The Clinical Comprehension of Meaning

In The Clinical Comprehension of Meaning, Carlos Tabbia addresses fundamental questions regarding psychoanalytic theory and technique, unravelling these issues for the reader in an elegant, passionate, and poetic style.

Autorentext

Carlos Tabbia is a Psychoanalyst and Psychologist who specialises in Clinical Psychology. He is a founding member of the Barcelona Psychoanalytic Group, and fellow of the Argentine Society of Psychoanalysis (SAP), and lecturer of the European Federation for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (EFPP). He carries out teaching and supervision work in several psychoanalytic training institutions in Barcelona and other Spanish cities, as well as Italy, Argentina, Mexico, and Chile.

Klappentext

In The Clinical Comprehension of Meaning, Carlos Tabbia addresses fundamental questions of psychoanalytic theory and technique, unfolding them for the reader in an elegant, passionate, and poetic style. This book illustrates three pillars of a psychoanalytic clinic: the structure of the personality, the development of thought, and the ability to foster close relationships with patients. These three pillars show the conditions for the creation of meanings and the difficulties that can be manifested in fanatical functioning, psychosomatic disorders and dreaming, as well as isolation and boredom in adolescents. Using clinical vignettes throughout, Tabbia also analyses the issues surrounding the establishment of an intimate relationship, as well as the issues psychoanalysts must face within themselves. Throughout the volume, Tabbia looks to the work of Bion, Meltzer, Freud, and Klein as well as philosophers such as Plato, Wittgenstein, Russell, Max Scheler, and Levinas, and others such as poets and painters. Including a prologue by Alberto Hahn and translated into English for the first time, this seminal text will be of interest to psychoanalysts and psychotherapists, as well as students and candidates undertaking psychoanalytic training.

Inhalt

Introduction 1. Conceptual Framework 2. Elements of a Post-Kleinian Nosology 3. The Tripod of Psychoanalytic Practice 4. The Analyst's Task