Title: The truth about Freud's technique
First published: 1994
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.
Subjects: Psychoanalytic Theory, Psychoanalysis and philosophy, Wetenschappelijke technieken, Wirklichkeit, Psychoanalyse, Wahrheit, Psychoanalysis, Freud, sigmund, 1856-1939, Heidegger, martin, 1889-1976
People: Martin Heidegger (1889-1976), Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
LC classification: BF175.4.P45 T56 1994