What Is Psychoanalysis?
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What Is Psychoanalysis?

100 Years after Freud's 'Secret Committee'

Barnaby B Barratt

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What Is Psychoanalysis?

100 Years after Freud's 'Secret Committee'

Barnaby B Barratt

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About This Book

2020 American Board & Academy of Psychoanalysis (ABAPsa) bookaward winner!

In a radically powerful interpretation of the human condition, this book redefines the discipline of psychoanalysis by examining its fundamental assumptions about the unconscious mind, the nature of personal history, our sexualities, and the significance of the "Oedipus Complex". With striking originality, Barratt explains the psychoanalytic way of exploring our inner realities, and criticizes many of the schools of "psychoanalytic psychotherapy" that emerged and prospered during the 20th century.

In 1912, Sigmund Freud formed a "Secret Committee", charged with the task of protecting and advancing his discoveries. In this book, Barratt argues both that this was a major mistake, making the discipline more like a religious organization than a science, and that this continues to infuse psychoanalytic institutes today. What is Psychoanalysis? takes each of the four "fundamental concepts" that Freud himself said were the cornerstones of his science of healing, and offers a fresh and detailed re-examination of their contemporary importance.

Barratt's analysis demonstrates how the profound work, as well as the playfulness, of psychoanalysis, provides us with a critique of the ideologies that support oppression and exploitation on the social level. It will be of interest to advanced students of clinical psychology or philosophy, as well as psychoanalysts and psychotherapists.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2013
ISBN
9781136211058
Edition
1
Topic
Psicologia
Subtopic
Psicoanalisi

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. About the author
  7. Preface
  8. 1 Opening the question
  9. 2 Consciousness and the dynamics of repression
  10. 3 Personal history and repetition-compulsivity
  11. 4 Sensual embodiment and the erotics of experience
  12. 5 Oedipal complexities
  13. 6 What are healing practices?
  14. 7 Notes on psychoanalytic treatment
  15. 8 Ideology-critique and spiritual—existential praxis
  16. References
  17. Index