Windows/Fenetres

by Pontalis, J. B.; Quinney, Anne Holloway

• ISBN13: 9780803287716
• ISBN10: 0803287712
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-02-01
• Publisher: Bison Books

Summary

At once a memoir and a personal version of the author's highly influential Language of Psychoanalysis, this work by one of the world's leading proponents of psychoanalytic theory and practice offers an autobiographical perspective on the private "vocabularies" that develop between analyst and patient. Because our ways of understanding the world are mediated by our use of language, J.-B. Pontalis suggests that a close look at our private lexicon can uncover a great deal about what we value. Beginning with one of his own linguistic preoccupations, the metaphor of the window, Pontalis considers language as a vehicle for both self-awareness and self-deception; he explores how we choose or eschew certain words to create our life-stories and demonstrates how these words conceal-and reveal-our most intimate preoccupations and desires.J.-B. Pontalis is a psychoanalyst and the author of many books, including The Language of Psychoanalysis, with Jean Laplanche. Pontalis was the founder of La Nouvelle Revue de Psychanalyse and served as the journal's editor from 1970 to 1984, and he won the 2001 Mary S. Sigourney Prize for his outstanding contribution to psychoanalysis. Anne Quinney is an assistant professor of French at the University of Mississippi.

Author Biography

J.-B. Pontalis is a psychoanalyst and the author of many books, including The Language of Psychoanalysis, with Jean Laplanche. Pontalis was the founder of La Nouvelle Revue de Psychanalyse and served as the journal’s editor from 1970 to 1984, and he won the 2001 Mary S. Sigourney Prize for his outstanding contribution to psychoanalysis. Anne Quinney is an assistant professor of French at the University of Mississippi.

Table of Contents

Translator's Introduction
Foreword
The Window	p. 1
They Stole My Concept!	p. 3
The Congress Participants	p. 5
The Nouvelle Revue de Psychanalyse (NRP)	p. 8
What Is, for a Time, Essential to Me	p. 10
The Sleeper	p. 13
The Pain of Waking Up	p. 15
The Head and the Room	p. 17
Dreaming Thought	p. 18
Liberty under Surveillance	p. 20
How Does One Slip Away from Oneself?	p. 22
The Name of a Flower	p. 23
Depressions	p. 26
Nostalgia	p. 28
Taedium Vitae	p. 30
The Disappointed and the Disappointing	p. 31
Woe Is Me	p. 33
When Death Falls into the Soul	p. 34
Tears, Sobs	p. 36
Persecutory Organs	p. 38
Growing Old	p. 40
Goodbye to the Novel	p. 42
Analysis in the Present Tense	p. 44
Incarnation	p. 46
Caesura Cut	p. 48
Frame	p. 50
Face-to-Face	p. 52
The Man in Search of Meaning	p. 54
The Sensitive Ones	p. 56
The (Generalized) Game of the Bobbin	p. 58
It Will Come Back to Me, It's Coming Back	p. 62
I Will Never Succeed at It	p. 64
The Lack of a Name	p. 66
Childhood	p. 68
Memory	p. 69
Memories	p. 70
Ways to Read	p. 72
Accuracies	p. 74
Saying and Saying Again	p. 77
Being Fond Of	p. 79
Taking Care of Yourself	p. 81
Tool of the Trade	p. 84
The Representatives of the People	p. 86
Sabotage	p. 88
The Wicked	p. 90
Coitus Uninterruptus	p. 93
Why?	p. 94
Coming After	p. 95
Ersatz	p. 97
Arbeit	p. 98
Managing	p. 99
Microscope Telescope	p. 100
When Freud Is Inspired	p. 101
The Great Separator	p. 105
The Omega	p. 108
Physics	p. 111
Erasure	p. 112
Clearings	p. 113
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