A Psychoanalyst on the Couch

by Nasio, Juan-David; Schull, Stephanie Grace; Raffoul, Francois; Pettigrew, David

• ISBN13: 9781438443478
• ISBN10: 1438443471
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-07-30
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

An interview with Juan-David Nasio.

Author Biography

Juan-David Nasio is a psychoanalyst who lives and works in Paris. He was the first psychoanalyst to be inducted into the prestigious French Legion of Honor. Stephanie Grace Schull is Director of Instructional Innovation and Assessment at Hawai'i Pacific University. Franois Raffoul is Professor of Philosophy at Louisiana State University. David Pettigrew is Professor of Philosophy at Southern Connecticut State University. Together Raffoul and Pettigrew have translated Nasio's Five Lessons, on the Psychoanalytic Theory of Jacques Lacan; The Book of Love and Pain: Thinking at the Limit with Freud and Lacan; and Oedipus: The Most Crucial Concept in Psychoanalysis, all published by SUNY Press.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Editors' Prefatory Note to the American Edition	p. xi
How Does a Psychoanalyst Work?	p. 1
Diving "The Big Blue"	p. 1
Joël, or My Fear of Discovering a Case of Psychosis	p. 8
How Does One Choose a Psychoanalyst?	p. 12
Aimance, or the Need to Be Dependent	p. 19
Love and Sexual Pleasure	p. 25
The Solitude of the Homosexual Male and the "Bitter Delight" of the Homosexual Female	p. 25
Jealousy: The Impotent Man, the Abandoned Woman	p. 31
Love in the Couple	p. 34
Every Woman Is a Virgin	p. 39
Hate and Friendship	p. 45
Hate as an Everyday Phenomenon	p. 45
A Friend Is Someone with Whom I Feel Happy to Be Myself	p. 50
Analysis with a Child	p. 55
How Does One Speak Frankly with One's Child?	p. 55
Seven Crises that a Child Endures in Order to Grow Up	p. 56
Florent and Louise: The First Meeting of a Child with the Psychoanalyst	p. 63
In Praise of Hard Work	p. 71
Albertine's Charm	p. 71
Challenge Yourself!	p. 83
Notes	p. 87
Index	p. 89
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