Lacan and the New Wave

by FEHER-GUREWICH, JUDITH

• ISBN13: 9781892746030
• ISBN10: 1892746034
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-09-17
• Publisher: Other Press

Summary

What makes it so difficult for Lacanian and American psychoanalysts to understand each other? This question runs through Lacan and the New Wave in American Psychoanalysis, a book that explores the divergent dialogues with Freudian theory that are taking place on both sides of the Atlantic.  In a lively exchange, some of the most prominent psychoanalysts in France and America today come together to offer contrasting views on borderline conditions, gender difference, and the role of sexuality and aggression in the development of psychopathology.  Comparing Lacan’s theory of the Subject with recent American views on the psychoanalytic concept of the Self, this book makes Lacan’s work accessible and clinically relevant to American audiences.

Author Biography

Judith Feher-Gurewich

Judith Feher-Gurewich, Ph,D., practices psychoanalysis in Cambridge, MA. She is affiliated with the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute and is a member of the Association de Formation Psychoanalytique et de Recherches Freudiennes: Espace Analytique in Paris. Dr. Gurewich is the Director of the Lacan Seminar at Harvard University's Center for Literary and Cultural Studies.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Contributors	xi
Who's Afraid of Jacques Lacan?	1	(36)
Judith Feher Gurewich
Glossary of Selected Lacanian Terms	31	(6)
Judith Feher Gurewich
Part I: Borderlines: Between French and American Psychoanalysis
The New Disorders of the Unconscious	37	(6)
Judith Feher Gurewich
The Development of the Concept of the ``Borderline'' in Psychoanalytic Diagnosis and Treatment	43	(20)
Nicholas Kouretas
A Borderline State of Humanity and the Fragmented Ego of the Analyst	63	(10)
Professeur Pierre Fedida
The Concept of Borderline in French Psychoanalysis	73	(4)
Professeur Daniel Widlocher
Part II: Dialogues and Controversies
Empathy and the Therapeutic Dialogue: An Historical-Conceptual Overview of Self Psychology and a Brief Clinical Example	77	(22)
Paul H. Ornstein
The Signifier at the Crossroads between Sexuality and Trauma	87	(8)
Professeur Monique David-Menard
Excerpts from the Discussion	95	(4)
Primary Self pathology and the Process of Healing: A Clinical Example	99	(28)
Anna Ornstein
The Scope and the Limits of the Theory of the Self in Psychoanalysis	107	(16)
Marcianne Blevis
Excerpts from the Discussion	123	(4)
Toward a Separate Line of Female Development: On Adolescence	127	(34)
Joan J. Zilbach
Malkah T. Notman
In the Beginning Was Sexual Difference	145	(10)
Jacques Hassoun
Excerpts from the Discussion	155	(6)
Aggression in Women: A Re-Examination	161	(24)
Malkah T. Notman
Woman: Access to Male Aggression or to Desire?	173	(8)
Professeur Michel Tort
Excerpts from the Discussion	181	(4)
Psychic Death and the Generation of Meaning	185	(18)
Arnold H. Modell
Meaning and the Direction of the Treatment	193	(6)
Professeur Joel Dor
Excerpts from the Discussion	199	(4)
``Someday'' and ``If Only'' Fantasies	203	(56)
Salman Akhtar
The Borderline Patient and His Relation to the Present Moment	235	(6)
Juan-David Nasio
Excerpts from the Discussion	241	(6)
Part III: The Subject and the Self: Conclusions
Professeur Michel Tort	247	(12)
Index	259