The truth about Freud's technique : : the encounter with the real / / M. Guy Thompson.

• Superior document: Psychoanalytic crosscurrents
• Author: Thompson, M. Guy, 1947-
• Year of Publication: 1994
• Language: English
• Series: Psychoanalytic crosscurrents.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

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 h...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Foreword
• Preface
• Introduction
• Introduction
• 1. Psychical and External Reality
• 2. Realistic and Neurotic Anxiety
• 3. Realistic and Wishful Thinking
• 4. The Neurotic and the Psychotic Experience of Reality
• 5. Real Love and Transference-Love
• Introduction
• 6. Heidegger's Conception of Truth
• 7. Heidegger's Conception of Un-truth
• 8. Truth and Science
• 9. Truth and Technology
• 10. Truth and Psychoanalysis
• Introduction
• 11. The Paradox of Neurosis
• 12. A Case of Secrecy
• 13. Dreams of Vengeance and Farewell
• 14. Freud's Last Word
• 15. Love and Reality
• Introduction
• 16. The Employment of Dream Interpretation ("The Handling of Dream-Interpretation in Psycho-analysis,55 1911)
• 17. Freud's "Recommendations to Physicians Practising Psychoanalysis55 (1912)
• 18. On Beginning the Treatment (1913)
• 19. The Concept of Transference ("The Dynamics of Transference,55 1912, and "Observations on Transference-Love,55 1915)
• 20. Working-Through ("Remembering, Repeating, and Working- Through55 1914)
• Introduction
• 21. The Cruel Captain
• 22. The Rat Mystery
• 23. Guilt and Truth
• 24. "Classical" Technique—and Freud's
• Introduction
• 25. Psychoanalysis, Terminable—or Impossible?
• 26. The End of Analysis
• References
• Index