The Fundamentals of Psychoanalytic Technique

Preface to the 1999 Edition -- Preface -- Foreword -- Introduction to the Problems of Technique -- Psychoanalytic technique -- Indications and contraindications according to the diagnosis and other particulars -- Analysability -- The psychoanalytic interview: structure and objectives -- The psychoanalytic interview: development -- The psychoanalytic contract -- On Transference and Countertransference -- History and concept of the transference -- The dynamics of transference -- Transference and repetition -- The dialectics of the transference according to Lacan -- The theory of the sujet suppos© savoirâ" the subject supposed to know -- The forms of transference -- Transference psychosis -- Transference perversion -- Early transference -- Early transference -- On the spontaneity of the transference phenomenon -- The therapeutic alliance: from Wiesbaden to Geneva -- The non-transference analytic relationship -- Therapeutic alliance: discussion, controversy and polemics -- Countertransference: discovery and rediscovery -- Countertransference and object relationship -- Countertransference and psychoanalytic process -- On Interpretation and Other Instruments -- Materials and instruments of psychotherapy -- The concept of interpretation -- Interpretation in psychoanalysis -- Constructions -- Constructions of early development -- Metapsychology of interpretation -- Interpretation and the ego -- Melanie Klein and the theory of interpretation -- Types of interpretation -- Mutative interpretation -- Interpretative styles -- Epistemological aspects of psychoanalytic interpretation -- On the Nature of the Psychoanalytic Process -- The analytic situation -- Analytic situation and analytic process -- The analytic setting -- The analytic process -- Regression and setting -- Regression as a curative process -- Separation anxiety and psychoanalytic process -- The setting and the container/contained theory -- On the Stages of Analysis -- The initial stage -- The middle stage of analysis -- Theories of termination -- Clinical aspects of termination -- The technique of termination of analysis -- On the Vicissitudes of the Psychoanalytic Process -- Insight and its defining characteristics -- Insight and working-through -- The metapsychology of insight -- Acting Out [1] -- Acting out [2] -- Acting out [3] -- Negative therapeutic reaction [1] -- Negative therapeutic reaction [2] -- Reversible perspective [1] -- Reversible perspective [2] -- The theory of misunderstanding -- Impasse -- Epilogue