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Dire Mastery

Discipleship From Freud to Lacan

Francois Roustang

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  • 1986
  • 176 Pages
  • ISBN 978-0-88048-259-2
  • Item #8259

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Noted French psychoanalyst Francois Roustang examines both historical psychoanalytic relationships and associations in France today to show the destructive power of discipleship and how it related to the new theory of psychosis. This book is a paperback reprint of the classic text originally published in 1982.

Contents

The savage horde. In advance. To each his own madness. On the transmissability of analytic theory. Strangely familiar. Has he forgotten how to laugh? Toward a theory of psychosis. Notes.

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