Wild Analysis (Penguin Modern Classics)

Description: 'Psychoanalytic treatment utilised the patient's capacity to love and desire as a means to an end. The stuff of romance became the stuff of cure. When Freud is writing about technique in psychoanalysis - and these papers [in 'Wild Analysis'] represent his most significant contributions to the subject over three decades of work - it is important to remember that he is talking about what a couple, an analyst and a so-called patient, can do in a room together. For better or worse' - Adam Phillips. Table of Contents: On 'wild' psychoanalysis; on the uses of dream interpretation in psychoanalysis; on the dynamics of transference; advice to doctors on psychoanalytic treatment; on initiating treatment; observations on love in transference; resistance to psychoanalysis; the question of lay analysis; postscript to 'the question of lay analysis'; analysis terminable and interminable; constructions in analysis. Author Biography: Sigmund Freud was born in 1856 and died in exile in London in 1939. As a writer and doctor he remains one of the great voices of the modern era.