The Klein-Lacan Dialogues

by Bernard Burgoyne

Overview

This book records a series of groundbreaking discussions that took place in 1994-95 between a number of prominent Kleinian and Lacanian psychoanalysts. The aim of the presentations and the debates that followed was to allow for dialogue, as well as controversy, to take place. Respecting the convictions of the other and allowing their expression in their own terms became a prerequisite in the dialogue. Topics discussed included phantasy, sexuality, counter-transference, the unconscious, interpretation and technique, and child analysis. The meetings provided an opportunity for reflection upon the implications for respective positions and an appreciation of the sensitivities of both schools.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781782200239
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/03/2015
Edition description:	Reissued
Pages:	236
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Bernard Burgoyne is a psychoanalyst practicing in London. He is a Member of the World Association of Psychoanalysis, and a founder member of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research. He was educated at the University of Cambridge, the London School of Economics, and the University of Paris, and is currently Emeritus Professor of Psychoanalysis in the Institute for Health and Social Science Research at Middlesex University. He has published extensively on questions of structure in psychoanalysis, and is particularly concerned with the way in which the predicaments of human interactions are resolvable only by a consideration of the frontiers of desire and the texture of space.

Mary Sullivan

Table of Contents

Foreword , Introduction , Child Psychotherapy within the Kleinian Tradition , Once upon a Time: The Infant in Lacanian Theory 1 , Discussion of Papers on Child Psychoanalysis , Technique and Interpretation in Klein , Interpretation , Discussion of Papers on Interpretation , Phantasy and Psychotic Anxieties , Phantasy in Klein and Lacan , Klein’s Views on Sexuality with Particular Reference to Female Sexuality , Theorising the Comedy of Sexes: Lacan on Sexuality , Discussion of Papers on Sexuality , Transference and Counter-Transference , On Counter-Transference , The Unconscious: A Kleinian Perspective , The Unconscious from a Lacanian Point of View , Discussion on the Unconscious , An Interview with Donald Meltzer 1 , Rethinking Kleinian Interpretation: What Difference Does It Make?