By M. Guy Thompson
Hardly ever can we encounter a booklet that has the strength and cogency to impress us to reevaluate the main basic tenets of psychoanalysis. essentially the most marvelous psychoanalytic students of our time, M. man Thompson revolutionizes our figuring out of the axiomatic rules upon which psychoanalysis is predicated. via a cautious exegesis of Freud’s texts, he persuasively exhibits how the basic rule of psychoanalysis isn't simply a car at no cost organization yet, extra importantly, a pledge to honesty. Contextualized within the subjective lived event each one analyst faces, Thompson demonstrates how Freud’s technical mandates are not anything below moral imperatives wherein to dwell, authentically. This interesting exploration into the philosophical dimensions of psychoanalysis deals a compelling contribution to the scientific software of psychoanalytic doctrine that may be of curiosity to psychoanalytic practitioners of all persuasions. there isn't any different publication of its style.
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It seems to me, however, that formal instruction has become redundant, not because contemporary analysts adopt a more friendly or laissez-faire form of analysis, but because patients already implicitly know that they are expected to be candid upon entering therapy. Moreover, one’s capacity for candor indicates the degree of secretiveness and, hence, psychopathology in a given patient. Most patients enter analysis eager to get things off their chest, so by the time they come to notice they are concealing this or that from their analyst they are predisposed to examining their motives for doing so when pointed out to them by their analyst.
P. 2 To summarize what we have gleaned from Laplanche and Pontalis, Moore and Fine, and Rycroft about the relationship between the fundamental rule and free association: a. b. 2 All the authors cited equate the two rules as identical. In so doing, they overlook the ethical precept on which the fundamental rule is founded. In a private communication, Rycroft acknowledged that a distinction between the fundamental rule and free association should have been noted by him, an oversight that he intended to address in a future edition of his book.
The question of character was so pivotal to Freud’s (1905b) conception of the treatment experience he even insisted that “patients who do not possess a… fairly reliable character should be refused” analysis (p. 263). Freud (1913) also cautioned that, “It is a bad sign if one’s patient has to confess that while he was listening to the fundamental rule of analysis he made a mental reservation that he would nevertheless keep this or that to himself” (p. 138). And in his paper “On Psychotherapy” (1905b), Freud went so far as to equate his conception of the psyche (or mind) with morality.
