The Compass and the Couch: Psychoanalysis and Its Necessary Foreignness

by Mariano Horenstein

What is the connection between a compass and a couch? It is the meeting of a mechanical gadget used for geographical orientation on the planet, together with another artifact, one of furniture, which has become the icon of the psychoanalytic practice. Both objects allow us to orient ourselves in uncertainty and in darkness with regard to our own subjective, intimate or physical position. Within an effort to encompass the heterogeneous, Mariano Horenstein...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 8869770850
• ISBN13: 9788869770852
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Mimesis
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.2"