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By: J.-B. Pontalis, Anne Quinney (Translator)

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Paperback | 1 April 2003

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At once a memoir and a personal version of the author's own "Language of Psychoanalysis", this work by one of the world's leading proponents of psychoanalytic theory and practice offers an autobiographical perspective on the private "vocabularies" that develop between analyst and patient. Because our ways of understanding the world are mediated by our use of language, J.B. Pontalis suggests that a close look at our private lexicon can uncover a great deal about what we value. Beginning with one of his own linguistic preoccupations, the metaphor of the window, Pontalis considers language as a vehicle for both self-awareness and self-deception; he explores how we choose or eschew certain words to create our life-stories and demonstrates how these words conceal and reveal our most intimate preoccupations and desires.

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"Through Windows Pontalis continues his shrewd, subtle Freudian inquiries into what our sentences can sentence us to. Into the art of hearing things in what we don't want to hear. To avoid the woodenness of scientific formulation, and the arch stylishness of a too literary psychoanalysis, Pontalis has had to invent a new genre; a genre in which it is as though we can overhear someone wondering about something. And in the relishing and the tempering of his impressions--psychoanalytic and otherwise--we begin to discover what a generous skepticism might be like." Adam Phillips, author of On Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored: Psychoanalytic Essays on the Unexamined Life and On Flirtation

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Translator's Introduction
Foreword
The Window	p. 1
They Stole My Concept!	p. 3
The Congress Participants	p. 5
The Nouvelle Revue de Psychanalyse (NRP)	p. 8
What Is, for a Time, Essential to Me	p. 10
The Sleeper	p. 13
The Pain of Waking Up	p. 15
The Head and the Room	p. 17
Dreaming Thought	p. 18
Liberty under Surveillance	p. 20
How Does One Slip Away from Oneself?	p. 22
The Name of a Flower	p. 23
Depressions	p. 26
Nostalgia	p. 28
Taedium Vitae	p. 30
The Disappointed and the Disappointing	p. 31
Woe Is Me	p. 33
When Death Falls into the Soul	p. 34
Tears, Sobs	p. 36
Persecutory Organs	p. 38
Growing Old	p. 40
Goodbye to the Novel	p. 42
Analysis in the Present Tense	p. 44
Incarnation	p. 46
Caesura Cut	p. 48
Frame	p. 50
Face-to-Face	p. 52
The Man in Search of Meaning	p. 54
The Sensitive Ones	p. 56
The (Generalized) Game of the Bobbin	p. 58
It Will Come Back to Me, It's Coming Back	p. 62
I Will Never Succeed at It	p. 64
The Lack of a Name	p. 66
Childhood	p. 68
Memory	p. 69
Memories	p. 70
Ways to Read	p. 72
Accuracies	p. 74
Saying and Saying Again	p. 77
Being Fond Of	p. 79
Taking Care of Yourself	p. 81
Tool of the Trade	p. 84
The Representatives of the People	p. 86
Sabotage	p. 88
The Wicked	p. 90
Coitus Uninterruptus	p. 93
Why?	p. 94
Coming After	p. 95
Ersatz	p. 97
Arbeit	p. 98
Managing	p. 99
Microscope Telescope	p. 100
When Freud Is Inspired	p. 101
The Great Separator	p. 105
The Omega	p. 108
Physics	p. 111
Erasure	p. 112
Clearings	p. 113
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