The Dove that Returns, The Dove that Vanishes
Subtitle: Paradox and Creativity in Psychoanalysis (The New Library of Psychoanalysis, 39)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: August 11, 2000
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780415211826
First sentence: At karate training one evening we were practising with our partners a prearranged sequence of attack and defence when the instructor, a great karate master called Hirokazu Kanazawa, broke off the exercise and dismissed the class, well before the training session would normally have ended.
Description: Explores how analysts struggle with the contradictory nature of psychoanalysis - deeply personal, subjective and intuitive, yet dependant on systematic theory and objective principles of technique.