Psychoanalysis and repetition : why do we keep making the same mistakes? /

In Psychoanalysis and Repetition, Juan-David Nasio, one of the leading contemporary Lacanian psychoanalysts in France, argues that unconcious repetition represents the core of psychoanalysis as well as no less than the fundamental constitution of the human being--back cover

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nasio, Juan-David (Author)
Other Authors: Pettigrew, David, 1951- (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
French
Published: Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2019]
Series:SUNY series in contemporary French thought
SUNY series in contemporary French thought
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Table of Contents:
  • note: 1 Clinical Experience in which the Psychoanalyst Listens to His or Her Patient While Being Mindful of the Concept of Repetition
  • Twofold Empathy: The Exclusive Skill of the Psychoanalyst
  • General Definition of Repetition
  • Beneficial Effects of Healthy Repetition: Self-Preservation, Self-Fulfillment, and Identity Formation
  • Three Modes of the Return of Our Past: In Our Consciousness, in Our Healthy Acts, and in Our Pathological Actions
  • Pathological Repetition is the Compulsive Return of a Traumatic Past that Erupts in the Present as a Symptom or as an Impulsive Action
  • Two Modalities of Pathological Repetition: Temporal Repetition and Topological Repetition
  • Figures 1 and 2 Two Categories of Pathological Repetition: Temporal and Topological
  • Drive is the Compulsive Force of Jouissance
  • Lacanian Theory of Repetition: The Unconscious is Structured as a Repetition Automatism
  • Diagram 1 Repetition According to Lacan
  • Example of Pathological Repetition: Bernard, or the Uncontrollable and Repetitive Need to be Humiliated
  • Psychoanalytic Treatment of Pathological Repetition through its Revivification
  • Diagram 2 Concluding Diagram
  • Healthy Repetition
  • Pathological Repetition
  • Therapeutic Revivification
  • 2. Excerpts from Freud and Lacan on Repetition, Preceded by our Commentaries
  • Figure 1 Schema of Deferred Action
  • Figure 2 Engendering the Subject of the Unconscious at the Point of Closure, C, of the Repetitive Loop.