The work of psychic figurability : mental states without representation / by César Botella and Sara Botella ; with an introduction by Michael Parsons ; translated by Andrew Weller, with the collaboration of Monique Zerbib

Author: Botella, César
Uniform Title: Figurabilite psychique. English
Published: Hove ; New York : Brunner-Routledge, 2004.
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxv, 212 pages).
Additional Creators: Botella, Sara, Parsons, Michael, 1941-, Weller, Andrew, and Zerbib, Monique

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New library of psychoanalysis

Contents

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Foreword; Introduction by Michael Parsons; Translator's acknowledgements; Authors' introduction to the English edition; THE WORK OF FIGURABILITY AND THE NEGATIVE; The Limits of thought: Paris-London back and forth; The negative duality of the psyche; Non-representation; The geometer and the psychoanalyst; Figurability and the work of figurability; THE DYNAMIC OF THE DOUBLE; On the auto-erotic deficiency of the paranoiac; Working as a double; 'Only inside-also outside'; A Community in the regression of thought; THE HALLUCINATORY; The negative of the trauma.

Summary

Based on experience of analytic practice and illustrated by fascinating clinical material, this book addresses what the authors call the work of figurability as a way of outlining the passage from the unrepresentable to the representational.℗¡

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ISBN

0203342208 (electronic bk.)
9780203342206 (electronic bk.)
9786610062935
6610062935
1583918159 (Paper)
1583918140 (alk. paper)

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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