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Constructions and the Analytic Field: History, Scenes and Destiny (The New Library of Psychoanalysis) - Softcover

Book 49 of 114: The New Library of Psychoanalysis

Chianese, Domenico

 
9780415384056: Constructions and the Analytic Field: History, Scenes and Destiny (The New Library of Psychoanalysis)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0415384052 ISBN 13: 9780415384056
Publisher: Routledge, 2007

Synopsis

Constructions and the Analytic Field questions the relationship between psychoanalysis, history and literature. Does the analyst help the analysand construct a narrative, or is their task more of a historical reconstruction?

In seeking to answer this question, Domenico Chianese examines Freud's writing, beginning with 'Constructions in Analysis' and ending in 'Moses and Monotheism', as well as the impressions of analytic method reflected in contemporary writers such as Thomas Mann, and historical writings from both sides of the Atlantic. Drawing on vivid and persuasive clinical examples, he argues that psychoanalysis creates a 'scenic space' between analysand and analyst, a theatrical space wherein the cast of the patient's interior world enter and exit from the scene.

Drawing on the rich Italian psychoanalytic tradition, this original approach to the analytic field will be of interest to psychoanalysts, historians and literary experts.

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About the Author

Domenico Chianese is a psychiatrist and training analyst of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society, of which he is former president. He has published two books, and lives and works in Rome.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2007
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415384052
ISBN 13 
9780415384056
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
248