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The Reign of Speech

On Applied Lacanian Psychoanalysis

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  • © 2022

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  • Examines the Lacanian clinic, as it is experienced by people who enter it and practice it
  • Represents the first book to provide a systematic discussion of Lacanian supervision
  • Draws on a wide range of Lacanian texts and rich interview data

Part of the book series: The Palgrave Lacan Series (PALS)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

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About this book

This book provides an in-depth examination of Lacanian oriented psychotherapy and supervision, drawing on a wide range of Lacanian texts and rich interview data.

Beginning with a comprehensive overview of the Lacanian psychoanalytic therapeutic process, it next considers this in relation to Lacanian texts – including, ‘The Function and Field of Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis’, ‘Direction of the Treatment’, ‘Lacanian Discourses’ and ‘Seminar XXIII’ – and interview data from ex-analysants and psychoanalysts.The second part of the book offers the first systematic discussion of Lacanian supervision. 


Through a sophisticated theoretical analysis and unique research material, Dries Dulsster has created an important reference point for students, scholars and clinicians that will appeal to those new to Lacanian practice, and those already deeply involved in it.




Reviews

Dries Dulsster’s Reign of Speech highlights the importance of moments of surprise in all facets of psychoanalytic practice: patients’ surprise at what unexpectedly comes out of their mouths in sessions, analysts’ surprise at what transpires in work with their supervisors, and supervisors’ surprise at what happens in work with their supervisees. A lively and surprising read!

—Bruce Fink, Lacanian analyst, translator of Ecrits and of Seminars VI, VIII and XX.

Words can kill, radical listening can heal, that is the therapeutic cliché by excellence. But what is so radical about psychoanalytic listening and when does it heal? Dries Dulsster gives us answers coming from analysants, and that turned out to be a very good idea.

—Paul Verhaeghe, Lacanian analyst, Author of 'Does the Women Exist?' and 'On Being Normal and Other Disorders.'

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Psychoanalysis and Clinical Consulting, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

    Dries G. M. Dulsster

About the author

​Dries G. M. Dulsster is a Teaching Assistant at the Department for Psychoanalysis and Clinical Consulting at Ghent University, Belgium. Dr Dulsster is also a privately practicing psychotherapist and a member of the Circle for Psychoanalysis of the New Lacanian School. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the journal ‘Psychoanalytische Perspectieven’.



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