used in a controversial way. There is a very useful introductory chapter which gives some cautionary advice on pitfalls to be avoided in psychoanalytical literature, such as the fallacy of 'explanation by labelling'. The ideas of other related authors, apart from actual psychoanalysts, are also included (but not Harry Stack Sullivan). Therefore, it might have been useful to give a brief index o...

out " involved in the unmasking of the repressed material liberates the patient so that he can adjust to present circumstances without more ado, and if he fails in this, the reason is that all the repressions have not been resolved. Hence the very prolonged analysis of Freudian practice. In this book it is held, on the contrary, that what is required is that the patient must be shown how his ch...

\ This volume consists of a number of articles on psychoanalysis which the autf>; has selected from the literature of the last 25 years, although the exact dates are I1] always given and the editor himself does not indicate how the essays came to 28 '

the contemporary intellectual world is that between cognitive science and cultural theory. Cognitive scientists are committed to the idea that we can follow the conceptions of the mind to their zero level of the brain. As a result, speculation about our conceptions on their own terms will always mislead us into false problems. These are the problems that preoccupy cultural theorists. For the la...

Like psychoanalysis, poetry is possible because of the nature of verbal language, particularly its potentials to evoke the sensations of lived experience. These potentials are vestiges of the personal relational context in which language is learned, without which there would be no poetry and no psychoanalysis. Such a view of language infuses psychoanalytic writings on poetry, yet has not been f...