The Truth About Freud's Technique

The Encounter With the Real

By: Michael Guy Thompson

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Paperback | 31 July 1995

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In this unusual and much-needed reappraisal of Freud's clinical technique, M. Guy Thompson challenges the conventional notion that psychoanalysis promotes relief from suffering and replaces it with a more radical assertion, that psychoanalysis seeks to mend our relationship with the real that has been fractured by our avoidance of the same. Thompson suggests that, while avoiding reality may help to relieve our experience of suffering, this short-term solution inevitably leads to a split in our existence.

M. Guy Thompson forcefully disagrees with the recent trend that dismisses Freud as an historical figure who is out of step with the times. He argues, instead, for a return to the forgotten Freud, a man inherently philosophical and rooted in a Greek preoccupation with the nature of truth, ethics, the purpose of life and our relationship with reality. Thompson's argument is situated in a stunning re-reading of Freud's technical papers, including a new evaluation of his analyses of Dora and the Rat Man in the context of Heidegger's understanding of truth.

In this remarkable examination of Freud's technical recommendations, M. Guy Thompson explains how psychoanalysis was originally designed to re-acquaint us with realities we had abandoned by encountering them in the contest of the analytic experience. This provocative examination of Freud's conception of psychoanalysis reveals a more personal Freud than we had previously supposed, one that is more humanistic and real.

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Foreword
Preface
Introduction
The True and the Real in Freud	p. 1
Psychical and External Reality	p. 7
Realistic and Neurotic Anxiety	p. 12
Realistic and Wishful Thinking	p. 21
The Neurotic and the Psychotic Experience of Reality	p. 27
Real Love and Transference-Love	p. 37
The True and the Real in Heidegger	p. 51
Heidegger's Conception of Truth	p. 57
Heidegger's Conception of Untruth	p. 64
Truth and Science	p. 69
Truth and Technology	p. 78
Truth and Psychoanalysis	p. 88
The Truth about Dora	p. 93
The Paradox of Neurosis	p. 97
A Case of Secrecy	p. 101
Dreams of Vengeance and Farewell	p. 110
Freud's Last Word	p. 115
Love and Reality	p. 122
The Truth about Freud's Technique	p. 133
The Employment of Dream Interpretation ("The Handling of Dream-Interpretation in Psycho-analysis," 1911)	p. 141
Freud's "Recommendations to Physicians Practising Psychoanalysis" (1912)	p. 145
On Beginning the Treatment (1913)	p. 155
The Concept of Transference ("The Dynamics of Transference," 1912, and "Observations on Transference-Love," 1915)	p. 175
Working-Through ("Remembering, Repeating, and Working-Through" 1914)	p. 192
The Rat Mystery	p. 205
The Cruel Captain	p. 213
The Rat Mystery	p. 219
Guilt and Truth	p. 224
"Classical" Technique - and Freud's	p. 230
The End of Analysis	p. 241
Psychoanalysis, Terminable - or Impossible?	p. 247
The End of Analysis	p. 264
References	p. 275
Index	p. 281
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