In this unusual and much-needed reappraisal of Freud's clinical
technique, M. Guy Thompson challenges the conventional notion that
psychoanalysis promotes relief from suffering and replaces it with
a more radical assertion, that psychoanalysis seeks to mend our
relationship with the real that has been fractured by our avoidance
of the same. Thompson suggests that, while avoiding reality may
help to relieve our experience of suffering, this short-term
solution inevitably leads to a split in our existence.
M. Guy Thompson forcefully disagrees with the recent trend that
dismisses Freud as an historical figure who is out of step with the
times. He argues, instead, for a return to the forgotten Freud, a
man inherently philosophical and rooted in a Greek preoccupation
with the nature of truth, ethics, the purpose of life and our
relationship with reality. Thompson's argument is situated in a
stunning re-reading of Freud's technical papers, including a new
evaluation of his analyses of Dora and the Rat Man in the context
of Heidegger's understanding of truth.
In this remarkable examination of Freud's technical
recommendations, M. Guy Thompson explains how psychoanalysis was
originally designed to re-acquaint us with realities we had
abandoned by encountering them in the contest of the analytic
experience. This provocative examination of Freud's conception of
psychoanalysis reveals a more personal Freud than we had previously
supposed, one that is more humanistic and real.
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