Figures, Preface, Acknowledgments, Commentary, Cases, Critique, References, Index
Bruce Fink is a practicing Lacanian psychoanalyst and analytic supervisor in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He trained as a psychoanalyst in France for seven years with and is now a member of the psychoanalytic institute Lacan created shortly before his death, the École de la Cause Freudienne in Paris. He is also an affiliated member of the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Society and Institute.
"Bruce Fink's longstanding efforts to translate and explain Lacan
to an English-speaking audience in clear, concise, and
communicative language culminates in this collection of his recent
contributions. He successfully illuminates key Lacanian concepts
from a clinical perspective, and provides extensive illustrative
overviews of psychoanalytic treatment of severely ill patients.
Several interviews by the author and a final summary of where he
places Lacanian psychoanalysis in contrast to Freud's original
formulations, on the one hand, and contemporary mainstream ego
psychology/object relations theory approaches, on the other,
provide a well-defined outline of the essential characteristics of
contemporary Lacanian psychoanalysis. Regardless of where they
might differ, psychoanalysts and psychodynamic psychotherapists of
all contemporary schools will find this a clear and satisfactory
introduction to the Lacanian approach." — Otto F. Kernberg, M.D.,
Professor of Psychiatry, Weill Medical College of Cornell
University; Director, Personality Disorders Institute, New York
Presbyterian Hospital, Payne Whitney Westchester; Training and
Supervising Analyst, Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic
Training and Research"Over the years, Bruce Fink has established
himself as the key figure of Lacanian psychoanalysis in the
English-speaking world. With this superb collection of papers and
interviews, he once again demonstrates his virtuoso ability to
extract the precious juice from Lacan’s texts in order to
re-process it into a tasty psychoanalytic cocktail that will be
greatly appreciated by aficionados and novices alike. And for all
his clinical and theoretical brilliance, Fink never takes himself
to be the One, but just as one amongst many, so that the reader
never feels intellectually inferior and is always allowed to think
along with him. As the French would have it: Chapeau!" - Professor
Dany Nobus, Chair of Psychology and Psychoanalysis,
Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Brunel University London, UK
Recipient of 2015 American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis
(ABAPsa) Book Prize"Bruce Fink's longstanding efforts to translate
and explain Lacan to an English-speaking audience in clear,
concise, and communicative language culminates in this collection
of his recent contributions. He successfully illuminates key
Lacanian concepts from a clinical perspective, and provides
extensive illustrative overviews of psychoanalytic treatment of
severely ill patients. Several interviews by the author and a final
summary of where he places Lacanian psychoanalysis in contrast to
Freud's original formulations, on the one hand, and contemporary
mainstream ego psychology/object relations theory approaches, on
the other, provide a well-defined outline of the essential
characteristics of contemporary Lacanian psychoanalysis. Regardless
of where they might differ, psychoanalysts and psychodynamic
psychotherapists of all contemporary schools will find this a clear
and satisfactory introduction to the Lacanian approach." — Otto F.
Kernberg, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry, Weill Medical College of
Cornell University; Director, Personality Disorders Institute, New
York Presbyterian Hospital, Payne Whitney Westchester; Training and
Supervising Analyst, Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic
Training and Research"Over the years, Bruce Fink has established
himself as the key figure of Lacanian psychoanalysis in the
English-speaking world. With this superb collection of papers and
interviews, he once again demonstrates his virtuoso ability to
extract the precious juice from Lacan’s texts in order to
re-process it into a tasty psychoanalytic cocktail that will be
greatly appreciated by aficionados and novices alike. And for all
his clinical and theoretical brilliance, Fink never takes himself
to be the One, but just as one amongst many, so that the reader
never feels intellectually inferior and is always allowed to think
along with him. As the French would have it: Chapeau!" - Professor
Dany Nobus, Chair of Psychology and Psychoanalysis,
Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Brunel University London, UK"Bruce Fink is
arguably the foremost commentator and interpreter of Jacques
Lacan’s work in the United States today, and the publication of a
new set of commentaries and case vignettes by him foregrounding the
principles of Lacanian practice is thus something of an event for
practitioners in the field...Against Understanding provides us with
perhaps the best practical sourcebook to Lacanian theory and
practice that we currently have. It is often said of the good
analyst that he or she knows how to keep the patient talking. The
two volumes of Bruce Fink’s Against Understanding evince a
different skill: they keep the reader reading." - Derek Hook,
Psychodynamic Practice
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