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An introduction to psychoanalytic technique from a Lacanian perspective.
What does it mean to practice psychoanalysis as Jacques Lacan did? How did Lacan translate his original theoretical insights into moment-to-moment psychoanalytic technique? And what makes a Lacanian approach to treatment different from other approaches? These are among the questions that Bruce Fink, a leading translator and expositor of Lacan's work, addresses in Fundamentals of Psychoanalytic Technique by describing and amply exemplifying the innovative techniques (such as punctuation, scansion, and oracular interpretation) developed by Lacan to uncover unconscious desire, lift repression, and bring about change.
Unlike any other writer on Lacan to date, Fink illustrates his Lacanian approach to listening, questioning, punctuating, scanding, and interpreting with dozens of actual clinical examples. He clearly outlines the fundamentals of working with dreams, daydreams, and fantasies, discussing numerous anxiety dreams, nightmares, and fantasies told to him by his own patients. By examining transference and countertransference in detail through the use of clinical vignettes, Fink lays out the major differences (regarding transference interpretation, self-disclosure, projective identification, and the therapeutic frame) between mainstream psychoanalytic practice and Lacanian practice. He critiques the ever more prevalent normalizing attitude in psychoanalysis today and presents crucial facets of Lacan's approach to the treatment of neurosis, as well as of his entirely different approach to the treatment of psychosis.
Fundamentals of Psychoanalytic Technique is an introduction to psychoanalytic technique from a Lacanian perspective that is based on Fink's many years of experience working as an analyst and supervising clinicians, including graduate students in clinical psychology, social workers, psychiatrists, psychotherapists, and psychoanalysts. Designed for a wide range of practitioners and requiring no previous knowledge of Lacan's work, this primer is accessible to therapists of many different persuasions with diverse degrees of clinical experience, from novices to seasoned analysts.
Fink's goal throughout is to present the implications of Lacan's highly novel work for psychoanalytic technique across a broad spectrum of interventions. The techniques covered (all of which are designed to get at the unconscious, repression, and repetition compulsion) can be helpful to a wide variety of practitioners, often transforming their practices radically in a few short months.
- Sales Rank: #148692 in Books
- Published on: 2011-04-26
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.30" h x 1.00" w x 6.10" l, 1.10 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 320 pages
Review
“Bruce Fink restores psychoanalysis’s relevance and explains it in ways I dare say few of us ever understood or appreciated. . . . Every chapter contains insights worth pondering, not just about the analytic process, but about human nature itself. . . . [It] deserves to be read by a wide audience.” (PsychCentral)
“[A] useful and detailed work for the professionals who want to familiarize themselves with Lacan’s psychoanalytic theories.” (APA Division 39 Newsletter)
“[A] fervent, an appealing, and a unique contribution in the literature of psychoanalysis…should enjoy a wide readership.” (Journal of Phenomenological Psychology)
“Here readers will find trenchant discussions of a variety of topics central to psychoanalytic practice, such as analytic listening, punctuation, scanding, interpretation, transference, and countertransference. Dr. Fink is especially brilliant in his consideration of other psychoanalytic theories and writers, and demonstrates with striking clarity the differences between them and Lacanian analysis.” (Mitchell Wilson, MD, San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute and the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California)
“With his new book, Bruce Fink is proving once again that he is the undisputed leader of clinical Lacanian psychoanalysis in the Anglo-American world. With his characteristic blend of theoretical rigor, clinical acumen, and dry wit, Fink has quite simply reinvented the truth of Lacanian psychoanalysis, and his book will no doubt be as fundamental for a whole generation of scholars and practitioners as the techniques that it sets out to explain and advance.” (Dany Nobus, professor of psychology and psychoanalysis, Brunel University, London, UK)
From the Publisher
What does it mean to practice psychoanalysis as Jacques Lacan did? How did Lacan translate his original theoretical insights into moment-to-moment psychoanalytic technique? And what makes a Lacanian approach to treatment different from other approaches? These are among the questions that Bruce Fink, a leading translator and expositor of Lacan's work, addresses in "Fundamentals of Psychoanalytic Technique" by describing and amply exemplifying the innovative techniques (such as punctuation, scansion, and oracular interpretation) developed by Lacan to uncover unconscious desire, lift repression, and bring about change.
Unlike any other writer on Lacan to date, Fink illustrates his Lacanian approach to listening, questioning, punctuating, scanding, and interpreting with dozens of actual clinical examples. He clearly outlines the fundamentals of working with dreams, daydreams, and fantasies, discussing numerous anxiety dreams, nightmares, and fantasies told to him by his own patients. By examining transference and countertransference in detail through the use of clinical vignettes, Fink lays out the major differences (regarding transference interpretation, self-disclosure, projective identification, and the therapeutic frame) between mainstream psychoanalytic practice and Lacanian practice.
From the Back Cover
"One major lack in the psychoanalytic literature has been of a comprehensive, clear overview of psychoanalytic technique from a Lacanian perspective. `Fundamentals of Psychoanalytic Technique' finally overcomes this lack. Bruce Fink's text conveys a systematic, comprehensive summary of the technical implications of the Lacanian approach, which he differentiates from the corresponding technical views of the psychoanalytic mainstream--the ego psychological, Kleinian, and British Independent schools--and from the intersubjective-relational approach. One may agree or disagree with Bruce's formulations, but they open an extremely helpful view of the approach to the clinical psychoanalytic situation from Lacan's perspective, and provide, in the process, a convincing exploration of key Lacanian concepts. This volume should be of definite interest to all psychoanalytic clinicians and educators, and facilitate an overdue, well-formulated scientific debate."
-- Otto F. Kernberg, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry, Weill Medical College of Cornell University; Director, Personality Disorders Institute, New York Presbyterian Hospital, Payne Whitney Westchester; Training and Supervising Analyst, Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research.
"With his new book, Bruce Fink is proving once again that he is the undisputed leader of clinical Lacanian psychoanalysis in the Anglo-American world. With his characteristic blend of theoretical rigor, clinical acumen and dry wit, Fink has quite simply reinvented the truth of Lacanian psychoanalysis, and his book will no doubt be as fundamental for a whole generation of scholars and practitioners as the techniques that it sets out to explain and advance."
-- Dany Nobus, Professor of Psychology and Psychoanalysis, Brunel University.
"Here readers will find trenchant discussions of a variety of topics central to psychoanalytic practice, such as analytic listening, punctuation, scanding, interpretation, transference and countertransference. Dr. Fink is especially brilliant in his consideration of other psychoanalytic theories and writers, and demonstrates with striking clarity the differences between them and Lacanian analysis."
-- Mitchell Wilson, M.D., San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute and the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California.
"This book is something of a rarity, as it breaks with both the commonly held misconception of Lacan as a theoretician of no practical relevance, and with the prejudice of Lacanian analysts who believe that the actual practice of analysis is impossible to explain. Bruce Fink deals comprehensively and methodically with the full range of analytic questions, even the most controversial ones, with clarity and elegance."
-- Colette Soler, Ecole de Psychanalyse des Forums du Champ Lacanien, Paris, France, author of "What Lacan Said About Women."
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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful.
Practicing clinicians should start here to learn about Lacan
By Sitting in Seattle
Lacan is a fascinating thinker but famously difficult to read. I've been reading Lacan and Lacanian commentators on and off for 20 years. Only in the past few years have I felt as if I'm getting a handle on Lacan, and Bruce Fink's two decades of work deserve most of the credit.
Fink's "Fundamentals" discusses the basics of clinical interaction from a Lacanian perspective, covering everything from the art of interpretation, to how the Lacanian approach differs in practice from other psychoanalytic approaches, to discussion of often misunderstood details such as variable-length sessions. All of these are discussed in a straightforward way: with a minimum of Lacanian jargon and theoretical complexity, a large dose of actual case excerpts, and extensive citation and analysis of dominant ego psychology and other psychoanalytic approaches.
Fink provides scathing critiques of several psychoanalytic concepts that are prevalent in mainstream ego psychology and object relations approaches. He dissects the concepts of "projective identification", which he argues is little more than ego aggrandizement and power politics by the analyst, and "unconscious affect", which he argues is a terribly confused notion. Both critiques are compelling; even if one does not agree, they demonstrate the need for a return to solid clinical reality and coherent theory rather than acceptance of prevailing dogma.
Fink makes a strong case for returning to the details of clinical interaction: how to listen carefully, the importance of attending to literal words from patients, and how clinicians should be humble enough to attend to patients' own experiences rather than immediately assuming that everything is about the therapist (i.e., transference).
Despite years of studying and practicing ego psychology and object relations approaches, I've often felt uncomfortable with them and sensed that the earlier, structural notions of Freud contained truths that had been jettisoned (or even repressed) too completely in modern theories. Fink provided a framework to help me think about this. I'm not convinced that his is the only answer, as clearly there are good clinicians working on all sides of psychoanalytic theory. But his perspective is worth hearing and makes a substantial contribution to the field and to individual clinical work.
In terms of how this relates to other books on Lacanian approaches, this text has the best mixture of readability and applicability for practitioners. Fink's own "Clinical Introduction" is more comprehensive, but is also more difficult, with a larger dose of Lacanian theory, and less focused on immediate application and case-based examples. His "Lacanian Subject" is a good exposition of theory, but with less specific clinical focus. My suggestion would be for practitioners to read Fink backwards in time: start with "Fundamentals", then either "Clinical Introduction" (for the most applied clinical text) or "Lacan to the Letter" (if starting to read Lacan), and then "Subject".
For interested Lacan readers who are not clinicians, a better sequence might be Joel Dor's "Introduction", which is a brilliant exposition of Lacan's theory of the unconscious, followed by Fink's "Lacanian Subject", and then "Lacan to the Letter" or one of the clinical works, if interested. Besides reading commentaries, the sooner that one experiences Lacan directly, the better; Fink's Ecrits is a brilliant translation.
In "Fundamentals", Fink refers a few times to other clinical works in progress. I'm eagerly awaiting them. Enjoy -- and may Fink's letters continue to reach their destination.
15 of 17 people found the following review helpful.
Readiness is All
By Jamieson Webster
Farthest from what may be in the consciousness of American
psychoanalysts concerning Lacan is the idea of him as someone
logical. His larger-than-life personality, theatrics, provocative
language verging on a kind of surrealism, and the often vicious
rumors surrounding his clinical practice do not readily lend
themselves to a view of him as a sober, stoic analyst. Rarely do
you hear about the fact that Lacan's seminars had a strong
bearing on psychoanalytic ideas of technique through a
perspective that stressed, above all else, a sense of ethics. The
Lacanian community has done little to confront this mythology,
seemingly content to keep the bar in place that radically separates
relational psychoanalysis, Kleinians, and ego psychology from their
equally growing and yet little known communities in Europe and
South America.
At times it seems merely a matter of semantics that
prevents any thriving discourse--what is the maternal imago in
one domain is the desire of the M(Other) in another. At others,
one gets the sense that deeply diverging views on what constitutes
a psychoanalytic idea of the psyche is clearly at stake. No doubt a
way of sorting out the difference between the two would be a step
in the right direction, and yet there has been little available to
create such a bridge.
For the practicing clinician schooled for years in another
language and other models of mind and world, having to enter the
complicated, at times jargonistic, world of Lacanian psychoanalysis
would be like having to begin all over again. This sets aside for the
moment having to traverse the immense hostility that still exists in
so many analytic circles against Lacan. This is for reasons that
remain strongly veiled despite so many oft-repeated cliche'
rationalizations. Although we like to believe, as with any new
patient, that we are apt and ready for such a task as starting
afresh, I do not think this is easily done. Our theories, built up
over years of schooling, analysis, supervision, are too precious to
each of us. Is it too much to ask? I have of late, with great weight
in my heart, begun to think so. For this reason, Bruce Fink's
Fundamentals of Psychoanalytic Technique: A Lacanian Approach
for Practitioners is a welcome relief that a burgeoning discourse
between two worlds that have remained radically separate may be
possible.
What he shows in this book, chapter by chapter, is the
unfolding logic of the Lacanian clinical stance and the theoretical
constructs that support it. It is clear and cogent work. Along the
way, with another sigh of relief, he is able to orient us American
folk with some names in common--Klein, Segal, Bollas, Ogden,
Winnicot, Bion, Gill, Casement, Greenson, Brenner, Glover,
Macalpine, Little, Ferenczi, Kernberg, Racker, Reik, and Renik.
Fink, having trained in France but working in America, is able to
ready the ground for those from the other side to make their
approach to a radically discordant (to the main) picture of
psychoanalytic work.
Interestingly, readiness was one of those characteristics
Lacan held up as the ideal for the analyst. The next question
should be "readiness for what?" As a first answer, let me say that
it is readiness for the kind of logic that Lacan set up as
fundamental to the ethical position of the analyst. Lacan said that
we must be free of what seems to be insinuated by all this blather
about the primitive mind, the cauldron of seething excitations, that
try to link man to some fearsome animal nature, extended as far
as a notion of the reptile part of the brain. What we may then find
is that what analysis aims at is the underdevelopment of logic,
which in fact distinguishes man from animals that are readily able
to make use of signs in the service of self-preservation (think here
of signs in mating rituals that guide animals in the location and
selection of mates, which in humans is what leads us astray most
often, love problems being what brings many patients into
therapy). The logic of the unconscious (famously structured like a
language) is the logic to be followed, a logic we are separated from
as humans.
This is, of course, a no doubt dirty Lacanian trick, putting
animals above man and turning psychological ideas on their head.
But what one may not notice is that within these kinds of
provocations there is a deeper set of technical and clinical
questions that Lacan was aiming at, first by dispelling, indeed
collapsing certain forms of knowledge often held as "common,"
and then charting an alternate path. To think of patients as
primitive and to seek to expel, normalize, or evolve these parts of
them is probably a far dirtier trick. Lacan is challenging our
proclivity for insidious morality. It is precisely in this spirit of
clearing ground and pointing toward a more logical and ethical
opening that Fink's work is carried out.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
To whom it may concern,
By Lost Lacanian
Bruce Fink has established himself as one of the foremost--if not the foremost--authority of Lacanian psychoanalysis. His first book The Lacanian Subject was a tour de force that situated Lacan and psychoanalysis in the Western philosophical tradition. His second book A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis demonstrated without question that Lacan was true to Freud's conception of psychoanalysis as an experience. And his third book Lacan to the Letter showed that he was perhaps Lacan's most astute commentator, certainly in the English language. He also translated Seminar XX and the entire Ecrits, the latter of which won an award for translation. There is no questioning Fink's fluency in the language of psychoanalysis.
In this new book, Fundamentals of Psychoanalytic Technique, Fink builds on his Clinical Introduction to produce a fresh picture of how the Lacanian analyst approaches treatment, and of particular value, he contrasts the Lacanian approach to other contemporary schools of psychoanalysis, showing their fundamental differences. In a very conversational style and with plenty of examples, Fink shows just how different the Lacanian sees clinical experience, which speaks very loudly that Lacanian psychoanalysis is not simply abstract theory but provides a real framework for working with analysands. In the past, it was not always clear what was at stake between Lacan and say Bion, but now Fink rectifies that, presenting the reader with a decision to be made.
Fink also extends his approach to the psychoses, which he introduced in the Clinical Introduction, showing the importance of Lacanian diagnostic categories and the bankruptcy of other forms of diagnosis. He also hints at a potential book on the psychoses in a footnote, which I hope is a promise. (He also hints at a more advance book on technique that would deal with the end of analysis, again I hope a promise. He does however promise a new book on love in Lacan.)
Two things became clear to me while reading this book. 1) Lacan is truly a Freudian. In all of his descriptions, Fink's approach struck me as not so different from classical Freudian technique, which distinguishes the Lacanian approach from other schools. It seems to me that in his historical moment, Lacan must have been confronted with a strong desire by other theorists to depart from Freud--perhaps, succumbing to the caricatures of Freud that were becoming popular rather than refuting them. Lacan thus turned to the latest goings on in linguistics (perhaps for legitimacy, perhaps to prove that Freud anticipated it) to defend Freudian insights. In other words, if Freud had modern linguistics at his disposal, he would have been a Lacanian. 2) Lacanian psychoanalysis is not simply an abstract theory that can be used to radicalize analyses of contemporary culture, the so delicious moment when psychoanalysis reveals a deeper reversal in a cultural analysis (for example, all who criticize a hated figure are actually in love with it). Psychoanalysis is and always will be an experience. It is precisely its status as an experience that allows it to illuminate so much about contemporary life, not the other way around.
This brings me to the issue of audience. Fink addresses his book to clinicians. The other reviewers have reviewed it from the perspective of clinicians. But I want to argue that theorists and philosophers would gain tremendously from reading this book--in particular what psychoanalysis is really all about. Fink himself admits that Lacanians (particularly in France) have not spoken or written too much specific technique, which has led to a lamentable situation where almost everything attempts to pass itself off as Lacanian. I discern the same thing going on in contemporary critical theory. It almost makes no difference one's personal stake in or experience with psychoanalysis--all that is needed is to be able to use some jargon (signifier, real, symbolic, Other, etc.) effectively. Or that Lacanian psychoanalysis is really valueable for film criticism, not for analyzing modern psychology. Theorists would do well to drop the false division between theory and practice that has been erected in psychoanalysis. No such division should exist. The dropping of that imaginary division would then show that one cannot throw psychoanalytic categories around will nilly. Thus, reading this book will be profoundly instructive for those who self-identify as psychoanalytic theorists. It also, for the same reason, serves as a wonderful introduction to Lacanian as well as Freudian psychoanalysis (similar to Clinical Introduction). I also venture to say that it would be a great read for all of those "lay analysts" who desire to bring psychoanalysis to their field (i.e. education, social work, medical care, etc.). Indeed, this book is addressed not simply to the clinician but "To whom it may concern."
This brings me back to my characterization of Fink as one of the most important Lacanian theorists. It is perhaps debateable who has done more for Lacan: Fink, Copjec, Screen, of course, Zizek... Let me stake my claim: it is unequivocally Fink. Not only because he has devoted himself to bringing Lacan to the English language speaker via translation and introduction. But also because he has been most faithful to the spirit and reality of psychoanalysis. Seeing Lacan thrown about in so many conversations of theory has given the impression that Lacanian psychoanalysis is a boutique theory that should be handled by initiates for analyzing literature and film. By acting so allergically to the practice of psychoanalysis (and I am not talking only about the restricted form of practice in the clinic, but its practical application in other social situations), these theorists have contributed to the divorce of theory and practice as well as to the abstraction of psychoanaysis. Fink is almost alone in combating this trend. And for that alone he deserves to be recognized as the most important Lacanian. His book, Fundamentals, is thus a major statement.
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