It is the aim of the present collection of seminal essays to offer a balanced yet rigorous examination of the durability and contemporary relevance of psychoanalysis, understood as a comprehensive system of theory and technique. The contributors eschew the establishment of yet another school of Freudian thought, not wishing to add to the already co
Foreword -- Introduction -- The distinctiveness of the psychoanalytic unconscious -- What is affect? -- Mode of operation of unconscious mental processes as revealed by pathological forms of cognition -- Reflections on the psychoanalytic study of character -- Of teeth and theft and Poe: non-Lacanian purloining
