The Psychoanalytic Couch
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978-1-041-15793-9 (ISBN)
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Part I presents an extensive study of how the couch has been implicitly or explicitly theorized by major figures in the field, including Freud, Ferenczi, Winnicott, Bion, Bollas, Ogden, Green, and Lacan, by extracting, organizing, and developing their dispersed contributions on the subject. Part II moves into the poetic and etymological realm of the word diwan, tracing its roots to Persian and Arabic traditions. Krüger develops an original model for clinical listening and intervention, where the “cloud state” plays an important role in analytic technique. Concepts such as condensation (Verdichtung), symbolic vesture and the structuring of psychic regions are reinterpreted through this prism, offering a new way to conceptualize transference and analytic presence. The book fulfils a significant gap in psychoanalytic theory and training by elevating a central yet neglected clinical element to conceptual prominence.
The Psychoanalytic Couch will be essential reading for psychoanalysts in practice and in training, and for readers interested in the intersections between psychoanalysis, art, and literature.
Lucas Krüger is a psychoanalyst, writer, musician, translator, and editor based in Brazil. He is the author of books on psychoanalysis, poetry, and children’s literature, and has edited over seventy titles. His work bridges psychoanalysis and the arts while bringing the field’s historical legacy into dialogue with contemporary practice, raising new questions for clinical reflection.
About the author
On the couch/divã/divan/diván/diwan: key considerations regarding the English edition
Lucas Krüger
Preface
Daniel Kupermann
Opening
PART I — Listening perspectives
Chapter 1. Sigmund Freud's couch-reminiscence
Chapter 2. The couch, the child who lives in the adult, and the technical daring of Sándor Ferenczi
Chapter 3. The couch-body of Donald Woods Winnicott
Chapter 4. Didier Anzieu's skin couch
Chapter 5. André Green's couch — the dream model, other contributions and misreadings
Chapter 6. Thomas Ogden and privacy on the couch
Chapter 7. Christopher Bollas and the evocative couch
Chapter 8. A distant couch in Jacques Lacan?
Chapter 9. René Roussillon's couch in latency
Chapter 10. The analyst's creative process and the couch for Melanie Klein
Chapter 11. Wilfred Bion's embryonic couch
Chapter 12. James Grotstein's dramaturgical and neuropsychic couch
Chapter 13. The Couch as an Aid to a Filmic Script in John Munder Ross
Chapter 14. Other authors and different approaches to psychoanalytic work from the couch
Chapter 15. Brief final comments
PART II — The poetics of psychoanalysis
Chapter 1. Introduction — An analyst’s theoretical and clinical practice in dialogue with others
Chapter 2. Some considerations on the history and etymology of the word couch/divan/diwan
Chapter 3. Play as the essence of the psychoanalytic process
Chapter 4. The psychic regions and the cloud state
Chapter 5. The cloud, condensation and poetic creation: reflections on Dichter, Dichtung and
Verdichtung
Chapter 6. Symbolic vesture and its clinical presentations in the cloud state
Chapter 7. The couch/diwan and the cloud metaphor in the clinic
Final Words
Extras
Creation poem
Provocative Considerations on Remote Online Sessions: The need for the couch or a substitute other than the gaze
References
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 30.4.2026 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 2 Halftones, black and white; 2 Illustrations, black and white |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-041-15793-2 / 1041157932 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-041-15793-9 / 9781041157939 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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