By Michael J. Miller
The paintings of Jacques Lacan is linked extra with literature and philosophy than mainstream American psychology, due largely to the dense language he employs in articulating his idea together with usually on the fee of medical representation. accordingly, his contributions are often attention-grabbing, but their application within the healing atmosphere might be tricky to pinpoint. Lacanian Psychotherapy fills during this scientific hole by way of offering theoretical discussions in transparent, available language and utilising them to a number of chapter-length case stories, thereby demonstrating their medical relevance. The imperative difficulty of the e-book is the usefulness of Lacan's concept that the subconscious is based like and through language. this idea implies a weird demeanour of listening ("to the letter") and intervention, which Miller applies to a couple of universal medical issues together with together with case formula, desires, transference, and analysis together with all within the context of real-world psychotherapy.
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I was able to propose that kind of set-up to a patient of mine whom I shall call Mr B. A man in his forties, he had already undergone many different kinds of treatment and had been hospitalised on several occasions. A highly intelligent person, he had begun working in research, but, on his return from the US, he began to feel more and more depressed. In his life there were many features typical of the problem situations so prevalent in contemporary society: the difficulty in facing up to life’s demands—this came to the fore when he began working, but it had long been simmering, hidden 46 Marie-France Dispaux beneath what he and other people saw as his success at school and university level.
Other analysts, however, hold that the current trend toward seeking out and interpreting the transference distorts the listening process and creates an artificial, intrinsically induced emphasis on transference material. As of today, this debate goes on in many quarters and has not been resolved. Each analyst’s view of this issue will dictate his or her way of dealing with the opening phase. Those who favour Freud’s view—endorsed by Heinz Kohut as an integral part of the SelfPsychology approach—will allow the analysis to unfold and reserve transference interpretations to a time when resistances centring around transference perceptions block further progress.
In his life there were many features typical of the problem situations so prevalent in contemporary society: the difficulty in facing up to life’s demands—this came to the fore when he began working, but it had long been simmering, hidden 46 Marie-France Dispaux beneath what he and other people saw as his success at school and university level. In short, his problem had to do with narcissism, and in the initial phase of our work together the central themes involved subjectivation and dependence.