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THE TRUTH ABOUT FREUD’S TECHNIQUE
PSYCHOANALYTIC CROSSCURRENTS
General Editor: Leo Goldberger
THE DEATH OF DESIRE: A STUDY IN PSYCHOPATHOLOGY
by M. Guy Thompson
THE TALKING CURE: LITERARY REPRESENTATIONS OF PSYCHOANALYSIS
by Jeffrey Berman
NARCISSISM AND THE TEXT: STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE SELF
Edited by Lynne Layton and Barbara Ann Schapiro
THE LANGUAGE OF PSYCHOSIS
by Bent Rosenbaum and Harly Sonne
SEXUALITY AND MIND: THE ROLE OF THE FATHER AND THE MOTHER IN THE PSYCHE
by Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel
ART AND LIFE: ASPECTS OF MICHELANGELO
by Nathan Leites
PATHOLOGIES OF THE MODERN SELF: POSTMODERN STUDIES ON NARCISSISM, SCHIZOPHRENIA, AND DEPRESSION
Edited by David Michael Levin
FREUD’S THEORY OF PSYCHOANALYSIS
by Ole Andkjaer Olsen and Simo Koppe
THE UNCONSCIOUS AND THE THEORY OF PSYCHONEUROSES
by Zvi Giora
CHANGING MIND-SETS: THE POTENTIAL UNCONSCIOUS
by Maria Carmen Gear, Ernesto Cesar Liendo, and Lila Lee Scott
LANGUAGE AND THE DISTORTION OF MEANING
by Patrick de Gramont
THE NEUROTIC FOUNDATIONS OF SOCIAL ORDER: PSYCHOANALYTIC ROOTS OF PATRIARCHY
by J. C. Smith
SELF AND OTHER: OBJECT RELATIONS IN PSYCHOANALYSIS AND LITERATURE
by Robert Rogers
THE IDEA OF THE PAST: HISTORY, SCIENCE, AND PRACTICE IN AMERICAN PSYCHOANALYSIS
by Leonard Jonathan Lamm
SUBJECT AND AGENCY IN PSYCHOANALYSIS: WHICH IS TO BE MASTER?
by Frances M. Moran
JACQUES LACAN’S RETURN TO FREUD: THE REAL, THE SYMBOLIC, AND THE IMAGINARY
by Phillippe Julien
THE TRUTH ABOUT FREUD’S TECHNIQUE: THE ENCOUNTER WITH THE REAL
by M. Guy Thompson
THE TRUTH ABOUT FREUD’S TECHNIQUE
The Encounter with the Real
M. Guy Thompson
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
New York and London
Copyright © 1994 by New York University
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Thompson, M. Guy, 1947–
The truth about Freud’s technique : the encounter with the real / M. Guy Thompson.
p. cm.—(Psychoanalytic crosscurrents)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8147-8206-X (alk. paper)
1. Psychoanalysis and philosophy. 2. Freud, Sigmund, 1856–1939.
3. Heidegger, Martin, 1889–1976. I. Tide. II. Series.
[DNLM: 1. Freud, Sigmund, 1856–1939. 2. Heidegger, Martin,
1889–1976. 3. Psychoanalytic Theory. WM 460 T474f 1994]
BF175.4.P45T56 1994
150.19′52′092—dc20 94-2933
CIP
New York University Press books are printed on acid-free paper
and their binding materials are chosen for strength and durability.
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For Sharada
During my whole life I have endeavored to uncover truths. I had no other intention and everything else was completely a matter of indifference to me. My single motive was the love of truth.
—Sigmund Freud
Whoever, like Freud, eschews philosophy, reveals a truly philosophic mind.
—Lou Andreas-Salomé
Contents
Preface by Stanley A. Leavy, M.D.
I. The True and the Real in Freud
1. Psychical and External Reality
2. Realistic and Neurotic Anxiety
3. Realistic and Wishful Thinking
4. The Neurotic and the Psychotic Experience of Reality
5. Real Love and Transference-Love
II. The True and the Real in Heidegger
6. Heidegger’s Conception of Truth