Language, Symbolization, and Psychosis
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.
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Language, Symbolization, and Psychosis
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.
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Language, Symbolization, and Psychosis

Language, Symbolization, and Psychosis

Language, Symbolization, and Psychosis

Language, Symbolization, and Psychosis

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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: 9781855755857
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 07/13/2007
Pages: 320
Product dimensions: 5.81(w) x 9.06(h) x (d)

About the Author

Giovanna Ambrosio is a full member of the Italian Psychoanalytical Association and the International Psychoanalytical Association, Secretary of the Italian Psychoanalytical Association, Chief Editor of the Journal Psicoanalisi, and European co-chair of the Committee on Women and Psychoanalysis. Her main scientific interests include the field of the intrapsychic interaction relationship between "truth and the false", the meanings of "lies" and issues related to the well-known problem of the "confusion of tongues".

Simona Argentieri is a full member, training and supervising analyst of the Italian Psychoanalytical Association. She has dedicated much thought to the relationship between psychoanalysis, culture and art, particularly the cinema. She is the author of many essays and books on the above subjects.

Jorge Canestri is a training and supervising analyst for the Italian Psychoanalytical Association and for the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association. He is also Professor of Psychology of Health at the Roma 3 University, co-author of The Babel of the Unconscious: Mother Tongue and Foreign Languages in the Psychoanalytic Dimension and editor (with Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber and Anna Ursula Dreher) of Pluralism and Unity? Methods of Research in Psychoanalysis and of Psychoanalysis: From Practice to Theory.

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
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