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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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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?