Description
Collects 11 papers presented at a November 1994 Franco-American conference. Representative topics include disorders of the unconscious, a borderline state of humanity and the fragmented ego of the analyst, a clinical example of primary-self pathology and the process of healing, women as access to male aggression or desire, psychic death and the generation of meaning, and the borderline patient and his relation to the present moment. The aim of the material is to find a middle ground between the clinical Lacanian approach and various American approaches to analysis. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
