The Dialogues in and of the Group: Lacanian Perspectives on the Psychoanalytic Group

by Macario Giraldo

Overview

This book presents a number of perspectives using central Lacanian concepts to invite the clinician into a different reading of the group therapy phenomena. It is intended to group therapists to take the challenge and begin to wrestle with Lacanian concepts as they look at the group.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781855758674
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/31/2012
Series:	The New International Library of Group Analysis
Pages:	126
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Macario Giraldo

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements vii

About the Author viii

Series Editor's Foreword ix

Introduction xiii

Part I

Chapter 1 Jacques Lacan 1901-1981 3

Chapter 2 The other in the group and the other of the group: two basic dialogues 9

Chapter 3 "The subject supposed to know" (Le sujet suppose savoir) 24

Chapter 4 What happens in the venerable halls of language when there is no space for the word 34

Chapter 5 From need, through demand, to desire 44

Chapter 6 Revolution, evolution: change and desire Part one: vicissitudes of the imaginary in the group 51

Part II

Chapter 7 Revolution, evolution: change and desire Part two: from identification to the desire of the other 61

Chapter 8 On knowing too much 71

Chapter 9 Between being and meaning: between drive and desire 79

Chapter 10 Conclusion. Between an answer and a question: personal musings on psychotherapy and spirituality 91

References 102

Index 105