Après-coup in Psychoanalysis

This important book argues that après-coup, a concept that has blossomed in French psychoanalytic discourse, not only allows an understanding of how repressed early memories determine adult life, and how human sexuality develops, but also allows for a richer and wider explanation of our mental structures and thinking.

Autorentext

Bernard Chervet is a Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst of the Paris Psychoanalytic Society and a former SPP President. He is a European Representative on the IPA Board of Representatives and the IPA ExCom and Scientific Director of the Congress of French-Speaking Psychoanalysts (CPLF). His numerous and distinguished publications cover a wide range of clinical and theoretical psychoanalytic topics. He was awarded the Bouvet Prize in 2017 for his work.

Inhalt

1. The emergence of desire and thought

2. Semantic and semiological vicissitudes of the term Nachträglichkeit

3. The work of Freud and his followers as a clinical illustration of the operation of après-coup

4. Evolving clinical situations

5. Metapsychological approach to the concept of après-coup

6. A theory of human thought

7. Saturation in dreams, sessions and sciences

8. Après-coup and bodily erogeneity

9. The missing trace and feelings of lack

10. The foundational murder and the superego