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Title: Difference & Disavowal: The Trauma of Eros
Author: BASS ALAN
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 31/05/2001
Imprint: UNKNOWN
Price: $150.00
Publishing status: Active
Difference and Disavowal is a major rethinking of a central tenet of Freudian psychoanalysis the repression theory. It centers on fundamental issues in practice and theory, beginning with a central conundrum for clinical psychoanalysis: how to understand apparently analyzable patients who resist the essential therapeutic measure of analysis interpretation. The author finds the answer in a revision and expansion of Freud s theory of fetishism. Freud introduced the defense mechanism of disavowal in order to understand what he called the registration and repudiation of reality in fetishism. However, his understanding of the reality disavowed in fetishism is self-contradictory. The contradiction in Freud’s argument can be resolved by understanding disavowal in terms of registration and repudiation of difference. The patients who resist interpretation register and repudiate the differentiating process implicit in every interpretation. The problem of resistance to interpretation expands the basic conception of the unconscious to include registration and repudiation of differentiating, processive reality.
ISBN: 9780804738279
Dimension: 229mm X 152mm
Pages: 309