How Does Analysis Work?: Examples of Lacanian Interpretation

by Berjanet Jazani (Editor)

Overview

How Does Analysis Work? uses short, compelling vignettes from people in Lacanian analysis to explore how analytic interpretation works.

Insights, revelations, connections, meanings and non-meanings all feature in these anonymous accounts of crucial moments in analysis, providing a sense of what it is all about. Drawn from a wide range of analysands, some seasoned analysts and others just starting out, these vignettes show how change takes place. The short pieces are drawn from Lacanian analysis, but many go against cliched views of what Lacanians do in their work, spanning both the classical and the radically innovative and showing the use of humour and theatre in psychoanalytic practice.

How Does Analysis Work? will be of great interest to psychoanalysts and Lacanian analysts in practice and in training, as well as anyone who is curious about the analytic process.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781032637662
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/10/2024
Series:	The Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research Library (CFAR)
Pages:	152
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Berjanet Jazani is a medical doctor and practicing psychoanalyst based in London, UK. She is the president of the College of Psychoanalysts (UK), clinical member of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research (CFAR), and the author of Lacanian Psychoanalysis from Clinic to Culture; Lacan, Mortality, Life and Language: Clinical and Cultural Explorations; and The Perfume of Soul from Freud to Lacan: A Critical Reading of Smelling, Breathing and Subjectivity (all Routledge).

Table of Contents

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

A Question That Put Me to Work

110

My Teddy Collection

Playing Games

Queer Dead Uncles

La Cough

Motherhood

Why Hypothesize?

A Thread of Interpretation

Analysis, Moments of Concluding

Love as an Effect of Truth

We Have a Date!

The Place of the Object

Fathers and Daughters

Lateness

The Fruit, the Vagina and the Pyjamas

Hidden in Plain Sight

Reunion

Second Analysis

Speak!

Dreams in an Analysis

My Desk Is Next to My Bed

Random Act

A Knock on the Door

Betrayal

Grampy

‘Analysis Terminable and Interminable’, Thirty Years On

Less than Zero

A Love Letter

Gay Shame, Phantasy and Recovering Myself

The Goodbye

Samson and Delilah

What’s in a Name?

The Choice of Exile

A Cut Off

“Mmms”

Hell Is Other People!

A Pair of Converse Trainers

My First Wish to Be an Analyst

An Excerpt from a Didactic Analysis: Death in Other Words

Image of a Telephone

A Story

Eat What You Want, Drink What You Want

A Sewing Machine and an Umbrella

The Hidden Letter

Scrambled Eggs

The Eye of the Storm

Swift and Fragmentary Notes on Interpretation

Scansion

Only You Would Dream of Such a Thing!

My PIN

Conjunctions of Embarrassment and Suffering

Unconscious and Drive Being Cut

1982

Editorial Reviews

For those of us who, scholars or not, are interested in the complex engagements of psychoanalysis, it can be frustrating how poorly psychoanalysis has been understood in terms of both its theories and practices. Then, too, there's the brutally reductive matter of its popular cultural representations. These simplistic ideas are not only harmful to those who would like to grasp psychoanalysis intellectually, but to analysands' experience of psychoanalysis in the consulting room. A book that describes the wide range of heterogeneous possibilities that have emerged from this form of encounter would therefore be a welcome intervention - one that can deepen and expand our sense of psychoanalytic practice in ways that work to enrich its theoretical underpinnings as well.” - Dr Devorah Baum, Associate Professor of English Literature and Critical Theory, University of Southampton, UK

 

“There has been a distinct lack of suitable academic literature offering tangible clinical examples of the unique features of a Lacanian analysis. Hence I am confident this book would be well received and read with great interest by academics in the social sciences and humanities alike, as well as the wide range of clinicians working in the mental health field. Over the decades a number of myths have emerged around the image of the Lacanian analyst, playing on a cliched stereotype of the Lacanian style of interpretation. These myths are quite misleading and urgently in need of challenge; there is no doubt that they have negatively influenced the reception of Lacanian analysis more broadly across the UK. This volume would address these misconceptions in a way that should, I hope, make the key precepts of contemporary Lacanian technique accessible to a wider audience.” - Dr Gwion Jones, Assistant Professor in Psychology, Coventry University, UK

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