Four Fundamental Concepts of Psycho-Analysis

<p>The author's writings and especially the seminars for which he has become famous have provoked intense controversies in French analytic circles requiring as they do a radical reappraisal of the legacy bequeathed by Freud. This volume is based on a year's seminar which is of particular importance because he was addressing a larger less specialist audience than ever before amongst whom he could not assume familiarity with his work. For his listeners then and for his readers now he wanted to introduce a certain coherence into the major concepts on which psycho-analysis is based namely the unconscious repetition the transference and the drive. In re-defining these four concepts he explores the question that as he puts it moves from Is psycho-analysis a science? to What is a science that includes psycho-analysis? </p>