Against Understanding, Volume 1 Commentary and Critique in a Lacanian Key

Name: Against Understanding, Volume 1 Commentary and Critique in a Lacanian Key
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ISBN: 9780415635431

ISBN-10: 0415635438

ISBN-13: 9780415635431

Edition: 2014

Authors: Bruce Fink

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Against Understanding, Volume 1, explores how the process of understanding (which can be seen to be part and parcel of the Lacanian dimension of the imaginary) reduces the unfamiliar to the familiar, transforms the radically other into the same, and renders practitioners deaf to what is actually being said in the analytic setting. Running counter to the received view in virtually all of contemporary psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, Bruce Fink argues that the current obsession with understanding – on the patient’s part as well as on the clinician’s – is excessive insofar as the most essential aim of psychoanalytic treatment is change.Using numerous case studies and clinical vignettes, Fink…

Book details

Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 9/23/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Bruce Fink,nbsp;today's premier translator of Lacan, is winner of a Translation Prize from the French-American Foundation for his translation of Lacan's Ecrits. He is a professor of psychology at Duquesne University and lives in McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania.