The Language of Psycho-Analysis by Jeanbertrand Pontalis
Sigmund Freud evolved his theories throughout his lifetime. This entailed many revisions and changes which he himself never tried to standardize rigidly into a definitive conceptual system. The need for some sort of a reliable guide which would spell out both the pattern of the evolution of Freud's thinking, as well as establish its inherent logic, was felt for a long time by both scholars and students of psychoanalysis. Drs. Laplanche and Pontalis of the Association Psychoanalytique de France succeeded admirably in providing a dictionary of Freud's concepts which is more than a compilation of mere definitions. After many years of creative and industrious research, they were able to give an authentic account of the evolution of each concept with pertinent supporting texts from Freud's own writing (in the Standard Edition translation), and thus have endowed us with an instrument for work and research which is characterized by its thoroughness, exactitude and lack of prejudice towards dogma.
Mehlman, Jeffrey: - Jeffrey Mehlman is University Professor at Boston University and the author, most recently, of Walter Benjamin for Children: An Essay on His Radio Years and Genealogies of the Text: Literature, Psychoanalysis, and Politics in Modern France.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780393011050 |
| ISBN 10 | 0393011054 |
| Title | The Language of Psycho-Analysis |
| Author | Jeanbertrand Pontalis |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | WW Norton & Co |
| Year published | 1974-04-01 |
| Number of pages | 530 |
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