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An interview with Juan-David Nasio.
In A Psychoanalyst on the Couch, we find the noted psychoanalyst and Lacan commentator Juan-David Nasio on the analyst's couch himself. In the interview that makes up this book, he provides insight into his forty-year career as a writer and practitioner, elaborating on Freudian and Lacanian concepts important to his work and reflecting on broad issues related to psychology and culture-as well as personal remembrances. The result is an intimate and wide-ranging look at the man and thinker, both an introduction to his work and a deeper look at his approach and outlook.
Translator’s Acknowledgments
Editors’ Prefatory Note to the American Edition
How Does a Psychoanalyst Work?
Diving "The Big Blue"
Joël, or My Fear of Discovering a Case of Psychosis
How Does One Choose a Psychoanalyst?
Aimance, or the Need to Be Dependent
Love and Sexual Pleasure
The Solitude of the homosexual Male and the "Bitter Delight" of the Homosexual Female
Jealousy: The Important Man, the Abandoned Woman
Love in the Couple
Every Woman Is a Virgin
Hate and Friendship
Hate as an Everyday Phenomenon
A Friend is Someone with Whom I feel Happy to Be Myself
Analysis with a Child
How Does One Speak Frankly with One’s Child?
Seven Crises that a Child Endures in Order to Grow Up
Florent and Louise: The First Meeting of a Child with the Psychoanalyst
In Praise of Hard Work
Albertine’s Charm
Challenge Yourself!
Notes
Index