Difference and Disavowal: The Trauma of Eros

by Alan Bass and Alan Bass

Book Overview

Difference and Disavowal is a major rethinking of a central tenet of Freudian psychoanalysis--the repression theory. It centers on fundamental issues in practice and theory, beginning with a central conundrum for clinical psychoanalysis: how to understand apparently analyzable patients who resist the essential therapeutic measure of analysis--interpretation.

The author finds the answer in a revision and expansion of Freud's theory...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804738270
• ISBN13: 9780804738279
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"