Memory, Myth, and Seduction: Unconscious Fantasy and the Interpretive Process [Hardcover]

Bass, Foreword. Browning, Introduction. Part I: On the Analytic Relationship. Psychoanalysis and Transference: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. The Construction of the Transference: The Relativity of the Here and Now and the There and Then. Intersubjectivity and the Analytic Relationship. On the Resolution of the Positive Transference: Suggestion, Identification, and Action. Transference and Psychic Reality: Ideas about the Timeless Past in Psychoanalysis. Further Thoughts on the Contemporary Analytic Relationship. Part II: On Freud's Seduction Theory. Fact and Fantasy in the Seduction Theory: A Historical Review. Interpretations of the Past: Childhood Trauma, Psychical Reality, and Historical Truth. Part III: On Unconscious Fantasy. Unconscious Fantasy: Interpretive Construct and Developmental Phenomenon. A Critical Reexamination of Unconscious Mental Representation. Affective Schemas: Toward a Structural View of Cognition and Affect. Notes on the Psychoanalytic Theory of Consciouness and Reflective Awareness. Signorelli: The Parapraxis Specimen of Psychoanalysis. The Interpretation of Dreams Revisited: Interpretation, Primary Process, and Language.

Memory, Myth, and Seduction reveals the development and evolution of Jean-Georges Schimek's thinking on unconscious fantasy and the interpretive process derived from a close reading of Freud as well as contemporary psychoanalysis. Contributing richly to North American psychoanalytic thought, Schimek challenges local views from the perspective of continental discourse. A practicing psychoanalyst, teacher, and consummate Freud scholar, Schimek sought to clarify Freud's concepts and theories and to disentangle complexities borne of inconsistencies in Freud's assumptions and expositions.

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