Four Lessons of Psychoanalysis

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Moustafa Safouan, Anna Shane

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English

Other Press LLC
17 May 2004

Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology)

In this delightfully

readable and clearly written volume, the world-renowned psychoanalyst Moustafa Safouan

considers the works of Freud and Lacan. When Safouan met Lacan in 1949, he was all

but ready to abandon the field due to the many contradictions and obscurities he

found in Freud. Yet thanks to Lacan's early presentation of the father as real, imaginary,

and symbolic, Safouan stayed on, working with Lacan until Lacan's death in 1981.

One can track the evolution of Safouan's teaching through his participation in Lacan's

published seminars and his early contributions.

Safouan wrote this book in English,

starting with a transcript from a series of lectures he delivered to the Lacanian

School of Psychoanalysis in San Francisco, in March of 2001. Safouan clears up many

of Lacan's own obscurities, although he is quick to point out that there are no contradictions

in Lacan.

Readers will find the cause of desire, both through the signifier and

through the ""normative"" (rather than normal) development of the child. Safouan explains

the three forms of lack, the root of subjectivity, the desire of the analyst, the

Other as different from the other, the object cause of desire, transference, countertransference

and lateral transference, and the analytic act in a narrative that brings these and

other concepts together, in a ""dictionary"" that could never be divided by terms.

By: Moustafa Safouan
Volume editor: Anna Shane
Imprint: Other Press LLC
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 194mm, Width: 127mm, Spine: 6mm
Weight: 113g
ISBN: 9781590510872
ISBN 10: 1590510879
Pages: 104
Publication Date: 17 May 2004
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Moustafa Safouan Moustafa Safouan was the first to translate Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams into Arabic. He has published many books, the most recent of which are Lacaniana, a widely celebrated bestseller in France, and The Seminar of Moustafa Safouan (Other Press, 2002). In recent years, Safouan has taught psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic theory in various countries, as well as continuing his practice in Paris.

Reviews for Four Lessons of Psychoanalysis

""Among the crowd of soda pop Lacanian commentors and critics, Moustafa Safouan stands out as the most exquisite old wine - pure mature taste of the uncompromising theory. Why don't they make them like that anymore?"" - Slavoj Zizek""