The Language of Psychoanalysis

The definitive guide to psychoanalytic vocabulary. An indispensible reference book for anyone interested in psychoanalysis.

Sigmund Freud evolved his theories throughout his lifetime. This entailed many revisions and changes which he himself never tried to standardize rigidly into a definitive conceptual system. The need for some sort of a reliable guide which would spell out both the pattern of the evolution of Freud's thinking, as well as establish its inherent logic, was felt for a long time by both scholars and students of psychoanalysis. Drs. Laplanche and Pontalis of the Association Psychoanalytique de France succeeded admirably in providing a dictionary of Freud's concepts which is more than a compilation of mere definitions. show more After many years of creative and industrious research, they were able to give an authentic account of the evolution of each concept with pertinent supporting texts from Freud's own writing (in the Standard Edition translation), and thus have endowed us with an instrument for work and research which is characterized by its thoroughness, exactitude and lack of prejudice towards dogma. show less

“Na medida em que a psicanálise renovou a compreensão da maioria dos fenômenos psicológicos e psicopatológicos, mesmo a do homem em geral, seria possível, num manual alfabético que se propusesse abarcar o conjunto das atribuições psicanalíticas, tratar no apenas da libido e da transferência, mas do amor e do sonho, da delinquência ou do surrealismo. A nossa intenção foi completamente diferente: preferimos deliberadamente analisar o aparelho nocional da psicanálise, isto é, o conjunto dos conceitos por ela progressivamente elaborados para traduzir as suas descobertas. Este Vocabulário visa, não a tudo o que a psicanálise pretende explicar, mas antes àquilo de que ela se serve para explicar”. (Laplanche e Pontalis)

... briefly: an indispensable dictionary of psychoanalysis!!!

Indispensable!

Es un clásico de la psicología. Reseña y explica términos clave del psicoanálisis de un modo claro y completo.

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