Against Understanding, Volume 1: Commentary and Critique in a Lacanian Key by Fink, Bruce

Paperback / softback. New. 2014 American Board & Academy of Psychoanalysis Book Prize winner for Best Anthology Against Understanding, Volume 1, explores how the process of understanding (which can be seen to be part and parcel of the Lacanian dimension of the imaginary) reduces the unfamiliar to the familiar, transforms the radically other into the same, and renders practitioners deaf to what is actually being said in the analytic setting. Running counter to the received view in virtually all of contemporary psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, Bruce Fink argues that the current obsession with understanding - on the patient's part as well as on the clinician's - is excessive insofar as the most essential aim of psychoanalytic treatment is change. Using numerous case studies and clinical vignettes, Fink illustrates that the ability of clinicians to detect the unconscious through slips of the tongue, slurred speech, mixed metaphors, and other instances of… Read More

Routledge, 2013. Paperback. New. 257 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.75 inches.

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Routledge, 2013. Paperback. New. 257 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.75 inches.

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