Standing on the psychoanalytic precipice, looking out at the horizon, the young analyst sees an obscure object of desire." Thus begins one of the eight stories in this slim collection of psychoanalytic explorations. Riding on the subway to his office in New York City, working with patients, contemplating in spaces, the author delves into his development to become an analyst and his experience practicing an "impossible" and irrepressible profession. In the end, he just wants to fall asleep one night and dream. Keep analyzing . . . Table of Contents Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix 1 The Graduate and the Analyst . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2 Jacob Arlow's Office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 3 Two Charlies on the Subway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 4 The Salman Rushdie Bird . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 5 The Day a Billionaire Walked into My Office . . . . . . . 31 6 A Portrait of the Analyst as a Young Man . . . . . . . . 39 7 Subway Odyssey in Trump Town . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 8 The Night an Analyst Couldn't Sleep . . . . . . . . . . . 65 About the Author: Luke Hadge, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst, and former faculty member of the Columbia University Center for Psychoanaly!c Training and Ins!tute, where he received the Alexander Beller Award for writing. After many years in New York City he moved to Honolulu and founded the Hawaii Psychoanalytic Society. |