrative papers in the following categories:

• the history of psychoanalysis in France
• the pioneers and their legacy
• the setting and the process of psychoanalysis
• phantasy and representation
• the body and the drives
• masculine and feminine sexuality
• psychosis.

An excellent introduction to French psychoanalytical debate, Reading French Psychoanalysis sheds a complementary light on thinking that has evolved differently in England and North America. It will be ideal reading for beginners and advanced students of clinical theory as well as experienced psychoanalysts wanting to know more about French Psychoanalytic theory, and how it has developed.

Index

‘a priori’, transcendental, Kant’s 274

abandonment, maternal 725

abnormality, ‘a measure of’ 561

abreaction 122

absent mother 346, 700, 709

‘absolute’ primary narcissism 777

abstinence 77, 82; rule of 129

acted scansion 138, 766

acting out 129, 162, 165, 170, 171, 219, 236, 262, 475, 509, 712, 743, 750

active defence 122

actual neuroses 439, 767

actual psychoses 440, 767

adolescence, sexual in 540–2

adolescent depression 560

adolescents, psychoanalytic treatment of 57, 787

affect(s): role of 3, 8, 17, 20, 32, 272; and feeling 91; and idea 4, 17, 34, 37, 268, 271; instinctual 292; and phantasy 33; primacy of 3; quota of 268, 437; and representation, Freud’s distinction between 4, 33; and representations 17, 30, 33, 437; of tenderness 26, 782; of unpleasure 293; unconscious 505, 506, 542; and words 106

affective memory 425

affective perversion 655

aggressor, identification with 295, 510, 606, 614, 642

agieren 162, 262, 263; see also acting out

agony, psychic 611, 727

agoraphobia 127, 321

Aha-Erlebnis 98

alexithymia 439, 470

alienated unconscious identifications 412

alienating narcissistic unconscious identification 412, 417

alienation, paranoic 102

allergy 362, 487

allo-destructiveness 444

allusive interpretations 145

alpha: elements 91, 747; function 30, 165, 482, 506

alterity 239, 246, 247, 377–82

ambi-sexed maternal imago 686

ambivalence 143, 179–80, 275, 282, 3...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Note on the paperback cover image
• Filiations in French psychoanalysis
• 1926-2009: The development of psychoanalytic societies in France
• General Introduction
• Section I History of psychoanalysis in France
• Section II The pioneers and their legacy
• SECTION III The setting and the process of psychoanalysis
• Section IV Phantasy and representation
• Section V The body and the drives
• Section VI Masculine and feminine sexuality
• Section VII Psychosis
• Glossary
• Index