The Truth about Freud's Technique
Subtitle: The Encounter with the Real (Psychoanalytic Crosscurrents)
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 1995-07-01
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780814782194
Subjects: Psychoanalysis & psychoanalytical theory; Movements - Behaviorism; FREUD, SIGMUND, 1856-1939; PSYCHOANALYSIS; Psychology & Psychiatry / General; Psychology
Description: 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 solution inevitably leads to a split in our existence. M. Guy Thompson forcefully disagrees with the recent trend that dismisses Freud as an hist.