Après-coup in Psychoanalysis

<p>This important book argues that après-coup a concept that has blossomed in French psychoanalytic discourse not only allows an understanding of how repressed early memories determine adult life and how human sexuality develops but also allows for a richer and wider explanation of our mental structures and thinking.</p><p>The book outlines how après-coup has been understood and defined by Freud Lacan and other authors considers it in diverse psychoanalytic cultures and explores its resonance in dream-work sexual drives thought and the experience of trauma. Bernard Chervet considers that the totality of human thought can be approached according to the theory of après-coup. It offers a metapsychological approach to the operation of après-coup bodily erogeneity and the regeneration of libido. Chervet’s compelling work argues that the phenomenon of après-coup allowed for the development of the psychoanalytic theories of causality sexuality temporality memory and trauma.</p><p>Illustrated by clinical vignettes and written by one of the leading theorists on the topic <i>Après-coup in Psychoanalysis</i> will be an invaluable resource for psychoanalysts in training and in practice. </p>