The Analyzing Situation

211 Pages·2009·0.63 MB·English

by  Jean-Luc Donnet

THE ANALYZING SITUATION
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PSYCHOANALYTIC IDEAS AND APPLICATIONS SERIES
IPA Publications Committee
Leticia Glocer Fiorini (Buenos Aires), Chair; Salman Akhtar (Philadelphia); Thierry
Bokanowski (Paris); Sergio Lewkowicz (PortoAlegre); Mary Kay O’Neil (Montreal);
David Coe (London), Ex-officio as Director General
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THE ANALYZING
SITUATION
Jean-Luc Donnet
Translated by Andrew Weller
Psychoanalytic Ideas and Applications Series
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First published in 2009 by
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Copyright © 2005 Presses Universitaires de France
English Translation Copyright © 2009 International Psychoanalytical
Society
Originally Published in French as La situation analysante
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CONTENTS
PSYCHOANALYTIC IDEAS AND APPLICATIONS SERIES vii
ABOUT THE AUTHOR ix
PART I
INTRODUCTION
The adventure of the method 3
CHAPTER ONE
From the fundamental rule to the analyzing situation 21
CHAPTER TWO
The Sirens’ song 41
CHAPTER THREE
Clinical reports, interanalytic exchanges 49
CHAPTER FOUR
For a logic of the site: On the difference between 55
psychoanalysis and psychotherapy
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vi CONTENTS
ADDENDUM A
Constraint of method and/or constraint of finality 79
ADDENDUM B
Psychoanalytic encounter and consultation 83
Part II
INTRODUCTION
The specter-spectrum of the superego 91
CHAPTER FIVE
Lord Jim or the shame of living 93
CHAPTER SIX
Tender humour 137
CHAPTER SEVEN
Freud and the shadow of the superego 153
CHAPTER EIGHT
Work of culture and superego 167
CHAPTER NINE
A child is being talked about 179
GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY 187
INDEX 191
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serve the interests of the membership and increase the awareness of
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also arranged outstanding colleagues from all around the world to
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write meaningful commentaries and updates on these neglected but
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their dedicated work.
Leticia Glocer Fiorini
Series Editor
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jean Luc Donnet is a psychoanalyst in private practice in Paris,
France. Between 1983 and 2000 he was vice director-practitioner,
then director-practitioner of the psychoanalytical consultation and
treatment centre of the Psychoanalytical Society of Paris (Centre Jean
Favreau). His main works include; L’enfant de ça (with A. Green),
Le divan bien tempéré, Le surmoi Freudien et la règle fondamentale and
La situation analysante.
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