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Thinking the body as a basis, provocation and burden of life
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Thinking the body as a basis, provocation and burden of life

by Gert Melville, Carlos Ruta
August 2015
Beginner content levelBeginner
259 pages
8h 43m
English
De Gruyter Oldenbourg
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Francisco-Hugo Freda

The Body in Psychoanalysis

The analysis experience begins with an encounter, the encounter of two bodies. There is the body of the analyst and the body of the patient. At least up till now, we cannot conceive the psychoanalytical practice outside this encounter. This encounter of bodies produces what, in Freud’s terms, constitutes the axis around which the entire analysis is arranged, in other words, transference. According to Lacan, this constitutes one of the four fundamental concepts in psychoanalysis143.

Freud accepted the consequences of this encounter, as well as what it could awaken, that is to say, love144. The fact that it has been called transference love neither eliminates it nor reduces its significance. This ...

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