Lacanian Psychoanalysis in Practice

<p>In this book, fourteen Lacanian psychoanalysts from Italy and France present how they listen and understand clinical questions, and how they operate in session. More than a theoretical ‘introduction to Lacan’, this book stems from clinical issues, is written by practicing psychoanalysts and not only presents theoretical concepts, but also their use in practice.</p><p>Psychoanalytic listening is the leitmotif of this book. How, and what, does a psychoanalyst listen to/for? How to effectively listen, and thus understand, something from the unconscious? Further, this book examines the evolution of psychic symptoms since Freud’s <em>Studies on Hysteria</em> to today, and how the clinical work has changed. It introduces the differences between 'classic' discourses and ‘modern’ symptoms, with also a spotlight on some transversal issues. Chapters include hysteria, obsessive discourse and phobia, paranoia, panic disorder, anorexia, bulimia, binge-eating and obesity, depressions, addictions, borderline cases, the relationship with the mother, perversion, clinic of the void, and jealousy.</p><p>Despite possessing the same theoretical reference of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan, the contributors of this book belong to different associations and groups, and each of them provides several examples taken from their own practice. <em>Lacanian Psychoanalysis in Practice</em> is of great interest to psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, students and academics from the international psychoanalytic community.</p> <p>Acknowledgments</p><p>Glossary of terms</p><p>Introduction</p><p>Diego Busiol</p><p>Part 1</p><p>1 The evolution of psychic symptoms from Freud's Studies on Hysteria to today</p><p>Diego Busiol</p><p>2 How to listen in analysis</p><p>Diego Busiol</p><p>3 Desire and enjoyment in psychoanalysis</p><p>Diego Busiol</p><p>4 The listening, the linguistic precision, the intervention</p><p>Giancarlo Calciolari</p><p>5 Timeline of Lacan in Italy, and further developments of psychoanalysis in Italy</p><p>Diego Busiol</p><p>The contributors to this book</p><p>Part 2: Classic Discourses</p><p>6 With Freud and Lacan: Hysteria, anorexia/bulimia, and other contemporary clinical questions</p><p>Jean-Luc Cacciali</p><p>Interview with Charles Melman</p><p>7 From phobia to obsessive discourse</p><p>Gabriele Lodari</p><p>8 Reading Freud with Lacan. Brief essay on paranoia. Or how to extricate oneself, at the dawn of the third millennium, from an impossible narration</p><p>Fabrizio Gambini</p><p>Interview with Fabrizio Gambini</p><p>Part 3: Modern Symptoms</p><p>9 Panic as a phenomenon of modernity</p><p>Marco Focchi</p><p>10 Anorexia, bulimia, binge-eating and obesity. An interview with Domenico Cosenza</p><p>Domenico Cosenza and Diego Busiol</p><p>11 Depressions</p><p>Franco Lolli</p><p>12 Addictions: Toxicomania and Others</p><p>Jean-Louis Chassaing</p><p>13 Limit-states or Borderline</p><p>Jean-Louis Chassaing</p><p>Part 4: Transversal questions</p><p>14 The relationship with the mother</p><p>Renata Miletto</p><p>15 Listening to Perversion</p><p>Sergio Benvenuto</p><p>Interview with Sergio Benvenuto</p><p>16 Clinic of the void. An interview with Massimo Recalcati</p><p>Massimo Recalcati</p><p>17 Good and bad encounters with jealousy</p><p>Paule Cacciali</p>