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Book SynopsisThis book is a major rethinking of a central tenet of Freudian psychoanalysisthe repression theory. It centers on fundamental issues in practice and theory, beginning with a major conundrum for clinical psychoanalysis: how to understand apparently analyzable patients who resist the essential therapeutic measure of analysisinterpretation.
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Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsPreface Introduction 1. Concreteness and fetishism, 2. Narcissism, thought and Eros 3. A dialogue with Hans Loewald: the two realities 4. The part object, depressive anxiety, and the environment 5. Analysis of surface, analysis of defense Afterword Notes References Index.
