This book is intended to be an introductory presentation of some key concepts of Lacanian Psychoanalysis as applied to the psychoanalytic group. The author describes his own encounter with Lacan and gives a biographical summary of Lacan’s life and influence in contemporary psychoanalytic theory and other related fields. He makes use of clinical vignettes to introduce Lacan’s basic concepts into the work with the group. The clinician is oriented to think in a way that restores to the “talking cure” the importance of listening to language and its uses in the transference. The author also introduces his own concepts of the dialogues IN and OF the group to distinguish the discourse of the ego in contrast with the flow of the unconscious in the group analytic session. It is written for the psychoanalytic group therapist or analyst as an introduction of basic Lacanian concepts in a style that intends to invite a new attitude to the reading of the group phenomena. Table of Contents:
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR v
SERIES EDITOR’S FOREWORD INTRODUCTION PART I
CHAPTER ONE: Jacques Lacan 1901–1981
CHAPTER TWO: The other in the group and the other of the group: two basic dialogues
CHAPTER THREE: “The subject supposed to know” (Le sujet suppose savoir) 24
CHAPTER FOUR: What happens in the venerable halls of language when there is no space for the word
CHAPTER FIVE: From need, through demand, to desire
CHAPTER SIX: Revolution, evolution: change and desire
Part one: vicissitudes of the imaginary in the group PART II
CHAPTER SEVEN: Revolution, evolution: change and desire
Part two: from identification to the desire of the other
CHAPTER EIGHT: On knowing too much
CHAPTER NINE: Between being and meaning: between drive and desire
CHAPTER TEN: Conclusion. Between an answer and a question: personal musings on psychotherapy and spirituality REFERENCES
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