A New Language for Psychoanalysis

by Roy Schafer

Book Overview

"Should be of considerable interest to a wider public, since it proposes a radical reformulation of psychoanalytical theory which, if accepted, would render outmoded almost all the analytical jargon that has crept into the language of progressive, enlightened post-Freudian people."-Charles Rycroft, The New York Review of Books "Schafer's arguments have considerable cogency. The tendency to over-theorize so that the translation of abstractions into...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300027613
• ISBN13: 9780300027617
• Release Date: September 1981
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 394 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 8.8"