Difference and Disavowal: The Trauma of Eros

by Alan Bass and Alan Bass

Book Overview

Difference and Disavowal is a major rethinking of a central tenet of Freudian psychoanalysis-the repression theory. It centers on fundamental issues in practice and theory, beginning with a central conundrum for clinical psychoanalysis: how to understand apparently analyzable patients who resist the essential therapeutic measure of analysis-interpretation.

The author finds the answer in a revision and expansion of Freud's theory of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804738289
• ISBN13: 9780804738286
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"