Constitution of the Psychoanalytic Clinic - A History of Its Structure and Power

Provides an examination of the historical roots of psychoanalysis from ancient Greece to the late nineteenth century, focusing on social practices that were related to the founders of psychoanalytic theory and maintained within contemporary treatment. This book includes linked discussions of issues pertaining to psychoanalytic treatment.

List of contents

Preface , Note on References , Introduction , The doubt of Ulysses , The return of Empedocles , The act of Antigone , Rhetoric of space, rhetoric of time: paradox and interpretation , Taking care of oneself , Montaigne, the most sceptical of the hysterics , The meditation of Descartes , The structure of psychoanalytic treatment , Kant and the pathological , The rebirth of the clinic as structure and as experience , Hegel: the real and its negative , Logic and politics in psychoanalytic healing , Conclusion

About the author

Christian Dunker

Summary

Provides an examination of the historical roots of psychoanalysis from ancient Greece to the late nineteenth century, focusing on social practices that were related to the founders of psychoanalytic theory and maintained within contemporary treatment. This book includes linked discussions of issues pertaining to psychoanalytic treatment.

Product details

• Authors: Christian Dunker, Dunker Christian
• Assisted by: Terence Hill (Translation), Hill Terence (Translation)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780367106225
• ISBN: 978-0-367-10622-5
• No. of pages: 436
• Series: The Lines of the Symbolic in Psychoanalysis Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Psychoanalysis; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis