Language, Symbolization, and Psychosis

by Giovanna Ambrosio (Editor), Simona Argentieri (Editor), Jorge Canestri (Editor)

Overview

In this book, the authors compare different psychoanalytic thinking and models – all of a rigorously Freudian stamp – on three concepts of great theoretical and clinical importance: language, symbolization, and psychosis.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367324926
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/05/2019
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Foreword — Language, symbolization, and psychosis: an introduction — A psychoanalytic enquiry into Pandora’s box: symbol and metaphor — Deciphering the secrets of oblivion — Self formation, symbolic capacity, and spontaneity — A language for remembering the future — Symbolization and psychosis: the mediating function of images in individual psychoanalytic psychodrama — ‘White Psychoses’: silence and delusions — When actions speak louder than words — Reflections on listening to and speaking with the patient during analysis — The past unconscious and the present unconscious — The mystery of the unsaid name: commonalities between God and Rumpelstiltskin — Texts and pre-texts in psychoanalytic clinical practice: languages and idioms — Symbolism in love and sex — Does the Pierce’s semiotic model based on index, icon, symbol have anything to do with psychoanalysis? — The foreign language