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Difference and Disavowal is a major rethinking of a central tenet of Freudian psychoanalysis the repression theory. It centers on fundamental issues in practice and theory, beginning with a central conundrum for clinical psychoanalysis: how to understand apparently analyzable patients who resist the essential therapeutic measure of analysis interpretation. The author finds the answer in a revision and expansion of Freud s theory of fetishism. Freud introduced the defense mechanism of disavowal in order to understand what he called the registration and repudiation of reality in fetishism. However, his understanding of the reality disavowed in fetishism is self-contradictory. The contradiction in Freud's argument can be resolved by understanding disavowal in terms of registration and repudiation of difference. The patients who resist interpretation register and repudiate the differentiating process implicit in every interpretation. The problem of resistance to interpretation expands the basic conception of the unconscious to include registration and repudiation of differentiating, processive reality.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Psychology Psychological theory & schools of thought

• Full title: Difference and Disavowal
• Subtitle: The Trauma of Eros
• Author: Alan Bass
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 328
• EAN: 9780804738286
• ISBN: 0804738289
• ID: 04717089
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Weight: 390 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 31. May 2001

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