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On the couch : a repressed history of the analytic couch from Plato to Freud /

How the couch became an icon of self-knowledge and self-reflection as well as a site for pleasure, transgression, and healing. The peculiar arrangement of the psychoanalyst's office for an analytic session seems inexplicable. The analyst sits in a chair out of sight while the patient lies on a...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kravis, Nathan (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : The MIT Press, 2017
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Why is the couch used in psychoanalysis?
  • Symposion and convivium
  • The evolution of the couch and the rise of the sofa
  • Comfort, recumbence, interiority, and transgression
  • The medicalization of comfort
  • Recumbent posture in 19th-century psychiatry and therapeutics
  • Freud's couch
  • The analyst's moral interior
  • Whence? whither? whether?