Reflection on the history of psychoanalysis, its conceptual foundations and its relation to other disciplines.An exploration of the historical development of psychoanalysis and its most intriguing concept, the transference, in accordance with the respective traditions inspired by Freud, Lacan and Derrida.An exploration of the historical development of psychoanalysis and its most intriguing concept, the transference, in accordance with the respective traditions inspired by Freud, Lacan and Derrida.The Seductions of Psychoanalysis reflects on the history of psychoanalysis, its conceptual foundations and its relation to other disciplines. John Forrester probes the origins of psychoanalysis and its most beguiling concept, the transference, which is at once its institutional axis and experimental core. He explores the most seductive of all recent psychoanalytic traditions, that inspired by Jacques Lacan, whose radical questioning of psychoanalytic effects has been continued implicitly by Michel Foucault and explicitly by Jacques Derrida. Other key questions addressed include the significance of speech in the talking cure, and the relationship between the 'real' of psychoanalysis and the fictionality of the 'truth' it offers. Dr Forrester also focuses on the relationship between psychoanalysis and the feminine, on analysis and gossip, on the borderline of seduction and rape, and on the women who have played such a crucial role in the history of psychoanalysis, as patients, analysts or both.Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Part I. The Temptation of Sigmund Freud: 1. The true story of Anna O.; 2. Contracting the disease of love: authority and freedom in the origins of psychoanalysis; 3. Freud, Dora and the untold pleasures of psychoanalysis; 4. Rape, seduction, psychoanalysis; 5. ' & a perfect likeness of the past'; Part II. The Moment of Jacques Lacan: A note on Translation; 6. 'In place of an introduction', The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, books I &lă+
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