The Truth about Freud's Technique: The Encounter with the Real

by M. Guy Thompson

Book Overview

In this unusual and much-needed reappraisal of Freud's clinical technique, M. Guy Thompson challenges the conventional notion that psychoanalysis promotes relief from suffering and replaces it with a more radical assertion, that psychoanalysis seeks to mend our relationship with the real that has been fractured by our avoidance of the same. Thompson suggests that, while avoiding reality may help to relieve our experience of suffering, this short-term...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814782191
• ISBN13: 9780814782194
• Release Date: July 1995
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.9"