Jorge L. Ahumada

Logics of the Mind

A Clinical View

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

'The Logics of the Mind considers the impact on psychoanalytic theory and practice of the current shift from a culture of the written word to one of 'visual power'; induction, empiricism, and the possibility of establishing a "clinical fact"; acculturation via the media as a spurious substitute for the nuclear family.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. September 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 437g
• ISBN-13: 9780367325411
• ISBN-10: 0367325411
• Artikelnr.: 58069868

Autorenporträt

Jorge L. Ahumada trained in psychiatry both in Argentina and in the US before completing his psychoanalytic training in Buenos Aires, where he is now working as a psychoanalyst in private practice.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Preface
Introduction
What is a clinical fact? Clinical psychoanalysis as inductive method
The analyst as "base"
On the transposition of self and object
The unconscious delusion of "goodness"
Perverse and symbiotic organizations in narcissistic object relationships
On narcissistic identification and the shadow of the object
Trauma, identification, evolution
On the limitations and the infiniteness of analysis
Epilogu