How has psychoanalysis developed in France in the years since
Lacan so dramatically polarized the field?
In this book, Dana Birksted-Breen and Sara Flanders of the
British Psychoanalytical Society, and Alain Gibeault of the Paris
Psychoanalytical Society provide an overview of how French
psychoanalysis has developed since Lacan. Focusing primarily on the
work of psychoanalysts from the French Psychoanalytical Association
and from the Paris Psychoanalytical Society, the two British
psychoanalysts view the evolution of theory as it appears to them
from the outside, while the French psychoanalyst explains and
elaborates from inside the French psychoanalytic discourse. Seminal
and representative papers have been chosen to illuminate what is
special about French thinking. A substantial general introduction
argues in favour of the specificity of 'French psychoanalysis',
tracing its early influences and highlighting specific contemporary
developments.
Sections are made up of introductory material by Alain Gibeault,
followed by illustrative papers in the following categories:
- the history of psychoanalysis in France
- the pioneers and their legacy
- the setting and the process of psychoanalysis
- phantasy and representation
- the body and the drives
- masculine and feminine sexuality
- psychosis.
An excellent introduction to French psychoanalytical debate,
Reading French Psychoanalysis sheds a complementary light on
thinking that has evolved differently in England and North America.
It will be ideal reading for beginners and advanced students of
clinical theory as well as experienced psychoanalysts wanting to
know more about French Psychoanalytic theory, and how it has
developed.
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