1st Edition

Defining Psychoanalysis Achieving a Vernacular Expression

By Ian Miller Copyright 2016
    128 Pages
    by Routledge

    128 Pages
    by Routledge

    The empirical baseline of today's psychoanalytic vernacular may be inferred from what psychoanalysts read. Contemporary information aggregation provides us with a unique moment in "reading" today's psychoanalytic vernacular. The PEP Archive compiles data on journal articles analogous to radio stations' "hit parades" of contemporary favorites. Defining Psychoanalysis: Achieving a Vernacular Expression provides a close reading of this contemporary assemblage, including three "strong" readings by Winnicott and two by Bion. It pursues the elements generated by these papers as an indication of contemporary psychoanalytic "common sense", our consensual building blocks of theory and practice.

    Foreword , Expressing vernacular psychoanalysis , Winnicott's 1949 expression, Hate in the Countertransference , Winnicott's 1953 expression, Transitional Objects and Transitional Phenomena , Winnicott's 1960 expression, The Theory of the Parent—Infant Relationship , Bion's 1962 expression, The Psycho-Analytical Study of Thinking , Thinking with Bion on thinking , Bion's 1959 expression,Attacks on Linking , Discovering one's own vernacular , Appendix

    Biography

    Ian Miller